mdlbear | Done the last 2 days (20101025 Mo

1025 Mo
  * awake 6; snuggle; slept well.  Breathing really helps.
  * up 6:20; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth
  @ The Ferrett's Journal - Designing For Jedi
  @ Driver thanks man who hit him on purpose | Seattle Times via haikujaguar
  * 12:30 appointment with (financial aid) Laura Hiler at DeVry
    *- loan documentation for UBOC -> not cosigner on YD's, have parent loan
    *- where does the check go? keep for Spring semester
  * Finished up a major piece of coding; got busy with bug-chasing elsewhere
    before I could get far with testing.
  @ The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
     - B. Joseph Pine, James H. Gilmore;  c.f. wikipedia) 
  * party invite on LJ
  * order cyclobenzaprine (mine)
  ~ (old) set up music room and/or office for recording
    (office works for now; the multitracker will be portable)
  % 10:00 drifting in and out.
  * 10:30ish bed, before Colleen.  snuggle later.

1026 Tu
  * up 7:40; W=195.8; drugs, nose, teeth; laundry, coffee, dishes
  * DNS for hyperspace-express.com and grand-central-starport.org have
    propagated as far as the Starport.  Now I just need content!
  * work:  client-server stuff working (after kludging fixes for the interface
    mismatches).  PDF improvements mostly working.
  * song-swap at lunchtime with (new tech writer) John
  * YD gets off school at 10:20p - leave the house at 10
  * reorder YD's prescription

I've been very busy at work -- very productive, but busy. I worked with the integration team to get the client-server code that consumed most of the last few months finally working. It would have been a lot easier if the device and server people had been talking to one another, but as the author of the little perl script that sits in the middle I was able to do all the necessary impedance matching in a couple of lines.

That allowed me to finally get back to the matter of cropping and scaling pages to fit them on a smaller screen with tighter margins than the original author intended. Did I mention that I hate PDF?

I could have taken walks at lunchtime, but Monday's was eaten up running errands, and Tuesday's was spent swapping tunes with our new tech writer, who turns out to be a multi-instrumentalist. Fun!

My weight was back down to 194 this morning, and I'm sleeping a lot better (and more, unfortunately, which really throws off my day) now that I've taken to using afrin before bedtime.

I'm looking for a decongestant that actually works without putting me to sleep, raising my blood pressure, or drying me out to the point of nosebleeds. Chili pepper seems to work pretty well, though only briefly -- maybe I should empty out my afrin bottle and load it up with Tabasco sauce?