Done yesterday (20090730)

[mdlbear]

0729 We
  * up 7:05; W=191.6; coffee; drugs, nose, teeth
  * water day
  * 9am call Ali: coming in time to take Colleen to Kaiser? -> NO
  ~ keep looking for Kat's key -- no sign of it 
    -> the key I found goes to the HSX cash box
  * post itinerary
  ~ WFH morning
  * 10am get Colleen up; should leave ~10:30
  * 11:15 Colleen: Neurology 
  * 12:00 call from AT&T re: uverse billing
  * 12:45 no, I am *not* basically OK.
  * 1:00 call from N, singing Jennifer's Rabbit to me
    ! calm(er) and happy.
  * 3:00 paid AT&T U-verse bill via CC.
  = determined that static IP block is $15/month and requires a truck roll
  * 5:00 teleconference@work
  * post link to pp.net now that N has gone public with it
  * great conversation with T, and a lovely shoulder rub.
  * bed ~11:30.

The morning disappeared into a frustrating and unsuccessful search for the spare key to the Wolfling's safe, followed by taking Colleen to an 11:15 appointment at Kaiser. While getting her into the car to go home I got a call from AT&T's billing department, and damned near lost it. No, I am not basically OK right now. I'm stressed out right to the edge of breaking.

No walk, but I got my exercise walking up and down stairs at Kaiser -- both my car and Colleen's appointment were on their respective fourth floors, and I made a couple of other trips up and down. It's exercise, but it's not as relaxing as a real walk with trees and flowers.

The fact that I'm leaving tomorrow for a "vacation" with my bereaved brother isn't helping, either in terms of time or stress.

Two things did help: pocketnaomi calling me and singing "Jennifer's Rabbit" (she figured correctly that a lullabye would help calm me down), and a shoulder rub and good conversation from T late in the evening.

I also posted the link to PocketPoems.net now that Naomi has gone public with it. (And gotten her first commission!)

The test of my software at work turned up some more bugs, but I think there's time to fix them. I need to do some writing, too, but I can probably do that over the weekend.

And I called AT&T to find that they've been sending my bills by email to a nonexistant address, at att.net. It exists now, maybe; I checked it and found no bills there. I switched to paper. I also determined that a block of 8 static IP addresses will run me $15/month and requires a truck roll. WTF? They have to roll a truck to reconfigure my router? Probably still worthwhile.

And I still need to move my email and dump the old DSL line I'm not using.

... and somehow take time for myself, to prevent caregiver burnout. Yeah, right. LJ and coffee will have to do. Oh, that reminds me -- there are still copies of Coffee, Computers and Song for sale.