Done yesterday (20110625 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0625 Sa
  * up 7:35; W=195.8, M=g-; drugs, nose, dishes, coffee, light
  ~ YD to JC -> suffering sudden crisis of self-confidence
  @ Debian -- News -- Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.2 released
  * 15min: puttering in the office.  moved thinkpads to shelf under phone;
    found a 9v charger that fits SAD light...
  : Evince (the new Debian/Ubuntu PDF reader) remembered my place and its
    window size in the book I'd been reading.  That's pretty cool.
  & have started a copy of Firefox on the same desktop as gnus; useful for
    chasing links from mail, and there are some things chrome doesn't do.
  -> From:  SAMEER VILAS AWSARE MD      Received:  06/24/2011 12:19 PM
     ... Your triglycerides have gone down a little bit since the last time
     and losing 10 more pounds would help.  Also the PSA (prostate specific
     antigen) result doesn't get released to the web, but here are the
     results. Values over 4.5 may associated with an enlarged prostate or an
     increased risk of having prostate cancer.
	PSA 1.4 06/21/2011
	PSA 1.5 12/22/2009
	PSA 1.0 01/15/2009
  @ Markus Kayser Builds a Solar-Powered 3D Printer that Prints Glass from
    Sand and a Sun-Powered Cutter | Colossal via Boing Boing 
  @ "Hot News" doctrine gets a body-blow - Boing Boing 
  ~ look at Westercon restaurant list - took some digging; it's on a link to  
    Walk Score of 170 S. Market Street, San Jose CA 95113
    via Westercon 64  San Jose, July 1-4 2011 » San Jose
  @ Facebooks Ban Bot Leaves Some Developers Baffled (And Angry) 
  * one can, in fact, stuff a weekend's worth of clothing into the Eagle Creek
    cube organizer -- the half-cubes hold 5 sets of underwear and socks.
  * buy: AA batteries
  * switched shoulders on Minnie; suspect that may be the problem.  Grump.
  * ~3pm: st/roll - short; Colleen wasn't sure of her power level, so we only
    did half the Rose Garden.
  : both very worried about the YD; she seems very depressed lately
  : lumbar support on my Aeron chair broke in half today.  Grump.
    Looks like it can be splinted; that's good; a replacement is $60.
    I'm disappointed in the workmanship.
  * dinner:  black & white beans with Polish sausage, corn on the cob
  % left ankle sore; put on a brace.
  * practice:  ship dream daddys wheelin where-the-heart-is
  % shoulder feeling much better.  Wearing the strap high, close to the neck
    may be helping.
  * 10:30ish bath

A pretty good day, with a nice st/roll with Colleen to the Rose Garden. We keep forgetting to bring books, so we can sit and read in the sun. It's a great place for people-watching, too. I like summer. ("Summer" being our code word for "women in skimpy outfits", many of which would have been considered underwear when we were young.)

We had a good, though ultimately unproductive, talk about the YD's state of mind. It's pretty clear that she's depressed, but she rejects our suggestions that she seek professional help. Not much we can do about that.

I was feeling rather unimaginative, and made a pot of black and white beans with Polish sausage for dinner. Very tasty.

Had some trouble with my right shoulder in the morning, which I dealt with by switching shoulders on Minnie and wearing the strap higher up, close to my neck. That seems to do it, at least for now. And my left ankle started hurting in the evening after I took my shoes (hiking boots) off; I put a brace on it. Both joints are mostly ok this morning, but grump.

Things have been breaking. The lumbar support on my aeron chair broke clean in half sometime yesterday. It looks as though it can be splinted; that's good, because a replacement is $60. The one at work has been broken for a while. Grump. My things and I are getting old together.

I verified by experiment that I can pack a weekend's worth of clothes into the Eagle Creek organizer, so I could theoretically go on a weekend trip with nothing but Chami (the Antler rolling backpack, for those who haven't been following closely) and Minnie (the REI shoulder bag), and maybe the CPAP case. In most cases that probably won't be necessary, but it's nice to know that it's possible.

My doctor contacted me about my labs; PSA (which doesn't show up on the web -- grump) is down a little, as are my triglycerides. So, ... good.

My mood continues to hover somewhere between ok and good.

Some links in the notes, as usual; the Solar-Powered 3D Printer that Prints Glass from Sand is pretty awesome. Especially when you remember that it's not your ordinary soda-lime glass but fused silica, which has a significantly higher melting point.