mdlbear | Done yesterday (20120317 Sa) (Reply)

A pretty good day. I even took a walk, albeit a short one because the weather looked dicey. I felt a few stray drops, but stayed dry. (In fact, it did rain, hard, in the evening, and I got wet taking the garbage out.) I walked over to Savers in search of dress pants, and found a pair of dark gray ones that will work nicely with the darker of the silk jackets and the gray-and-black striped shirt that I'm wearing now.

Hey, I'm a fan. Dressing up for an interview is cosplay. Easy.

I made a yummy pot roast for dinner, using most of a bottle of cheap red wine and two bottles of non-alcoholic beer (left over from the last party, because nobody would actually drink the stuff). I had some of the broth in a mug -- it made lovely soup. And a cole slaw, with half a head of cabbage and a Granny Smith apple.

I got the Mac Mini, Whitewood, installed on the desktop to the right of the main monitor, and got x2vnc installed and working. That'll be my machine for doing taxes.

And I got through about 2/3 of the pile of papers to the left of the desk, turning up my (expired) passport, two uncashed checks, a renewal notice from AARP, some still-valid Office Max discount cards, ..., and some sore muscles in my left side from reaching back to throw stuff in the recycle bin.

In a separate search, I found a photostat of my birth certificate and the stub from my social security card. So that's good.

In other news, the move to Seattle is looking more and more feasible. Colleen spent several hours thinking about what books she wanted to keep, and searching for restaurants and museums. Naomi and I talked about housing options. Moving is going to be somewhat hellish, but we'll manage somehow.

I am encouraged by the fact that an albatross, metaphorically a dead weight hung around one's neck as a penance, is a beautiful and far-traveling seabird when it's alive.

And finally, Colleen made it through the entire day without using her scooter -- I think that's the first time in months.

0317 Sa
  * up 7:30; W=193.8; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes
  * fired up whitewood.  vnc not connecting.  Growf.  Needs static IP?
  * static IP for whitewood - yup.
  * whitewood:  configure printers, change password (usual home)
  * 1ish: pot roast started.
  * walk:  1.2mi (Savers at Bascom & W. San Carlos
  * 15min:  maybe halfway through the left-hand pile
    ... or maybe not.  But found the passport.
  * found BC and SS card, in safe; the BC is an ancient photostat, so might
    not be usable now.  Certified copy probably in vault.
  . start cleaning office (needed for taxes)
  * The pot roast came out yummy; I had a cup of the broth as soup.  We also
    had cole slaw and toast with butter and jam.
  * s4s - Neptune video by Sooj
  * ripping the CDs purchased at Consonance
  : first day in quite a while that Colleen didn't use her scooter in the
    house.  Yay!
  & took muscle relaxant.  Back hurts.  Up the left side, which is unusual.
    Probably from the motion involved in tossing stuff from the left side of
    the monitor into the recycle bin.