mdlbear | Done yesterday (20111119 Sa) (Reply)

A pretty good day, mostly spent puttering. Colleen needed to buy some fabric and patterns, so we went to Jo-Ann's and added a drive and a trip to Ross. I was sorely tempted by some very lightweight luggage, but had doubts about its durability. We did re-arrange Colleen's scooter bags, moving the black-and-purple shoulder bag to the front, and moving her supplies to the purple SwissGear mini-duffel in back (where they'll be much more accessible).

I also moved the folding cup-holder from her cane (where it wasn't particularly useful) to her scooter.

I spent much of the evening sitting out in the living room with Colleen, watching the news and cleaning out my netbook so I can give it to the Wolfling. I inadvertently deleted more than I intended, but no harm done: I just restored the deleted config files from git and my home directory on the fileserver.

Thinking about my experiences in junior high seems to raise my anxiety level. A lot. It wasn't exactly a geek-friendly environment. Or maybe it's anger; I got a similar reaction from Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis

More links down in the notes.

1119 Sa
  * up 7:30; W=196.6; drugs, nose, teeth, laundry
  * Colleen also got up ~7:45.  Changes the morning routine some.
  * install cup-holder on scooter
  * power:  DSL activity definitely adds at least another 8-9W of power drain.
  ~ replace or repair XLR connector on scooter charger -> Applying one drop of
    superglue; disassembling the connector doesn't look feasible.
  % Thinking about my school experience seems to raise my anxiety level.  A lot.
  @ so does Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis 
  * 15min:  reload peppermill; improve locality in spice cabinet
  " me:  drugs do only about 50% of what's possible against depression. The
    other 50% is debugging your brain.  I'm still working on that one.
  * 15min:  yet another swing at catsittingstill's recording weirdness. 
  * post Thankful Thursday
  * shopping and a drive with Colleen
  * s4s - The River?  No.  Something about censorship.  Die Gedanken Sind Frei
    mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Die Gedanken sind frei
  & re-thought Colleen's scooter bags:  move the black-and-purple to the
    front, and put the purple Swissgear duffle in back.
  & Could have sworn I'd preserved /v/home on Barnard by renaming it to Home
    before my rm -rf [a-z]*.  Growf.  Small loss, because it needed to be
    wiped eventually anyway.  Maybe half an hour to undo the damage.  Yay for
    considering laptops volatile, secondary machines.
  * barnard now reconfigured with sda2 clean and mounted as /home.
  @ Guest post: A Retailer’s Thoughts on Buy Nothing Day 
    " I propose an alternative: Buy Local and Artisanal Day.
  @ HOWTO get a free Stanford Comp Sci education - Boing Boing 
  @ Open Channel - Lobbying firm's memo spells out plan to undermine
    Occupy Wall Street (elf)
  * music:  two songs from the Conflikt set.
  * bath; heading for bed 11:20