Done yesterday (20090806)

[mdlbear]

0806 Th
  * 6ish snuggle 
  * up 7:10; W-191.4; coffee; drugs, nose, teeth
  * 9:00 leave for work!!
  - weather: cool, rainy.  Nice change, but the roads are clogged.
  * 10am: work: dry run on the demo
  * Work: demo working well, mostly thanks to (coworker) M 
    ! feeling oddly down.  Weather, pre-demo anxiety, or reaction?
  & pre-lunch talk with M
    ! we agreed that we were both nervous, and that epidurals are scary
  * Walk, ~55min around the pond
    ! guardedly optimistic?  Contented.
    - warm, sunny
  * 3:30 demo (Boss, Grandboss, HeadHoncho-san) -- went off perfectly 
    ! Happy and very relieved.  
  @ http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WRT160NL
    from http://linuxgazette.net/165/lg_bytes.html
    Cisco Launches Linux WiFi Router with Media Sharing
  * bed 11:15ish; lots of snuggle; sleep 12:30ish
    Colleen also was thinking of Amy on Tuesday.
    Orycon looks impossible this year because C missed Loscon last year.
    May be the last time for some people.

The weather was cool and a little rainy in the morning; I drove through a couple of patches of gentle but steady rain on the way to work. My coworker M was still working on his side of the demo (the client side) right up until the 10am dry run, and managed to get a 3x speedup by clever caching. My side (the server) worked just fine.

After the dry run I felt oddly down -- weather, worries, or reaction? It's hard to tell; probably a mixture. M and I talked and agreed that we were both nervous, and that epidurals are scary.

Spent a contented hour walking in the warm sunlight and being guardedly optimistic. The demo went off perfectly. M and I just sat there watching while the Boss and Grandboss ran through it with the visiting HeadHoncho-san.

Our scheduled date night took us to Menlo Park, and a nice little Italian restaurant next to Kepler's bookstore. Which roughly tripled the price of the evening's entertainment, but... Bookstore. I had eggplant parmesano; Colleen had a cucumber/tomato/celery salad and gnocci. We split a plate of breaded-and-broiled oysters. Very much to yum.

We snuggled and talked for over an hour after going to bed. Colleen was also thinking of Amy on Tuesday, and I learned that she had been up and down five stairs during her PT appointment.

We decided, with considerable regret, that we'd have to go to Loscon rather than Orycon this year (a major grump to those who moved Orycon into conflict). Colleen missed it last year, and with Kat in Seattle it will probably be our last Loscon; there are people there whose health is fragile enough that it may well be the last time we see them. *sigh*

A good day, ending on a slightly down but tender and loving note.

Link sausage:

From Linux Gazette, Cisco's WRT160NL, a Linux-based 802-11N router with a USB port. 100baseT ethernet, though, so you can't really use it as a NAS. I'll probably stick with my collection of assorted MiniITX boards.

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I had a epidural for my lower back not-quite-herniated discs and it was GREAT! Little pin pokes, quickly over, soooo much better than the pain I was living with.

Watching the folks of my youth in L.A. fandom die away has been a very sad thing over the past few years. Even my age-mates... who are all these old people? We would like to think that we are not really getting older but our knees, arteries etc. politely disagree. Sometimes not so politely.

Any road, I shall be very glad to see you and the Cat.

[mdlbear]

We'll be glad to see you, too.

Getting old sucks.