Done this week (20160306Su - 12Sa)

[mdlbear]

How the fuck did I get to be 69 years old? I'm still busy misspending my youth!

Speaking of misspending, I managed to scare the heck out of myself by transferring money for the mortgage payment to the household account, then paying it out of my personal account because I didn't think the transfer would post quickly enough. Wrong on both counts. No lasting harm done, but still...

In other news, although I've been a little more productive than usual, I'm seriously concerned that it isn't enough.

Taxes are in progress. It's probably going to be a trainwreck again.

Not really a good year. I think that, from about March through September, I was basically out of my mind with depression and anxiety. I may have my meds stabilized now, but I'm still having to deal with the fallout from what I screwed up.

The last few days I've been swinging between despairing (finances) and whatever state I'm in when I have a purring, blissed-out cat next to me. I don't think it's either happy or contented, but whatever it is it's better than the alternatives.

Notes & links:

0306Su
  * up 5:40; W=197; laundry, dishes
  * 10:45 or so: Ship Of Stone, When I Go
  * Shower with Colleen
  : It's raining.  It was beautifully sunny an hour ago; I'm glad we _didn't_ decide to go
    to the Farmer's Market.  Or we would have gotten our shower anyway.
  @ Dreams, Destinies, and Opposable Thumbs: The Chosen Children of Portal Fantasy |
    Tor.com ok, that's _two_ books I'm going to have to buy
  : Colleen mentioned that Ticia is a great antidote for empty nest syndrome
  * 1pm RainbowCon programming meeting.  We pretty much have a program, and there will be
    between 20 and 40 people attending.  So, win.
  * filtered the lower shelf for tax purposes.  As it turns out, much of that shelf is in
    2014, so it doesn't matter.
  @ Definition: The standard –simplex is the subset of  taken as the convex hull of the
    points: (1,0,\dots,0), (0,1,0,\dots,0),\dots, (0,\dots,0,1) (for reference, since
    the simplex is the one I had the most trouble with in n dimensions (n > 4)

0307Mo
  * up 6:15; W=170; laundry, dishes
  * pay Wells
  * write check for G'
  * Work: sprint planning and data structure design.  One could do worse.  New manager
    doesn't really have realistic expectations about either sprint planning or scrum.

0308Tu
  * up 6:15; W=196.4; dishes, ..., laundry
  * More Math ∩ Programming
  : fairly serious conversations with N and with $BOSS.  $B just joined our team a month
    ago.  He seems willing to push me in the directions I need to go.  So that will be
    tough, but good for me.  I've developed some bad habits.

0309We
  * up 6:15; W=196.4; laundry
  * installed tax software (H+R Block Deluxe Federal -- state is extra, but I don't need
    it in WA)
  * taxes: * install, * sort bottom shelf
  : N got stuck in traffic coming to pick me up; ended up standing for an hour in the
    rain.  hot buttered rum and a warm bath when I got home, the latter at N's
    insistence.  Let it run over and get cold by having my dinner first -- silly bear.
  % Apparently I forgot to take my meds this morning :P  Took the important ones this
    evening -- nothing is critical as to time.
  @ Semi-automatic document scanning with Paperwork [LWN.net]    

0310Th
  * Up 6:15; W=198; laundry, ..., dishes
  * install openjdk-7, oracle jdk 8, eclipse on Trantor - probably should update to 15.10
  : Opened my backpack to find that most of the contents is damp.  Ugh.  Put the checks
    out on a card table to dry.  not stuck together, thankfully.
  * taxes:  sort top shelf.  Nothing tax-related, but several items that needed action
  : My work laptop's dock (the one at home) is apparently flaky.  Back to direct plugging,
    which works ok but is pretty clumsy.
  * Not an especially productive day at work in terms of code, but I got quite a bit done
    of an administrative nature, watched a video, and did some reading.
  * 3pm Steve teeth cleaning
  * The dwarves are here.  They made tasty lunch and dinner.
  * sign checks (now that they're dry :P)

0311Fr
  * up 5:11; W=198; laundry, dishes
  @ fayanora | Computers are magic. WItC turns up in the strangest places.
  @ http://www.people.cs.uchicago.edu/~soare/History/compute.pdf
    http://moon.cc.huji.ac.il/oron-shagrir/papers/Goedel_on_Turing_on_Computability.pdf
    http://www.csun.edu/~mpunzalan/edtechma/sed618/docs/pdf/dnorman.pdf
  * reasonable progress at work (from home)
  * finished the week 1 lectures in the Scala course; watched week 2.
    still have to set up Eclipse to do the exercises; they have their own version.  Which
    is good, because Ubuntu is behind.
  : trainwreck: DAMN.  Mortgage payment posted way late.  I should, I suppose, keep better
    track.  There was more than enough in savings to cover it, but that leaves me with
    less of a cushion than I was hoping for.  Still have to calculate taxes.  Or I could
    deposit the pile of checks I have sitting around.  Changes where I was going to put
    them, though.
    -> SILLY BEAR.  I transfered enough to cover the mortgage into the household account,
       then paid it out of my personal account because I was afraid the transfer would
       take a lot longer than it actually did.  So the money is around, just in the wrong
       place.  I'll pay next month's out of the household account and use the difference
       to replenish savings and cash reserve.  Feeling much better.

0312Sa
  * up 5:15; W=198; laundry, dishes
  * Adjust bookshelves to clear one for more tiny house books.
  * upgrade Trantor to Ubuntu 15.10.
  : CRAP!!!!  I think yesterday was the last day for benefits changes, and I haven't
    re-initialized my flex account.  I'm screwed.  Unless I can sneak in because weekend.
    -> nope.  Screwed.  It's "only" $2k, but even so... WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
       I wasn't, apparently.
  & Trantor crashed in the middle of the upgrade.  apt-get install --fix-broken seems to
    be doing a lot of work, so it's possible that it may come back.
    -> aaaaand it's back.  Took two rounds of fix-broken, but it worked.
  * Out with Colleen.  Pretty much all afternoon.  Luisa's Mexican Grill (YUM) plus
    Central Market.  Total was about what we would have paid at Salty's, but with a full
    meal for the family (slow-roasted corned beef and cabbage for the 17th), Indian
    condiments, and caprese for tomorrow.  I'll take it.
  % blissed-out purring cat next to me in the chair.  typimg one-handed.
    ... now have both hands free.  Still not going anywhere.  Will eventually be a
    problem; for now I'm enjoying it.  Drifty.
  * Port Townsend isn't where I thought it was, and it's no slower to drive all the way
    than to take the ferry.  Though there are two routes with ferries: the Seattle-
    Bainbridge Island, and the Everett-Kingston.  All the same, modulo wait time.
  % ouch!  Back hurty, esp. after doing dishes
  : the Premera and express-scripts websites SUCK.
  * first pass over the mail cubby.  Found W2 and one of the two 1099Rs
  : gnome-flashback even more broken on 15.10; fortunately there appear to be workarounds.
    getting to panel configuration now requires WIN-ALT.  Making my Model M keyboards
    useless. 

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[mdlbear]

Thank you (both for the good wishes, and the vgift).

It was, in fact, reasonably good.

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[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, my friend. The years do keep marching past. I miss seeing you regularly a lot. Belated hugs and blessings for your natal anniversary.