mdlbear | Done yesterday (20111018 Tu) (Reply)

A good, productive day (though, no walk and of course not enough time for everything). Work was spent writing -- designing our new architecture and our project-management environment. For the latter, my preference is for Trac, but I'll probably go instead with a combination of pieces that makes better use of what's already in place.

Yesterday marked the second and last day of my attempt at the Live Below The Line challenge, and was considerably more successful. I had two eggs for breakfast ($.35), some almonds, dried apricots, and two squares of Trader Joe's chocolate (I'm guessing ~.25), and three quesadillas for dinner. Close, anyway. Or it would have been, if I hadn't had two cups of coffee at work and a glass of gin before dinner. I wouldn't have had the gin, but Colleen was in tears from loneliness when I got home, and I figured she damned-well needed the drink and the company.

My weight's down 2.6 lbs since Sunday. Within the range of normal variation, but maybe...

I slept unusually well, and woke up remembering a weird dream. It was set in a hotel or dorm that was being remodeled; things were all very ordinary and everyday, but I went jogging. Twice.

You can tell it was a productive day because there are only two links, both about restoring Ubuntu 11.10's horrible Gnome 3 to usability. *shrugs* I'll be over here with Debian, thanks, though I'll continue to recommend Ubuntu to people used to the click-to-focus world of Windows and MacOS.

1018 Tu
  * up 6:20; W=195.4; drugs, nose, teeth, exercise, light, dishes, laundry
  ->YD's finals were last week, so don't need to pick her up at school
  ~ buy food for Monday and Tuesday:  budget: 2*3*1.50=$9
    price eggs - $2/doz = $.17ea
    rice - $2/lb; 1c rice ~= 6.25oz, so 2c would be ~12oz = .75lbs, or $1.50
    cottage cheese $2/24oz ~= 4 servings, so $.50/serving
    chuck roast $2/lb or less, so the pot roast (2.5lbs) ~= $1/serving.
  ~ Menu for Monday and Tuesday dinners:
    Monday:  -asparagus beef with rice- pot roast (from Sunday)
      breakfast:  cottage cheese:  $.50.  No coffee
      lunch:  fail (pizza at work).  Also coffee.
      dinner:  Pot roast.  Probably ~$1/serving.
    Tuesday:  
      breakfast:  2 eggs:  $.35
      lunch:  almonds, dried fruit, a square of chocolate.  ~$.25
      dinner: -franks and beans or something and rice-	     $.90 left
      	      _quesadillas_  That works.  (modulo the glass of gin)
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  * chord work.  More-or-less done.
    ! accomplished
  * slept very well
  ' weird dream where I went jogging.  Twice.