Done yesterday (20110628 Tu)

[mdlbear]

0628 Tu
  * up 6:50; W=197.2; drugs, nose, teeth, laundry, dishes, light
  ! ok+
  @ today's Questionable Content *giggle*
  @ Andy Rubin: Daily Android Activations Reach 500,000 
  * bring lunchmunchies to work
  @ Drive Medical Drive Medical Odyssey 26" wide, so may not fit in house
    site has a good comparison chart.
  * walk: 2m - perfect temp., but rain predicted so kept it short
  * Avoid Avoiding
    % closed with progressive relaxation exercise that helped the shoulder
  % 11:20 sleepy.  Colleen's in bed already.  
    But it'll be a while before the laundry's dry.
  @ mercredigirl: Great Expectations, by Dickens Charles Awesome!
    (firecat | first 3 paragraphs of Great Expectations with footnotes)
  @ labuonavita2011 - No TV? Why? - I could go for that.  Colleen and the
    YD would kill me for it, of course.
    " I could go for that, easily. Colleen and our kid would probably gang up
      and kill me over it, so I won't. And Colleen, especially, is pretty much
      stuck at home most of the time and is particularly fond of the Food
      Channel. 
        Given my own choice, I'd shut the damned thing off, rip all the DVDs,
      and put in more bookshelves. 
  * post Westercon schedule
  * splat @11:50 or so; got a back twinge which I hit with naproxen,
    methocarbomol, and a little later a hot bath when I couldn't get to
    sleep.  Seems to be ok now.

A pretty good day: a 2-mile walk (shorter than the 3 I would have preferred because the weather was iffy), a reasonably productive day at work, some fun stuff on the web (see links in the notes), improvement in my shoulder.

On the other hand, not nearly as productive as I wanted it to be, and a twinge in my back last night that I slapped down hard with naproxen, methocarbamol, and a hot bath. (It seems to be mostly ok now, but I'm watching it carefully. Do Not Like back pain.)

On the gripping hand, I finally posted my Westercon schedule. And my mood remains somewhere between ok and good, which is... somewhere between ok and good, I guess.

A few links up in the notes.

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched TV in at least five years. When we moved to this house at the very beginning of 2005, we discovered that the only way we could get broadband internet was via cable - we are too far from a telco CO to get even ISDN. There is only one cable company, Comcast, serving this area. You have to buy basic TV service in order to be able to buy internet access as well. When the installers came, they gave us one cable drop downstairs and one upstairs; the one downstairs went to the TV, the one upstairs to the "cable modem" for the house LAN.

Now, by the time we moved, I was basically only interested in watching ER and Enterprise anyway, and The Weather Channel. (My husband will watch almost any sort of drivel that happens to be on the screen if he's in the room... but he leaves the house by 11 AM, returns sometime between midnight and 3 AM, six days a week, and spends most of Sunday running errands and catching up on sleep.) Most importantly, the TV is downstairs and the computers are upstairs, and I always seemed to be in the middle of something on the computer when it came time for a TV program. So when ER ended, and Enterprise became less and less watchable, I just sort of stopped bothering. I can't even watch TV on my computer if I wanted to, though, because my machine's too old and slow for streaming video.

I watch the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve on TV, and I'll undoubtedly watch the NYC fireworks extravaganza on the Fourth of July on TV. And that's about it.

And I don't miss it at all.