Hopeful

[mdlbear]

There was a gorgeous, full rainbow painted across the sky ahead of me as I drove to the hospital to see Colleen, with hints of a secondary bow directly ahead. I took it as a sign of hope.

I found her smiling, finishing off a plate of eggs and sausage, and much more comfortable with the epidural catheter (literally) off her back.

It made me happier than I've been in a long time.

I sang "Ferret Went A'Courtn'" at her request. The rainbow was still there as I drove to work.

The book I've been looking for all weekend turned up on my desk.

Happy Bear.

Comments

[shapirac.livejournal.com]

Hey Happy Bear,

Probably not the best place to ask (I hope you don't mind), but:
I'm trying to do a daily log, similar to what you publish under "done" tag. I remember you mentioned that you use a script to maintain it? Did you publish it somewhere so I can copy it?

Thanks :)

[mdlbear]

I really ought to use a script for posting, and I use scripts for a lot of other things, but no: it's all done with emacs. (Including the posting, using lj_update.)

What I do is simply maintain a text file called "to.do" in exactly the form you see in the "done" posts, except that scheduled items have "o" in place of "*".

Every morning I collect all the previous day's "*" (done) "&" (added after completion), and "~" (dropped) items, move them to the end of the file, and copy them to an lj-compose buffer. That's the part that would be easy to automate. Then I
add the text commentary and post it.

Every January I take all the previous year's "done" items and move them to a to.done file. I may have to start doing that monthly now.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're happy :-)

[mdlbear]

So am I! *wry grin*

It's been a while.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Eggs and sausage sound wonderful. Good for her!