State of the Bear

[mdlbear]

I've been very congested lately; have gone back to a daily Claritin. OTOH the cutting back the Flonase by 50% seems to have helped with phlegm in the throat, so that's good.

My mysterious hardware failure at work turns out to have been due to a loose (or possibly even mis-installed) RAM stick. Grump. It's also been plagued by a loose PCI card, but that's unlikely to manifest again until I drag it into the conference room and give a demo. Spent the afternoon on window manager configuration. So I am now back to approximately where I expected to be this time Friday.

I have not been getting nearly as much writing done as I would like. I have been getting more sleep than I would like, but less than I apparently need.

A shorter-than-usual walk, squeezed out between a longer-than-usual (but good) morning meeting, online bill-paying that should have been done last week, and an earlier-than-usual afternoon talk.