Done yesterday (20110830 Tu)

[mdlbear]

0830 Tu
  * up 6:32; W=197.4; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, exercise, light
  @ Seasteading: Are Independent Floating Micro-Nations The Next Big Wave? 
  * 8:30 an hour of work on stargate
    : weird -- still not seeing the net.  Damnit, it was working when I
      installed it.  Wonder if it's a side-effect of installing shorewall.
    * make users on gw.  See /srv/bak/etc
    * shorewall.  config broken, but DNS works, so there's hope.
      needed IP_FORWARDING=On in shorewall.conf
      fw zone still doesn't have dns, but it can ping ip addresses.
      forwarding works from inside.
    * add nova to resolv.conf.  Fixes dns, but temporary.  The correct
      solution is to allow dns to the stupid gateway (192.168.1.254)
      As it turns out, the old config has the identical problem!
  * to Menlo to triage stuff for moving. -> in the end it was just one box.
  * 3pm leave for dentist app't.
  * 4pm Dentist -> no problems
  * buy:  gel pens (Pilot G-2)
  & stop at Whole Foods (next to Office Max) on the way home:  coho salmon and
    asparagus.  Fresh mozzerella balls for the salad.  A red onion, some olive
    oil, and some yoghurt.  Yum.
  % 10:50 very sleepy; was sleepy coming home picking up the YD at DeVry, too.
  * bed ~11pm.  I like getting more sleep, but hate having to go to bed before
    midnight to get it.  Grump.

A pretty good day. I put in an hour's worth of work on the router upgrade (and made good progress), then headed North to the Menlo Park office to triage the stuff I'd abandoned there in advance of the last move. On the way I stopped at the Cupertino building to looked at the new offices there. It turned out that they hadn't selected one for me, and I was the first to show up, so I got my pick. I picked the one with a huge U-shaped desk -- it'll be the first time in decades I've been able to have my monitor facing away from the door.

Whether there's going to be room for all my stuff is another question. I have 10 boxes worth in my cube. Fortunately I was only able to find one box worth of stuff up in Menlo, the rest can be recycled or put up for grabs. Go me!

I left a little before 3pm for a dentist appointment. No problems -- which has been pretty typical for the last few years, but it's a major and comparatively recent improvement. Part of that, no doubt, is that first item up in the notes -- writing it every morning is a powerful reminder.

On the way back I stopped at Office Max for a new box of Pilot G2 pens (I got blue this time). I hardly ever actually use them up; they just mysteriously disappear.

Just down the block in the same strip mall as Office Max is a Whole Paycheck, and the YD had an evening class, which meant that I was cooking dinner. Coho salmon and asparagus. I pan-fried the salmon with butter, pepper, and lemon juice. Yum.

I crashed around 11pm. I really hate having to go to bed before midnight, but I seem to need the sleep. Grumble.

Only one link in the notes; nothing very exciting -- that's mainly because I went up to Menlo without my netbook. Silly bear. But a good day.

Comments

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know - what is it with pens?

I half expect to discover, when moving out of the house, that some sort of strange creature has built a hidden home for himself in my basement with my missing pens.