Done yesterday (20110911 Su)

[mdlbear]

0911 Su
  * up 7:30; W=195.4; drugs, nose, teeth, exercise
  = Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Hearty Whole Grain Bread Mix is a win.
    tastes remarkably like rye.  Yum!
  @ San Francisco Built Out of 100,000 Toothpicks! (filkertom) 
    Includes an amazing video of the thing in action.
  @ Today in history: Battle of Brandywine 1777-09-11
    " The battle, which was a decisive victory for the British, left
      Philadelphia, the revolutionary capital, undefended. 
    -> posted, tweeted.
  * 15min:  pulled a couple of cables out of the rat's nest behind the rack. 
    swept up the worst of the dust-bunnies behind the cat5e box
  @ technoshaman | Ten years later… good post
  * guacamole with 3.5 avocados, half a habanero, 4 garlic cloves, lime
    juice, cumin.  Not all that hot, but Colleen doesn't want more. 
    added diced onion to the remaining half.
  * 15min consider making a "someday.do" or ->"wibnif.do" file for WIBNIs
    # This file is for items that would be nice to have done, but are neither
      urgent enough nor important enough to put into to.do
  * track down seat cushions of various heights
    -> found two, both fairly thick.  We'll see
  * 15min:  moved all the PC cables I could find to the empty file crate.
    They occupy about half.  Most came out of the top crate under the desk.
  ~ make a couple of 24" or 36" shelves for under the desk
    24" probably better - stiffer.  Or 36" with a center support
    made 2 1x10x36" shelves, and 2 11" verticals for one of them.
  * one under-desk shelf assembled.
  ~ 5:30.  Puttering, dishes, cooking... rather than going out for a walk.
    ! a bit disappointed with myself, but productive anyway.
  * make verticals for the second under-desk shelf.
  * 6pm finished second shelf.
    ! accomplished
  * Tasty dinner:  guacamole/tortilla chips apetizer, followed by corned
    beef and corn cooked in the same pot.
  * 15min: some song downloading and formatting for TGl
  * ~/projects looks like an older subset of /share/projects
    -> did a cvs status and found nothing locally modified.  Deleted.
  * to.do cleanup, added wibnif.do to "make report".  Progress.
    308 items in to.do @ Sat Sep 10 23:14:00 PDT 2011
    284 undone, 241 in to.do, 43 in wibnif.do @ Sun Sep 11 23:40:02 PDT 2011
    -> 24 items rounded up in cleanup; 43 moved.  Go me!?

Yesterday was a day of puttering. I spent almost the entire day alternating between cooking, tidying moving things around in the office, cleaning up moving things around in my to.do file, and making a couple of shelves to go under my desk at work (the office has a huge desk, but no shelves).

I made one of my best versions yet of guacamole, including half a habanero pepper. I thought it could have used the other half, but Colleen liked it as it was, with just a hint of brightness. Dinner was corned beef -- a surprisingly lean one -- with corn cooked in the same pot after the beef came out. Yummy.

I gained four pounds. :P Though I expect hope would like to believe that most of that is due to salt intake and water retention.

So I'm going to call it a pretty good day, despite the lack of a walk and the cramps in my right calf muscle in the evening.

A smallish collection of links; check out this awesome kinetic sculpture of San Francisco Built Out of 100,000 Toothpicks!