Done the last two days (21000111 We - 12 Th)

[mdlbear]

I must be getting old. {No, Dad, you've gotten old. Get used to it.}

Wednesday I left my bifocals at work and wore the computer glasses home. The prescriptions are close enough that I didn't notice until I went looking in my bag for the computer glasses. And yesterday I forgot both my usual bill-paying session, and my Thankful Thursday post. I haven't done a Songs for Saturday in weeks.

So much for momentum.

Nevertheless, I've been sleeping better, taking care of myself more or less, and getting quite a lot done at work. We went out to lunch Wednesday to mark the end of R and P's contracts; a tasty Indian place called Tandoori Oven. It seems to be a Bay Area local chain. Tasty and inexpensive. I still like buffets, though.

And R finally "got" what I was trying to explain to him yesterday about PTYs, with the result that everything is now working. Go us!

I also started work on thinning Plink's neck a little. I'm trying to get it down closer to where my other guitars are, to make the thumb barre on D and F a little easier. I think I'm about halfway there, mostly using a scraper.

Back to forgetting. I spent almost all of yesterday evening out in the living room with Colleen; it's possible that I was distracted by her food porn TV, and perhaps just by being away from my familiar desktop. It's definitely easier to work on the large screen, and I'm more likely to pay bills when I can actually reach out and touch them.

Some links, including fan "mail" for Wheelin' in comments to ysabetwordsmith's "Hard Things" post. Yay!!

0111 We
  * up 6:45; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, laundry, exercise, light
  * humira
  * lunch with the group at Tandoori Oven - small Bay Area chain.  Not too
    much variety, but the food is freshly made (as opposed to a buffet, where
    it's made in batches).  Yummy. 
  * backed up my old Mac laptop.  MacOS doesn't make this easy; it treats a
    disk differently when it's directly connected or shared over a network, so
    I had to move it in order to reconnect with my year-old Time Machine
    backups rather than starting a new one in a disk image.  :P
  * Major success on the stuff I was struggling to explain to a coworker
    yesterday.  We win. 
  & forgot my bifocals at work; wore the computer glasses home.  Didn't notice
    until I got home.  Except for reading close-up, the computer glasses seem
    to work fine.
  * Avoid Avoiding - plan is to keep up the momentum coming off the last two
    days at work and at home. 
  * mv session tracks from zoom to /users/record/2012/01/08/Tracks
  * work a little on Plink's neck, with a scraper.  
  * request concert for Consonance
  @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Hard Things... and fan mail for Wheelin'

0112 Th
  * up 6:40; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, exercise
  @ Hippo, birdie to HAL 9000
  * finish thinning Plink's neck -- it took surprisingly little work with the
    scraper.  Started on sanding.  The scraper left the surface surprisingly
    rough, presumably due to open grain and tear-out.
    -> still needs work, after playing a little.  D still a stretch.
  @ Hosting Git Repositories on Dreamhost | tail -f development.log 
    Install Git without ssh using php hacks.
  * put previous pair of glasses in car, replacing the long-obsolete pair.
  @ Cutting their own throats - Charlie's Diary (DRM, Amazon)
  @ LinuxMusicians • View topic - Tascam US-800 Ubuntu Studio 11.x 
     scroll down for US-800 info 
  @ filkertom | Should The NY Times Print The Truth? If you have to ask...
  % forgot to pay bills (no damage done, but still...)
    forgot to post "done yesterday" or "thankful Thursday" -- and no s4s for
    several weeks.  What's going on here?  Was it just being out in the LR
    away from my usual environment?