Where did Wednesday and Thursday go? It's been a long week... Oh.
I think I'm supposed to feel accomplished -- I had quite a few tasks to do today, including some unexpected ones, and I think I succeeded at almost all of them. So maybe I'm just out of spoons? Let's see:

• Contact contractors about making a smooth pad for Colleen to ( Read more... )

Well, that was a long month we had last week! Control of the Senate is still up in the air, and the Repugnant party seems to have come out of it largely intact if not stronger (Message of Election 2020: Trump lost, but Trumpism did not), but even ( Read more... )

So far I have kept myself from doomscrolling the news today. I've seen enough snippets to know that the race is still undecided; I am trying not to get my hopes up. Does being a pessimist help in this situation? Not sure.
At this point, I think I'm too brain-fried to put together much of post ( Read more... )

It's often been said that "there's no such thing as too many books, just not enough bookshelves". When we reorganized the kitchen after getting it debugged, we wound up moving all of the tea-related stuff to the baker's rack. The bottom shelves already had tea in them, but the upper shelves had cookbooks.
We moved the cookbooks ( Read more... )

I guess the last week was... I don't know. Not awful? I got some things done. My new website, computer-curmudgeon.com, saw enough work to make it at least presentable; I'll want to do some more work on the content before I go public. Comments welcome.
Some other things accomplished included sorting through, and mostly ( Read more... )

Today, and specifically this evening, I am grateful for:

• Batteries. We're having a power outage. Hardly notice. I wonder how long the UPS will keep my CPAP up.
• A backup drive that doesn't require a separate power supply. That may be what killed the last one.
• An electric car with lots of range. (It does significantly ( Read more... )

Public Service Announcement: RainbowCon 2.1 is next weekend! It's our second annual house-con (last year would have been just before we closed on selling Rainbow's End). Details at the link. Come visit our island paradise. It'll be awesome.
I seem to be finally, gradually, getting off my arse with projects -- I've ( Read more... )

Got a few things done; a little guitar (in 5-minute noodles, but still -- I need to get my fingers back in shape) and a little hacking (kludged together a script for posting to DW from Emacs, using a bash front end to charm, which seems to be the only available command-line ( Read more... )

We had a power outage Monday, from about 2:30am to noon. N and I promptly ( Read more... )

I actually got in both walking and music this week, largely thanks to N ( Read more... )