Done, um, this last week (20101213 Mo - 1218 Sa)

[mdlbear]

1213 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=196; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  * Secret Santa gift for work
  * YD got an A on her math final and for the semester.  Go Emmy!
  * owe $500 to HSX because C+N couldn't come down for Thanksgiving.
  $ HSX: $800 from checking: payments for 10, 11, 12; cover Kat's air fare
  ~ 6pm leave for Carol's with E+N.   630 Barnesley Way, Sunnyvale, CA
  : They never would have made it to the airport if the car hadn't gotten
    impounded so that they didn't have to take it to Carol's
  & YD wants a TV rather than her usual sushi.  OK, then.
  * 7:30 at latest, leave for airport
  * 9pm-ish Eileen and Nathaniel leaving.  
    ! I was very sad in the car; not because they were leaving, but sad for
      Eileen.  I didn't mention it; just wished them a safe trip home.
  * Took the commode out of the bedroom; put it "away" in the bathroom.
  @ America: Why R Your Peeps So Dum? | | AlterNet via admnaismith
  * paid the Apria bill, contribs to WWF and Stanford.  It's a start.

1214 Tu
  * up 6:50; W=195; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes; laundry
  @ The Ferrett's Journal - The Friendship Bar
  The Ferrett's Journal - More Bellying On Up To The Friendship Bar
  * practice chords for xmas songs.  Not sure I entirely believe them.
  * walk: Skyport and back; ~25min.
    % much less pain than my last walk.  ! mildly happy
  x 6pm Avoiding
  * buy: humira (on the way home)
  @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Raking the Muck  Wikileaks
  @ osewalrus: Finally read health insurance case -- law is not
    unconstitutional, mandate is. 

  ~ Do the boxes in the hallway get mailed, or stored?

1215 We
  * up 6:30; W=196; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  @ The Self Publishing Revolution: Amazon in the Book Banning Business 
    via filkertom: Yet Another Reason I Believe Printed Books Will Continue On
    Just Fine 
  * Colleen: humira
  * take Flame, zoom to work today.  Cable for DI.  Practice.
  = routes:  work -> Skyport = .7 mi; 1.1mi via First
  * noon: practice for Thursday's music.
    -> I need to work on B7's.
  @ catsittingstill | A Letter To Amazon: feel free to write your own 
  @ n this week's WisCon newsletter comes news which seems relevant
    to the science geeks among us: the strain of norovirus which hit the
    WisCon feminist science fiction conference in 2008 has been officially
    named after the conference! -- It's called AY502008 (Wiscon),
  @ peteralway: Total Lunar Eclipse 5-day warning! 
  ~ sing for N
  @ Rare Treatment Is Reported to Cure AIDS Patient - NYTimes.com
  " (22:00:28) ***mdlbear found out something interesting this afternoon:
    [apparently] the guy running our fledgling company comes out of marketing,
    with no prior experience in either corporate-level management OR managing
    an engineering group.  Explains a few things.
  @ How to read ebooks, Part 6: How to check out library ebooks |
    angelakorrati.com 

1216 Th
  * up 6:40; W=194.4; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  * noon-3pm holiday party@work
  @ PSA:  Delicious To Shut Down: Export Bookmarks, Find Alternative Sites 
  @ lifehacker - Five Best Bookmark Management Tools 
  @ CVS to git Transition Guide 
  : refi came through at last.  mostly gone into the AMEX balance.

1217 Fr
  * up 6:40; W=194.4; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  @ xkcd: Tree
  @ Grolar Bears Just the Start? Melting Arctic Ice May Lead to More Hybrid
    Marine Mammals : TreeHugger 
  * fixed login URL on bank -- now only asks for password again
  @ Tablets (terminology)
    The iPhone isn't so much a phone as a replacement for a phone. That's an
    important distinction, because it's an early instance of what will become
    a common pattern. Many if not most of the special-purpose objects around
    us are going to be replaced by apps running on tablets. 
  @ Realtime translator Word Lens imperfect, has cool possibilities 
  @ LWN: Storm Clouds problems with cloud services
    Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder
    Richard Stallman | guardian.co.uk 
  * call senators thanking them for supporting repeal of DADT
    put their phone#'s on my cell phone.
  * back up contacts to SIM card
  @ An introduction to git-svn for Subversion/SVK users and deserters
  @ Welcome to the Yocto Project!
    project-agnostic base for embedded Linux, derived from openembedded
  @ Mitigations and Solutions of Bufferbloat in Home Routers and Operating
    Systems -- jg's Ramblings 
  @ Denemo 0.8.22 released [LWN.net] -> http://www.denemo.org/
  @ Is Your E-Book Reading Up On You? : NPR 

  * order any drugs that are in short supply

1218 Sa
  * up 7ish; drugs, nose, teeth; laundry, coffee, dishes
  @ WTF? Commodore USA 
    via gridlore
  @ Log of
    Smallship One - Passionate and Confused - A parable 
  @ The
    Wordsmith's Forge - Poem: "A Spark of Love" 
  @ LHCs Lack of Black Holes Rules Out Some Versions of String Theory
    via gmcdavid
  * Kaiser: order fluticasone and simvastatin
  * laundry, garbage, puttering.  Fold airbed (after clearing it off)
  @ Senate Repeals Dont Ask, Dont Tell - NYTimes.com 
  @ gridlore - About the end of the military ban on homosexuals serving...
  @ The
    Wordsmith's Forge - Feral Houses -> Feral Houses | sweet juniper! 
  * Some WFH.  No actual coding; checking up on Seth's status
  & 4ish puttering.
  * 5ish starting dinner:  black bean sauce pork and green beans; rice
  @ A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com via ysabetwordsmith
  * 6:45ish leave for concert
  * 7:30 Golden Bough concert - Woodhaven West

Apparently I haven't updated since Monday. Um... sorry about that!

I've been busy at work. Not so busy as measured in lines of code -- mostly what I've been doing is checking up on the contractor who's been writing a critically important piece of glue code that wasn't on the critical path when he started. *sigh* I appear to have a knack for showing up exactly when he needs a question answered or a new idea, and I'm the best (sometimes the only) one for this, so I'm glad that I'm available. But I'm even more certain that I never want to be a full-time manager.

It also makes a convenient excuse for being too brain-fried to do much at home besides putter and read web-comics and LJ. Hey -- I got the bedside commode cleaned and put away, the filing cabinet moved out of the middle of the bedroom, the dishes and pots washed (several times), and the guest-room bedding washed and put away. And backed up my cell phone's address book onto its SIM. Now if only I can finish a song and put in 9 months of FHSA receipts in the 6.5 days left before I leave for my Mom's birthday party in North Carolina.

The YD aced her math final on Monday! Meanwhile, our long-term unexpected house guests (themangoavenger and BF) went home. I like our friends a lot, but that was a looooooooong visit. N. reminded me that I have trouble setting limits. She's right. Still, I was very sad in the car taking them to the airport; not because they were leaving but out of empathy for her.

We had a holiday party at work on Thursday, with music (the jam after our practice session on Wednesday was a heck of a lot of fun). I skipped the bowling afterward in favor of getting more work done.

The Senate passed the repeal of DADT -- finally! There's a total lunar eclipse tomorrow night -- I have a link to peteralway's five-day warning up there under the cut someplace. There are feral houses in Detroit. I need a bigger power strip for my travel kit. Did I mention that I blather? Or did that almost go without saying?