Done last week (20141005 Su - 11 Sa)

[mdlbear]

On the whole a pretty good week, as it turns out. Busy and often frustrating at work, but things finally came together Friday afternoon and the service I've been working on seems to be working correctly. Pieces are falling into place all over.

Last Sunday I made pasta sauce from scratch, using pretty much my Mom's recipe only with turkey Italian sausage and no bell peppers. Tomatoes from our garden. The Roma bush, especially, has been insanely productive.

On a whim I did some research on statins and grapefruit juice -- it turns out that the study that showed bad interactions involved the equivalent of over 2l/day. So I've been avoiding grapefruit for no good reason all these years.

Yesterday I spent puttering, mostly around Colleen's sewing corner in the Great Room. Colleen had expressed an interest in sorting through boxes, so I brought up a couple. I also moved her sewing machine and its cabinet to the other wall and brought up what I hope is the last of her rolling stacks of drawers. We need shelves in the corner.

Hmm. If the sewing room eventually moves upstairs (combined with a library/guest room after the remodel), we could use that corner for music.

Links in the notes, of course.

1005 Su
  * up 7ish; W=213.8; shower
  @ I Am A Plus-Size Woman Who Wore a Low-Rise Bikini to the Beach and This is What
    Happened | Bustle f(Deirdre and Mary Anne)
  @ Do Statins and Grapefruit Safely Mix? — Health Hub from Cleveland Clinic 
     “The original studies linking grapefruit ingestion to delayed statin metabolism
      involved over 2 quarts of grapefruit juice per day. A more reasonable level of
      grapefruit consumption has been shown to result in far less effect on statins.” 
     Re: Drug-grapefruit juice interactions | The BMJ
     "There is only one case report of GFJ-related rhabdomyolysis in a patient taking
      simvastatin, specifically 80 mg daily, a dose which is now out of favour."
     ... so I think a moderate amount of grapefruit is ok.
  * make sure WFH days 1007 and 1014 are on the work calendar
  * Sort medical bills (by origin -- more work needed)
  * making dinner: tomato sauce from scratch, with our own tomatoes, a can of tomato
    paste, white wine, onions, garlic, and chicken Italian sausage.  I was a little
    worried there wouldn't be enough.  I appear to have been wrong. -> YUM!
  * More work on medical bills.  Identified the ones to pay this week.

1006 Mo
  * up 6:38; W=213.8
  * order white basmati rice
  * Attempting to change Colleen's mailing address with the county, because today is the
    last day to do it for the November election.  The website for doing this is a piece of
    absolute steaming CRAP.

1007 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=213.0
  * 10:30 Colleen UrologyNW - check balance for both of us
    paid Colleen's balance; mine was 0.
    Lunch at Mazatlan - Colleen paid because she wanted drinks
    2:30 Colleen's *other* appointment at UNW; delayed.  After 5 by the time we got home.
  ~ WFH - only about 3 hours of work accomplished.  Wasted a lot of time trying to connect
    to the damned phone hotspot; finally thought to try USB, which worked first time.
  & read somewhere that vitamin D in the evening can cause insomnia, so concentrated the
    daily dose in the morning.  Will now be able to get 10000 IU instead of 5K.

1008 We
  % first time in a long time that I remember my dreams having a strong erotic component.
  * up 6:30; W=213
  % evening:  severe back pain.  Added a methocarbamol and two naproxen to evening drugs.
  @ Whats Wrong with Markdown [LWN]
  @ Avoiding the top 10 security flaws | IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative [LWN]

1009 Th
  * up 6:30; W=214.8
  ~ 7:30 leave for work
  * 09:15 expect call from Richard at Clearpoint -- apparently it was scheduled for a week
    from the day I thought it was scheduled for.  Another packet to deal with.

1010 Fr
  * woke up 2:30ish and couldn't get back to sleep.  Some nice cat cuddle and Reading.
  * up 4ish; W=215.0 :P
  % Very successful day at work, though a bit stressful.  A couple of bugs surfaced that
    waited for a last-minute insight (finding the unit test for the library class that
    wasn't working) to get fixed.  It seems clear that nobody else has actually _used_
    that particular class.

1011 Sa
  * up 8:05; W=212
  * Bank run for the check; unfortunately it's Columbus Day weekend.
    -> if I'd thought of that, I could have done it last night, except that it probably
       wouldn't have made a difference being after close of business.
  @ From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space - Gay brains or bad statistics
    Which of course led to a Wikipedia dive starting at Cauchy distribution 
  * Costco:  gin, nuts, round cheese.  Exactly my list.  Kept it under $100.
  * puttering.  Re-arranged Colleen's sewing corner.  Found Colleen's missing sewing
    machine part (behind the sewing machine cabinet, of course.
    Put freed-up wire shelves in my window (adding to the two that were already there).
  * Jones Barbecue for dinner.  Yum!  Slab of ribs, cornbread, and cole slaw for $32
  * More puttering.  Found the missing box of Elfa brackets, and the missing Targus
    computer charger.

Comments

[amaebi]

Yay, grapefruit freedom!

[firecat]

You beat me to it!