Done yesterday (20110423 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0423 Sa
  * up 6:48; W=194.8; drugs, nose, teeth, light, laundry, coffee, dishes
  @ Amazons $23,698,655.93 book about flies via Algorithmic pricing loop sends book prices into orbit - Boing Boing 
  @ The Galaxy Game
  * 15min:  tax:  foldered and filed
  & 10:40ish cleanup in bedroom handled with reasonable equanimity
  & Noted that the YD missed her 10am class, and reminded her that the UBF
    needs to be out in a week.  She was very unhappy, of course.  Thank
    goodness they're finally taking the deadline seriously.
    (later:  turns out she's on Easter break.  Fortuitous.)
  : the gluten-free matzoh-like substance Colleen got at Lunardi's (FKA
    Cosentino's) yesterday isn't all that good.  Passable at best.  Will try
    in fried matzoh later.
  : WAP config seems to have gotten corrupted.  DHCP on, ssh off, password
    changed.  :(
  * helped Liz part out an ancient (P2) Gateway.  Floppy drives and cables are
    getting hard to find, and she still has a lot of data on floppies.
  * st/roll with Colleen.  Weather on the cool side; overcast.  Perfect.
    She wore her cape; I just had a long-sleeved shirt and was fine.
  * make user rsteve, uid=1005 for Ricoh disk transfers.
  * fried "matzoh" w. gluten free -- tastes sort of ok; texture all wrong.
  @ In The Field With James Clerk Maxwell via gmcdavid 
  : The Netgear WAP/router is in a weird state -- it knows its proper network
    SSID, but DHCP is on, ssh is off, and the password is scrambled.  :(
    This is the second time it's gotten hosed after a powerfail.
  % sleepy at 8:15 this time.  :P
  * 15min: tgl: some work on chords for the new stuff

The high point of the day was a nice st/roll with Colleen. The sky was overcast and the air cool; just right for brisk walking. Colleen, of course, needed her cape because she wasn't walking.

The wireless access point seems to have gotten its configuration corrupted; that's the second time this has happened after a power failure. Grump. (Reset-to-defaults fixed it this morning, but still.) I'm glad I decided not to use the thing as my main router! Grump anyway; I could use the power saving.

I tried the gluten-free matzoh-like objects Colleen got (a whole lot of) at Lunardi's (FKA Cosentino's). Meh. The taste is slightly off, and the texture (thin, dense, and brittle) is very off. Grump.

Dinner, boiled artichokes and rib-eye steaks pan-broiled with caramelized onions, was delightful. The artichokes were the first of the season, slightly small but very tasty. Colleen got the idea from some of her food porn shows of putting a lemon and some fresh thyme in the water; that worked very well.

I started getting sleepy around 8:15; getting up, walking around, and doing some dishes helped.

The day's most amusing link, by far, was the tale of Amazons $23,698,655.93 book about flies. I, for one, welcome our new algorithmic overlords -- as a filker, anyway.