I'm starting this post on March 6th, 2021 -- I expect to put it up in a week or so, but next week promises to be busy and I want to put some thought into it. I see that I posted "COVID-19: Episode 1 -- Household notes and links so far" exactly a year ago, so that makes it a particularly good day to start.
A week later, I ( Read more... )

My penchant for leaving things to the last possible minute seems to be in ( Read more... )

So... on January 1st, 2017, N and I went out car shopping and came with a sliver Honda Odyssey, which we named Rosie after the character in my song "The Rambling Silver Rose" (which was, in turn, inspired by and titled after our (mine and C's, that is) first minivan, a silver Mercury Villager).
One day in June of 2018 she simply ( Read more... )

I guess it's been a pretty decent week in many respects. I started learning a new programming language (Go, AKA Golang), met
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I haven't been writing much at all lately. I'm thinking it's time I did. There are a good number of things I'd like to get back to work on; some of you might have preferences or suggestions.
Part the First: Once and Future Posts

There are several series of themed posts I'd like to get back to work on ( Read more... )

Um... right. You can tell it was a productive day from the small number of notes? Something like that.

Because, aside from not taking a walk due to working through lunchtime, it was a very productive day. I got a couple of overdue bills paid ( Read more... )

It's been a weird week: I've Gotten Things Done. I seem to have gotten past some kind of huge roadblock, or in River terms perhaps caught a following wind instead of drifting.

I can attribute a lot of it to the "Avoid Avoiding" group I've been ( Read more... )

Next week I really have to stop procrastinating Sorting the Piles. The big tower of charity mailings collapsed this morning; I just spent the last 15 minutes or so piling it into a file box. The third one this year, I think.

I really have to set up a "sort-as-you-go" system, which is what I do for ( Read more... )

I actually got a couple of things done today (surprise, surprise). First ( Read more... )

Technical reports are due to our lab's parent company at the end of March -- it's our only actual deliverable, so it's important even if all they do is count the pages. Last year, after they got done accounting for all the steps, we ended up having to have the TR's written by the middle of February. My boss, mr_kurt, reminded us of this ( Read more... )