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mdlbearGood grief! I need to do these more often. Geekfest! New laptop at work! Fire alarms from burnt toast.
Gotta say more about that last one. Somebody in our apartment building burned their toast, then opened the door to the hallway, setting off the building's fire alarm. I was already on the bus to work; the YD and Colleen dressed hastily and headed downstairs. Elevators don't work in fires. So Colleen parked her scooter and, with a neighbor's encouragement, walked down three flights of stairs to the door, and plunked herself down in a conveniently-placed half-barrel flowerpot.
Well, she is the Flowercat, after all. I'm extremely proud of her.
Probably ought to mention the new lappy, too. It's a top-of-the-line 15" macbook pro, huge, fast, and impressively quiet. What it doesn't have is a place to attach a lock cable, so I have to take it home every night. Which, in turn, means that I've had to work out a way of using it that doesn't involve having to re-establish all my multiple desktops worth of context every morning. The best thing I've hit on so far is to set up a virtual Linux box, and run it full-screen on my large monitor. Outlook and a small number of other things run on the mac screen.
We've also had guests in the apartment. We like having guests -- ping if you want to come over; it's usually possible, given a little notice.
And among other good news, my handicap parking violation was dismissed, since I was able to prove that I do have the placard. Stupid thing had fallen off the mirror.
And the Mayan calendar rolled over, with even less fuss than when the Gregorian one rolled over a dozen years ago.
A few annoyances, mostly health related.
I've been sleeping a lot more than I want to. Annoying. I've also been gaining weight; that may be due to my going off my diuretic. Also annoying. The ongoing dental work is also annoying. And expensive.
Some -- many? -- of the annoyances are self-inflicted. I've been applying so much of my attention to work that pretty much everything else has suffered. At least the need to clear space for guests and a tree has forced me to clear out some boxes.
Links and details in the notes, as usual. Some pretties, some very moving stuff... The usual. This is your mind on the web.
1209 Su * up 8:30ish; W=202.6; d, n, t, h, l; exercise, shower, hair @ 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day | Fast Company @ Irregular Webcomic! #3257: Saying Goodbye Moving. Trigger warning: death. @ Animated Factorization Diagrams – Data Pointed (ysabetwordsmith) @ TIOBE Software: Tiobe Index (of programming language popularity) @ Opinion: Microsoft’s Astonishing Windows 8 Boondoggle @ 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours | Ars Technica 1210 Mo * up 7:17; W=201.2; d, n, t, l; woke up with the alarm and, obviously, drifted back through dreamland for an hour. * walk: 2nd + Yesler * over to N's for candle-lighting and tree-trimming 1211 Tu * up 6:30; W=200.8; d, n, t, l; dishes, light @ Conservatives can be persuaded to care more about environmental issues when couched in terms of fending off threats to 'purity' @ Kids' apps get a failing report-card on privacy - Boing Boing * walk: Western + Pike; back via 1st. Not too far, but a good workout because of the hills. * cleared large box of serving trays * identified 2 (large) boxes for moving to N's General Store 1212 We 12-12-12 * Up 6:20; W=200; d, n, t, l; dishes, @ Wikipedia's new HTML5 video player [LWN.net] * lunch at Bernard's (German place in the Seattle Hotel) Not accessible :P Used my phone to make a tweet at 12/12/12 12:12 @ Twitter / ssavitzky: 12/12/12 12:12 Kinda surprised nobody I follow did it. * pay YD's tuition for next quarter: $1552 She'll be getting home around 8pm; her classes get out 5:30ish, and the next bus is 7:30. @ 10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8 | PCWorld : got back the verdict from the mitigation hearing on my handicap parking ticket -- case dismissed. I win. 1213 Th * up 6:15; W=202.2; d, n, t, l; dishes, light * worked through lunchtime; meetings, plus setting up my new macbook pro. Very sweet machine, though with a few quirks. * over to N's: put the tree in the van, go back with with four boxes (two full of boxes, one of tupperware, and one with the bread machine). 1214 Fr * up 7:02; W=200.2; d, n, t, l; dishes * 19:58 getting teary-eyed reading facebook -- there was a school shooting today. Good grief! Crazy people should have help, not guns. * BP=119/70 @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Poem: "Ascension to the Atheneum" librarians FTW @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Poem: "A Light in the Darkness" asexual protagonist * my little Planet Waves tuner arrived. Took a bit of fiddling to figure out a place for it on Plink. 1215-16 GeekFest - Shoreline Conf. Center * 18560 1st Avenue NE #1 - N on 5th ave; L on 185th Saturday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Sunday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 1215 Sa * up 8:20; W=199.2; d, n, t, l; exercise, dishes @ Rev. Emily C. Heath: Dealing With Grief: Five Things NOT to Say and Five Things to Say In a Trauma Involving Children * Geekfest. Arrived 11:30ish. Did the dealer's room, skipped the concerts, and left early -- tomorrow we will undoubtedly do the opposite. Bought CDs from Eben Brooks (who is performing tomorrow also) and HELLO, THE FUTURE!. Tea from Friday Afternoon Gourmet Teas @ Occasional kvetch - World's smallest V-12 diesel engine : H8 - somehow Facebook managed to install a messenger app on Firefox. I initially blamed LJ, which I'd been reading at the time. May switch back to chrome. * Joined Torn World Doubt I'll attempt to become a contributor, unless a poem hits me. 1216 Su * up 7:00; W=201.2; d, n, t, l; shower, exercise, laundry, dishes * Geekfest. Concerts. Jen, Manny, and the kids were there; N couldn't make it. $ hsx: Traded a CD with Hello the Future * Dinner: slightly middle-eastern beef stew; broccoli, latkes. YD did the prep; I did most of the actual cooking after the first batch, which Glenn did. Chaos and Rabbit brought beer. * Finished The Valley of Fear @ Daily Kos: Serious Discussions Brilliantly-written analysis by