mdlbear | Done yesterday (20091013)

1012 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=199.4; coffee; drugs, nose
  | the main pain point in my shoulder has moved a little (up the arm and onto
    the shoulder joint)  There's another on my neck.  Secondary.
  * the problem with mail was, as I eventually figured out, the huge inbox.
  ~ 9:30 wake Colleen (woke by herself at 9)
  ! smiling when N came online.  Missed her yesterday.
  * walk to Safeway.
  * CD order for OVFF from Bill Roper
    ! surprised and happy
  * Came home before Colleen, Marty, and Ali got back from Britex
  * Leftover meatloaf for dinner
  * Attempted to print tax stuff; failed.  Did manage to track down the
    phantom printers to /var/cache/cups/remote.cache, and delete them.
  * Bed ~10:30; sleep ~11.  light snuggle because of shoulder

Another largely unproductive day, especially at work, though I did manage to make and write up some significant decisions about $current_project.

I tried to print the taxes, and was unsuccessful. Weird -- it worked last year, on the same hardware and OS versions. Oh, well; I'll take it in to work today and print there. I did, finally, manage to track down and exorcise two "phantom printers" that have been around for the last year on my desktop system. The magic file is /var/cache/cups/remote.cache.

Most of the pain from the torn muscle was gone; what was left were some secondary soreness in the neck and shoulder from working around it. I still need to baby that arm; it's all too easy to forget that it's injured at this point.

I found myself smiling when pocketnaomi came online on IM -- I'd missed her over the weekend. It feels a little odd to be noting that, but simply noticing my mood is a big step for me.

I took a walk; the weather was cool and cloudy -- perfect for walking.

I came home before Colleen and her friends got back from Britex (a huge fabric store in San Francisco that was having their Columbus Day sale), and was surprised and happy to find a dealer order for CC S waiting in my inbox, for delivery at OVFF.

It's amazing how much energy pain and recovery use up.

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It's good to hear that the pain is subsiding. These sorts of things can vary so much in how they heal quickly or linger. Having the pain go away so soon is a very good sign.

When my Earthlink Mailbox program imploded a few days ago and threatened to take the Internet Access with it (I lost that temporarily), I instealled a slightly newer version from CD. As I expected, I am now having to deal with various updating nuisances. For example, the email address book didn't come through. Even when trying to do some manual work with the new (blank) address book it keeps giving error messages, saying that it is getting the wrong number of parameters. This, even though I'm filling out it's own form. (This probably also is the reason the old address book did not get brought forward.) My brother speculated that it might be related to which version of JAVA was installed. The new version of the mail program also has a search feature, which first requires all the mail to be indexed. This takes about a half hour. Then the program bombed later, so there was no "standard sign-out" - and getting back into it today, it again wants to create a new index. And so on. When people ask why I don't automatically upgrade to the latest and greatest, these are the sorts of reasons I give. I am almost never interested enough in the new bells and whistles (the great majority of which I don't use) to make the hassle of the upgrade seem worthwhile. This time I think I will sign out of the mail program as soon as the index is done, so hopefully I won't have to go through that again.

Done yesterday (20091013)

Glad you're arm is better