Done this month (20160201Mo - 0206Sa)

[mdlbear]

A fairly busy week, but also full of frustration. Both because my bank's transfers to other banks appears to be broken, and because work seems to be two steps forward and one and a half steps back. Grumble.

I have, however, done a decent amount of cleanup in the garage -- mostly a matter of consolidating, but I've eliminated an entire row of boxes, and discarded quite a lot of junk. That must count for something.

You may note, however, that I'm not doing much else -- basically just working, reading, and sleeping. Not terribly exciting. Though I have shifted a lot of my time into the Rainbow Room with Colleen -- apart from the smaller screen it has no disadvantages except when she's watching a video I'm not interested in.

Notes and links:

0201Mo
  * up 6:00; W=198.0; laundry

0202Tu
  * up 6:15; W=197; laundry, dishes
  * Productive day at work.  Both integration tests work now.
  % I've been reading more lately, and spending more time in the Rainbow Room with
    Colleen.  And the kids, in the evening.  These are Good Things.
  : A lot of what I'm reading in downsizing-related books and so on are aimed at young
    people.  Who live in apartments and only have a few tens of thousands of debt.  The
    next 8-10 years are going to be rough.
  @ This wheelchair wants to be a Tesla of sidewalks f(N) $14K, but nifty
  @ What Does a Parrot Know About PTSD? - The New York Times
  : stupid Union Bank website is broken.  Attempting to confirm a transfer sends you to
    the login page.  Tried chrome, firefox, and an incognito window in firefox.  :P
  @ Fully Printed CNC On an IKEA Table | Hackaday

0203We
  * up 6:00; W=199; laundry, ..., dishes
  * Customer service call with Union Bank, which required rebooting and clearing browsing
    history (again), then going over to the mac and using chrome there.  Exact same
    results.  Meanwhile, my BT Apple mouse keeps losing its connection despite having new
    batteries.  Added the stupid mac to my KVM switch (which is only being used for KM at
    the moment because it sucks at video).

0204Th
  * up 5:45; W=196; ..., laundry
  @ A Manual for Small Archives (maellenkleth) 
  : 1-1 with $new_manager.  Sort of -- the org chart seems to be a bit weird.  But
    anyway.  I think I surprised him with what I've worked on.  Half a century in the
    industry _does_ cover a lot of ground, doesn't it?
  * Pay: mortgage.  Pull from Wells Fargo, because apparently Union Bank's transfers are
    broken.

0205Fr
  * up 5:45; W=195.2; laundry, dishes
  : Cold and windy tonight.  I like the sound of the wind, but not as much as I like rain
    on the skylights.
  % 8:30 sleepy.  :P
  : Net's been flaky all evening.

0206Sa
  * Up 4:30; W=195.2; laundry, dishes
  @ Orson Welles Reads Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in a 1977
    Experimental Film | Open Culture
  @ Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation
    (79 AD) | Open Culture  f(Jean Rossner)
  @ @ Osprey Meridian Wheeled Convertible Luggage - 22" - REI.com (comment in 2016/02 Linkback Poem!)    WANT!
  & wikipedia dive into Chinese Zodiac (since it's Chinese New Year) and the Sexagenary cycle
    Turns out I'm a Fire Pig, and the 60-year cycle also explains why the 60th birthday
    (Kanreki) is significant in Japan and other oriental cultures.
    (Which leads inevitably to the birthday paradox, birthday attack, discrete logarithms,
    and elliptic curve cryptography.) ((and from there to modular forms, sporadic and
    exceptional groups, etc.)) (((and from there to Lie groups, Coxeter diagrams, and
    polytopes))) The 24-cell is a tesseract with every other vertex removed.
  @ Hypocorism f(Jim Wright) by way of moggie
  * about an hour's worth of work in the garage.  Lots of consolidation and some sorting.
    Cleared 2 of the metal shelves and got rid of a row of boxes opposite the back wall.
    Found a phone, several boxes of my office junk, and moved fabric, kitchen stuff, and
    family stuff into separate piles.
  @ Obama's Net Neutrality Rules: Liberals' Biggest Victory Since DADT | New Republic
  @ As of March 6, 2015, it’s official and no longer at the discretion of the various
    airlines. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, musicians who board
    planes must be allowed to carry on their instruments provided they fit in the overhead
    bin f(Tera Mitchell)
  * made *real* mac+cheese for dinner.  Ticia is licking my bowl.
  * brought up 2 boxes of desk junk from the garage.  Found the cards from Dad's memorial,
    my original set of REI backpacking chopsticks, and a box of serial mice and
    trackballs.  The oldest is arguably a museum piece; ditched the rest.  Lots of note
    cards & such.  My medicare card.
  % overdid it a little - my back hurts.  Two naproxen tonight.  (Is that the plural of
    naprox?  It should be.)

Comments

[amaebi]

Sounds like not only steadfast but quietly awesome work to me, FWIW.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. I'm not so sure, myself, but I've learned that I'm not really an objective judge of such things.