River: good post on grieving

dsmoen has made a good post on grieving -- some people reading this may find it helpful.

Done yesterday (20091201 Tu)

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Another sub-par day, this time definitely due to simply not feeling well. I cut my walk short again because of leg cramps, and felt generally achy all afternoon. And the YD was feeling the same way -- I called her in sick. Hmm.

This lead to some useful links on the flu: What To Do If You Get Sick: 2009 H1N1 and Seasonal Flu and Taking Care of a Sick Person in Your Home at the CDC, and an entire official site at flu.gov.

A couple of interesting insights, that will eventually merit their own posts on the river:

• I often seem to avoid doing things that I know are likely to make me feel better after I've done them, like walks and music. This may be due to guilt over the less pleasant things I'm not doing.
• A lot of my discomfort with role-playing comes from the same root as my general discomfort with social interaction: not knowing what I'm supposed to be doing in a situation I'm totally unfamiliar with.

I went to bed early, and am feeling ok this morning. So was the YD. A very mild form of flu? Possibly.

More links:

Some half-formed thoughts on one future for bookselling - Boing Boing (Cory Doctorow) Why paywalls won't help most big newspapers - Boing Boing (from Techdirt). If You're Looking For The Open Source Business Model, You're Looking For The Wrong Thing | Techdirt.

haikujaguar's post on realizing that she's a professional writer thanks mainly to crowdfunding. Also her link to 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists (from this post). The web comic site it lives on is very deeply strange, and I could easily spend a whole lot of time there. Probably better not to.

Why I don't keep my documents in the cloud

Google uses an unreliable bot to determine what documents are "appropriate" to share.

Yeah, I have my websites on a hosting service. But I have the master copy at home.

River: more on grieving

More on grieving, from someone else who's been there.