Done day before yesterday (20090827)

[mdlbear]

0827 Th
  * up 7:45; W=195.4; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, C
  * YD has been getting up on time this week.  Delightful.
  * 9:15 to work for 10am meeting
  * walk: once around pond; 15m meditation
    ! pretty scattered.
  @ http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/ Calibre
    open-source, cross-platform ebook manager
  @ http://gizmodo.com/5345785/giz-explains-how-to-actually-make-coffee
    Giz explains how to actually make coffee
  @ https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/
    Touchbook tablet/netbook ($399; pre-order)
  @ Nokia 900 Maemo phone
http://gizmodo.com/5346818/nokia-n900-maemo-is-a-phone-makes-the-n97-look-silly
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/
  @ http://gizmodo.com/5346858/cd-drive-rocks-baby-to-sleep
    massively silly, but very sweet.
  @ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135086/No_to_SQL_Anti_database_movement_gains_steam_
  @ http://www.newsweek.com/id/209164    Newsweek article on polyamory
  @ http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Philadelphia_Lawyer.htm
  <- realizing that PE was nothing but continuous humiliation.  not clear how
     it could be anything else for someone with neither ability nor interest.
  -> Colleen thinks I have a low-grade cold.  I certainly have nasal
     congestion.  Mild flu?  That would go witht the muscle aches.
  * Dinner: El Torrito
  * bed early.  Snuggle.  

Not a very productive day, but a pretty good one on the whole. Lots of yummy links, which I'll get to shortly.

I noted that the YD has been getting up on her own, this first week of school. Not always early enough to make me coffee, but at least I haven't had to go upstairs to rouse her. Go, girl!

I managed a medium-length walk, with 15 minutes of meditation, so that was good.

Colleen told me that in her opinion I had a low-grade virus; the fact that both my nasal congestion and muscle aches have mostly gone away over the last two days is supporting evidence.

The major insight of the day was realizing that PE in junior high and high school was nothing but continuous humiliation for me. It could hardly have been otherwise, for someone with neither interest nor ability.

We ended the day with our "date night" dinner at El Torrito -- tasty and much less expensive than some of the places we've been going -- and went to bed early. Snuggle. Yay for snuggle.

Link sausage for the day.

a computer, a CD drive, a short shell script, and a piece of string rocking a baby to sleep. Silly, and terribly sweet.

Calibre, an open-source, cross-platform e-book library organizer. I definitely intend to take a look at this for the Kindle.

Giz explains how to actually make coffee using a variety of pots.

Some nice-looking hardware: the Touchbook tablet/netbook ($399, available for pre-order), and two articles about Nokia's N900 Maemo (Linux) phone. Gadget lust.

The No-To-SQL anti-database movement. Most of the time you don't need one.

A Newsweek article on polyamory, and Woody Guthrie's song Philadelphia Lawyer round out the day's collection.

I rather like this method of clearing my tabs.

Comments

[callibr8]

The major insight of the day was realizing that PE in junior high and high school was nothing but continuous humiliation for me. It could hardly have been otherwise, for someone with neither interest nor ability.

Ohhhhh yeah. Been there, done that, too. I actually had the interest, but lacked the ability, and had a serious, ineffectively treated (possibly untreatable at that time) breathing problem just to make things... extra special. Soon as I found out that it was possible to get a PE waiver for high school, I did, and my parents signed it without a protest. Guess they were tired of coming to school to pick me up and haul me off to the doctor to get the latest injury (which usually turned out to be a sprain of some sort) checked out. Meh!

Are they doing PE any smarter these days? I fervently hope so, for the sake of your YD and others who might otherwise suffer similar fates as you and I did.

[mdlbear]

/me nods.

They do seem, at least at the YD's school, to have a wider range of possible activities, and a little bit of choice. And Kat was able to take fencing at DeAnza. So maybe.

[callibr8]

I wouldn't be surprised re the low-grade virus, between your plane flights and being exposed to our kids and their cold, it was probably inevitable.

I'm in day three or four of said cold myself. Do not like!

Hope we both feel better soon.

*hugs*

[mdlbear]

*hugs*

If it's what I had, you should be getting over it soon. It wasn't a two-week rhinovirus cold, but something closer to a mild flu.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that touchbook looks nifty...I think I want one.