Done this week (20140518 Su - 24 Sa)

[mdlbear]

I actually did some yardwork this week. I hate yardwork. Especially since a lot of it involves bending over, which is bad for my back. But I do it when I have to. Or when it involves gadgetry, like hose quick-connects.

I'd ordered some quick-connects from Amazon to supplement the ones I got at Home Despot on Sunday; quite predictably they disappeared when our housekeeper tidied up the Rainbow Room. I searched for quite a while. They finally turned up in the first place I'd thought to look: in their own box, hiding under the invoice. *facepalm*

Speaking of quick-connects, I recommend brass. The plastic ones I bought last year didn't make it through the winter. Admittedly, this was because I let water freeze in the hoses -- not something I had to deal with in San Jose. But still.

Naomi and I finally got ourselves into the hot tub, for a good soak and good conversation.

A couple of bad moments, mostly thinking about finances -- I use the "trainwreck" tag for a reason. I'm usually able to get past them quickly, and that probably isn't entirely a good thing. It would be better if they were an incentive to get things done rather than causing paralysis. Grumph.

0518 Su
  * up 7:10; W=211; d, n
  * 9am - (financial advisor) Jack Firestone 
  * Home Despot - drip irrigation stuff; Ryobi battery
  & Christened the hot tub with Naomi (her idea)  Good conversation.
  * got some weeding and watering done.  Started replacing plastic hose quick-connects
    with brass; the plastic stuff didn't weather well.  Probably would have been ok if I
    hadn't left water to freeze in the hoses -- not something I usually had to deal with
    in San Jose.
  * Got 2 hoppers' worth of grass seeds on the lawn before it rained.

0519 Mo
  : Curio apparently slept with us all night.
  * up 6:30; W=211; d, n
  @ What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is About Pleasure? f(Mary Anne Mohanraj)
  : Nice long Curio-cuddle in the Rainbow Room.
  % 9pm sleepy

0520 Tu
  * up 6:10; W=211.6; d, n
  @ Robolinux 7.5.2 Wants to Move Windows XP Users to Linux and Keep the
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    Welcome to RoboLinux
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  @ Is Gluten Sensitivity Real? f(Rowan Fairgrove)
    " [The fact that gluten is not the significant factor for IBS patients who are
      sensitive to wheat] is a significant finding, but to claim that it proves that
      non-celiac gluten sensitivity doesn’t exist is both inaccurate and
      irresponsible.  It’s a great way to get clicks and generate attention, but it’s an
      extreme distortion of what the study actually found. "
  * noon:  Colleen - dentist  WFH
  * Tried to set up transfer from Alliance.  Failed.  Need to call and close the account.
  * 15min:  cleared the rest of the "amps, phones, and cables" box.
  ! a couple of bad moments emotionally.  I suck at paperwork.  My social security check
    *still* hasn't posted.  Sometimes I just want to crawl into a corner and hide.  Just
    moments -- mostly I'm "ok" whatever that means.
  : The networked printer is definitely not working.  Not clear why.  And CUPS on nova
    needs DNS to be properly set up.  Growf.
  & I'm going to try using the laptop table in the Rainbow Room for a while.

0521 We
  * up 6:30; W=212.2; d, n
  @ A Trove Of 400,000 Images From The Met That You Can Use For Free +Cymru Llewes
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0522 Th
  * up 6:30; W-211.2; d, n
  @ Why I’m Not Friending You On Facebook (But It’s Not Your Fault)
  * to G's school for a concert.  Glenn and Naomi were unable to make it.

0523 Fr
  * up 6:30; W=211.0; d, n

0524 Sa
  * up 7:40; W=209.8; d, n; shower
  * 11:30 Colleen:  doctor's appointment Leave 10:30ish; wake Colleen 9:30ish
    Petco:  catbox liners and baking soda    Home Depot: herbs
    skipped Costco because hungry and Central Market because tired.
  @ catsittingstill | Times change--but it isn't *that* hard to keep up.
  : The hose quick-connects I bought from Amazon last week, and which I'd been searching
    for since our housekeeper was here yesterday, turned up in the *first* place I looked,
    hiding under their shipping invoice. :P
  * Some gardening -- weeding and watering.  I'm not fond of it, but it needed doing.
    Colleen joined me after a while, and Emmy later still -- I went back inside when Emmy
    came out.
  * Finally got the functional tests I've been working on for the last couple of days to
    work.  Turned up a couple of actual bugs, but mostly it was bugs in the tests I was
    fighting.  Probably because I put more thought into the code, and banged the heck out
    of the really tricky part with unit tests.  This is a project that I'd seriously
    underestimated at work, partly due to feature creep.

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, paralysis is a bugger. :(