Done day before yesterday (20090818)

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A much better day than Monday. Of course, that's not saying much. Still a lot of... resistance?... whenever I probe around Monday's meltdown.

But I got quite a lot done, including a full half-hour of meditation in the car waiting for Emmy to get through picking up her class schedule. Evidently I needed it. No walk, though.

Someone allegedly from Dell called to say I'd won a netbook in the drawing at OpenSourceWorld last week, but her promised email never showed up. Probably eaten by work's spam filter.

Link sausage: An article on holy wells from this post by ysabetwordsmith. A comparison of blankets with sleeves. And a fascinating but possibly triggery blog post on how much to tell about yourself on your blog, from ryanstephensmarketing.com.

Done yesterday (20090819)

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Pretty decent day, and pretty productive, though a whole lot of stuff still didn't get done. :( No walk.

The promised email from Dell still hadn't shown up, so I tried calling. No love to Dell's customer service. They call it "customer care", but it doesn't.

10 minutes of meditation, which was calming but generated no insights. Minor argument with Colleen about telling me things. She tried several times, apparently, to tell me that the YD was using her sister's room as a playroom but would clean it up for guests, but then gave up because I wasn't paying attention. When it's important, I really need her to keep trying, but apparently it's hard for her to determine when I'm sufficiently not-busy to be paying attention.

Hint: if we're in the same room, I'm looking at you, and not reading or engaged in some task, I'm probably paying attention to what you're saying. Otherwise all bets are off. Saying "Steve, I have something to say to you" will probably work best to get my attention -- I may not hear the whole phrase, but I'll probably catch my name and a few keywords. But wait until you can see I'm listening before you go on.