Done yesterday (20110912 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0912 Mo 
  * up 5:50; W=199.4; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, exercise, light
  @ Prince Charles Warns of Human Extinction : TreeHugger
  & install git on the gateway.  Knew I was forgetting something!
  * bring in a cushion or two to test with aeron chair.  
  * installed under-desk shelves.  Just right.
  * tried cushion.  Helps a lot.  Will take some tweaking.
  @ Convergence | Beta (LWN)
    An agile, distributed, and secure strategy for replacing Certificate
    Authorities (maybe.  via LWN)
  @ Tiny Core Linux, Micro Core Linux, 10MB Linux GUI Desktop, Live, Frugal,
    Extendable (Tiny Core Linux | Linux Journal)
  @ Crowdfunded Creativity - Earning Perks
  @ elf: Why do I find this hopeful?
  @ tagryn: Anniversaries...
  * 8:20 changed Colleen's bed; started second load of laundry for the
    evening.  Wiped.  
  % I get tired easily these days, and I don't take walks as often -- but
    which is the cause and which is the effect??
  * -confirm- -post- email tentative RainFurrest schedule to Chaos, TGl
  | elevated pulse.  Stress?  Anxiety?  Overeating?  A few minutes of deep
    breathing seemed to help, but still not back to normal.  Do Not Like.
  % plus, I've been having flashbacks to practically every stupid damned thing
    I've ever done.  There may be a connection here.
  * bed 11:30ish?

It didn't feel like a very good day. No walk, and a lot of... something: stress? anxiety? don't know -- in the evening. I think it was brought on by pure physical stress, changing the bed and running a load of laundry. I seem to get tired very easily these days, and I don't take walks nearly as often as I once did. But which is the cause and which is the effect?

{It's a feedback loop, of course! Each is both. Silly bear, just take more walks.}

Between the tiredness and the misery I spent an hour or so flashing back to what felt like every damned stupid thing I'd ever done, with special attention to the financial trainwreck. Not fun.

Work went ok; I ended up spending most of the day re-installing Debian after my attempt to fix the (nvidia) display after the upgrade screwed it up even more. Works great, now.

Links in the notes, as usual.

Comments

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

{hug} please continue to watch for those negative feedback loops - they're killers

[idea-fairy.livejournal.com]

I think this is technically a positive feedback loop: Something (feeling tired) leads to something else (not enough exercise) that leads to more of the first thing (being out of shape and thus feeling tired), and so on, round and round.

[mdlbear]

Yes - the outcome is negative, but the feedback is positive in the sense that it reinforces rather than suppresses the effect.

A negative feedback loop rapidly converges on a stable state; positive feedback either goes out of control or oscillates.