The Mandelbear's Musings

A good, productive day (though, no walk and of course not enough time for everything). Work was spent writing -- designing our new architecture and our project-management environment. For the latter, my preference is for Trac, but I'll probably go instead with a combination of pieces that makes better use of what's already in place.

Yesterday marked the second and last day of my attempt at the Live Below The Line challenge, and was considerably more successful. I had two eggs for breakfast ($.35), some almonds, dried apricots, and two squares of Trader Joe's chocolate (I'm guessing ~.25), and three quesadillas for dinner. Close, anyway. Or it would have been, if I hadn't had two cups of coffee at work and a glass of gin before dinner. I wouldn't have had the gin, but Colleen was in tears from loneliness when I got home, and I figured she damned-well needed the drink and the company.

My weight's down 2.6 lbs since Sunday. Within the range of normal variation, but maybe...

I slept unusually well, and woke up remembering a weird dream. It was set in a hotel or dorm that was being remodeled; things were all very ordinary and everyday, but I went jogging. Twice.

You can tell it was a productive day because there are only two links, both about restoring Ubuntu 11.10's horrible Gnome 3 to usability. *shrugs* I'll be over here with Debian, thanks, though I'll continue to recommend Ubuntu to people used to the click-to-focus world of Windows and MacOS.

My friend pocketnaomi had a dream of a friendly society (read mutual-aid society, co-op, mutual benefit society) -- households banding together to help one another out in the current unfriendly times.

Here's her original post, where she says:

I want to see what we can do with this. The filk community is the group I know, the people who already have a predisposition to help each other when someone truly needs it, to regard themselves as family, and to see with a bit longer an eye than most of modern economics. It also covers a wide cross-section of economic, geographical, and occupational ground.

The resulting community here on LJ is called filk_friendly. See you there, maybe?