Done yesterday (20100206 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0206 Sa
  % BPH :( - awake at 3am but got back to sleep fairly quickly
  * awake 8ish; snuggle; up 8:45; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, breakfast, dishes
  @ Ravan's Rants - And The Hammer Falls... (publishing)
  = apt-get install s3cmd -- scriptable access to Amazon S3
  & clutter: sorting 2009 receipts
  * 1pm: YD has class.  Leave 12:30
  * note: first "Done Yesterday" post one year ago.
    mdlbear: to.done yesterday "and all these yesterdays..."
  & more sorting after lunch (2ish)
  * walk: 3x around Rose Garden
  * pulled the Big Switch on thestarport.*
    We'll see how badly damaged email is when it's done.
    also moved DNS, hosting for penguin-lust.com
    all domains registered at go-daddy are now fully hosted on dreamhost.
  . move off Rahul except for minimal direct-admin account.
    in particular, move theStarport.* to DH for now.  This was actually
    decided back in March.
    * steve, colleen, postmaster mailboxes at DH
    * add to fetchmailrc
    * switch the DNS (20100206)
    * either symlink thestarport.org to Public (20100206)
    * test fetchmail for thestarport.org (20100206)
    & local DNS: mail.thestarport.org a CNAME for mail.savitzky.net
  * 6pm pick up YD at JRP
  & dinner: black bean asparagus pork
  * 6pm Kanef housefilk (left 7ish; slow start anyway)
    Bears, Stuff, Stuck Here, Paper Wings, Wheelin', Desolation Row + Oh No
    (DR was a request from Victor; I'd originally meant to go out on
     Riverheart) 
  * bed 00:30ish; snuggle; S=9476

Somehow it felt like a merely "good" day while it was happening, but it looks more like "very good" in retrospect. Not complaining.

A good walk, 3 times around the Rose Garden. A good housefilk at Kanef's -- it took a while to ramp up, but by 11:30 I was sorry to have to leave. And I got to set up two Kanef parodies, and got a request for Desolation Row. Which doesn't happen very often, for some reason.

But the really big thing was finally pulling the Big Switch on my email, and moving thestarport.org over to Dreamhost. There are, inevitably, some bugs left, though hopefully mostly in my internal DNS where they won't make any difference externally. And spam is way down. If I'd done this a year or two ago... I still have to get outgoing mail to work again, of course. But that's been broken for the last year.

Anyway, that was a big one. Odd... I'm not feeling much of an emotional reaction; I feel good about it, but not much more so than I do about having made a tasty dinner on the spur of the moment. Isn't a major accomplishment supposed to feel different? On reflection, that may be part of my problem.

But anyway, a very good day.

Comments

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I've often found that I only get a big emotional "moment" at an accomplishment if it is a visibly different change, like making the kitchen spotless after it looks like a disaster.

Completing a paper, fixing something so it isn't broken, doing computer tasks, however monumental seem to fail to push the pride or accomplished buttons in my head.

Thus, I can continue to beat myself up for not having "accomplished" anything - nothing looks different.

I'm glad you can self-talk yourself into recognizing that you've done well.

[mdlbear]

Thanks.

The "done" list works pretty well as an objective way of keeping me from beating myself up. The emotional part still needs to be worked on. A lot -- it's not something I have much experience with. There may not be much I _can_ do, for that matter; I may just not be very responsive in that direction.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov!

Reaction may be delayed. For example, realizing at some point, "Hey, I don't have to do THAT₁ anymore because {I've done it₁ / I've made that host move}!", and feeling lighter for it.

(The matching subscripts are linguistese for identity; here, "it" is something you had to keep doing, or were going to have to do, that is no longer there because of the bigger thing you've accomplished, and "THAT" may be either "it" or the bigger thing.)

[mdlbear]

/me nods. Thanks. It's kind of an odd feeling.