mdlbear | Done this weekend (20121117 Sa

I guess the main event from the weekend was lunch with our old friends Alan and Jeanne Rognlie, who moved out of the Bay Area some 32 years ago. We met for lunch at the AFK Tavern, although no gaming ensued. Good visit.

We decided to have Thanksgiving dinner here; the fridge is now full of turkey. The living room is still full of boxes; we're going to at least move them out of the center of the room. It'll have to do. Progress is, in any case, being made.

I also wrote a poem on Saturday.

I converted my mobile phone plan to a shared-data plan. It includes unlimited voice and text, and 10GB of shared data. The way the pricing works is a little weird, with the price per phone going down as data goes up; 10GB was only $10 more than 6GB. I end up saving about $60/month.

Musical links for the weekend include this Adorably Gruesome Public Service Announcement About Death And Dismemberment, and of course "American Hostess Pie" to the obvious tune.

1117 Sa
* up 7ish; W=199.2; BP=117/71; d, n, t, h; laundry, shower, dishes... light
* 15min: cleared two book boxes. Now only two boxes in the way of a clear
path to the desk again. And one is a partially-filled "to store" box.
* Duh. My phone has a timer (part of the Swiss Army Knife app)
Realized this when I wanted coffee while YD had a pie in the oven.
" me: Chaos is off larping. There's probably a song titled "The LARP in the
Morning" in there somewhere.
* 1pm lunch with Alan and Jeanne at AFK. Hadn't realized, but it must be over
30 years. Lots of catching up to do.
* 15min: finally put away the suitcases from Orycon. Put Colleen's Travelpro
rolly inside her suitcase, along with the needlepoint. Put a couple of
backpacks into mine. There is more room in the closet.
* 15min: collapsed the last of the wardrobe boxes; brought one in to be
filled with flattened book boxes for storage. Some boxes from the porch are
too wet for saving at this point; brought one in for recycling. Progress.
@ Passageword - in the Crowdfunding Creative Jam on the theme of portals:
He logs in, writing the words
With a long fingernail
On the mirror's surface.
Ripples
Like a stone dropped into
A pool of mercury.
He steps through.
: grand-central-starport.org is up for renewal -- I think I'm going to drop
it. It was never used except as an alias for thestarport.org, and now that
the house is under new management as the Intergalactic Haus of Waffles...
& dumb bear: lit the wrong burner trying to boil water for tea; may have
wrecked the YD's pumpkin pie. Careless!!!!!
* *whew* the pie is ok. The crust is a little scorched in spots, but who
needs it?
& put Doc and Lit subdirectories under git control, finally, after having
figured out how to squelch the git-cvs-import errors. (Basically, make sure
everything's checked in.) Triggered by having written a poem (see above)
@ posted: mdlbear | Poem: Passageword
% left calf muscle knotted up painfully. Ouch!
@ Gastrocnemius muscle
"The gastrocnemius muscle is prone to spasms, which are painful, involuntary,
contractions of the muscle that may last several minutes." Yup.

1118 Su
* up 7ish; W=201, BP=113/72; d, n, t; laundry, light
@ How one law student is making Facebook get serious about privacy | Ars Technica
@ Lawsuit Happy Apple May Not Be Able To Sell iPhone In Mexico - Muktware
@ Cowardice: Gutless House Republicans retract copyright paper in less than
24 hours - Boing Boing
That Was Fast: Hollywood Already Browbeat The Republicans Into Retracting
Report On Copyright Reform | Techdirt
House Republicans: Copyright Law Destroys Markets; It's Time For Real Reform
@ #393: My friends keep inviting my abusive ex and me to the same parties,
despite being asked directly not to. « CaptainAwkward.com f(N)
* 15min: another book/map box cleared; wardrobe box set up for folded boxes.
* converted phone plan to shared-data. Unlimited voice/text, 10GB shared data.
Individual Data Plans & Mobile Share Data Plans from AT&T
The economics are really interesting with four smartphones.
@ TRIGGER WARNING? Adorably Gruesome Public Service Announcement About Death And Dismemberment
If you like Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, you'll love it.
* 15min: another mostly-empty box cleared, folded, and stuffed into the Big
Box Full of Empty Boxes.
@ The Dendarii Chronicles - New song "American Hostess Pie" TTOT
* ordered Nexus 7 (32G) for me; purple/green cape for Colleen. Will look for
a 7" tablet for her soon; she doesn't need bleeding-edge, so can probably
find something around $150.
* Dinner: baked salmon with olive oil, rosemary, and a little pepper; salad
with hearts of romaine, radish, English cucumber, pepper, olive oil,
balsamic vinegar; quinoa with butter; sauvingon blanc. Yum.
@ sweetmusic_27: November 19th is International Survivors of Suicide Day
* over to N's -- set up one of the tourney boxes as a kid's desk for G. Needs
longer legs; improvised with a couple of CD boxes.
* 15min: cleared three boxes (of course, this involved putting the contents
onto shelves rather haphazardly, but...)

1119 Mo
* up 6:20; W=200.2; d, n, t; dishes
* wake Colleen at 7am. Quack!!
* 8am dentist - Colleen. Read code, read up on Spring
: Note -- my hat is *not* waterproof. And wearing a piece of cold, wet cloth
on one's head causes headaches.
@ How-To-Use-Google-Search-More-Effectively-INFOGRAPHIC.gif (800×8848) (+someone)
* Moved into a conference room with the other developers in my pod. Nice big
monitors, no storage, not enough power strips.
& nice conversation on the bus. About 4 chapters into Pride and Prejudice.
@ The End of Winter, and Other Horrifying New Global Warming Projections (ysabetwordsmith)
-> The World Bank - Climate Change Report Warns of Dramatically Warmer
World This Century
% Damned if I know what I did to it, but my right deltoid hurts like crazy.
Probably either clicking (different arm position?) or lifting my bag.
* 15min: moved 2 boxes off the floor and onto the pile by the patio door.
% heat (from a beanbag) helps the deltoid. Not great, but a little better.
% 22:55 BP=118/66; P=72