Done yesterday (20100225 Th)

[mdlbear]

0225 Th
  * up 7:10; W=199; drugs; kid; coffee
  * Thankful Thursday
  * installed hand-held shower in front bathroom
  * 10:58 Call Con-Way Freight re: two missing boxes -> call shipper
  * contact Medical Department Store (via Amazon; email sent to theStarport)
  # situation re: XO made worse by my tendency to pass links and other
    information in real-time as I find them rather than waiting to review them
    thoroughly before making suggestions.  This is a problem when dealing with
    someone who's angry, upset, and impatient.
  * 11:49 call back from MDS.  Having signed for 10 boxes without counting
    them was STUPID.  What was I *thinking*?
  @ Home Cooking Is Killing The Restaurant Industry!
  * 12:07 MDS has a tracer on the shipment.
  @ Startup Visa Act Introduced In The Senate
  * 12:16 Con-way found the mattresses!  Will arrive tomorrow.
  * walk: 2x around pond.
    ! delight: saw a turtle sunning itself on the edge of the pond
    % no hip pain; must be the non-orthotic insoles in the black Keens
  @ Mall security guard accuses shopper of being a paedophile for
    photographing his own son
  @ iMaxi - The Apple iPad Case with Protective Wings
  @ Giz Explains: Fuel Cells and Bloom Energy's Miracle Box
  & The XO backlight problem was accidentally hitting the brightness keys
    ! thrilled that the gadget is working and being loved by a kid.
    ! thrilled that the kid figured it out.
  @ The Open Source Way
  * PAY BILLS
  * Olympics with Colleen and Naomi
    Including best performance ever on Olympic ice.
  * bed 11:30; snuggle; S=8572

A good (very good?) day. OK, very good. It started with two huge, looming problems for me to beat myself up over, and ended with both problems happily resolved, and watching what's been called the best performance ever on Olympic ice, with Colleen and Naomi, followed by loverly snuggle.

The first problem was having signed for the hospital beds back on Wednesday without counting boxes. What was I thinking? Nevertheless, the seller (contacted via Amazon's online email form) found the mattresses in about an hour. They should be arriving today. Whew!

The second was that the backlight on the XO I'd given to Naomi to give to her daughter on her sixth birthday appeared to be turning off at roughly 10-minute intervals. That turned out to be the kid accidentally hitting the backlight-control keys, without knowing what they were! I'm particularly thrilled that the kid figured it out herself. Geek-grrl in the making?

Note to self: you have no future in online tech support. None.

And the women's figure skating was spectacular. Wow.

All's well that ends better? I'll take it. Links under the cut, as usual.