Done this week (20150516Sa - 23Sa)

[mdlbear]

Rough week, mostly. Especially from Sunday through Tuesday; Naomi speculated that I may have been fighting off a bug. It's also possible that it was due to hypoglycemia or something else. Colleen's health is better, so that's something. The recent changes are, finally, working.

Curio's weight is back up -- almost to where the vet said it should be -- and I've been getting some good cat therapy from him and Desti. Cricket, though, has been a little escape artist. We're having to make sure she's locked up if more than one person tries to go out.

My workgroup is moving, so I worked from home Thursday and Friday -- that helps. I'm not enjoying work much, though; that's a problem.

Form CC-305 OMB Control Number 1250-0005 [pdf] "Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability" came by at work, and it lists major depression under "Disabilities include, but are not limited to". So (after sleeping on it) I checked the damned box. The label says "YES, I HAVE A DISABILITY (or previously had a disability)", so it doesn't matter whether I can handle it now. Not clear that I can, really. The label on the box is amusingly reminiscent of "Are you now or have you ever been..." -- which I guess is one of the reasons I hesitated.

Links in the notes.

0516Sa
  * up 7ish; W=207.4; Shower, laundry, dishes
  @ We are Virgins Among Cowboys: Jezebel Goes to a Romance Convention (amaebi)
  : Curio made a flying leap onto my desk and knocked over a full cup of coffee. 
  * Song swap - Rika, Naomi, and me.  Waiting In the Deep (Rika), Lock-Keeper, Riverheart,
    Toolmakers, Somebody Will (workshopping, mostly Naomi), A Healing In This Night (all)
  ~ Riverheart isn't in either my songbook or LgF's.  It is, however, in lgf/Lyrics,
    so presimably got pulled for a set and just needs printing. 
  * fix formatting in steve/Lyrics/quiet -- it's ok in LgF
  & cleanup in Songs/Index -- some stuff had gotten seriously out of date.
  % somehow I managed to space out and post my weekly "done" post a day early.  :P
  
0517Su
  * up 7:10; W=206.8; laundry
  * conversation and song swap while Rika packed.  Cicero, Gilda and the Dragon, Bigger On
    the Inside, Lord Of the Buffalo, Bigger On the Inside
  * 11am Rika leaving
  : Chaos and Rabbit not coming down
  * 15min:  cleanup and updates in s.s.net
  * SouthCenter with Colleen:  Batteries+ (to drop off recycling), Michael's, Office Max,
    Total Wine (me, for gin), Barnes+Noble (Colleen).  Not horribly productive, and I
    spent the entire time being anxious about the cats because I hadn't locked the front
    door.  Needn't have worried, but of course I didn't know that.
    ! anxious, stressed.  Good for me, for actually noticing and knowing why.  Not that it
      helped, of course.
  * Metro market.
    % Very tired, and somewhat down.  Not enough to eat?
    : The stuff they advertise as G sourdough bread tastes like styrofoam.  And won't hold
      together long enough to eat a half-sized sandwitch.  I tried, damn it.  I don't have
      the emotional spoons to handle making sandwiches while the cats are begging me for
      bacon.  I just don't.
  % slowdown
  : Oh, crap.  Pasting the selection doesn't work.  On either nova or trantor.  This is
    apparently caused by something wonky on nova; it works on trantor if I quit x2x.
  @ The Most Depressing Discovery About the Brain, Ever | Alternet (amaebi: Political thinking)
  : ... and now it's working again.  :P
  : The "bread" is ok as a substrate for peanut butter, presumably because the latter
    actually has a taste.
  % 8ish sleepy
  % 9:30 seriously contemplating bed.  It would be more attractive if Colleen was able to
    manage by herself without having to wake me up for help.
  % 10ish went up to bed, and Curio promptly threw up on it.  I pretty much fell apart.
    I really don't understand *why* it's been such a bad day, but it has been.  Rika going
    home may have been part of it, but I don't think all.  Anxiety about the cats was
    definitely part.
  @ The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life - NYTimes.com ... is 150min/week,
    with at least 30 "vigorous".  Increasing benefits up to 450min/week.

0518Mo
  * up 6:35; W=205.4; laundry
  * Called Olejo -- order has been stuck in "processing" for a month because no color was
    selected, even though there is only one color.
  ~ Songs/windward - missing index.html symlink - should be automatic.
  & Unproductive at work.
    "voluntary self-identification" form at work, presumably for federal compliance.
    Agonized over whether to check the "currently or previously disabled" box, based on
    the fact that major depression is listed among the sample disabilities.
  % reluctant to start reading a piece of online fiction.  Not clear why.  No problem with
    the content; I think it's some weird combination of depression and low self-esteem.
  % 9ish sleepy
  & 9:30 up to bed.  N. speculated that I may have been fighting off a bug
  
0519Tu
  * up 6:30; W=207.5; laundry
  @ Bertha repair will take longer — there are lots of broken parts !surprise
  @ No Fake Internet This is why I turned down
    an offer to interview at Facebook.
  @ Olejo.com Reviews - olejo.com Ratings at ResellerRatings 0.833/10
    should have checked here first.
  @ My Superpower: Heather Rose Jones (The Mystic Marriage)|The Skiffy and Fanty Show
    I have cool, interesting friends f(Heather Rose Jones)
  * yes, I'll check the box, damnit.  Let's hear it for invisible disabilities.  :P
    Form CC-305 OMB Control Number 1250-0005 [pdf] 

0520We
  * Up 5:05; W=209.4; laundry
  @ HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers | Ars
    Technica +Jim Dennis
    imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf How the NSA breaks VPN, SSH, and TLS.
  & Drinks at Brave Horse with (our group's web designer) Antonio, who's going back to the
    Bay Area.  Overpriced.
  * refill prescriptions

0521Th
  * up 6:15; W=207.0; dishes
  * WFH due to group move
  @ Making Your DOS Programs Live Again at the Internet Archive [LWN]
  @ glt15_debian_jessie_lightning_talk.pdf [LWN] What's new in Jessie
  @ Git for Grown-ups ◆ 24 ways
  @ Internet Archive via S3 (git annex) -- cool way to publish open content.
    using bup
  % Have I mentioned recently that Outbreak is a steaming pile of crap?  The web app is,
    arguably, worse, and it's what I'm stuck with now that I'm using Ubuntu on my work
    laptop.  On the whole, it's worth it -- the less Windows crap I have to put up with,
    the better.
  : Oh, the most recent Outbreak outrage?  Searching for an email address doesn't find it;
    you have to search for the name.

0522Fr
  * up 6:15; W=209.4; dishes, laundry
  * check on Olejo order -> in process.  About 2 weeks?  Grumble.
  * curio: w=10.2 -- almost where the vet said he should be.
  * bank:  deposit insurance checks.
  * TJ's - salads
  * 15min:  move laser printer to the printer stand.
  * Dinner: hamburgers and corn on the cob (15min in the steamer)
  : Directories with symlinks are isomorphic to hierarchical tags, which are what everyone
    ends up using once they have enough tags to make it necessary to organize them.
    Directories can be managed with standard tools, whereas tags pretty much require a
    database once you get into the thousands of instances. You can, of course, use a
    hybrid model where the tags are shown in the file; if the file is HTML the tags are
    naturally links to the corresponding directories. -- my comment on f(Phil Mills)
  & Dive into Bandcamp - need to upload me some
    tracks.  And CC+S, of course.  A label account is $20/month for up to 15 artists, so
    once LgF starts putting out albums it could be worth it.

0523Sa
  * up 7:05; W=209.2; Shower, laundry, ... dishes
  * Helped Glenn move his computer table.  Not really all that satisfactory; a 4x4 could
    replace both desks.  Or take out the inaccessible bookcase (which needs to go anyway)
    and put in a 1x16.
  * playing around with Conky.  Infinite time sink.
  * Ordered Colleen's 9 Drawer Gold Lacquer Jewelry Cabinet - OrientalFurniture.com
    (from Wayfair - price was the same when accounting for shipping, and we get a lot of
     stuff from them so I'm reasonably confident about it.)
  * 3ish-5ish drive with Colleen.  4th Ave, Queen Anne Ave, 99, Ballinger Rd, Lake City
    Way.  Stop at Walgreens for simethecone and a bonus back scratcher
  & Some lap time with Desti

Comments

[amaebi]

I'm so sorry you had a rough week. :( Those are some awfully good events-of-the-week, though.

[mdlbear]

Thanks.

Yes; I often need people like you to remind me of things like that. I'm not likely to notice on my own.

[amaebi]

You noticed. That's how I knew.

I really, really don't want to dismiss the nastiness of your week.

[mdlbear]

It's ok. There's a big difference between finding something interesting enough to put in my notes, and having it register in my memory well enough to count against my usual negative self-talk several days later. The reminders really are helpful.