Done yesterday (20110610 Fr)

[mdlbear]

0610 Fr
  * up 6:30; W=197.6; drugs, nose, teeth, hair, dishes, coffee
  * one of my two SW award coupons expires (used for the last Seattle trip)
  % mood seems slightly down, libido perhaps slightly up, after a week of
    slightly tapered-down SSRI.  We'll see.
  @ The Rotund blog around fat
    acceptance and related issues.
  * Shopping trip at lunchtime.  Whole Foods, Office Max, Southern Lumber, OSH
    * buy:  bees oil or butcher-block oil.   Southern?  OSH?
      Lowes didn't have it, and the checkout experience was obnoxious
      Whole Foods doesn't have it, but mentioned that flax oil = linseed.
      Southern Lumber had basically mineral oil, but did have pure tung oil,
      which I've been looking for for decades.  OSH had beeswax and carnauba in 
      mineral oil; also a power-controller strip that's just what I need
      for the desktop (so the monitor goes off when the system does).
    * FUL mini-backpacks big enough for a tablet, but don't have a good place to
      hang keys, and don't allow for a shoulder strap.
  * One lingering bug at work, but worked around.  Software shipped.
  * buy:  pantsu
  ~ Still looking for a small backpack/shoulder bag; they were all the rage as
    purses a couple of years ago.  Now?  Forget it.
  * made dinner:  salad, scallops (tequila, lime, pepper), ravioli
  * Bacon Lettuce and Tomato BLT Spring Roll Recipe (haikujaguar)
  % I seem to be particularly bad at keeping track of invitations
  * oil cutting board, print flier
  * 15min:  went through all the piles in the office.  Failed to turn up the
    item I was looking for.  :P  Feeling particularly stupid for not writing
    the information down when I had it in front of me.

A rather tense day at work, since our software had to be shipped to the factory by close of business, so they can start pre-loading it onto flash next week. Found one (stupid) bug, which luckily can be worked around by entering a command line directly instead of through the simplified wrapper script. I outsmarted myself, basically. It was (diagnostics lead) Bill who came up with the command line workaround.

At home, on the other hand, I out-stupided myself by misplacing a wedding invitation, after having neglected to copy the information into my to.do file. Fortunately I remembered the date and the venue, so I was able to call this morning and get the time. At least the paper stacks in the office and parts of the living room got a thorough going-over, so all's well that ends better, as the Gaffer used to say.

Knowing that I had the fallback of calling in the morning is probably what made it possible for me to get to sleep -- it took out a lot of the pressure and negative self-talk.

I seem to be particularly bad at keeping track of invitations, and certain other forms of paperwork. I'm really not sure why that is -- I seem to manage quite well with bills and tax forms, for example. Weird.

While I was out trying to buy butcher-block oil (which I finally found at OSH) I spotted a one-day sale on scallops at Whole Foods. Colleen bought them on her shopping trip, and I cooked them up with butter, olive oil, pepper, lime juice, and tequila. Yum! The YD tried one and didn't like it. More for us.

Only two links, to The Rotund, a blog around fat acceptance and related issues, and to a recipe for Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Spring Rolls. Cool!

A good day, on the whole, though it really didn't seem that way at the time.

... but why did I leave this sitting in my editor for two hours before posting it? I must have gotten distracted after thinking there was something else I wanted to say. *shrugs and posts*