Done yesterday (20110717 Su)

[mdlbear]

0717 Su
  * up 7ish; W=198.4; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, light
  % sore throat.  Grumble.
  : The rest of the engineering side was cc'd on Jesse's email that says,
    basically, don't give IT your passwords.
  : discovered that the backup drive has been mysteriously offline since
    mid-June.  Power-cycled the drive, rebooted Nova, and ran backups.
  * Aquarium.  Lunch at Whole Enchilada (Moss Landing; open 11:30am-9:30pm)
    Nice trip; there's a lot of new stuff.  Flamingos!
  * re-up Aquarium membership.  Urk!  has gotten expensive.
  & doesn't count as aerobic, but about 2.5 hours of walking.
  % felt sleepy on the way back.  Not so good.
  * dinner: salad (including some left over from a couple of days ago), steak,
    sauteed mushrooms.  Potato salad for YD, macaroni salad for Colleen.
  % pretty completely wiped out.
  @ Half-age-plus-seven graph (the "Standard creepiness rule" in xkcd).
    My lower limit according to that rule is currently 39.
  ! cflute's response to a comment I made on one of her posts gave
    me a nice feeling of connection.  I get replies fairly often; this may be
    the first time I noticed the feeling (or the first time I remembered it
    long enough to write it down)
  * Gave Colleen a sponge bath.
  * 15min: finished emptying out Rolly.  (Onto the spare office chair.)
    % back hurts.  Should have put it on the other chair so I wouldn't have
      had to bend down as far.
  ! 11pm currently very low on spoons and cope.  Managing, barely.  
    I think I'm somewhat depressed.  OK, maybe just depleted.
  * bath 11ish; bed before midnight for once.

We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium yesterday, by way of The Whole Enchilada for lunch. Since I'd neglected to renew our membership, the combination made for a rather expensive day, but it was a good trip. Not exactly aerobic exercise, but a couple of hours on my feet counts for something. There's a lot of new stuff -- the whole new wing has been revamped. Flamingos! (Actually, roseate spoonbills. Close enough.)

I was pretty completely wiped out all evening. Out of both physical and emotional spoons, and ended the evening feeling noticably depressed.

I did notice that I got a lift from seeing cflute's response to a comment I made on one of her posts. I think it shows progress that I can actually notice my mood at times, and sometimes even notice changes when they happen instead of hours later.

I also discovered that the (external USB) backup drive has been mysteriously offline since mid-June; that's not so good. Took a reboot of the file server to fix it; fortunately that doesn't take long.

According to the standard creepiness rule I shouldn't date anyone under 39. For some reason, that plus the corresponding graph are the only links today.

Comments

[gorgeousgary]

There's a lot of new stuff -- the whole new wing has been revamped. Flamingos! (Actually, roseate spoonbills. Close enough.)

Cool. We're planning to get down to the MBA during our pre-Worldcon CA visit.