mdlbear | Done yesterday (20100103 Su) (Reply)

0103 Su
  * up 8ish; W=202.4; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  % aha: I'm hardly ever alone.  Not really: I have LJ and IM most days.
  * backups:  2010-01-03T09:02:38-0800 - 2010-01-03T10:04:58-0800
  % Should have done git snapshots _before_ backups, shouldn't I.
  => CP pointed out last night that I should be journaling more (PJ, not LJ)
  * puttering: cleaning up after the party
  @ filk: Recycling for music (the pick machine at Gryphon)
  @ start reading http://lipsticksavior.livejournal.com/ 
  o Charities!!! (can fudge a little because tomorrow is a holiday)
    . 13:00 start triaging the begging letters
    . 13:28 done with the box of most-recent begs (~34 in stack)
    . 14:00 buried in envelopes from the left-hand pile. :(
  * 14:45-15:58 Walk: 2.75x around the Rose Garden
  % found the mixer rebate form that I didn't remember printing
    It had to have been postmarked by 1208.  Idiot bear.
  % I hadn't realized it was possible for Colleen to get peopled-out.
  * Mongolian barbecue, B+N
  * buy: bus pass for the YD
  * YD  Return Sun Jan 3 		 Travel Time 1 h 05 m
    Lots of traffic at the airport.  The inside of Terminal A is different
    again, with the security area where the ticket counter used to be.
  * 16 checks written
  * bed ~midnight; snuggle

A rather low-key day, but good. The really big happy thing happened 34 years ago, at about 2pm, when we got married. The man who forgets his anniversary is something of a stock character, but I really did spend most of the day not thinking about it. Of course, the party had been on Saturday.

I got in a good walk, a couple of times around the Rose Garden. I suppose that if I walked more often, it would hurt less.

I tracked down all the begging letters, and got a good start on writing the checks (a process I finished this morning). Should have been done in mid-December, of course; this year I didn't even sort them in December. I figure as long as the checks are dated 12/31 and in the mail on the first business day of the new year, ... I really need to start spreading them out, two or three per month.

Of course, that would require being organized.

While tracking down the charities I found a rebate form (that I hadn't thought I'd printed out) that had to have been mailed by December 8. Grrrr. I also now have a big pile of stuff that needs to be looked at Real Soon Now.

Colleen, Chaos and I went out to Mongolian Barbecue for dinner, after which we dropped off the Wolfling and went to Barnes & Noble. Then I dropped Colleen off and went to the airport to pick up the YD.

Then I wrote checks, until finally falling into bed around midnight. The snuggle was nice. If I'm going to take benedryl at bedtime, I need to make that no later than 11.