Done last week (20160313Su 69 - 0319Sa)

[mdlbear]

The week started with my 69^th birthday, continued on through Pi Day and Colleen's birthday, and ended with dinner in Port Townsend celebrating Emmy's birthday a week early (to keep from being out of town for caucus day).

It was also a busy and productive week at work. Finally. Winding up in a corner with a window in front of me after the move seems to have helped; there is also more space in the new layout, and fewer TPMs, both of which reduce the cross-talk. I started working on my taxes, which probably won't be quite as bad as last year.

Pretty good week, considering.

Considering that I'm well over half a million in debt, in a house that is just what we want but which we won't be able to afford if I lose my job, which seems likely because I'm neither enjoying it much nor performing as well as I need to. I'm depressed and anxious, both with good reasons.

Looking back over years and decades of horribly bad decisions, and wondering whether there's any way out of the hole I've dug for myself. Probably not.

Notes & links:

0313Su 69
  * Up 7ish PDT; W=196.8; ..., laundry
  . taxes: * sort top shelf, * sort mail cubby, . open mail,  pull summaries
  * Continuing to re-arrange things on the GR bookcase.
  * Ordered batteries for Colleen's power chair.  Apparently one can only expect them to
    last 6 months to a year, so...  These were from BatterySharks; half the price of
    Batteries+ (though shipping cut into that some)  AGM deep cycle.
  : High wind warning today, and it's blowing like crazy.  Could lose connection and/or
    power at any time, though it's less likely that some other places in the area.
    -> UPS glitches, but very brief so far.
    -> 40mph at Alaska Junction.  Emmy reports 70, and a brief power drop.  Not surprised.
  * Taxes:  finished opening mail.  Found W2 and both 1099Rs.  Think I have all or most of
    the other 1099s.
  * Went through various training/learning lists at $WORK, looking for interesting and
    useful stuff to learn.
  * Made caprese for dinner.  G is making roast chicken, baked potatoes, and broccoli
    Blame Colleen -- she's the one who put the tomatoes into the shopping cart.
  : N. came down for dinner, and Colleen and I both got gifts.  Fountain pens and ink;
    stationary and a journal for C and Tom Lehrer Revisited for me.  Coolness.

0314Mo
  * up 5:45; W=197.8; laundry, dishes
  * My desk is moved.
  * Pi day pizza at j's school.  Not all that great.  So we stopped at QFC and got key
    lime pie for Colleen (and me and G -- small cherry pies for N and the kids).

0315Tu
  * up 6:30; W=197;

0316We C is 64
  * up 6:45; W=196.4; laundry

0317Th St. Patrick's Day
  * Up 6:15; W=195.8; laundry, dishes
  @ reveal.js presentations in HTML5

0318Fr
  % woke up around 3:30; stayed up worrying
  * up 5:00; W=196.8; dishes
  @ The top 100 most searched for out-of-print books in 2013 | abebooks.co.uk (amaebi 
  @ Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes - ACM Queue managing containers at Google
    Kubernetes - Accelerate Your Delivery
  * started taxes - most income.
    Currently standing at -$10K, but that's before any deductions.  Of which there are
    several, including the mortgage interest and the repairs.
  * Productive despite meetings.  (Some of the meetings were useful.)  Sprint planning.
  @ 282 | Depression Comix
    " If only running around in circles in your mind would count as exercise. "

0319Sa
  * up 7am; W=196; Shower, laundry, dishes
  & Found compiz eating up 20% of my CPU on Trantor -- switched back to metacity as a
    window manager, since it's a lot lighter.  Turned off compositing and animation, too.
    It's supposed to be a window manager, not a video game.  Tempted to try xmonad.
  * Experimenting with Xmonad
    (starting in Xephyr, which seems to be broken. xnest might be better.  For practical
    use it might be better to have multiple X sessions.)
  @ Xmonad/Using xmonad in Gnome - HaskellWiki setup for a gnome with xmonad as WM
  @ Xmonad/Config archive/John Goerzen's Configuration - HaskellWiki 
  * ~2pm leave for Emmy's.
  * Dinner in Port Townsend, at Ichikawa Sushi Bar and Japanese restaurant.  Quite a good
    place.  Not cheap, though.  But excellent, and of course it's E's birthday (a week
    early).  They brought us free deserts - ginger ice cream pie and green tea ice cream.
  * The drive home was slightly harrowing; maybe we should have taken the Kingston ferry
    while it was still light.  Got in about 9:45.
  " me: Hey, Ticia!  Want some mommy time?
    T: trots into the Rainbow Room.
  @ Self-Help and Coping Tips to Overcome Depression (ysabetwordsmith | Poem:
    "Who Rekindle the Inner Spirit")