Done last week (20100920 Mo - 0925 Fr) :(

[mdlbear]

0920 Mo
  * up 7:45; W=197.4; drugs, nose, teeth; laundry, dishes, coffee
  & worked in the LR because both dorsai's KVM switch is toast, too.
  & moved floor lamp to LR - much better.  Consider an Ott task light.
  * lunch at Sr. Jalapeno's with (new contractor) Seth
    only about 2 blocks walk each way, but OK.
  @ Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship via gridlore Amazing.
  @ Rules for Anchorites - ZOMGKITTEN (chapbook: Clash of the Geeks)
  @ Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace, by Douglas Rushkoff
    via gfish
  * crashed around 11pm

0921 Tu
  * up 7:30; W=197.2; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  @ My Lips are Red: A little fat..... 
  : Great news from Selkit
  * walk: Technology, Skyport, N. First, Old Bayshore.
    probably shouldn't have had the vente iced mocha at Charbucks. Good, though.
  x Avoiding cancelled this week
  $ $25 from Kezzie for priest's fee.
  * set Trantor up with the 200GB hard drive from Gateway.
    (temporary because it only has one ATA interface)
  @ THE .DOC FILE OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK via siliconshaman
  * rebooting nova didn't fix the keyboard, so figure the KVM is toast.
  * after getting trantor sort-of configured, it now refuses to boot and won't
    even give me BIOS video.  WTF?
  % I am a bear of no brain whatsoever this evening.
  & don't know what trantor's problem _was_, but it seems to be working now.
    definitely needs a DVI video card, because it refuses to go full width
    with the analog input.
  * kludged nova's UPS connection with a USB dongle.  13% of 260W = 33W, down
    from 54.  about $70/year; I was hoping for more.
  * trantor is using 9% of 708W = 63W, down from 93.  That's more like it:
    30W=$105/year savings.  Total saving on the swap: 50W=$175/year


0922 We
  * up 5:50; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  * YD up early; came down ~7am.
  @ The Best 30 HTML5 games
  * N's package arrived  ! huge relief.
    The machine at the post office lied to me -- said it would arrive Monday
  ~ 4:30 Susan -> 0928 Tu 1pm
  @ To Slide or to Slice? Finding a Positive Sexual Metaphor | Scarleteen
    sex is more like pizza than baseball.  via cflute
  * walk.  Lunch at Zeytoun; back via N. First
  & made healthcare mail folder (currently only kaiser/kp.org)
  & I haz l33t d3bugg1ng skillz
  & N called and asked for QV 
  =>N. says that Tricia deserves a verse in QV (twins too early; lost the
    girl; the boy was a real fighter and is doing well now.  Hercules?
  * gas on the way home
  * the therapy light arrived.  rechargable battery may be ok, may not.
  @ The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (via Scott)
  @ ebonypearl: Rumtopf, or Boozy Fruit
  @ gfish: You Will
    reality (mostly) beats out speculative advertising
  @ An analysis of private browsing modes in modern browsers (via LWN)
  * bed ~11:30; snuggle

0923 Th
  * up 6:40; W=196.6; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee, laundry
  : The battery on the GoLight is pretty definitely toast -- it was charged
    last night, and mostly drained this morning.  But it works plugged in.
  & 14:15 good thing I had a fairly big breakfast.
  & Kat's phone: she has another phone, so can just get a (free) SIM for now
  @ haikujaguar: In the Line of Duty Redux - Open Formats
  @ Celebrate Bisexuality Day 
  @ MiG Writers: Time management, creative productivity and multitasking
  * Pay Bills (will need to pay some more Monday)
  * post Thankful Thursday
  & Can't seem to compile ical for trantor.  Weird, because I had it working
    on dorsai.  Time to give it up?

0924 Fr
  * up 6:45; W=198; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee, laundry
  % Have been really scatter-brained the last few days
  @ Seriously now - Let's drink to that...
  @ Samsung Galaxy Tab: Review - Telegraph
    Slick, well-designed and highly usable – it's clear that Samsung's new
    Galaxy Tab tablet computer represents a real challenge to Apple's iPad 
  * Download & burn latest Debian, Ubuntu.
  * install Ubuntu on Trantor, since it seems happy with the display
    smooth as glass, as expected.  Setup will take a while.
  * take the backup drive out of Dorsai, put in external box off nova 
  ~ trantor _needs_ a video card, and ought to have a SATA drive.  
    may simply need upgrade to squeeze -- ubuntu works fine
  : configuring Ubuntu is, as usual, a PITA.

Good grief! Hardly any walking, "Done" posts stacked up in odd corners pining away for lack of attention, ...

It was a pretty busy week at work, though, and a lot of my attention got gobbled up trying to get the new desktop configured. Also, the machine at the post office lied to me on Saturday when I mailed a package. It obviously didn't realize that it was after hours on Saturday, and told me that it would arrive Monday. It arrived Wednesday, causing me two and a half days of useless nail-biting.

I've been really scatterbrained this week. Absent-minded, in the sense of brain thoroughly non-functional. I attribute most of this to stress. I also overate at the Indian buffet again on Thursday, so my weight is back up over 199. GRRR.

My GoLite portable therapy light arrived, with its 66 blue LEDs and, as expected, a mostly-dead rechargable battery. Works fine on the charger, though, and seems to be helping. For $25, I'm not complaining.

I need to get more of the full-spectrum floor lamps. Everybody wants one.

Cutting this a bit short because it looks like a busy day today.

Lots of good links under the cut, of course.

Comments

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Our CVS no longer has any of the floor lamps, and I don't think they got many to begin with, idiots.

[mdlbear]

I found six at the big!lots at the corner of Hillsdale and Camden; there were still three when I left.

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Wow! I never would have thought to check there. Glad you obtained what you needed!
My MiL bought one, and her student friend wanted one, too. Now that there are two for the art class, I can have my HappyLite back in the office/laundry room corridor.

The overhead lights in the great room, where she holds classes, are too far up and too wrong a spectrum for art classes. There's also the fact that very little light gets IN there, so having extra light by the worksurface is wonderful.