Done this week (20140713 Su - 19 Sa)

[mdlbear]

It's been a rough week, for some reason. Possibly knowing that the Starport is about to be gone forever. And that the money we make from the sale isn't going to come close to what we need. Don't get me wrong -- I love it here, I love my family, and I love our house. It's just...

A couple of fun wikipedia dives -- details in the notes, though I don't actually log the URLs.

Colleen and I went to Seattle Optix Tuesday and got measured for new glasses. It's been three years for her, and two for me, so it's definitely time.

Thursday after dinner we watched the dvd of Company, after listening to it in the car with Naomi (who is trying to educate me on Broadway since the '60s). The staging is weird, but it works.

The week wrapped up with a nice drive with Colleen, and salad from our garden with dinner.

There are links in the notes, as usual.

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.
  @ catsittingstill | I'm Back; Did You Burn Down The Internet?

0714 Mo Bastille Day
  * up 6:15; W=211.2
  @ Internet Activism Worked
    Today. Here’s How to Keep the Momentum Going | Opinion | WIRED f(Harold Feld)
  @ Stuff You Should Always Say on the Mic When Your Band is Performing on Stage 
  % some brief, sharp heel pain when getting up to go home.  plantar fascitis, yup.

0715 Tu
  * up 6:30; 
  @ haikujaguar: When Visual Storytellers Get Going... funny
  * 9ish wake Colleen
  * 10:30, 11 - eye appointments at W. Seattle Optix
    -> 4 pairs of glasses at an average of $250 or so after insurance.  Ouch!  But needed.
    -> The opthalmologist said I have a mild case of blepharitis, and recommended washing
       my eyelids/lashes with soap and water daily.  I can do that after nose-watering.
  @ The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study — the largest, most important public health
    study you never heard of — began in an obesity clinic f(Rowan Fairgrove)
  & Wikipedia dive starting at Geodesic and going from geodesic domes to Johnson and
    Catalan polyhedra, and Conway notation.

0716 We
  * up 6:30; W=211.2
  % some heel pain on the right
  @ Secrets you should have learned before your first programming job +Kee Hinkley
  @ Why is Microsoft scared of Chromebooks? | The Verge 
  & We accepted an offer on the Starport.  It's way too low, but it seems to be what we
    can get.  We have a window of about a week where we might get another offer, but...
  @ My Daughter Can Run Farther Than I Can | Ferrett Steinmetz 
  @ Tails above the Rest (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

0717 Th
  * up 5:45; W=211.2
  * Movie night -- watching Company

0718 Fr
  * up 6:15; W=210.8
  * We had one of our monthly wine and beer social get-togethers at work; I was able to
    stand, comfortably, for about an hour.
  * 9:30ish - some nice Curio-in-lap time

0719 Sa
  * up 6ish; W=212.4; shower
  @ Op-Ed: Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity 
  @ Little Free Library
  @ Destination Moon: The 350-Year History of Lunar Exploration (Infographic) 
  @ Care and Feeding of your Sick and Injured Friends (ysabetwordsmith)
  * Nice drive with Colleen; the Fremont Troll, parts of Queen Anne, and up to 145th
    because I knew there was a gas station there.
  & Salad from our garden, at Colleen's request.  Highest ratio of herbs to lettuce of any
    salad I've ever made.  Tasty.
  * Finished reading through Elizabeth Barrette's Polychrome Heroic series.  Fun, and often informative:  the notes are as
    wonderful as the poetry.

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

*useless handpat offered*

[mdlbear]

*smiles* Not useless at all. Thanks.

[tagryn]

Thanks for the links!

Steve, you probably know this already, but its 100% reasonable that selling the Starport would have some emotional content to it, even after you're not living there anymore. How could it not? A lot of your life (and the lives of your family) happened there. I always enjoyed reading the party/gathering announcements when you posted them, and somewhat regret the timing never matched up to attend one of them (I think our paths never physically crossed at any of the admittedly-few a.c. gatherings I got to).

It's just a very...human thing to feel, I guess it how I'd put it. The love doesn't die, even for the places and people that aren't in our lives anymore; it may fade from our everyday thoughts over time, as memory recedes and time goes on, but I don't think it ever completely goes away.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. Yeah; one can grieve over leaving a house as much as over leaving a person; we lived there for 35 years.