Done so far (20120115 Su - 19 Th)

[mdlbear]

Pretty good week so far, actually. A lot of my mindspace early in the week was taken up by a River post on telling your friends what they need to hear, which replaced a previous post with, let's just say, more heat and much less light.

But I mostly kept up the momentum from the latter half of last week, and got quite a lot done. In particular, I managed to get some music-related work done every day, three walks and a drive with Colleen, and a lot of small but important tasks at work. Breaking things down into tiny steps really seems to work for me, and while there aren't all that many items here tagged with "15min", there probably should have been.

Sunday's drive was glorious. We reversed our usual route and drove up I280 to 92, then south along the coast via Highway 1 to Santa Cruz, and back by way of 17. This gave us a better view of the ocean than usual, and we saw a gorgeous effect that I'd never seen before -- bits of sunlight streaming through gaps in the clouds and making bright patches far out on the ocean, made more visible by the contrast. Just... wow.

I made chicken soup with rice for dinner. From scratch, using the chicken bones I'd saved from Saturday's broccoli chicken. Yum.

Monday I finally put two and two together and realized that the fact that my (AT&T) cell phone signal at work had gone from unusable to 100% and the fact that a group from Apple had moved in next door might possibly be related. Ya think?

Tuesday morning I had a nice conversation with the YD -- every once in a while she gets up early. Later that evening, I worked on the blackout code for steve.savitzky.net, lookingglassfolk.com, tempered-glass.info, tres-qique.com, and pocketpoems.net, using code from SopaBlackout.org. (I understand that PIPA won't be brought to a cloture vote today as previously scheduled. The net can kick ass sometimes.)

Wednesday I woke up remembering a dream mostly about plumbing. No idea what that signifies. Thursday I finally got printing back online for the netbooks and the YD's laptop. The latter also required booting from the "startup repair" partition and waiting for an hour or so while it cranked away, fixing what appeared to be a corrupt filesystem. Pretty slick, actually. F12. It would be nice if the boot screen actually mentioned that feature, though.

Note to self: make a restore disk first thing when configuring a new Windows machine.

I don't know whether batching up my daily updates like this is a good idea or not, but I do seem to have a little more time on days when I forget. I thought briefly of doing a "Wednesday Wrap-up", but I'd forgotten by the time I got home. They say your memory is the second thing to go.

I've forgotten the first.

Quite a few links, on a wide range of topics. I'm going to signal-boost moon_fox's Character Art Jam, in part because I left a prompt there (and a tip).

0115 Su
  * up 9:10; W=194.2; laundry, drugs, nose, teeth, dishes
    :( on the wake-up time.  
  @ While I'm at it.... Good comment re: OOP timing
  @ redacted mdlbear | Indirect comment to cflute's recent post - REDACTED  
    based on multiple comments and a PM from C.
  @ replaced by River: Telling your friends what they need to hear
  % posting while tired and upset or angry is a bad idea.  Goes for driving
    too -- I _knew_ that.
  * drive:  280->92->1->17  so better view of the ocean than usual.
    Gorgeous effect with sunlight coming through the clouds and lighting up
    distant patches of ocean.
  * Chicken soup with rice for dinner.
  * finished thinning Plink's neck

0116 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=193.8; laundry, drugs, nose, dishes, exercise, teeth
  @ Sopa Blackout 0118
  @ UPDATED: SOPA is DYING; its evil Senate twin, PIPA, lives on
  @ rb | Slightly odd self-care 
  : comments on "Telling your friends", some of them quite encouraging.
    more comments on the redacted "Indirect comment" -- I *definitely* made
    the right decision in editing it but leaving it in place.
  * some chord work.
  : A couple of weeks ago my AT&T cell signal at my desk at work went from
    practically nonexistent to 100%.  Think it has something to do with Apple
    moving in next door?  Naaaaaah.
  * walk:  2mi to Lucky's on DeAnza Blvd.
  * 15:45: finished main task on today's to.do list at work
  * order:  humira.  Approximate ready date:   01/18/12 12:00 PM 

0117 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=193.8; drugs, nose, teeth, exercise, light
  : lots of bag spam on LJ the last week or so; 1-3/day.  Annoying.
  & Conversation with the YD, who was up early and starting a new diet
  * practice.  3 songs.
  * look for CCS receipts near monitor
  * midnight - black out ss.net, lgf.com, t-g.info, tg.com
    (17:25:32) me@aim: blackout code uploaded for steve.savitzky.net,
    lookingglassfolk.com, tempered-glass.info, tres-qique.com, and
    pocketpoems.net.  Will take effect automagically at (our) local midnight.
  @ Sopa Blackout has the code
  @ osewalrus - The Day The LOLCats Died
  @ SOPA/PIPA – what’s up with that? « Emily L. Hauser – In My Head 
  @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Copyright Length
  * nagios:  check for backup drive - critical if not mounted
    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -E -p /media/bak 
    we don't automount to prevent lengthy delays on reboot boot
  : YD's attempt at bread-machine bread was a total flop.  No water, yeast
    packet tossed in whole.
    ! very disappointed.  annoyed.  depressed.
    Colleen didn't seem to react at all when I told her, and didn't seem to
    believe me.  I had to show her.
    ! puzzled, disturbed.  depressed.  distressed.
    Now she wants to know what's wrong?  I don't know.
  @ Jennifer Jenkins: 'Til the End of Eternity? (ysabetwordsmith)
  : southwest.com is presently hosed.
  @ The New York Times public editor's very public utterance (+Kee Hinckley)
  @ solarbird | How to Win
    Not sure I think this is the best thing to do.
  * Bills

0118 We
  % dream mostly involving plumbing -- we were looking at getting a swimming
    pool installed, which I thought was unnecessary but Colleen wanted, and
    had to get something else fixed first.  It seemed a lot like the Perry
    Ave. house, and there was something in the plumbing under the back porch
    that we were getting fixed; it had been screwed up for years after some
    kind of explosion.  Um...
  % Oh.  Right.  Could the reason I've been sleeping more the last week or so
    be that I've raised the head of the bed more?
  * up 6:50; W=194.4; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, exercise, light
  * blackout list: steve.savitzky.net lookingglassfolk.com tempered-glass.info
    tres-gique.com pocketpoems.net thestarport.org
  @ elf: This web was made for you and me
  * practice - about half the set
  @ Today the US Senate is considering legislation that would destroy the
    free and open Internet. - WWdN: In Exile 
  @ Some Thoughts on Cruising 
  & as so often happens, forgot my clipboard when leaving the house.
  @ Wearing a computer at work | ZDNet 
  * walk:  ~1mi
  * buy: coffee
  * buy: Centrum Cardio
  * Avoiding
  * pick up humira on the way home
  & attempting to fix YD's Gateway laptop.  F2 for setup, F12 for a boot menu
    that brings up "startup repair"
  @ SOPA blackout: Who’s gone dark to protest anti-piracy bills? [Updated]
    (ysabetwordsmith - The Blackout List)    Great list of screencaps.

0119 Th
  * up 6:30; W=193.4; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, laundry, light
  & algol wedged, possibly in chrome.  rebooted, which it needed anyway.
  * reboot stargate - that's a fast one, due to the flash main drive.
  * reboot nova - do this after a git push so that to.do remains usable.
    actually very fast; apparently checks didn't need to be forced.
  * fsck the backup disk on nova
    _that_ should have been done from the console!  Took about an hour.
  * 15min:  nagios:  check_ide_smart -n -d /dev/sda
    needs to be setuid root in order to access the device info
  * walk:  ~1mi.  Cold, misty
  @ batsy's casbah - Character Art Jam: 0 Rosie
  * singing for N. She's feeling discouraged.  I'm out of practice.
  & help Colleen with netbook config.  Bottom panel, email, contacts, printer 
  * Thankful Thursday
  * look for CCS receipts in ~ wallet,  * filebox,  * to.done, ~ pile
    cd Dog/2012; grep -e ' [$] ' | sort > hsx.done

Comments

[chaoswolf]

Heffalump on a new diet plan? That's a first. Would it surprise you if I told you she's also been sucked into the Scientologists?

And no, I'm not gonna be surprised if she's still dating SmegHead.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I do take dream interpretation with grain of salt but....

I have read that dreams about backed up or problems with plumbing can often have to do with either being physically or emotionally blocked. I also think that dreams often use as much personal symbolism as universal, so judging from your comment about your dream it might be related towards you thinking you have had "some kind of explosion" in the past on some emotional level and are now feeling that in reaction to that your emotions are now "screwed up" in some way. The cool thing about dreams communicating with you in this way is that your unconscious understands that you're trying to figure this out now. By the way, note that I wrote "you thinking" this not that it ever really happened. But on the other hand it might just have been about plumbing and pools ;).

[mdlbear]

Thanks -- I've never looked into dream interpretation at all; I remember them only very rarely.