Done last week (20140705 Sa - 12 Sa)

[mdlbear]

Good grief! I think I started this post a couple of hours ago. Bears are easily distracted.

Anyway, not too bad a week except for the fact that I'm extremely low on cash. Let's see.

Sunday was my older daughter Chaos's 29th birthday. Gleep. I'm not that old! Also, Glenn ran ethernet cable from the far side of the Great Room (where the cable comes in) to the Rainbow Room and the top of the stairs. We now have reliable WiFi in all parts of the house.

Tuesday I hauled out the old box fan and installed it in one of the windows in the Rainbow Room. (A few days later I screwed the screen down so the cats couldn't push it out and escape. They like the window sill.)

Wednesday I took Colleen to see her gastroenterologist, who gave her a clean bill of health. For the first time in half a dozen years! I also (finally) got around to re-enabling my backup and mirror crontab on nova, the file server. It hasn't seemed too important since I haven't been adding much, and everything I have worked on is under git control and backed up in multiple places, including offsite.

And yesterday I went with Colleen to the local annual street fair. The only thing we bought besides food was a couple of (purple, of course) sarongs. I wore one in the evening because the temperature had gotten up into the high eighties. Comfortable, and very practical around the house.

Lots of links. I've been spending too much time on G+, FB, and Wikipedia. You can tell.

0705 Sa
  * up 6:30ish; W=209.8
  @ Chemical of the Week
  @ 18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's
    Bodies - Mic 
  @ It Will Look Like a Sunset by Kelly Sundberg - Guernica / A Magazine of Art &
    Politics Beautiful and harrowing.  Trigger warning:  domestic violence.

0706 Su
  * up 6ish; 
  & some nice Curio time.
  @ Depression Is Not Sadness (Again) » Brute Reason 
    Skepchick | Treating Depression Is Not Making Sadness A Disease 
  * I made pasta and caprese for Kat's birthday, and Emmy made cake.
  * Chaos is 29.  I feel old.  But not as old as I'm going to feel next year.
  * Glenn ran ethernet to the Rainbow Room (for RE-West) and to the second floor.  RE-West
    is now solid, though I have no idea what I set as its IP address.

0707 Mo
  * up 6:15; W=209.2
  * upgraded the netgear router.  Not the AP, because I still don't know its IP address :P
  @ Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn't compete 
  @ 16 yo kid has just changed the game Browser plug-in that annotates congress
    members' names with their donors.
  @ Our Mismeasured Economy - NYTimes.com (amaebi)

0708 Tu
  * up 5:30; W=210.8
  : We have an offer for 600k on the Starport.  Making a counter-offer. 
  & put a fan in one of the windows in the Rainbow Room.  Helps a lot.

0709 We
  * up 5:50; W=212.2
  @ Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes f(Alex Savitzky)
  @ Why the Charges are Civil (and Why That Doesn’t Mean She’s a Lying Golddigger)  
  * WFH for Colleen's appointment.
  * Tried to make eye appointment, but the next one they had was next Tuesday :(
  * 3:30 Colleen - Dr. Afzali -> she's healthy.  And she's lost weight, too.
  @ Breaking: Dems Release their #HobbyLobby Fix Legislation 
  @ Women like sex. Stop making 'health' excuses for why we use birth control | Jessica
    Valenti | Comment is free | theguardian.com
  * (finally) re-enabled crontab on nova for backup and mirror jobs
  (cleanup)
  ~ 0705 (Glenn) run Cat5e between E and W ends of the house
  * 0710 locate in-network eye doctors, make opthalmology appointments
  * 0709 reconfigure mirror, backups on nova

0710 Th
  * up 5:30; W=211.6
  * make sure mirror and backup ran on nova
  @ Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software 
  @ How to discuss Hobby Lobby with business owners and people of faith 
  * The Samsung Blu-ray player I ordered from Woot arrived.  Setup when I have time.

0711 Fr
  * up 6:30; W=210.8
  @ xkcd: Timeghost Ouch!
  @ What’s New in 4.0 - Creative Commons (ysabetwordsmith | Creative Commons 4.0)
  & long Wikipedia trip starting atCollatz conjecture  

0712 Sa
  * up 7:15; W=209.6; shower
  @ CBLDF presents: Liberty! - Boing Boing -> AmazonSmile: CBLDF Presents: Liberty HC (The Cbldf Presents) 
  @ Can "neurotheology" bridge the gap between religion and science? 
  * Went to the West Seattle Summer Fest with Colleen.  Got some literature on solar power among
    other things, ate fried bananas and spring rolls, and bought a couple of purple sarongs (one of which Colleen wore as
    a shawl to help prevent sunburn, and later gave to Emmy).
    I may take to wearing the other around the house -- it's HOT out!
  * Cheese boards for dinner for me and Colleen
  * set up BD player

0713 Su
  * up 7:00; W=211.2; shower
  : Emmy made fudgies for breakfast.  Yum.
  * Wikipedia dive that included Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and elephant shrews.  It
    turns out that elephant shrews are in fact related to elephants; hippos are closely
    related to whales.  DNA is kind of amazing.