mdlbear | Done yesterday (20100814 Sa) (Reply)

0814 Sa
  * up 8am; W=195.4; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee; dishes, laundry
  @ Bug 626593 - Gnome ate my boyfriend! Help!
  @ Open Source and Economics: How the Hold Up Problem Explains the Flash Wars
  @ Who's a Pirate? It's Not So Simple - WSJ.com
  @ finished reading California Prop 8 Ruling (August 2010)
  @ Walk to Rivendell
  @ Pretzel Crisps Replaces Pro-Ana Ads With...More Pro-Ana Ads (Updated)
    @kyrielle
    I lost a cousin to anorexia.  No thank you!
  * set up Web/chaoswolf to push to dreamhost.
  @ the cat & dragon rag - Article about pain <FAIL>
    Women tend to focus on pain on an emotional level, worrying about how it
    will affect their responsibilities, whereas men focus on the sensory
    aspect, Kelly said, urging doctors to help women deal with negative
    thoughts that can make a painful situation worse.  One woman who suffers
    from arthritic conditions agrees patients with chronic pain need help
    changing their mind-set about pain.
      "Part of what helped me was switching out the model in which I had to be
    pain free to be happy," Melanie Thernstrom says.  "Realizing I can have
    some pain, just like it can be raining outside and I can be happy -- it's
    all a matter of what level the pain is at.
    </FAIL> ... as opposed to, yaknow, treating the pain.  
  * puttering.  bedroom, back bathroom, office; driveway recycling; bring in
    moving boxes from work; spray chairs
  * track down Plink's tuner (probably in Ruby's case, from Eileen)
  * take down grow-light in back bathroom to give more shelf space.
  * walk: ~3mi by Los Gatos Creek
  * quacamole, tamales for dinner (Cosentino's)
  * Kathy's bash.  Good seeing some people I only connect with rarely.
    quite a lot of noodling; no singing.  The rice crackers I brought were the
    only thing that other people ate; there was enough meat from the barbecue
    that the cheese block and pepper salami mostly went begging.
  * bed 11:30ish; long snuggle.

A quietly productive day. Spent the morning mostly reading and puttering around the house -- I finished reading the California Prop 8 Ruling, and got a moderate amount of cleaning and reorganizing done. My walk was about 3 miles by Los Gatos Creek; a little short because I was running rather late by that time.

Stopped at Cosentino's and picked up a couple of avocados, some corn chips, and some of their excellent tamales. Not quite instant dinner, but pretty quick.

Then I drove over to San Leandro for Kathy Mar's Summer Bash. Took Plink and a songbook; noodled quite a lot but didn't sing. Lots of people I don't see very often, though I still have a strong tendency to hide in a corner rather than either singing or talking to people. Noodling, especially, tends to distance me from people; it's very comfortable, but not conducive to conversation. However, I can do it in a roomfull of people carrying on multiple conversations that would otherwise overwhelm me. So...

jackien1968 said that I give good hugs :). I've heard other rumors to that effect.