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Done this month (20150901Tu - 05Sa)
This week was marked by total failure to get our new washer/dryer installed. Also total failure to find the breaker that controls the outlet, so that I could re-install the 30A outlet that it had originally. In order to get the damned thing installed we would have had to remove the stairlift rail. Not happening. Two different crews tried. I suspect that a team of house-movers might have been able to do it. We'll get in touch with Home Depot on Tuesday (the appropriate person is gone for Labor Day weekend) and work out a swap.
I'm still employed, and have both help and a plan for the missing piece of $LATE_PROJECT. I still screwed up badly.
I got a new hard drive to replace the one with bad sectors in Nova, but haven't done the transfer yet. It's less urgent now that I've moved the files containing the bad blocks aside.
In other network news, I have DNS up (after much procrastination). The household's domain is, of course, "rainbows.end". Fortunately, ".end" isn't a valid TLD. (This morning I installed my spare router, running DD-WRT, in place of the stock Netgear that I couldn't persuade to serve more than one name server from DHCP.)
I still don't feel as though I'm getting much done. I am starting to work through (CCI) Put Off Procrastinating! -- CCI is an awesome resource.
Links and details in the notes.
0901Tu * up 6:15; W=196.6; dishes * sweep in upstairs laundry area. * WFH @ Deliberate Git How to Write a Git Commit Message ~ 2-6pm window for Washer install -- remove stairlift carriages. NOT installed. Again. This time they want me to remove the rails. ... and the first crew didn't bother to mention that the thing needs 220, despite what the website said. They call it 120/240, but it's a regular 30A dryer connection. Almost certainly 4-wire, which has been code since 1996. Couldn't find cord. Called delivery company 800-341-5693. They referred me to the store: Delrige store: 206-762-2126. Spoke to expediter. Kathy ext 304 Somebody will be out Saturday. If anything comes up call Luis x101 or 102 * Consulted with G about domain name for the household. G wanted to use something non-existant (for management simplicity); the obvious choice is rainbows.end. May conceivably cause complications with email, but that's the only objection I can think of. So mote it be. @ ysabetwordsmith | Poetry Fishbowl Open! commented. : My old ORCA card and two recently-acquired micro-SD cards have gone missing. The former could conceivably be in my wallet. Or a previous wallet or bag. :P * partitioned new drive, started formatting. That will be slow because I'm using the read/write bad block test. x verify that my appointment with Anita is Wednesday 0902We * Up 3:45; W=196.6 @ xkcd: xkcd Survey fun & The r/w test completed on sda1, but was clearly going to take forever on the larger partitions. Switched to the read-only test. Even that will take all day for 1.7Tb * update card on GoDaddy - expired or closed. (Amex: update expiration date) * 3pm Anita Brown - email status ahead of appointment -> Wednesday! Can get there in an hour using the E bus from Aurora and Denny -> email links. Made a drop directory on s.s.net @ Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) @ (CCI) Put Off Procrastinating! - current biggest problem. % got home exhausted from a cramped bus trip and inadequate lunch. % the last mke2fs is at 11% after 11:30 elapsed time. So around 2h left. -> 9:30ish finally finished, after over 14 hours. No errors. @ Avoid Humans, A Web App That Helps Users Avoid Other People Using Foursquare and Instagram Data Note that it's a web "app", not a phone app 0903Th * up 5:18; W=198.2; @ (CCI) Put Off Procrastinating! % Reasonably productive at work. Now on a project that will keep me very busy -- and employed -- until at least the end of the quarter. @ Campanion app surging in popularity - Business Insider Companion: Never Walk Home Alone. Your Personal Safety Service & Mobile Blue Light " me: I'm well known to have a fondness for sharp pointy things, but not when they're trying to climb up onto my shoulders. " * finally remembered the name of the therapy group at Kaiser that did me so much good: "Avoid Avoiding". * Bills: Accredo, bridge toll 0904Fr * up 6:40; W=198.2; ..., laundry % I've gotten pretty good about correcting negative self-talk (e.g., "dumb bear" -> "that was a stupid thing to do"), but it still feels a lot like lying to myself. * Home Depot: 30A wall outlet. 0905Sa * up 6:30ish; ; cleanup, laundry % back hurty; methocarbamol, naproxen, heat ... lounging around in yukata for now. & spent some time looking at adoptable cats : Some lap time with Desti. I think I needed that. * Wikipedia dive mostlyu from "Nine Worlds" in Norse cosmology Not sure how I got there, but it really started at The Rainbow Bridge * Reading/rereading some of the CCI worksheets. : Can't save filled-in sections from the browser, but CAN from the system viewer. * expect call from Home Depot re: installing washer/dryer photos to asm_8944@homedepot.com @ GE Unitized Spacemaker® 3.2 DOE cu. ft. Washer and 5.9 cu. ft. Electric Dryer | GUD27ESSJWW | GE Appliances : the Netgear router's DHCP can't assign addresses outside the DHCP range :P ... so we can't use DHCP to bind things like the printers. Grump. DD-WRT ~ install dryer outlet -> can't find breaker & Can't find the breaker for the upstairs laundry -- that means it's probably wired for 15A. Will get a tracer, but it probably means hiring an electrician. And tripping the breaker on the downstairs dryer broke it somehow. Which means an appliance repair call. And it's Labor Day weekend. AAAAARGH! % right gastrocnemius is tight, and has been twinging. -> heat : Dryer was apparently a thermal problem; started back up after sitting an hour and a half. And the front door had been left open making me think we'd lost Desti, but it turned out that she had been safely in the Great Room (sewing corner) all along. % Wiped out. @ GE 2.0 DOE cu. ft. Washer and 4.4 cu. ft. Electric Dryer | GUD24ESSJWW might fit; it's 23" wide; depends on the overhang. OTOH stacking units exist and are almost guaranteed to fit. : If we're going to get a stacking pair, that means we'll need *both* 110 and 220. Which implies an electrician. & Indian for dinner, from Maharaja (suggested by G) * DNS up on nova.