Done yesterday (20110109 Su)

[mdlbear]

0109 Su
  * up 7am; W=199.2; drugs, nose; dishes, coffee; C. 
    breakfast for Colleen, too.      
  * backups:  2011-01-09T04:10:01-0800 - 2011-01-09T04:52:51-0800
    /dev/sdc5            1349854392 483407160 797878604  38% /media/bak
  @ Watch an Apple Engineer Recreate a 2,000-Year-Old Computer Using Legos
  @ 75 Lessons that MUST be Learned in Relationships
  * hotel reservations for Consonance 0304-06	conf# 3404563902
  @ elf: Ritual Garb for Law Firms  "Every choice, every action, can be a
    manifestation of spirit and magic. All garb is ritual garb." 
  @ Daily Kos: Guns, God and Incitement. via pondside
  * 15min: declutter in office: envelopes in the sinister pile.
  * order "10 days to self-esteem" for Kat (Amazon)
  @ The Pleasure Principle: Not All Products Need To Be Painkillers 
    "So whats my point? If you focus only on painkillers, youll likely miss
     out on a completely different, and potentially much larger, set of
     opportunities: those that target pleasure. Pornography, sports and coffee
     are, for example, three insanely lucrative industries, and each of them
     sells the promise of pleasure."
    "I believe that a focus on solving pain points alone leads to linear
     thinking that suppresses innovation."
  * dishes.  More office decluttering.  More dishes.  Sink clear before noon.
  @ Ravan's Rants - A Note on the Giffords Shooting
  * buy: pantsu, -time-release- sudafed, loperamide, tums (wallgreen)
  * buy: eggs, salad, broccoli, cottage cheese, yogurt (safeway)
  @ posted mdlbear: 15min: Developing good habits
  * 15min: decluttering in bedroom closet, window-side bookshelves
  * laundry
  * 15min: updated list of buckets from post.  Now 6 broad categories.
  * trying dental wax for the touchpad-blocker card
  * 15min: moved Songs dir from /users/steve to /share/Web/steve.savitzky.net
  ~ separate -Lyrics and- Songs directories for tg.net
  * 15min: sorting the left desk pile (ongoing) while waiting for rice.
  * Kathy's.  There was even some GF lasagna.  Good to catch up a little
    with Shannon and Jackie among others.
  @ Climate of Hate - NYTimes.com via The Dendarii Chronicles - Special Comment by Paul Krugman 
    "When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely
     surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this
     atrocity to happen?" 
  * 15min: L. pile down to a box sorted into envelopes and flat sheets, and an
    inch-deep layer of cards and assorted other small stuff.  Wow.
  & bed ~11:30; snuggle
  % dream involving college, getting some young lady's phone number after a
    conversation, bike trails, and something derived from durian packaged in
    very nice wheeled tower PC cases.  Huh?

A good day -- got a huge amount of decluttering done, fighting the pile to the left of the monitor down to an inch-deep layer of small debris (which I mostly dealt with this morning). I still need to sort through the two boxes of envelopes, loose sheets, business cards, postits, receipts, and so on. But it's visible progress -- I'm not complaining.

I also wrote an introductory post for the 15min: tag. So far it seems to be working, but almost all my selections so far have been from the decluttering bucket. We'll see.

I got to the Casa de Chaos bash rather late, but there was gluten-free lasagna left for me. Shouldn't have had dinner at home. Lots of hugs and catching up -- there are people who I only see at Kathy's bashes.

Some good links and a weird dream under the cut.