Done yesterday (20110218 Fr)

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I spent most of the day in a really foul mood, growling and snapping at people I like, for no reason. Several things, some of which I may go into in detail in a later post, but the really surprising one was how much loathing and self-loathing the morning's Writer's Block about school PE triggered for me. Weird? I've been carrying around a lot of baggage. Not to mention the fact that my weight is creeping back up toward 200. :P

I had a rather unproductive trip to Fry's, which I mostly spent dithering over whether to get an Epson Artisan 50, which can print on CDs, or get paper labels. I think I'm going to go for the Epson, after some research into ways of driving it from Linux. If all else fails, I can use my work laptop. (I'll have to go back over the weekend, because I didn't actually buy the printer.)

At least I was on my feet for over an hour; it wasn't much exercise but I'm going to count it as sort of a walk anyway.

Part of the problem was being reassigned to work on the factory diagnostics for our new product, in place of the new contractor whose req was pulled at the last minute for (what I think are) stupid reasons. I've done this kind of thing before, though not recently (like, a quarter century not recently); mostly my problem is with not having been so much as asked before being reassigned. I'll be very glad to be going back to research in June.

The really good thing that happened during the day was the phone call from Naomi, just 15 minutes before midnight. We both needed a friendly voice and a song or two. And there was a nice little comment exchange on rowanf's journal earlier. And a lot of nice snuggle with Colleen. All of which I needed.

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