Done this week (20110103 Mo - 0107 Fr)

[mdlbear]

0103 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=197.8; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  @ Use Your Own Domain for OpenID Logins | Snipe.Net (delegate via HTML)
  @ Sexy, Cheap and Easy: Not Your Mom, Your Wireframes | Snipe.Net
  @ Laptop Bags for 17-inch Macbook Pro | Snipe.Net 
    TOM BIHN Bags - Laptop Bags, Laptop Backpacks, Laptop Cases
    Laptop Bags > STM Bags
    STM bags are quite inexpensive, esp. compared to Tom Bihn.
  * 9:30 wake Colleen, YD for bed shopping
  * buy bed, box spring for YD at Mattress Discounters (50% off)
  * buy: coffee
  @ Recycled Sweater Coats Channel Joseph's Technicolor Dreamcoat 
  @ Have We Reached Peak Travel? : TreeHugger 
  @ The House of Discarded Dreams SC by Ekaterina Sedia - Powell's Books 
    via SCRIBE IAM PRIMUM! (First of all write!) - Signal Boost
  @ Religulous
  * walk: maybe 1.5mi by Los Gatos Creek. cut short due to hips,
    blister on heel, worry about weather.
    ! mood slightly down; improved toward the end
  * buy: component or ->HDMI cable for YD's TV (Fry's on way back from DeVry)
  @ Amazon.com: Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai
    Lama: Daniel Goleman via this comment on this post 
  @ Tax the Rich to Balance the Budget, Says Poll | Gather
  * tried steam inhaler for nose; took a long time and didn't do much; I
    suspect most of the incprovement over that time was the sudafed.
  % 9:50  sleepy.  Cold.  Coming down with something?

0104 Tu
  * up 6am; W=198.6; drugs, nose, teeth; laundry, dishes, coffee
  : Colleen feeling ill; spent the day in bed
  @ ebonypearl: I Love My Potato Peeler! on not decluttering too much
  : call from N.  Suggests "The Times They Are a-Changing" for TGl
  * walk: ~1hr by the airport, past the permit parking lot.
    ! somewhere between contented and happy for the whole walk.
  * 6pm Avoiding group
  @ I, Cringely » Blog Archive » 2011 prediction #3: 1.8-inch and 3.5-inch
    disk drives will die 
  @ I, Cringely » Blog Archive » 2011 predictions: One word  bufferbloat. Or
    is that two words? 
  @ Ravan's Rants - Predictions for 2011 
  * laundry; bed ~11; snuggle

0105 We
  * up 6:30; W=197; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee
  @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Poem: "The Prairie in Central Park" 
  @ Forrester Forecasts One Third Of U.S. Online Consumers Will Own A Tablet
    By 2015 
  * 15min: triage on (some of the) envelopes in lefthand pile.
  @ 5 gadget trends to watch at CES - CNN.com
  * call to reschedule dentist appointment from 2011-01-17 4:15p 
    call (408) 559-6800 after 8:15am -> 0221 12:00
  * Wed. Walk with Lee, Bruno.  1.75mi; 35-40m 
  * change LJ tag from "15 minutes" to "15min"
  @ Things about the Endless Facebook Speculation that Have to Be Said
  @ Bufferbloat in 802.11 and 3G Networks « jg's Ramblings 
  @ Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal
    finds - CNN.com via mia_mcdavid: Autism and the non-link to vaccines. FAKED!!
     "falsifying medical histories of children and essentially concocting a
     picture, which was the picture he was contracted to find by lawyers
     hoping to sue vaccine manufacturers and to create a vaccine scare." 
  & lent small USB kbd to Andrew, whose laptop needs a new one.
  @ Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) - a security-enhanced server platform via LWN
  @ Indamixx 2, Music-Focused Tablet Powered by Linux, Unveils Beta Program
  @ ... based on: The All new M1Touch
  @ The Importance of Being Tested | Upstart (via LWN)
  % neither sudafed nor clorpheniramine work worth a damn on my nose
  % 10:30 fading fast

0106 Th
  * up 7:35; W=198.4; drugs, nose, teeth; laundry, coffee
  @ Study Linking Vaccine to Autism Was Fraud, Journal Reports - NYTimes.com
    via catsittingstill
  @ MediaShift . 2010: The Year Self-Publishing Lost Its Stigma | PBS
  @ Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers
  @ catsittingstill: Scalia Thinks Women Aren't People! 
    -> Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination 
  : The YD can be ingenious and resourceful when she stops freaking out

0107 Fr
  * up 6:35; W=201; drugs, nose; coffee, C
  @ Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
  @ ebonypearl: Page-A-Day Calendar The advantages of age
  @ Full List - Top 10 Strange Mass Animal Deaths - TIME via wcg and Aflockalypse - Mass Animal Deaths Now Mapped on Google 
  ~ 9-12 bed delivery - wake Colleen when I go -> YD will wake C when she leaves
  : YD off to Simi Valley to pick up BF and boxes
  @ Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality? 
  @ 3 Lessons for Keeping Your Social Business Systems Secure
  @ NextSpace Coworking + Innovation | The (r)evolution of Work
  : M4.1  Northern California 
  @ From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space - Kindle, Nook, and iPad
    -> A little worried about writing a Nook Color Review
  ~ should switch to DVI/USB or VGA/USB KVM switch; the current one is crap.
    -> cleanup: currently not using a switch.
  @ Aflockalypse or Normal Mass Bird Deaths? | Gather
  @ Making Light: A Fast Note on Strokes and elisem: On the Rewards of CALLING 911 RIGHT AWAY via pameladean: At Elise's Request, a PSA 
  @ Goodnight Room - Skogkatt - Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown 
    Julia - Now It Can Be Told! via the cat & dragon rag - I love this story 
  * 15min: practice:  Ship of Stone (off-book)
      TGl: tracked down songs:  Times They Are A-Changin; Great Divide
      bank: tracked down mortgage payment (under misc.)
  * 10:30ish bath (water too cold); bed, snuggle; bath; snuggle

Wow! Where the heck did last week go? You'd think that after getting back from vacation work would drag, but... Could be that I've been sleeping more, i.e. going to bed earlier, with correspondingly less getting done. And that, in turn, is because I've been suffering severe nasal congestion again, which means the occasional dose of diphenhydramine shortly before bedtime. That, or oxygen deprivation...

I did have one good idea over the week: dumping the never-ending but easily-subdivided tasks like decluttering, recording, sorting receipts, and so on into larger buckets (categories), and working on two or three per day for 15 minutes or so each. The hope is that they'll become habits, like laundry and dishes. Also, that when I find myself boredly staring at my to.do file, I'll pull something out of a bucket and work on it instead of just sitting there. I'll be using the tag 15min for posts about the process. (It's a rename of the old decluttering tag 15 minutes.) I will not be tagging done posts unless I actually discuss the process in the narration, but you'll see it used as a prefix in the raw notes.

I got three walks in; the one on Tuesday was particularly pleasant, and somewhat longer than usual. More like the walks I used to take every day, in other words. :( Meanwhile, I've gained quite a lot of weight over the last two weeks or so, pretty much wiping out last year's losses. Grump.

The week's links include some New Year's predictions, a wonderful Goodnight Moon fanfic, and some information about strokes.