mdlbear | Done recently (20100912 Su

0912 Su
  * up 8:05; W=195.2; drugs, nose, teeth; shower, dishes, coffee, laundry
  * backups:  2010-09-12T08:42:16-0700 - 2010-09-12T09:30:46-0700
    /dev/sda5            1349854392 458393956 822891808  36% /media/bak
  @ Way Out Junk: Journey to the Moon and More About Outer Space
  * breakfast - butter-fried salmon skin and a salmon omlette.  Yum!
  * more laundry.  Time to do sheets and bedpads.
  @ Meg Cabot - Nine Years Ago @slwippert
  @ String Swing
    ordered rack and mic stand guitar hangers, mic stand flute holder
  @ Rode Microphones NT1A Condenser Mic Bundle | Musician's Friend
    should I?  Damned good mic at a great price.  But will it motivate me?
    Sterling Audio ST55 Large Diaphragm FET Condenser Mic might be better
  & bought the Rhode NT-1A, plus some assorted mic stand accs, from MF
  " (17:48:11) ***mdlbear wearily resets the drier on the third of four loads
     of laundry since this morning.  Bed pads take a while to dry. 
    (17:49:01) mdlbear: I have discovered, though, that it's _much_ easier to
     change the sheets on a hospital bed if you raise the head end. 
  "
  @ ebonypearl: Privilege, Not Persecution via ravan 
  & four loads of laundry today; two with bedpads.  Last one with Platypus.
  * 19:22 remade beds
  & ... and another load for the pillow.
  * singing for Colleen - October Country, For Amy (her request!),
    Owl and the Pussycat, October Country, Mina's Song, Get Up & Go, Where the
    Heart Is (interrupted by phone call, IM from M.)
    Played Mina, Lock-Keeper from the Norwescon concert.
    & hauled out Cube30M because barnard's amp was way too wimpy.
  & found the missing headphones in the "amps" box, but not the little travel
    iPod amp that I was looking for.  That's still missing
  * moved boxes out of office doorway.  (into office, but...)
  * installed gtick metronome, for determining click track speeds.

0913 Mo
  * up 6:35; W=195.8; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee
  * walk:  one parking-lot short of Skyport.
  % feeling dull-witted and slightly feverish.  Coming down with something?
  = cd ~/emacs; ln -s /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/emacs/git.el .
  @ http://david.hardeman.nu/software.php  (apt-get install metastore)
  & st/roll with Colleen, down to the street between Lincoln and Trace
  & took the Bears out of amethyst's tracklist
  * upgraded Colleen's Pidgin to 2.7 from 2.5
  @ Tempest Smith Foundation - History and Goals via ebonypearl 

0914 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=195.8; drugs, nose; coffee, dishes
  @ Rules for Anchorites - On Usernames  for usernames -- I agree
    theferrett - Confusion Around The Net against usernames.  :P
  * 08:30 Dr. Reed, Kaiser Vasona (30min)
    *- L-tryptophan + ssri -- how much is safe for me? -> none
  * invisible illness week already?  Yes.
    Invisible Illness Awareness Week
  * shipped packages.  Both FedEx and UPS are walking distance from $office.
  @ A Fishdragon's Ramblings - Clinical depression doesn't always feel 'sad' ...
  @ Superbug Spreading in US? CDC Says... | Gather
  @ the cat & dragon rag - Introversion: What it is and what it ain't

0915 We 
  * up 6:45; W=194.2; drugs, nose; dishes, coffee; cereal
  x 9:15 YD opthalmology
  * humira
  @ haikujaguar: The Three Micahs on Un-Slimy Marketing
  @ ebonypearl: My Blue Dress (why some Christians feel persecuted)
  * check work calendar for moved Susan app't
  & wrong address for Promusica in label file (missing digit; c&p error)
    ! feel like five kinds of idiot for not proofreading labels.  
      Several times.  DUMB BEAR
  @ E-reader roundup: 8 devices compete for the crown - Computerworld
  ! 12:40 feeling helpless, stupid.  Gut.
  @ 3-D Printing Is Spurring a Manufacturing Revolution - NYTimes.com
  @ Apple unwraps wireless printing for devices - MarketWatch
  % 2:17 basically nothing done work-wise up to now
  @ elf: Google Books Settlement Update
  @ admnaismith on the Tea Party takeover
  @ Passionate about creating sort of a 3d version of CafePress
  * pair of Full Spectrum floor lamps (Ott rip-offs) $30@CVS
  * buy: full-spectrum lights - my depression seems to be highly
    light-sensitive.  At least a couple for the office, if they're available
    in ordinary CFL formats.  
  @ ebonypearl: Poverty Myths
  @ Reinventing the stone tablet Â« File Formats Blog 
  & Jared and I talked about power saving, and VMs for the YD's games.
    Getting rid of the CRT TVs would make a huge difference.
  : hibernate seems to work just fine.
  * bed ~11pm; snuggle

0916 Th
  & awake 6ish; laundry; snuggle
  * up 6:30; W=194.2; drugs, nose; coffee, dishes
  : as expected, hibernate kills ssh connections.  Painless to fix.
  % two FS lights flanking the desk.  Not too distracting; may help
  @ Diaspora Developer Release
  @ Archive of Our Own via dw_news: Weekly Update 
  ~ moved to 0922 IIRC - 4:30 Susan
  @ The Mad Filkentist - An LJ privacy hole (referrer - not just LJ)
  : hibernate also seems to have killed my sound.  not good. :(
  @ BBC News - Carrier pigeon versus broadband in data speed race via wcg
    cue Paper Pings
  @ BBC News - Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit
    (but not the 1.7 or so quadrillion digits in between) 23*1K CPU-days
  & Daylight CFLs; microfiber washcloths at Fry's.
  & determined how to send mail to people who might have gotten misdirected pkgs
  * date night:  El Torito; short drive.  Liz came along.
  @ Bastard's Notebook - Look at your God. 
  @ Tolerance vs. respect via catsittingstill 
  * bring in iMic for iMac interface 
  * Package from MF showed up at work: NT1A, cable hooks
  @ Song: Everybody's Moon 
  @ Miskatonic University Press - The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
  @ Rules for Anchorites - Chymical Reactions
  @ Shadowe Wraithe - Global Village? A small step in the right direction...
    -> DaveZillion.com
  * PAY BILLS (power, insurance)
  % severe congestion; afrin; bath 11:15; bed 00:15

Good grief! OK, it's been busy, but I really could have found time to post some "done yesterday"s before I accumulated nearly a week's worth! Sorry about that.

During the course of the week I managed to acquire a new microphone (the Rode NT1A I saw last Saturday at Guitar Showcase, ordered from Musician's Friend), some StringSwing guitar holders (one that clamps onto a music stand, and one that screws onto a rack), and a couple of full-spectrum floor lamps. I also managed to misdirect a couple of packages, and to intercept one of them in time to get it where it was going. And to prove myself a careless hacker for assuming that I'd proofread them ages ago when I first made the cut-and-paste error.

I figured out that my depression seems to be heavily light-dependent -- I'm down on cloudy days and dark mornings. Hence the full-spectrum lamps.

I had a lot of trouble with nasal congestion, but appear to have gotten a reasonable amount of sleep. Not that I particularly like going to bed that early. I am very grumpy at my body.

I did some singing, and experimented with click tracks, but no recording. I feel that I got very little actually done, either at work or at home. I think I probably did, it just wasn't what I'd written down as needing doing. Again, it is to grump at.

I accumulated a huge number of links -- go look under the cut.

... and with that the Bear trundles off to bed.