And just like that, Toronto is one sleep away. Have a status update!
I head to Toronto tomorrow. I turned in the last freelance assignment that had to be done before I go...just under an hour ago, so all of twelve hours before I get picked up for the airport. Whew.
In order to get my deadlines met, I stayed home from Casual Job on Monday, and didn't go in for the optional meeting this morning (which would've added four hours to my workday), and fortunately Monday wasn't too bad for my co-worders. But Those Who Speak are still at it, despite predictions, and tomorrow could be a wretchedly long day for the folks at the office. :/ (As I was leaving tonight I told a few people I'd be feeling awfully guilty about not being there to help, and they all told me to have a good time instead. I told them I'm perfectly capable of multitasking.)
I'm horribly behind on email. Usually I at least manage to stay sort of on top of replying to DW/LJ comments, and even that fell by the wayside. I'm going to do what I can to actually answer some more comments and emails before bed; since DW is so very thoroughly my online home base and where I most enjoy talking to people, I feel like I damn well ought to keep up my end of the conversation as best I can, but...right now, apparently, I can't. :/
But at least I'm packed, as long as the things that need to get packed tomorrow all fit into the bag I want them to. I'm trying to take just a small suitcase [full to the gills] and my basically-perfect handbag. Since I'm just taking Yotsuba, my netbook, rather than my actual laptop, that should be enough. I hope.
(There's a whole sad story in this that I'm not going to try to write out fully, but this past week there was a really good price on a small laptop--I guess no one says "netbook" anymore--that had MUCH better specs than Yotsuba, who, as a netbook from 2010, is not what you'd call high-powered--and I caved and bought it, only to have
scruloose and Kas find out after a lot of prodding and research that [as one reviewer had said, but which Kas figured could be worked around] that there was pretty much no way to put Linux on the thing.
scruloose did find some kind of deep hack instructions that would've resulted in an Ubuntu install that didn't have working audio or wi-fi, and...no. So back it went, with its bizarre hardware etc.--the guys said something about it basically having a tablet processor, and a 32-bit something but a 64-bit something else...and as you can see, I'm totally taking their word for it.)
And to wrap up on a happy note, despite all the stress and work frazzle leading up to this point, right now I am caught up on my deadlines, and I have a few days OFF, and tomorrow evening I'll be in Toronto and going to Holy Chuck and getting hugs and snuggles.
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/595858.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW:
In order to get my deadlines met, I stayed home from Casual Job on Monday, and didn't go in for the optional meeting this morning (which would've added four hours to my workday), and fortunately Monday wasn't too bad for my co-worders. But Those Who Speak are still at it, despite predictions, and tomorrow could be a wretchedly long day for the folks at the office. :/ (As I was leaving tonight I told a few people I'd be feeling awfully guilty about not being there to help, and they all told me to have a good time instead. I told them I'm perfectly capable of multitasking.)
I'm horribly behind on email. Usually I at least manage to stay sort of on top of replying to DW/LJ comments, and even that fell by the wayside. I'm going to do what I can to actually answer some more comments and emails before bed; since DW is so very thoroughly my online home base and where I most enjoy talking to people, I feel like I damn well ought to keep up my end of the conversation as best I can, but...right now, apparently, I can't. :/
But at least I'm packed, as long as the things that need to get packed tomorrow all fit into the bag I want them to. I'm trying to take just a small suitcase [full to the gills] and my basically-perfect handbag. Since I'm just taking Yotsuba, my netbook, rather than my actual laptop, that should be enough. I hope.
(There's a whole sad story in this that I'm not going to try to write out fully, but this past week there was a really good price on a small laptop--I guess no one says "netbook" anymore--that had MUCH better specs than Yotsuba, who, as a netbook from 2010, is not what you'd call high-powered--and I caved and bought it, only to have
scruloose and Kas find out after a lot of prodding and research that [as one reviewer had said, but which Kas figured could be worked around] that there was pretty much no way to put Linux on the thing.
scruloose did find some kind of deep hack instructions that would've resulted in an Ubuntu install that didn't have working audio or wi-fi, and...no. So back it went, with its bizarre hardware etc.--the guys said something about it basically having a tablet processor, and a 32-bit something but a 64-bit something else...and as you can see, I'm totally taking their word for it.)
And to wrap up on a happy note, despite all the stress and work frazzle leading up to this point, right now I am caught up on my deadlines, and I have a few days OFF, and tomorrow evening I'll be in Toronto and going to Holy Chuck and getting hugs and snuggles.
Originally posted at http://umadoshi.dreamwidth.org/595858.html. Comment here if you like, or comment there using OpenID. Comments at DW: