Muckin' the Byres

It just occurred to me that I can overlap three rather disagreeable major projects this weekend: moving thestarport.org's DNS and email, upgrading the fileserver, and cleaning the office.

I just realized that I have to do the first two in that order, or a lot of email will end up dropped on the floor. Most of that will be spam, of course, but the sheer volume of it means that if I don't move it, the tiny mailbox at my ISP will fill up and things will start bouncing.

But I also realized that having my fileserver out of service for a while will remove a major distraction that would normally keep me from cleaning out the office. Which direly needs it. Because I have to do a lot of that before I have the space to do the taxes. AAARGH!

I don't think I need help with this, just some good excuses to stop making excuses, if that makes any kind of sense. This post is a step in that direction.

Done yesterday (20090924)

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I probably spent too much time yesterday chasing links, and not enough writing code. Some interesting stuff, though, which I'll write about later on the River. Meanwhile, I'm wondering whether what I have is more accurately described as AvPD rather than social anxiety. Or perhaps I'm a "highly sensitive person? That would be bizarre, but it's sort-of consistent with the observations.

A walk at lunchtime, with a little meditation; not really as enjoyable as walks used to be. I spent some time identifying negative thoughts and their corresponding cognitive distortions. I'm not usually that aware of them, so that's going to be difficult. (We will blythly ignore the temptation to identify the same cognitive distortions behind positive thoughts.)

Nice call from Callie in the evening, and "date night" dinner at Red Lobster with the YD along. Endless shrimp. Yum.

I was sleepy all afternoon and evening, as I have been most of the week; I crashed hard around 10:30.