Done yesterday (20110213 Su)

[mdlbear]

0213 Su
  & snuggled in bed with Colleen for about half an hour.  Nice.
  * up 8:05; W=197; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee
  * backups:  2011-02-13T04:10:01-0800 - 2011-02-13T04:52:37-0800
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  @ The End Of History, Part II
    " That doesn’t necessarily mean happy endings all around. In 1989, after
      the Berlin Wall fell, Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay called The
      End of History, about how the entire world would soon and forever be
      ruled by liberal democracies. Members of China’s Politburo doubtless
      pass it around for a laugh every so often. The Internet may be the end
      of crude dictatorships like Mubarak’s, but not in China, which maintains
      a Great Firewall and a vast army of censors (and where people are
      generally getting wealthier) or Russia, where the ruling party is far
      more subtle and competent (and popular.) Evgeny Morozov, born in
      thug-ruled Belarus, isn’t entirely wrong when he warns of deluded
      optimism and the danger of the Net as a tool of surveillance and
      oppression. 
    "
  @ Hugs Follow a 3-Second Rule - ScienceNOW 
  % I keep forgetting to use my SAD light in the morning.  huh?  OTGH, do I
    have any real evidence that it does any good?
  @ Nokia's Elop keeps pumping Meego and Symbian  but what developer will now
    bother creating those apps? 
  * walk: 2x Rose Garden.  Like walking through sludge in places.
    ! They say exercise is good for depression?  Maybe not so much.  Or maybe
      it would be worse?  *shudders*
  @ a FREE e-cookbook (5 ingredients | 10 minutes) + how minimalist home
    cooking can help you via cookability
  * Liz brought her ancient HP desktop over -- not recognizing its CD drives.
    definitely a Windows (XP) problem -- boots fine from an Ubuntu live disk.
    Suggestions welcome; or perhaps Jared can fix it on Wednesday.
  * 15min:  Renovation (Worldcon) memberships for me and Colleen
  * Call to Mom.  Not as hard as I expected.  Al has a new GF, which is great.
  & passed a link to Stone Soup to Colleen via IM.  Love it!
  * Google's V-day logo is very silly.
  * started working on the V-day CD.  I'll need to make 50 copies; two for
    Interfilk and the rest to split among the members of Tempered Glass.
    finally got all tracks in.
  & bed 11ish; snuggle
  % woke ~2:30, very cold, with my left knee giving me agonizing pain when I
    tried to straighten it out.  Finally got it loosened up enough to go to
    the bathroom and take 3 aspirin.  Sweated a lot overnight.  Knee was ok in
    morning, but there's some residual pain.  Don't trust it. 

I started working on a Valentine's Day CD for Colleen, based on Tempered Glass's concert at NorWesCon 2010. When I told Naomi and asked her permission to put one in the Interfilk auction at Consonance, one thing led to another and we're now up to a run of 50. It will not be commercially available -- it's all live, and very rough in spots.

I finally managed to take a walk: twice around the Rose Garden (about 3 miles). Most of it was like walking through sludge. And they say exercise is good for depression. :P

I woke up about 2:30 am last night, feeling ice cold (though the thermostat was still at 71, and my body temperature was 97.something), and with my left knee agonizingly painful when I tried to straighten it. In the end it took half an hour or so to gradually work it loose. Arthritis? Flu? I still don't trust the damned thing. Sometime toward morning I started sweating. Weird.

I think the best link of the day was a FREE e-cookbook: (5 ingredients | 10 minutes) + how minimalist home cooking can help you.

Comments

[hms42]

Since there are extra copies... Any chance of a couple heading to other interfilk auctions?

[mdlbear]

It's possible. Maybe even likely, but we haven't talked about it yet.