Done yesterday (20090721)

[mdlbear]

0720 Mo
  * up 6:55; W=192.2; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee; dishes, laundry
  ~ alpha lipoic acid - have plenty in stock; just forgot
  * 8:15 chores done and to.done posted. 
  * 8:53 LJ and breakfast finished
  * wash sheets and mattress pads
  * Format 1.5TB drive: 32, 32, 32, 1371  Arguably one of those could be swap
  * walk ~45 minutes by the pond
  & spent much time in the afternoon on "crisis line" calls
  * Some major troubleshooting at work: a number of old bugs shot dead.
    a number of errors where an early exit causes weird trouble downstream
    -> "can't create .git/index: file exists" means delete .git/index.lock
    -> can't simply put files in .gitignore if they've been committed: they
       have to be removed with "git rm".
  x 2:30p Caregiver support group
  x 5:30 Planets group
  * LED light bulbs arrived.  Nice.
  & evening: reading and IM
  * bed ~11

It was an exhausting day, especially emotionally. I'm seriously thinking of answering my cell phone "Grand Central Starport tech support and crisis hotline". I still claim that I'm not much good at it.

I put in quite a lot of work (blowing off a couple of other appointments in the process) -- it probably won't be enough to get me a functional demo by tomorrow evening. A number of bugs have been due to a script exiting early because of an error, which causes necessary setup or cleanup not to be done, which causes inexplicable unrelated havoc down the line somewhere. That probably happens in relationships, too, only it's harder to reboot.

I'm still learning a lot about git, and enough about Python to find my way around in (and sometimes debug) someone else's code.

My shipment of LED lightbulbs arrived. Surprisingly bright for 3-4W. There are a couple of places where they'll work beautifully.

By 11pm I was ready to crash, so I did.

Comments

[kayshapero]

Ya could do worse. My brother has been known to answer HIS phone with "Ajax Mortuary: Parts Department". :)