Done last month (20120525 Su - 0531 Sa)

[mdlbear]

Hmm. Not too bad of a week, though I did spend much of it depressed. I got myself an early Father's Day present in the form of a refurb 10" Galaxy Tab 3. I also upgraded my netbook to Ubuntu 14.04. Both had glitches at first; the tablet is back to normal after I removed a couple of apps, one of which was apparently slowing it down to the point where the touchscreen became unresponsive.

Quick tip: if the touchscreen works fine for a little while after a reboot, then becomes unresponsive, blame an app that's hogging the CPU. Some of the apps out there are absolute crap.

Turns out dentists these days are making crowns by milling them out of a solid block of ceramic with a CNC mill. Cool!

Yesterday I had a pretty good session with my doctor -- or rather my doctor's substitute while my doctor is out on maternity leave. Labwork, advice, and a higher dose of antidepressant. Hopefully that will help.

Notable quotes of mine from elsenet: (wisdom from the middle-aged bear?) "Balm throwers as the opposite of bomb throwers." "#NotAllChristians sounds a lot like #NotAllMen." The latter sparked an interesting discussion on FB, with thoughtful people pointing out that whether it's meant as derailing or educational depends on the intended audience. Me, I'm not a Christian, so...

0525 Su
  * awake 3:30; back asleep 5ish
  * up 7:40; W=211.0; d, n
  * Metropolitan market for bacon, avocados, tomatoes, lemons, limes, and coffee.
    (Colleen wanted a BOAT sandwich)
  * Google to the rescue, enabling facebook chat in Pidgin.  I added Google Talk last
    night.  Web pages make really crappy chat clients.  The list is, of course,
    unmanagibly long, and pidgin insists on putting up a notification whenever somebody
    logs in.  Which is all the damned time.  May have to disable, but probably still
    useful when I actually get into a conversation there.
  % decided against going to Carleton reunion -- I could handle the cost of the weekend,
    but the air fare and shuttles would be another $800.  Not this year.  I'll save up for
    my 50th.
  * Ordered a direct box from Amazon.  Spent altogether too much time looking at
    recommendations. 

0526 Mo Memorial Day
  * up 6ish; W=209.4; d, n
  * ordered 10.1" Galaxy Tab 3. (refurb, from Amazon)  It's coming out of the business
    account, since the main motivation is using it as a songbook replacement.
  & attempting to upgrade Cygnus, because it's been flaky lately.  This may have been a
    mistake, since do-system-upgrade crashed on me.  Doing it the hard way.  May have to
    nuke-and-pave the root partition, so saved /etc in /home/bak.
  * Upgrading takes a *horrendously* long time, but at least downloading was fast once I
    realized that I needed to switch to a wired connection.  I really hope the upgrade
    will help with that, though I'm realistic enough not to expect it.
  * Used the gas grill, with Glenn doing the cooking and me doing the setup since I know
    how it goes together.
  & read LJ and DW on my tablet while waiting for download.  LJ's mobile site sucks; I
    went back to the regular site.

0527 Tu
  * up 6:15; W=209.8; d, n
  : Upgrading Ubuntu may have been a mistake.  I seem to have traded known forms of
    flakiness for new ones.

0528 We
  * up 5:30ish; W=208.8; d, n; shower
  " me: 'balm throwers' as the opposite of 'bomb throwers' " (from a comment on LJ)
  * 8:30 leave for dentist
  & found out how to turn off the stupid "xxx online" popups from Pidgin -- turns out it's
    a plug-in I just had to disable.
  * 10:00 dentist - crown install.  Turns out they're using a CNC mill to make crowns out
    of a block of ceramic now.

0529 Th
  * up 5am; W=208.8; d, n
  @ “TrueCrypt is not secure,” official SourceForge page abruptly warns [LWN.net]  
  @ Why Agnosticism Probably Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means +Kee Hinckley
  % paralysis.  Or maybe just chronic lack of sleep.

0530 Fr
  * up 6:30; W=209.8; d, n
  @ Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange
    women without being maced | Shapely Prose I may have linked to this earlier; don't
    remember.  Still worth repeating, given #YesAllWomen
  * trainwreck:  Paid Sound Inpatient bill, plus additions because stupid bear.  My credit
    rating is probably wrecked, too.
  * Managed to knock my glasses off the desk and step on them.  Not broken, and I was able
    to bend the frame *almost* back into shape, but...
  % paralysis.  Still not feeling very good about myself.
  % also, sleepy.

0531 Sa
  * up 6:30; W=210.8; d, n; shower
  * 10:30 Dr. Bagan, Shoreline Clinic leave 9:15ish
    -> refills on everything; advice on nose spray (don't snort it, just spray).
  * Nice drive with Colleen - 60-odd miles, South via 99, Interurban, and West Valley
    Highway (basically SR 181)