mdlbear | Done yesterday (20090415) (Reply)

0415 We
  & Needed extra quilt.  May have forgotten my CPAP.  Sore throat. :(
  * up 5:30ish; W=191; drugs, nose; coffee, C.  
  * follow up Baycon concert grovel
  * tgl: type in and email song list
  * bring Colleen her laundry, outreach phone#
  * 11am talk at CRC on evolution of social networks
  * mail Colleen's jury duty excuse
  * Call to Colleen: walked 25, 35, 27 ft.
    ! Happy.  Fantastic progress.
  * 12:39 buy TaxCut -at Fry's on the way home- _online_
  * short walk
  * Taxes: don't owe, so filed for extension.  Some info missing.
    ! uncontrolled fury at TaxCut and its moronic UI
    ! relief when extension mailed
    ! annoyance at myself and my procrastination
  * Visit to Colleen.  Can transfer between bed and walker.
  * lightly-attended Wednesday.  Still needed bandwidth reduction to handle.
  * talk with Jilara about Kat's shipping.  
    = will leave two weeks from today
  & 10:30 everyone's gone.  Weird.  Must have driven them all off.
  * laundry for Colleen
  * Colleen's laundry -> drier
  * bed ~11:15

On the good side, Colleen walked a total of 87 feet in her morning session, and practiced transferring from the bed to the walker and back in the afternoon. So things are looking hopeful.

Other than that, though it was a day made of fail caused entirely by my own procrastination. I usually rely on the people around me, Colleen and Chaos in particular, to prod me about Things That Need Doing, like taxes and filling out my guest questionaire for Baycon (which I did this morning, a day late).

Taxes were particularly harrowing, in part because of TaxCut's user interface fail (which provides two ways of printing an extension, one of which works and one of which makes it look like you've zeroed out your entire return), and in part because a buyout at the end of the year left me with an unexpected $30K capital transaction. Luckily, it worked out to a $3K loss, which helped. I need to keep much better records and closer tabs on my finances, don't I?

I'm not at all happy about the way I snapped at people while I was doing my taxes. I should probably have just shut the door at the outset, after warning people not to disturb me -- when I'm concentrating on something tricky and disagreeable I seem to be totally incapable of civilized behavior. One thing that did help was that Alison found some gluten-free chocolate cake in the freezer as soon as she heard me cursing at the computer, and had it sitting on the counter when I finally emerged.

It was a lightly-attended Wednesday, but even so I wasn't up for handling it.

I am feeling particularly down on myself right now. Procrastination and failure. Typical.