Done recently (20110511 We - 0516 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0511 We
  * up 6:40; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, light
  * fix printing (turn on sharing on admin page), install gconf2 on nova to
    fix emacs's complaint.
  * comment on The Green Wind Finally Arrives
  * America's net censorship bill is back and worse than ever 
  * walk:  about 2mi? to the airport
  * pay bills
  * 6:25 check in, print boarding pass
  * Lamplighters renewal due by 5/13.  
    0807 2pm Pinafore, 1106 4pm Gala, 0122 2pm Gondoliers
  * load drugs
  * pack
  * talks with Tabby, Bill, Carole
  * chording, scripting on denmark-1943
  * push to xfer; put fairyland PDF on netbook

0512 Th - 0516 Mo Seattle
  * up 6:05; W=195.6; drugs, nose, teeth, packing, coffee, light, 
  = Chaos will be LARPing, so won't come down to visit
  @ loganbeary | My Constitutional Argument for Same-Sex Marriages via ysabetwordsmith
  * 15min: enough digging on the flexible health-care account to know that I
    have nothing due this weekend. 
    ! relieved
  * 15min:  household income submitted for UBOC credit card application
  * print TGl songbook, set book.  Songbook is getting *huge*
  * pack: chargers, drugs, neti pot, CPAP  
  * 15min: call Health Care Recovery re: YD's twisted ankle
    might have responded sooner if they'd not had her listed as the policy
    holder as well as the patient.
  * walk: just to Airport; time and left ankle.  Meatloaf from DD's.
    ! pleasantly surprised - the mixed veggies include eggplant.
  % Sometimes I feel as though I'm the only one who knows how to debug:
    to break a problem apart logically, put in the instrumentation, 
    to look at the data and tease out the anomalies, to think deeply
    and identify the root cause.  Sometimes it's lonely here.
  * sorted TGl songbook; flipped pages.  
  * 3-hole punch TGl songbook.  The cam-actuated Swingline punch in the office
    is really awesome.
  * add pull-from-dsl to work:bin/daily
  * 4:30ish leave for airport; 6:25 flight
  * ADULT STEPHEN  SAVITZKY WZGI4Z 449453373
     Thursday, May 12, 2011	Travel Time 2 h 05 m 
     #2552	 Depart San Jose, CA (SJC)    	 6:25 PM -> 8:10
 	 Arrive in Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA)	 8:30 PM -> 10:15
  @ Why Microsoft bought Skype - Cringely on technology
  & shuttle 2824559.  Call from Callie - homework due tomorrow
  @ esr: The Smartphone Wars: Tracking userbase growth
  : Hudson has some nice 20" and 24" rolling duffels, under $100.
    Tempting.  Maybe too high to fit under seats.
  / a few words with Ame on the plane.  (Amethyst speaks //like this//)
    I was pretty unfocused; she said something like //you'll have to be more
    specific.//  and something vaguely encouraging.
  * up late singing.  Lock-Keeper, October Country.

0613 Fr
  * up 7ish; drugs, nose.  Coffee, 9ish
  @ Jann Wenner is my hero - Cringely on technology
  % cold feet - maybe I should have brought my slippers.  Now wearing socks.
  & helping N get a PDF printed.  Turns out Adobe's "save" icon is a picture
    of a 3.5" floppy disk.  Did I mention that I can't read icons?
  & Took Callie to class (or rather, drove the car back)
  @ On Mosaic Novels via ysabetwordsmith 
  @ N's laptop pad is made by Logitech
  & Set up tg/Lyrics for sharing via git to dsl.  Now I can work detached.
    Hmm.  Wonder whether I can get LaTeX installed.  Oh.  It is.  OK then.
  = N. Does Not Like animated icons.  As in, make her ill.  OK, no animated
    rotating hypercubes, then.
  * install printer drivers for Promusica's HP - dead easy.  So now I can
    print lyrics directly.
  * Called Colleen and caught up in both directions
  & Saw Jen briefly.  Got a hug (at C's suggestion)  Been ages.
    % No, I wouldn't have thought of hugging her if C hadn't mentioned it.
  * into part 2b of Griffin.  Gets kinda intense.
  ! I really enjoy watching C+N being happy together.  (mudita, actually)
  & introduced Callie to the concept of mudita (with N's help)
  @ Periodic Table of American Prose - Literary Poster 
    Periodic Table of American Poets - Literary Poster 
  / //you should go to sleep, silly Bear//
    I thought you usually called me Daddy.
    //Not when you're being silly.//

0514 Sa
  * up 6:10; drugs, nose, bath
  @ And this is what scarcity looks like... | ZDNet UK 
  & playing mousetrap with the 7yo
  & 15min: helping to clean house; mostly paper triage.  Some dishes
    Standard 15min technique; it's easier when it's someone else's stuff
  & adventures make one uncomfortable and late for dinner
  & dinner (breakfast?) @Denny's, ~3am.
    N. asked me how I managed to be so cheerful.  Hard question.  My
    answer was something like "a resigned sense of humor", though I'm not
    really satisfied with that.  Needs research.

0515 Su
  * up 7:30ish; drugs, nose; light... fried eggs.  Emergen-C
  : it was still raining when I got up.  Now overcast with a fine drizzle.
  & 10:45 breakfast.  C+N both up briefly
  @ Amazon.com: Logitech Portable Lapdesk N315: Electronics
  * 15min: swap in new hardcopy of the TGl songbook.
  * 15min: enter edits for tg/Lyrics.  Chord fixes, scripting, etc.
  / Ame feels near-by; she smiles wryly, I am content and feel cared-about.
    ! It's oddly comfortable.
  * 15min:  put plates away.  wash pots.  random puttering
  ! 4:30 sudden burst of wry cheerfulness and laughter noticing the time
  * Callie.  salmon candy for snack.  rubarb sauce and rubarb sour cream pie
  * installed new voip cable modem.  Somewhat surprisingly, it does not do WiFi
  * 7:20 check in A42
  : the UBF will be moving to _Alabama_ after Baycon
  * dinner: rice, white and king salmon, with olive oil and herbs.  Yummy.
  * singing and talking to N while C did chem homework.
  * splat ~midnight

0516 Mo
  * up 8ish; drugs, nose, teeth; 
  : C sick, so I'll need a shuttle 4:40-5:00  2829232
  * users/steve/Lyrics on barnard has origin on savitzky.net; should be dsl
    specifically dsl.thestarport.org:steve/Lyrics.git.  Same for Tools.
  * need users/steve/*.git on dsl
  * 15min: lunch, dishes, packing
  * 15min: git parents steve and tg moved under ~/users on dsl
  * 15min: laundry; consolidate cable, wifi, and phone in one place
  & last-hour trip to Fred Meyer to get stuff for C, plane snacks
    got back to find shuttle a couple of minutes early; had to go back for
    netbook.  Got to airport in good time, though.
  * ADULT STEPHEN  SAVITZKY WZGI4Z 449453373  A42
     Monday, May 16, 2011	Travel Time 2 h 05 m 
     #1685	 Depart Seattle/Tacoma, WA (SEA) 7:20 PM
 	 Arrive in San Jose, CA (SJC)	   	 9:25 PM
  * heading for bed ~11pm
  *- clothes for niece-of-choice need to be completely smooth/soft inside

Um... ok. You'd think that after spending a lot of the weekend sitting on my tail with my netbook, I'd have posted something. You'd be wrong. Actually, I was mostly reading Flight of the Godkin Griffin (it starts with this post), ... and taking care of my friends.

I originally planned to go to Seattle to rehearse with the other members of Tempered Glass, Naomi and Callie. But Naomi started the weekend feeling ghastly, her daughter had health problems of her own, and Callie had a combination of chem homework and, by the time Monday morning came around, a stomach bug. Saturday mid-day was mostly spent getting the house ready for the house-cleaners who came in the afternoon, and Saturday night was spent taking care of Naomi.

Late Saturday night (early Saturday morning?) N. asked me how I managed to be so cheerful. I really didn't know, and still don't, except that helping friends is one of the things I do, and taking care of sick people is something I've gotten very good at over the last few years. And it's easier to triage somebody else's piles of paper.

We didn't do much singing. A little.

And yet it was a good weekend for me. It was a relaxed weekend with friends; plenty of time to hang out, talk, sit in companionable silence with our respective books, and talk about love, friendship, chemistry, cooking, and the uses of whimsy. Did I mention the salmon? Installing the new cable modem? The rush of happiness when they both told me they couldn't have made it through the weekend without me? (Yes, they could have gotten help from more distant friends, but it wouldn't have been the same.)

There were a couple of brief exchanges with Ame -- you'll find those in the notes, flagged with a "/". And it was a good weekend for the Middle-Sized Bear to manifest himself.

I'd been expecting it to be a working weekend. A different kind of work, to be sure, but I'm not complaining. It really was good.

But, Gods! -- it's not quite 10 pm, and I'm falling asleep in my chair. Good night, all.