Done last week (20160110Su - 16Sa)

[mdlbear]

Ironically, my copy of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering has gone missing. In the clutter. Probably in the Great Room. I did, however, do a pretty large amount of decluttering in the garage. In the process, I found four boxes of missing Christmas ornaments and, best of all, the box containing my block plane, jack plane, chisels, and soldering irons! I've been looking for that one for over a year.

I was especially happy to find my Oryx 50 Temperature controlled soldering iron, with its home-made stand. The fact that I'd already bought replacements for the planes and the soldering iron doesn't matter -- these were old friends, and I'm happy to be reunited with them.

About the only thing to be happy about. I'll take what I can get.

It's also the start of annual review season; I did the two that were due on Friday, including my self-review. Nothing like a self-review to show me how little I've accomplished this year. And I still have to write up the reunion debacle. I think I spent a lot of this year out of my mind.

Lots of reading, mostly about tiny houses, and lots of nice cat cuddles, mostly from Ticia.

Lots of links in the notes. You know the drill.

0110Su
  * up 6:45ish; W=198.2; Shower, dishes
  * 15min: More like an hour in the garage.  MAJOR uncoverings.  Moved aside the blocked
    (by a box turned sideways and sticking out a quarter of an inch) sliding doors and
    found four boxes labeled Xmas and the box containing my chisels, forstner bits, block
    plane, jack plane, wire, solder, and *soldering irons!*  Plural:  the Oryx, a cheapy,
    and a soldering gun.
    Also cleared a set of plastic shelves and moved them to the wall next to the water
    heater.  Minus one, because of wires and pipes in the way.  But still...
  @ Scaling Down: Living Large in a Smaller Space by Judi Culbertson et. al.
  : OTGH, my copy of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering
    has gone missing.  In the clutter.
  -> Tiny house idea: one solution to putting a king-sized bed on the ground floor of an
     8'-wide house is to build a bridge over the foot.  A small landing and another step
     or so beyond and you can access a storage loft as well.  With Colleen on the
     bathroom/kitchen/living room side, the other side would make a nice little office
     niche. 
  * 15min:  second round:  cleared two boxes, including the Starport box.  Kept most of
    the contents of the latter for toss/shred sorting, and the blueprints with the intent
    of saving one or two as memorabilia.
  % I've been sitting in the Rainbow Room for much of the day, with Ticia curled up beside
    me on the side table.  Like.
  : Call from Mom; reminded her that our anniversary was last weekend.  One of the things
    I love about Mom is how open she is to new things -- she's been giving me a lot of
    encouragement about tiny houses.

0111Mo
  * up 06:55; W=198.2; laundry, dishes
  x 10 am meeting at work
  % blood sugar crash around 12:45, even after 2 HB eggs and 2 round cheeses.  So I
    apparently need more than that for lunch.
  * 3:15 Colleen UNW for plumbing swap.
  * 15min:  going through the box of desk cups, throwing out the dead pens.  Gave a vi
    reference cup to G.  I blame him for rekindling my interest in fountain pens, which
    triggered the whole episode.
  * 15min:  Cleared a file box, but it was mostly empty and I just shifted the remaining
    contents to different piles of clutter.  Still, it gives E another box for ornaments.
    I seem to have an excessive number of 3-hole punches.
  & spent some time on nextdoor.com
  <- the obvious name for the household tiny house planning site is Over the Rainbow

0112Tu
  * up 06:00; W=197; laundry
  % nose ached most of the afternoon and evening.  Must have rubbed it or something
  % managed to upset a plate of barbecued rib tips into my lap, so now sitting around in
    my fluffy bathrobe.  There are worse things.
  * 8:55pm finished Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter.
  % thinking that when we have a tiny house I want a skylight, not so much for the light
    as for the sound of the rain.  It's one of the best things about Rainbow's End.

0113We
  * up 05:30ish; W=196.4; laundry, dishes
  @ The Shelter Blog - “Shelter is more than a roof overhead.”
  @ Jetson Green - Clever Loft-Less Tiny House Design bed pulls out from under
    kitchen, which is up 3 steps.  Sofa when rolled under.
  @ A Father, a Dying Son, and the Quest to Make the Most Profound Videogame Ever
    May have to get that one.
  @ DomTerm ([LWN.net]) terminal.js
  @ Glass Half: The latest open movie from the Blender Institute | Opensource.com
  * humira

0114Th
  * up 5:45; W=196.4; ..., laundry, dishes
  " me: First Bowie and now Rickman, both aged 69. What's with that? And I'm turning 69
    myself in two more months... "
  @ Great Flood of 1862 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

0115Fr
  * Up 6:35; W=196.4; laundry
  * Ordered ink cartridge converters for my newly-cleaned Parker 75.  Plural, because the
    3-pack was in stock (and cheaper than two singles) and the single wasn't.
  * did the two evaluations due today: my self review, and my TPM.  The rest are all due
    next Friday.
  : Some nice kitty time with Ticia, interrupted when I had to get up to make dinner.
  & dinner for me and Colleen: cheesy grits with garlic.  Pretty good, though not too high
    in protein.
  * a little bit of noodling on Flame.  New strings needed.
  * set up some port forwarding for web and ssh (not the standard ports, of course)

0116Sa
  * up 7:35ish; W=196.4; dishes
  @ Stonekettle Station: Refuge of Scoundrels
  @ Antonio Stradivari: GUITAR MAKER !!! | The Dutch Luthier
    Rolf Lislevand playing the 1679 ‘Sabionari’ guitar by Antonio Stradivari 
  @ The Tiny Guide to Tiny House Retirement
    How to Avoid Having a Ladder in Your Tiny House
  @ The Tiny House that Grandma Built  60-year-old disabled widow.  Self-built!
    (leg brace and mobility scooter, but evidently quite capable)  Fun!
    Based on: Tumbleweed Barn Raiser ($15-19K partly finished)
  @ Seattle Tiny Homes: The Magnolia Model >= $60k
    " Can be designed to be fully handicap accessible, with room for one or two people. "
  @ Configuring Linux for music recording and production | Opensource.com (G+)
  * Out for a NEMA 14-50 wall socket and cover, cranberry capsules and pantsu, and cod,
    mushrooms, brussels sprouts, onions, cottage cheese, and a herd of turtles.  Looked at
    routers: Ryobi are pretty cheap; not clear whether I want a trim router or a full-
    sized one.
  * Just me and Colleen for dinner, as one can tell from the shopping list.
    -> YUMMY. (caps lock courtesy of Ticia, of course)
  @ PhysicsGirl.com
  : I've been getting a *lot* of Ticia-time.  PURR.
  @ CBC Music - Chris Hadfield on what to expect when playing guitar in space
  @ Bestie Row - Best Friends Live Next to Each Other
  * checked my CDBaby account.  They still have 5 in stock.  I've made over $800.
  * 15min: Recycled some of the paperwork from the Starport file drawer; most of it will
    have to be shredded.

Comments

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I am wishing you strength.

[mdlbear]

Thanks.