Done yesterday (20090925)

[mdlbear]

0925 Fr
  * up 6:40; coffee; drugs, nose, teeth
  | 8:25 cold and wondering why I haven't had my coffee
  | shoulder hurting a little, but much less than Thursday
  @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_sensitive_person (?)
      This is a specific trait with key consequences that in the past has
      often been confused with innate shyness, inhibitedness, innate
      fearfulness, introversion, and so on.  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyness 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervigilance (don't think I have it)
  <- I've often told myself I don't _care_ what other people think of me, but
      I also vaguely remember training myself to believe that.  Somewhere in
      elementary school, I think, and/or summer camp.
  <- I also remember training myself out of several bad habits: thumb-sucking
     (I was three or four), computer games, nail-picking.  Others are more
     resistant, though.  I have also developed several desirable habits.
  * e-paid some bills
  & unmount /mirror and remove root's crontab on nova
  & call from AT&T web marketing.  $170/month for 60 clicks/month via top 200
    keywords on site.  No, I'm not going there.  He said he was going to my
    site, though, and looking up "filk".  Could work if I had a really high
    conversion rate.  I don't.
    ! curious, then amused.
  @ http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/get_your_hack_on
    power any 5v device from USB
  * walk; around pond, ~10m meditation
    ! not much anxiety this time
  ! avoidance/anxiety around setting up an appointment with Dr. Awsare.
    ?"don't want to know" -> ?fortune-telling, denial
  . set up email for *@thestarport.org at DH
    * http://wiki.dreamhost.com/NDN_Certificate -> /usr/share/ca-certificates
    * try to configure fetchmail for steve@s.net
      -> -ERR Temporary problem, please try again later
      Same response via telnet to port 110, so probably at DH's end.
  & Colleen made coq au vin in a crockpot for dinner.  Yum!
    I made the cauliflower and pasta. 
  & some noodling in response to Colleen's request for music
  * 9pm-9:35 work on office
    found Aetna statements and Kaiser receipts to R. of monitor.
    stacked other things needing attention from that area
    put CD drawer back in rolling cabinet
  ~ move dns for thestarport.org to DH
    can't do this because DH's mail is unreliable/unusable
  * Bed 10:30; awakened for Snuggle 1am
  & 2:15 bath; 2:45 bed
    | no shoulder pain -- yay!

My sore right shoulder was much improved; there was no noticable pain by evening. Or even at 2am when I took a bath, unable to get back to sleep after being awakened by a Snuggly Colleen. (It was sore this morning; I suspect due to spending some of the night sleeping on my right side.)

A nice walk, with very little anxiety this time. I spent too much of the afternoon trying to get mail configured on my web hosting provider's system; massive fail. It's probably back to plan B on that one: a DirectAdmin account at my old ISP, rahul.net. Or see what I can do with Google.

About half an hour of working on the piles of papers in the office, and a little noodling in response to Colleen's request for music.

I got an amusing call from AT&T's web marketing; they'll advertise me on Google and Yahoo and guarantee 60 click-through's/month for only $170. That might work if my conversion rate was high enough, but I don't think it would be.

Some interesting link-chasing in Wikipedia, but that will warrant its own post on the River later. I've already alluded to it yesterday, so it'll keep.

On the whole a pretty good day, though not terribly productive.

Comments

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

Have you perhaps considered Google Apps for email? www.google.com/a gets you to where to start looking at it, if you're at all interested. (It also gets you domain-private Google Documents and Calendar, too, though those can be turned off as well.) It's relatively easy to set up -- if you have direct update rights to your DNS zone, you can set it up in however long your zone update interval is.

:)