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The last week was dominated by the prep for my colonoscopy on Monday. This involved a week's worth of a low-fiber diet, which was highly annoying. The procedure itself went as well as could be expected, and I was able to have Naomi pick me up about the time they let me go. I understand perfectly why they don't allow people who have been drugged into unconsciousness to drive; after I got home I put the dirty laundry into the drier and came within a second or so of adding the soap.

Mom says that after 85 they don't bother, so assuming I don't need one more often than once every decade or so I only have two more to look "forward" to. The results will come back in a week or so.

Friday the stairlift arrived, and on Saturday I took Colleen down to check it out. She loved the master suite, especially the shower. I expected her to like it, but it was nice to have that confirmed.

The yard work was pretty much done by then except for the last of the planting -- it looks fantastic. Work inside the house is progressing; there's a lot of dust. It's going to be a bit dicey with credit until my tax refund comes in.

Lots of good links, many of them from the footnotes in ysabetwordsmith's latest serial fanfic, "Coming Around", and her (related) "three weeks for dreamwidth" posts.

More, as usual, in the notes.

Side note -- I'm considering putting my "done" posts somewhere else, in favor of somewhat irregular postings with more substance. Anyone not bored by the detailed notes? Inquiring minds need to know.

raw notes )
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raw notes )

Oh, good grief! A lot can pile up in a week. Sorry about that.

My only excuse is that I've been sleeping somewhat more than usual (7 and sometimes 8 hours/night), and very busy at work. But it's not really a good excuse -- there was plenty of time when I could either have been entering tax data or updating my LJ. Instead I did neither. Go figure.

Pretty much nothing got done on taxes, except for finishing up the sorting. Not a whole lot of walking, either, though I had a very nice st/roll around the Rose Garden with Colleen on Sunday and managed a couple of 15-30 min. lunchtime walks.

Finances are continuing to be a trainwreck. Somebody asked me if I was thinking of retiring next year at 65. Hah! I found out that my parents retired at 75; that makes me feel a lot better about things.

Still, work went well; I got a lot done, and I'm actually pretty confident that we'll hit our code freeze deadline of Tuesday evening. (Of course, if the tsunami hadn't pushed our schedule back a little...) The week ended with me identifying the root cause -- a driver conflict -- of some very worrying bad behavior. It's unlikely to be fixed by Tuesday, but now that we know what order to do things in it doesn't have to be.

I guess the main thing about that last bit was that I noticed that I was feeling relief, while I was feeling it. That's comparatively rare for me. I had a second glass of wine with dinner -- figured I'd earned it.

Also on the river, a quote from a comment I made elsejournal:

The kind of social situation I'm likely to find awkward is one where I find myself in the vicinity of somebody I'd like to get to know better, but have nothing obvious to start a conversation with. Or I'm talking with them, but have no clue about how to take the conversation to a deeper and more personal level. (The times when the other person has taken the lead have almost always worked out well, or at least not gone disastrously wrong.)

Of course, this suggests that it's probably safer not to try, and let the other person go deeper if they want to. *sigh*

Some very good links under the cut; I strongly recommend Rube Goldberg Meets J.S. Bach and, in a more technical direction, Technical debt and the making of payments on it.

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