Done yesterday (20120321 We)

[mdlbear]

Yesterday was a going-away lunch for me and fellow laid-off coworker rowanf, at Rowan's favorite Indian buffet. Yum. Apart from that, not much done at work.

I was able to request a password on the pension website, so that's progress. They were supposed to get in touch with me if they got my SS# straightened out, but I'm not counting on them not to screw that up too. On the whole, though, I'm not being as productive as I need to be.

My last day at work is a week from tomorrow. Ya think that has something to do with it?

Checkin at my Avoid Avoiding group was, of course, considerably longer than usual -- the last two weeks had been cancelled, for different reasons. But that took me from the Consonance concert, through the layoff, to my birthday. Um... yeah. Interesting times.

Colleen has been triaging cookbooks. She found dust rhinos lurking on the shelves behind them. Quite a few found new homes last night, but we still have huge piles. Colleen reads cookbooks like novels and, as with novels, not all of them are worth re-reading. We still have to do the fiction. And the books in the office. And the art books. And the boxes of my late mother-in-law's books in the attic. And the CDs, videos, and vinyl. And...

Eeep! Here's a review of Robots Around the House, but I don't see any that would help with moving. We need a packing bot.

0321 We
  * load drugs:  forgot last night :(
  * up 6:45; W=193.6; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, laundry
  @ Robots Around the House : Robots in the Home 
    (marypcb - Domestic robots: it's a dirty job and I don't want to have to do it) 
  * humira
  * noon:  table for 10 at Suraj Indian Cuisine (going away lunch)
    2550 El Camino Real, Redwood City.  http://www.surajrestaurant.com/
  $ HSX:  comp copy of CC&S to Yuko
    "You're the same age as my father!" -- I'm starting to hear that a lot.
  * attempted a password reset on the pension site.  This time for sure?
  * Avoid Avoiding
  * buy: vitamins
  @ The infrastructure gnomes of tomorrow
  @ HP Z1 all-in-one workstation | ZDNet UK 
  @ Book review: Design for Hackers | ZDNet UK 
  : Colleen has found dust rhinos behind the cookbooks.
  : Quite a few cookbooks found good homes tonight.  Not even most, but enough
    to make a noticable drop in the stack levels.

Comments

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

well, the Roomba could tackle the dust rhinos and the laundry folding robot could probably fold and pack ;-)

[mdlbear]

I don't think the roomba would be happy on the 10"-wide shelves.

And the laundry robot probably wouldn't work too well with books, tools, or kitchen gadgets. Could probably set up boxes, though.

[phoenixpdx.livejournal.com]

Wow, she found a home for dust rhinos? Amazing. I would have thought they'd just be euthanized. :-)

Cookbooks. Yes, we've BTDT. I actually cut our cookbook stash by about 2/3, and used freecycle a whole lot. I really loved freecycle and craigslist when we had to move.

Oh, and what I found worked when we did this whole thing (and we're not done yet!) was to just deal with the set that was in front of me. This one box of books. That pile of vinyl. Those CDs. It helped not to always be looking at the HUGE! OVERWHELMING! pile of stuff to be dealt with. A lot.

*hugs* for both of you.

[mdlbear]

*hugs* and thanks. Yeah, these dust rhinos are particularly cute ones.

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Good luck with getting anything out of Hewitt. All I want is a bloody 401K statement. *sound of nothing happening*

[mdlbear]

Yeah, they're unbelievably bad. So's their website.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Your cookbook piles are bad for my resolution to cut down. I'm now just trading them out.

I too read cookbooks like novels,but there are some novels that you just want to reread...

[mdlbear]

*rubs hands together and cackles*