Done this week (20140831 Su - 0906 Sa)

[mdlbear]

Not all that bad a week, I guess. Lots of cat cuddles, and a day off for Labor Day. Not all that good, either. Joe Bethancourt died (only a year older than me!), I had to work from home two days to take Colleen to appointments, and as usual I'm broke until the social security payment arrives a week and a half from now. I do not like it, Sam-I-Am.

This coming week looks just as bad, if not worse. And it all goes back to stupid financial decisions I made twenty years ago (and continued making), so now it's basically not fixable. Which doesn't improve my self-image or my mood, either. Nor does my current antidepressant, which I don't think is helping much. Or rather has side-effects that tend to make things worse. GAAH!

Well, there are always the links.

0831 Su
  * up 6ish; W=213.8
  @ Local musician Joe Bethancourt dies at 68 from FB
  @ How Pabst Brought a 136-Year-Old Beer Back From the Dead Ballantine IPA?!
  @ CIA admits full Monitoring of Facebook - CSglobe
  * The kids came over for lunch instead of dinner -- served lox and bagels.
  % out shopping (again) to Walgreens; discovered that I can actually see better without
    glasses than with my computer glasses.  My distance prescription is basically just to
    correct minor astigmatism these days.  Age-related presbyopia for the win!
  @ Ball Bearings in a Hypersphere via jwz: Sphere gears
    via jwz: Testing the 3' passing law via FB somewhere, and also
    Boing Boing 
  : Curio and Cricket spent the night in our room; when I woke up at 3:30 they were curled
    up together at the foot of the bed.

0901 Mo Labor Day
  * up 6:30ish; ; Shower
  * CALL MOM
  * PAY BILLS
  * Drive with Colleen
  @ 5 reasons to suspect that Jesus never existed - Salon.com f(Moss Bliss)
  @ We might have autism backwards: What “broken mirror” and “broken mentalizing”
    theories could have wrong - Salon.com

0903 Tu
  * up 6:15; W=214.8 :P
  * 3pm Colleen - ultrasound at Swedish First Hill
  * activate Emmy's new phone, which arrived today.
  * pay bills
  : Curio *very* cuddly.  Delightful.

0903 We
  * up 6:15; W=213
  : Cuddly Curio again.

0905 Th
  % dreams involving cats, 3D-printed power wheelchairs, and oral sex.  All somewhat
    unusual.  Woke up to find Curio stretched out between me and the edge of the bed.
  * up 6:05; W=212.8
  * 8:30 am get Colleen up - plan on brunch out afterwards
  * 10:10 Colleen mammogram 4245 Roosevelt Way NE
  * WFH again.  I don't like to do it all that often, but I do get things done.
  : Lots of cuddly Curio.  Can make it hard to type.

0906 Fr
  * up 6:15; W=212.6
  @ A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: What's the matter with PGP? [LWN]
  : Desti seems to have accepted the new kitten.  It's a kitten, it has to be washed.

0907 Sa
  * up 6:30; W=213.2; shower
  @ Press release | Libre Music Production [LWN]
  @ A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: What's the matter with PGP? 
  @ Magickless: Dissecting Totoro with Kishōtenketsu (dialecticdreamer (in comments))
    The significance of plot without conflict - still eating oranges
  & Neighbors reported water dripping from our upper floor - yup, it's the shower stall.
    Went down to Home Depot and got silicone calk and grout-removal tools.  Tomorrow I'll
    try putting a fillet of grout over the silicone.
  * Caprese with our own tomatoes and basil.  yum!
  * Paid the mortgage.  Just barely, and my checking account is underwater as usual, with
    one more week to go before the social security check arrives.  I HATE this.

Comments

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the link to the dissection of Totoro. It's such a lovely movie, and my daughter really loves it. In fact, she's watching it now because Daddy had it on his computer.

[mdlbear]

You're welcome.