Done yesterday (20091010)

[mdlbear]

1010 Sa
  * up 9ish; W=197; coffee; drugs, nose, teeth
  * found 160GB hard drive, case for YD (when J. gets here)
  * found missing spatula blade (in the "misc. utensils" drawer)
  & "max buffer size exceeded" in gnus
    Probably a history file.  May work on Dorsai; else start over with a clean
    spool and fresh .newsrc
      (steve 541) ls -l {misc,spam,family}/.overview
      -rw------- 1 steve users  4730527 Oct  8 08:45 family/.overview
      -rw------- 1 steve users  6195853 Oct  8 08:45 misc/.overview
      -rw------- 1 steve users 10178231 Oct  9 09:25 spam/.overview
    ... so that's pretty clear.  Just wipe .../spam.  Maybe rm .overview
    ... no.  even getting the folder out doesn't help.  Grump.
    ... probably the mail spool.    
  & dueling DHCP servers on gc and stargate.  :(
  * $DEMO works!  Packaged and ready to go.
    ! happy, relieved
  | probable torn muscle on upper right arm.  Hurts like hell.
    N says to ice it occasionally and not use it for a couple of days.  Ouch!!
  x take Colleen to Stanford Shopping Ctr while I finish off the demo.
    she doesn't want to be by herself.
  * corned beef & cabbage for dinner.
  * bed ~ 10:30; computer until sleepy, ~:30.  cyclobenzaprine, sleep tea.

Mixed day? I was basically lazy around the house all morning and much of the afternoon, after getting up around 9am. I went in to work, made sure that the demo worked, and packed it up. Win. Happy and relieved -- that's a problem I won't be having in the future. Made dinner (corned beef and cabbage -- not very difficult).

screaming_angel came over in mid-afternoon to upgrade the YD's computers; he put together a reasonably powerful Ubuntu box with lots of space for a Windows partition if I can find an install disk at work, and upgraded the RAM in her laptop. Which he then took home so he could upgrade the disk (with the one he's freeing up when he upgrades the disk in his laptop).

On the other hand, I'm having more trouble with email: now Emacs gives me a "max buffer size exceeded" when I try to read it. Some experimentation indicates that this is probably due to a mailbox full of spam.

And on the gripping hand, I seem to have somehow torn a muscle in my upper right arm near the shoulder. OWWW! As it turns out, because I'm left handed, that is my gripping hand: I tend to pick up and carry things with my right hand, which leaves my left hand free for things like keys and doorknobs. Not happening. Also, lifting that arm up, or especially trying to reach behind me with it, are excruciating. No T-shirts for a while.

I got to sleep with the help of cyclobenzaprine, and somehow managed not to re-injure the shoulder in the process. Fortunately I tend to sleep on my left side.

So... mixed.