Done yesterday (20110110 Tu)

[mdlbear]

Um... right. You can tell it was a productive day from the small number of notes? Something like that.

Because, aside from not taking a walk due to working through lunchtime, it was a very productive day. I got a couple of overdue bills paid, practiced a couple of songs, blew through my JIRA task list at work, helped the coworker who's integrating audio into the client, and did some long-delayed web stuff in the evening.

I also spent the entire evening in the living room with Colleen working on Cygnus -- it's a real pleasure to have a netbook that has a full-sized keyboard with good (i.e., IBM-like) key feel.

I finally folded up at 11:30. DO NOT LIKE this "need to get more sleep" thing. I know, self-care and all that. It still sucks.

I don't know what it was about those two bills. They're from Kaiser, because my employer switched our plan from a from the HMO plan we've had since forever, to one that sends me two totally incomprehensible bills every month. And because I tend to put off anything that smells of paperwork. Which reminds me to get my W2 out of my bag.

Anyway, that's done.

I also don't know what it is about some of my coworkers. I mean, R is an experienced contractor, and can't be all that much younger than I am. But he's a Mac expert, uncomfortable with the command line, and shows an appalling ignorance of such Unix fundamentals as processes and PTYs. I've seen this before -- S back at my previous gig had similar problems.

I really don't like to think of myself as smarter than most people -- when you're one of a handful of researchers that doesn't have a PhD it's hard to hang on to that illusion -- but I probably do have a much broader range of experience than most. Starting in the days of vacuum tubes and Hollerith cards can do that, I guess.

One link, to Whose site is it anyway? | Files That Last. Worth a read if you have someone else maintaining your website; my employer ran afoul of this last year.

0110 Tu
  * up 6:45; W=195.2; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, laundry, exercise, light
  * pay bills:  Kaiser (long overdue)
  * practice (2 songs)
  @ Whose site is it anyway? | Files That Last 
  * got my W2
  * block userdirs on nova now that it's port-forwarded; 
  * add restrictive robots.txt on nova, localweb
  & write make targets in Web to list subdirs by VC type
  * move Web/imaginary/ from CVS to git (trivial, since history was nil)
  % spent the entire evening in the LR on Cygnus.  Go me?
  * splat ~11:30

Comments

[chaoswolf]

Have you tried talking to the folks at Kaiser to walk you through your incomprehensible paperwork?

[mdlbear]

I did, and they did, once. But it's still impossible, because you don't get any indication of which expenses are already covered by copays, and which are going to be covered eventually, because of the whacko way the insurance plan interacts with the billing system.

[thnidu]

Ah, you've found GM'G's professional blog. Good guy, that. Good filker, too, and I say again, good guy and good filker.

[mdlbear]

Yes. He links to the posts from his filk LJ, which makes it easy to follow.