Done yesterday (20091019)

[mdlbear]

1019 Mo
  * up 7:30; W=188.4; coffee; drugs, nose
  @ re: stormy weather -- look up PTSD  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Traumatic_Stress_Disorder
    cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_stress_reaction
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_Movement_Desensitization_and_Reprocessing
  @ http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1346357.html The Economics Of Fear
  * PJ re: stormy weather and disaffectation
  * Talk by Stork on Lake Wobegon Dice
  * Very short walk around the building
  * 2:30 caregiver support (leave 1:45)
    odd, silly session.  All of us taking care of spouses.  Humor helps.
    oddly enough, I'm not the cynical curmudgeon of the group.
    Passed out my card, since I had mentioned taking a trip this weekend,
    which brought up the subject of filk and OVFF.
  & quiet evening in the LR; not much done beyond making dinner and listening
    to a Harry Chapin CD
  * move YD's computer to the hall; 
    required untangling and extending the ethernet cable
  * install Amber upstairs.
    -> not recognizing the IDE devices.  HELP
    ! frustrated, depleted, defeated
  * bath; snuggle
  * awake 3:30; back to bed 4:30ish.  snuggle

Not a terribly productive day. (Short) meeting and (interesting) talks in the morning at work, with a short afternoon so I could get to the (twice-monthly) caregiver's support group at Kaiser. Odd session, with a lot of silliness. Humor helps, obviously. Oddly enough, I'm not the cynical curmudgeon of the group. I passed out my card because my rolly had led to the subject of travel, OVFF, and filk.

I'd loaded up my netbook with a large page from my internal RSS aggregator; that worked very well.

Spent most of the evening hanging out in the living room with Colleen, listening to music and not doing much of anything else. Some practicing, and then I attempted to get the YD's new desktop system installed, and her old one moved to the hallway desk. The latter worked, though it required several trips to the garage attic to untangle and extend the ethernet cable. The former didn't: the thing stubbornly refused to recognize either of its IDE devices. This morning, weirdly enough, it did boot after the YD pulled and reseated the plug.

But I went to bed frustrated, defeated, and depleted, though a hot bath and warm snuggle went a long way toward fixing the first two. I was up for another hour or so at 3:30, with more snuggle. Not quite enough sleep, but that wasn't what I needed most anyway.

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[montemplar.livejournal.com]

Old IDE cable? Too many kinks and/or bends? Just a thought.

[mdlbear]

Brand new, actually. Or at least not previously used.