I call this “An exciting life? -= maybe not so much =-” I’ve been blogging on and off since 1996, when it was called an “online diary”, or some such. Does that make me a special snowflake?
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Monday afternoon-time for lunch. Not getting anything done. Well, a few things, but not the core bits. Tired-been having trouble sleeping. Opinion of the day: men shouldn’t wear shorts unless they’re sportsing or at the beach or it’s very hot. Little boys wear shorts. I’m not the only one.
Tuesday, almost lunch. Spent the morning doing compliance training and nosing through git. Pretty quiet, waiting for actual tasks. I should go back to writing down my dreams-dreamed about kissing a girl… A guy from DTNA checked in on me. Not much else-easy commute, short on $$$. Tip, please. Tired of all the shootings and political messes and immigration BS.
Weds., late morning, meetings, trying to figure out what’s going on. Some young “lady” at the gym last night didn’t understand working in-I waited and waited and waited and finally exploded-need to have management clarify rules about hogging machines. Slept badly-hot and kept waking up. Weds. afternoon, ate lunch with a Micha’el dad who works here.
I don’t normally post political stuff anymore, but this from 2017.
Friday morning, scrum by Skype, four meetings. Pretty mellow-should get real stuff to do next week. Updated things on my website.
Monday-I now have tasks, but the code is nowhere yet. We’ll see. Pretty mellow weekend-cleaned the house, the usual. Good workouts, binz, etc. C to/from a show at the Hawthorne. Boys need to practice driving.
Links/viddys. brighter side: I saw one with a swarm of puppies tackling a little boy, a couple of others. Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.
Page 23, sentence 5: “This collective outcome, in which a system manifests significantly different characteristics from those resulting from simply adding up all of the contributions of its individual constituent parts, is called an emergent behavior.”, Scale
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Monday morning. Didn’t get much done this weekend. Tuesday morning-still not getting much done at home, lacking energy. Going to be hot this week-C is graduating in an un-air-conditioned gym tomorrow. No gamelan. I should put the A/C in. Wednesday afternoon, w/o last night, pick up C+1 & M, hot, didn’t sleep well. Thursday morning, C graduated last night, went to Melting Pot w/gf, only stayed for a little bit. It was hot in that gymnasium, and loud, and very unlike my U.S. graduation. Put in both A/C units. Slept better last night, even going to bed late.
So, haven’t touched this for awhile, as I lost my job on the 14th. I’ve been frantically doing the job search, had a face-to-face yesterday, and two next Weds.-onward. There is very little I like less than looking for work. Done this 9 times in 30 years, and it’s never easy or fun. Anyways, going to see Claypool/Lennon this afternoon-hopefully I can get in the pit.
Friday. When you’re not working, it’s different-I’ve been sleeping later, and not getting out of the house as much. I did see Claypool Lennon-a super good set-2 people off the rail, but it rained the whole time-I was prepared, but chilly and soaking wet shoes. Have another face-to-face next week, this time with Nike.
Here it is, Friday after July 4th. It was loud last night-S and E don’t like it. Anyways, 3 face-to-faces this week, and I did pretty well in all of them. One of my former co-workers is at one of the places, which is pretty cool. S had theatre camp this week-she did well.
Tuesday afternoon-that’s a song. Not for me, though I was contemplating some lyrics for protest. Waiting for a phone call, another one later, more tomorrow. Waiting to hear from 2 of the f2f, one declined. Did a code test this morning-yuck. More phone calls…
OK, now it’s August 5th, and I’m sitting in a temporary cube at Cambia. My laptop is set up, waiting on the dev side, and I have a bunch of compliance stuff to do-a lot like Huron in that respect. So, the story since I picked this up last. So many phone calls, a few face-to-faces, plus Skype-ish ones and several coding tests. Got the Cambia offer the evening after the face-to-face, none of the other prospects wanted to take me on. Then 2 weeks of vacay. Noa, my niece, visited for a few days last week-her and 2 friends are driving from Atlanta to Alaska. S went to church camp the week before-had a great time. We cleaned up a lot while I was relaxing, went through everything, including the outside closet. I got rid of some stuff, and E did too, and we rearranged things some. The closet is much emptier, as is my side of the closet. My side of the bed is much the same, though I added a small bookshelf to handle overflow. We also put the 2nd TV in our room with a Blu-ray player. M got me the Einstein on the Beach Blu-ray for my birthday. I’m 58… Need to update my “me over time” gif. Lacking ca$h until the 16th-please tip if you read this. M quit his job-he was done with the manager’s BS. I got a bike for the commute, but not for a week or so-I need all the gear.
Links/viddys. brighter side: I had a few, but not this time… Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.
Page 23, sentence 5. “I was so awestruck that when the end of the show came and he asked for surrenderees to Christ I took him up on it, thinking I’d become a member of some society of Theremin players in the process.”, the Individualist-digressions, dreams & dissertations.
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Yet again, a long time between posts. Things are much the same. The hammer is about to fall… Need to dodge it. Hopefully that will happen.
Monday after a busy weekend. I’m falling asleep in this meeting. W/o Fri., up Sat, drive to Canby, Olympiad all day-it was hot, back home, C & gf to show, back, back to pick them up, up at 4:30, E to airport, back home, sleep, no church, tidy all day, laundry, no W/O, bed. Up, drive to work, and here we are.
Weds. afternoon, almost time to go-moving forward. Pretty quiet, house is staying clean, no W/O last night. Busy tonight-C to show, gamelan, pick up C late.
Noon on Thursday. E comes back tonight. Not much else-up late to drive C & gf home. S was up a lot too, so she’s tired today. Gamelan was fine-traffic sucks on the way out of downtown, so I was running late-picked up a pizza, got C & gf, home, drive to NE, hop on the 5S, to L&C in 15 mins. Went to get gas, no go, C texts saying the show is out early. Get there in 15 mins, drop off, home, bed, up this morning, drive to work-traffic wasn’t bad. Work thing after work, then dinner, then pick up E.
Friday, noon. Glad this week is over. Pretty filled with stuff. I hated driving-just too many cars. The best was last night-took less than a half-hour, leaving at 6:30 rather than 5. I have good coffee and peanuts from Polly’s, so that’s a plus. E had a good visit with her sis-who’s in a not so good place.
Tuesday, lunchtime! Another week, another weekend. Just the same ‘ol. House didn’t get cleaned, because E wants to go shopping, and I don’t have the energy after that to clean the house too. At least dishes and clothes are getting done, and things are mostly tidy. Was so tired last night, went to bed early. Moved my stuff around a little-now I can see all of my bookshelf.
Weds., after lunch. Pretty mellow week so far. W/o last night, pick up M at work, C jumped in ahead of me for laundry, cut my hair and beard-just a short goatee left-S didn’t like it. Getting stuff done at work. Not much else. Gamelan tonight.
Friday afternoon, long weekend. Need to pay bills and budget. Show tomorrow night. Kinda tired. Not a lot else.
Weds., on the way home. Gamelan tonight, pick up C & gf later. Show was good. Been tired, skipped w/o last night because Chipotle sucks. Not much else-house is relatively tidy. Short of cash.
Thursday on the way home. Very tired-had to pick up C & gf late. Not many people at gamelan. That is all-thinking about stuff.
Tuesday AM, time for more coffee. Tuesday afternoon, time to go home. Wednesday afternoon, time for lunch. Thursday morning-busy-get stuff done yesterday, skipped gamelan. Thursday afternoon-time to go home. Friday morning-deployment tomorrow night, picked up M late last night. Switched over to Hop on my phone-pretty slick to be able to wave it on the Hop pad and my fare is done. Late Sat., busy day, w/o last night.
Page 23, sentence 5. “Focus on the tools in front of you and the fact that you have this time to relax and achieve a feeling of peace.”, joy of zentangle. “Blank, like uncut wood.”, lao tzu: tao te ching. “The patterns will be diagrammed in a series of 1-inch (2.5 cm) squares numbered in order.”, One Zentangle a Day, “The ‘JKD direct movement’ in attacks and counters-throwing from where it is without repositioning.”, Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
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So, the weekend is here, and I’m not going to get any rest until Sunday afternoon. Then the cleaning starts. So no rest until Sunday night. And then the week is me as single dad.
Late Tues. PM at work. Feel better, but I’m under the gun. It’s not that big a deal, but still. I feel OK, but still.
Weds. afternoon, we may have a long-standing issue solved. Up late working last night-running on lack of sleep. This will mean billed hours against Friday. Good w/o, but no negs without Matt to help me-dinner, work, picked him up, shop, home, work. Forgot a move in t’ai chi-remembered it and redid everything to that point. No gamelan tonight.
Thursday May 2nd-so, it’s been at least a week-just too busy to bother doing this, even though there are bits of time throughout my day. Been playing a lot of Golf Battle. E have a huge vertigo episode yesterday, cured by the Epley Maneuver. I’m working at home to help out with whatever. Not much else-M is busy working, S and C are much the same. Not really motivated to clean up , but got a lot done today. Started back on the treadmill Tues., and now my knees ache going upstairs. Bleh. Went to the Dr.’s last Monday-haven’t lost any weight, everything else is OK. Huge server issue last week, not our fault, except for increased traffic. E got me a Creative Zen at the binz-need to load it up-better than a phone for workouts.
Monday afternoon, almost time to go home.
Wednesday afternoon, need to eat. E had a bad vertigo thing last week, she’s going to see her sister next week. Went to Uwajimaya Sat. with C & gf-he’s now 18… Not much else, M got his hair cut, I need to cut mine, having more apnea. Workouts are going well.
Thursday, trying to get stuff pushed out. Death by a thousand cuts, and some technical problems to iron out. Gamelan was fine, Earl showed up! S’s Olympiad is this weekend, and it’s going to be hot. She has new running shoes-hopefully that will help some.
Friday, noon. Not delivering this weekend-too many issues. I’m calling it.
Links. brighter side: been here before, got nothin’. Not so bright: everything else.
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Should I just call this one “title tbd”? That’s how I feel…Don’t really want to anything. Not a thing. Everything is a mess, and I daydream before I go to sleep. On the bright side, my oldest son has a part-time job, and our t’ai chi practice is going well. But money is short, and I’m tired of cleaning our apartment over and over. So, narrative only…
Thursday, almost time to go.
Friday, on the train. Up early, hopefully leave early. Won’t know until it happens. Not much new going on-there were alpacas at work yesterday. Not many people at gamelan. Hard to get motivated to clean the house this week. Finished the book I was reading-that was a slog…
Monday-2 meetings I thought were today are tomorrow. Got hit with a blast of stuff. Pretty quiet weekend-tidy, run around, church-no E, but M, w/o-knee and hip improving. We are through the long Yang t’ai chi form! 113 moves-we’re still a little fuzzy on the last bit, but we got through it yesterday.
This is pretty cool…
On the train, Weds. morning. Tired-woke up early dehydrated-E says I was snoring. Good w/o, S did the treadmill and elliptical-she needs to improve her running for the Olympiad-she did well-heart rate up around 137 for a good while, almost 60 minutes walking, a little running, elliptical. I tweaked my shoulder doing chin-ups-I’ve never been able to do them, but I can get 4-5 now, except for the shoulder thing. We forgot one of the last moves in t’ai chi-I think it will go like that for awhile. But it took us 3 months to learn it, so there’s that.
Monday morning. Very tired, with a dry mouth-that means I probably snored, but E didn’t say anything. I’m going to go in for a checkup-we’ll see. My hip seems better today-3 weeks of no running… Weekend was OK-house is tidied Saturday. M got a job at Wunderland. Church Sun. & shop. A thing Weds. W/o’s were fine, S declined Sun., we got all the way through t’ai chi with only a couple of hiccups. It’s 4 and I’m still tired.
Thursday afternoon-very busy day. Same ‘ol, short of $$$, trying to keep the house tidy-E did a thing with new chest of drawers, etc. She also did a cute thing with curtains. My stuff is the same, except I put the Kronos on a bench rather than the stand, so the bench has a home. It’s not bad-using a paint bucket for a stool. I like my storage arrangements. But the Stick and tabla need to be fixed, and the rest of my old gear needs to be sold, and the outside closet needs tidying. Anyways, w/o Tue., no M-he worked out in the morning, no S-she did twice and that’s it-she needs to up her fitness, but I can’t order her to do it. Got through the whole t’ai chi with only a few pauses. Saw M at work-it’s sweet to see your kid all grown up and such. Gamelan last night-the same-we have a 1 piece gig next Sun.
Here we are, Tues., noonish. Pretty busy juggling a number of tasks. Usual weekend. M is working a lot of hours.
And now Weds., so tired. My workout clothing wasn’t dried so I had to wait until it was out-9:20 start, 10:35 end-M texted me. I did a faster t’ai chi-12 mins vs. 20. I have the last problematic move figured out. Started eating at 11, shower and bed at 12:30. ack. Gamelan tonight.
Gonna call it. It’s the next Tuesday. I did my taxes-that was a kick in the nuts. Gamelan gig Sun., had to work all weekend, got some stuff done, had to pick up C from NE, I was seriously dribbling by the time I got home-no W/O, bed early, E gave me a sleep aid and I promptly snored all night long. Notre Dame burned the roof off and the spire fell. Construction accident-gonna take years to rebuild. S has spring break.
Links. brighter side: videos below. Not so bright: everything else.
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Friday morning at work. Doing budget, TA. Feeling meh. It is Friday, though. I need to think of a blog topic. Niece is visiting for Thanksgiving.
Foggy Monday. And cold-frost on the rooftops. Pretty chill weekend. W/o Fri. & Sun., as usual. Moving forward on t’ai chi-starting third section, #68… E went to chiro on Sat., laid up in bed w/back problems, solo shop, not a thing, though not from lack of effort. Up late, skipped church, cleaning instead. Home inspection Weds. S’s room needs cleaning.
Tue. PM-at the end of a work day. Got stuff done today. Still worried about engine catalog go-live-looks like a memory leak. Emptied out S’s room last night-all the stuff is in the hall, all the clothes are on the bed. Now to put it all back in, tidied, so the inspector won’t have a cow. Finished up the T.A. application, except for E’s W2 and paystubs.
Weds. afternoon-turned into a sunny day. Got stuff done. S’s room is tidy! All the clothes are put away-S really did a fine job. And the inspector guy didn’t even look in there. W/o, the usual-I think my knee might be improving-I know my shape is. Up to #71 of 113-it’s all single whip, move, single whip. T.A. is done except for email w/pay stubs. Gamelan tonight.
Thurs., need coffee. Been getting less than 7 1/2 hours sleep, and I’m feeling it. Supposed to meet with rep today, but no invite yet, and she just walked right past me. Late to gamelan-very long line at the gas station. Did imbal, the rest was the usual. Thurs. PM-so, we’re making the change tonight that crashed our app in Jan. I’m worried. Web service guy says it should be fine, but…
Fri. afternoon, time to go home-I was up at 6, monitoring our app. Fine all day-bouncing the servers didn’t hurt.
Here we are, Weds., at home, no gamelan because of the snow that’s not there. Pretty normal weekend, a little not wanting to do stuff, took the bus to church, w/o & t’ai chi, out of $$$, as usual. Up early Mon., all OK, but had to bounce things last night-memory isn’t getting freed up. We’re taking another regroup on t’ai chi-up to 78. We’ve reviewed up to 94, but it’s not sticking. Just like the snow-we had some over the weekend and Monday, and some last night that actually stayed around. It snowed some during today, but not enough to stay. And don’t get me started on politics. A long time I said that I was going to stay away from that, because it would swamp the blog, and tons of other people bloviate about it. And no one cares about my opinions anyways. I’m better off talking about Anthroposophy and t’ai chi. TA got denied, but E complained and wrote an appeal. We’ll see. I added one sentence and did grammar & spelling. Did the same for M’s essay.
Friday afternoon. Looking forward to a week of no $$$, again. A thing? Probably not. Have to make changes to the TA. Not much else-the app is running fine, got things done. I think I’m clearer on the latest t’ai chi moves. Not much else.
Monday evening, almost bedtime. Cleaned this weekend, drove around, bus to and from church with S. App is behaving normally. Moving desk Weds. Everything else much the same-we’re pausing at move 90 for a week. 113 is the end, so we’re at 80%. We’ve made remarkable progress in 2 months.
Weds. afternoon, almost time to leave. It’s been snowing all day-don’t know if there’s gamelan yet. I’m all moved over to the new cube, but no stuff on the walls yet. Not much else-I messed up my left hip last night. Moving ahead a little on t’ai chi-but still holding at 90.
Thursday afternoon. At my new cube, it’s not bad. Easier on my eyes, need to have the second monitor mounted. Skipped gamelan-just too cold and snowy. Hip still hurts.
Friday evening, on the train. Got tickets for Earth and Claypool Lennon Delirium. Woo-hoo! Raise wasn’t what I asked for, but I don’t have to work during shutdowns, which is sweet. Not much else-moving forward in t’ai chi, slowly. Hip still hurts, but less. Paid bills. Weekend-sleep.
Midday Monday. Very tired-daylight savings time-happily dreaming away when the alarm went off, something I rarely do. Weekend was OK-w/o, t’ai chi-we’re up to 96, sort of. Took C & gf to a play in Gresham, drove around, had Del Taco. No church-S is sick.
Wednesday afternoon, waiting for troublesome software to stop being troublesome. Restarting helped. Otherwise same ‘ol-signed the contract. Still having trouble adjusting to DST-waking up to my alarm. W/o-the usual, hip still hurts some, so cardio is limited to bike and elliptical, have to lay off leg curls a bit. I’m having to do that for extension because of my knee-I’m doing very light weights slowly with high reps. It seems to be pretty effective, a nice change of pace too. T’ai chi: we’re up to 100! 13 to go- Still a bit fuzzy, but we’re getting there. S went back to school today.
Thurs. I think I’ll call this, and now it’s Friday. Def. going to call this, plus no header. A month this time.
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OK, I’m calling this. I didn’t finish the book I was reading almost a month ago, politics is a disaster, but I got paid, I think. That and FA for school will help. We did a thing at church to identify where you need to go, and one I came up with was a topic for blog posts. You know, like other bloggers do. Failed. Maybe next time. Time just moves onward, and I’m just trying to stay afloat. I might make it this month.
Tuesday, on the bus. At least I’m not stuck to seat 38 on Phydeaux 3… Now waiting for a train. OK, E missed her alarm, busy at work, M and S swam yesterday. L.A. teachers’ strike is over, shutdown continues. King Crimson isn’t coming to the PNW. That’s it for now.
Nearing the end of a busy day. Still no closer to a solution on work issues. Other stuff is moving forward, though. Gamelan tonight-I haven’t practiced suling at all.
Friday afternoon, picked up tickets for my middle and his gf. Not much else-need to tidy this weekend more. Gamelan was OK, not much else-my right shoulder is bothering me. Didn’t clean much, just enough to stem the tide. Need to practice more-not progressing on suling.
Sat. evening-working for an hour or so. Monday, noonish, at work. Tuesday morning, on the train. Still Tuesday, noonish. Wednesday morning, at work. I got nothin’, no $$$ either. Need to, need to…(fill in the blanks) Thursday morning, at work. And Friday morning at work. I really have got nothing to say.
Sat. night, watching skiing, on the iPad. The usual-w/o last night, t’ai chi-we’re holding for a little at 48 to solidify our memory. Slept in a bit, crockpot oatmeal for the family, espresso and chill. Tidy, laundry, bathrooms, vacuum, sweep porch, put stuff in outside closet, shop. E and S went swimming. Pizza for dinner. Working on load tests.
Monday, late morning, at work. Cold and rainy-E is reporting wintry mix at home. Seattle got some, but none here. Yesterday-rice for breakfast, C didn’t eat his, so lunch for me! Church, back and forth, binz, shop. Soup for dinner. W/o-worked hard. Getting more solid on the sequence for t’ai chi-this is non-trivial-we’re at #51. Snow is starting-S really wanted more-made object spells for a snow day.
Weds. morning, at work. Thurs. afternoon, almost gone. Snow over the weekend? We’ll see. Actually, it looks like snow for a week…a lot of snow. Friday afternoon, trying to juggle several tasks, waiting for the next big project.
Weds. morning, again. So the snow didn’t happen, but our washing machine sprung a leak Monday night and there was water everywhere. Got it all cleaned up, the maintenance guys fixed it. Pretty quiet weekend. Didn’t do much-a bit of tidying, oatmeal & rice breakfasts, wedding Sat., church Sun, up early for work Mon. W/o-working hard, my shoulder is improved, left knee still not OK-running seems fine, but I absolutely can’t do leg extensions. We’re up to the end of the second section in t’ai chi. Longest section to go. They want me to move my desk, but I think I’ll move back to where the test of the team is instead. As usual, short of $$$, but got past due bills paid. Long chat with my niece about spiritual stuff and her. She’s going down a very familiar path.
Thursday, on the train. Gamelan last night-new version of an old piece, played bonang panerus. April was alongside, and commenting how I was playing all sorts of extra notes. I was: “I’m playing more like a drummer-ghost notes and rhythmic.” I don’t know if it bugged her or if she liked it. Suling is progressing slowly-I can play 3 notes of the riff she gave me-the 4th is a bear. It’s the first note fingering, but up a 3rd.
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Here I am again, trying to figure out what to write. Not much is coming-I have to leave for home in a few minutes, so I think I’ll pick this up after I settle down at home. Didn’t happen. I’m in bed… So not really much to say that I haven’t said before. I like to watch skiing. I want to make music and teach t’ai chi. Skiing would be nice. Dreams, dreams, dreams. Maybe some time, maybe never.
Tuesday afternoon. I think that’s a song title-Moody Blues? I saw them once in Cleveland as a teenager-trying to get in the good graces of a girl I wanted. She was having none of it, so I ended up making time with another girl I wanted less. Story of my life…
Now Friday night, in bed. Long week, lotsa crises at work. Had to get up super early this morning, and it didn’t help. No gamelan, no gig. Doing this on an iPad mini from work. So slick-everything is crystal clear. Now I need a path to using this for everything. W/o Tues. & tonight-pretty decent-M & I are starting on the long Yang form. Wish us luck.
Noon on Saturday, sitting at the kitchen table, drinking cafe au lait, tabletising. Kitchen is tidied, oatmeal for breakfast, shared with S. Breezy.
Monday afternoon, at work. Tired. Went through my storage yesterday, put my wayang puppets on the wall by my keyboard. Made a little music Sat. night until late. Church with S only. W/o-not bad, still working on the long t’ai chi-15% through-this is gonna be a slog. We figured if we keep the pace we’re at, we’ll be done by mid-April or so. Not sure-there’s 111 moves, and we’re at #17. A lot to remember…
Tuesday afternoon, at work, not tired. That’s better. Got my teeth cleaned this morning, one small cavity that needs work. 2 bigger things, but not pressing. Pretty mellow otherwise-my staffing co. wants to give me more $$$-woo-hoo!
Weds. AM, I have to return my old work laptop that I have at home so I don ‘t have to lug my new one back and forth from home every day-rrrrr. If I could get the iPad mini on the VPN I might be able to not do that-all I need is access to the app, monitor, log miner and raw logs…oh whell. Good w/o last night-negatives, and I’m feeling it today. I was talking to M about our progress and how it’s nice to have someone to workout with-motivation and all that, and I’ve done this before, and I’m coaching him. I’m actually not making a lot of progress lifting-wise-a few exercises have increased 10-30 pounds. The big difference is cardio-I was never focused on cardio-skate to/from or treadmill-I never ran or did any higher intensity cardio work, and I was a gym-goer for a good 16 years-’78 through ’96 (London was a wash). Also, doing the long Yang form will make a big change.
Thurs. PM, watching ski jumping & tennis. Saw the trailer for the new John Wick movie. Busy at work. Gamelan last night-a bit rusty.
Sat night. Pretty quiet-slept late, made overnight oatmeal in my new to me small crockpot-so yum yum. Tidy, laundry, watched skiing, shop, dinner. W/o last night-pretty usual-I think my cardio shape is coming back. Up to #25 in t’ai chi.
Monday-I think I’ll call this. Sun.-rice for breakfast, church, some guy wanting food, binz, shop, w/o-worked hard, up to #27. Didn’t vacuum, but most everything else is fine.
Page 23, sentence 5.“What kind of product or service does she want to help grow, and how senior in her role does she aspire to be?”, The Career Manifesto.
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OK, time for the first paragraph. The new year is here, holidays are past. Busy as usual, still short of ca$h-hit that tip link, please! The world is busy turning, with the same stuff happening-’round and ’round we go. I have stuff to do, but the house is staying clean. Gov’t is half shut down, Dems are running the House. The mess continues-are the financial markets next? I’d rather watch skiing-Mikaela Shiffrin is a rockstar. And listen to Veruca Salt. Need to play my instruments more. Dreamt about playing drums last night. That’s it for now.
End of day Friday. Back OK, shoulder and knee not. I have to figure out whether I want to work out, and whether I should leave early. Decisions, decisions. And bills need to be paid.
This is pretty cool.
Watching South Park late Friday. Watched more TV, skipped w/o, Winco, paid only the bills due. Need to do the math on the rest…and now it’s Saturday. Slept in, got the kitchen in shape, slowly started on the living room, started the dishwasher, made espresso-the grinder wasn’t fine enough…E said “such a first world problem…” Time to empty the dishwasher and start doing laundry.
In bed, house is clean, time to sleep. I messed up a white shirt by putting it in with a red sheet. It’s only pink in a few places, because I noticed it quickly. Still a shame…(wore it Friday, it was OK)
Thursday between Xmas and New Year’s. Working from home. Got a flu shot. Xmas was pretty quiet-C’s GF stayed over, made food, hung out, got a Sonicare. House is pretty tidy.
And here we are, a week later. Saturday, sitting at the kitchen table drinking cappucino and tabletising. House is pretty clean, so not much to do. W/o last night-M is still sick, my knee is still not 100%. Had yummy oatmeal via rice cooker, shared with S. Back home, 10# turkey was $5-that’s what’s for dinner, and leftovers, and soup stock. Last week was pretty chill-work, home, w/o Tue. & Fri., not much for New Years.
Sunday. Skipped church, made rice for breakfast. Work last night-no issues except an expired license. Email sent.
Links. brighter side: (no kittens or puppies, sorry!). Not so bright: everything else.
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First full post since the new WP version. We’ll see how much this changes things-I already dislike the lack of header images and the auto-excerpting in the 2019 theme. And I reverted the theme until I can get stuff looking right. The new editor is pretty cool, though there are some layout issues.
And it’s the week before Christmas. My oldest hates this time of year. I don’t disagree. The short days, cold, forced cheerfulness, etc. Add to that the massive dysfunction in politics, and all the rest, this is a particularly bad holiday season. And that’s that. I don’t have much else to say: here’s the recap.
Sun. am, sitting at the kitchen table. E isn’t up for church, but binz. Good w/o Fri., we’re making mulled wine, a lot. E is actually able to drink it without all the ill effects of alcohol showing up. Shop, drive around, Whole Bowl, E getting church ready, watched Black Panther last night. I need to clean. And the cleaning didn’t happen.
Mon., at work. No cleaning or laundry got done. Did get kitchen tidy. Skipped church, shop, binz-got a bluetooth keyboard for the tablet. W/o-some guy was blasting shitty music the whole time. No t’ai chi-we need quiet for that. Restless sleep-part was the essential relief oil heating up my knee-not relaxing… Cold and rainy. Time to break out winter work shirts, and Christmas decorations.
Tues., trying to untangle disabling that shouldn’t-and it was a setting plus a missing image-bug submitted. Listening to “No World Order” My copy is really badly recorded-need to redo. Did 2 loads of laundry last night, 2 more to go.
Next day, again. Looks like I’m adding a paragraph a day. W/o late-change of pace, running, late dinner, left leg is sore. Working out is def. making a difference to my belly-I need to go to the doc to see if I’m losing weight, though. Doubtful-the weight I lose is getting offset by muscle mass-it may take a few years to reduce my belly. Knee seems OK, except going down stairs. E did laundry! I sorted and distributed. Watched Dr. Strange. To bed late, tired today. My sleep app says I got 6 hours. I’ll def. be sleeping on the train home. Need sugarrrrr.
And I didn’t sleep on the way home-nodded off once or twice, but that’s normal. So, home, chill, dinner, TV, tidy, the usual. Got to bed earlyish. Sleep app says I woke up for a long time around 2, but I don’t remember it. Day is progressing-found an issue, resolved it by redeploying the correct build. Delivered 2 more, need to run it.
Sat. evening, watching downhill, writing this on the tablet. Nice having the mini keyboard. No cleaning today-M did some, shop instead. W/o-the usual, slept in a bit, breakfast, got ankle weights for cheap, Fubonn, etc. Dinner, have to work.
Tuesday, at work. Messed my back up Sun. night, but it’s better now. One of the pluses of being in better shape. So, did the work thing Sat. night, up ’til 3:30. No church Sun., tidy, tidy, kitchen, laundry, vacuum. The house is picked up, hopefully it will stay that way over the holidays. W/o with the ankle weights-better, but not quite heavy enough-need to double. And then my back went out-impossible to sleep Sun. night, 2 aspirin helped. Work, home, tidy, dinner, bed, up and out. Rainy. Reading Lord of the Rings.
Weds., a week at home is beckoning. Such a nice change of pace. I dislike the cash shortfall, but it’s only 2 days in 2 weeks, rather than a whole week of no pay. My back got better quickly, but my right shoulder and left knee are acting up, so no w/o last night. M didn’t either. Not much else. No music digest-stops at 10/24, and iTunes is acting up. I might have a fix-maybe next post.
Getting to the end of Lord of the Rings. Work lunch-pizza and Indian food. Starting on a new program to generate pdfs. Keeping the house tidy.
And Friday-I think I’ll finish this off. It’s pretty quiet. Fam sleeps in during holidays, so I leave for work to a quiet house. Working from home next week. M is still sick, my soreness is improving-skipping workouts helps.
Links. brighter side: kitten’s pacifier . Not so bright: everything else.
Page 23, sentence 5.“Under ordinary circumstances, air resistance would greatly slow the fall of the feather, while the hammer would be largely unaffected.”, The Big Picture.
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Time flies, especially around the holidays. Money flies too, and we don’t have much to spare. Other than that, life goes on. Again, things are odd, so much vitriol, and my day-to-day seems pretty peaceful. I don’t know when this will change-something will shift, and all hell will break loose. When? Who knows? I don’t.
Black Friday. Up late, slept in. Did the same thing yesterday. Pretty quiet-lazed around, read, tidied up, got more food, cooked, ate, more of the same. Left work earlyish Weds., missed the bus.
Monday, back at work. Feel disconnected today, like something’s wrong, but I’m not sure what it is. Pretty mellow weekend, up late, slept in. Kept the house sort of tidy. Playing a lot of paper.io 2. Met with S’s teacher Sat. Skipped church Sun., took S to musical rehearsal, drove around downtown and close SE, watched the musical, S had a tiny part, but enjoyed singing in the chorus. W/o-first time since 11/16…lost a little edge, but that’s it-had to dial things back a bit on the bike, 1 or 2 less reps on a few of the weights.
Weds., E & S are going to Breitenbush tomorrow, we have a ton of wreaths on our back porch, and we are seriously short of $$$, depending on how I get paid for Thanksgiving. W/o last night was negatives-M is getting better at pushing hard.
Thurs., everyone loves the wreaths. Not much else-what’s for dinner? No E or S, so just 3 guys-should we go high end? Finally got access to the VSB website-new logos and stuff to do, we’ll see-now I can earn my keep.
Friday! We are unbelievably short of $$$. Like unable to pay even half of the bills due. Including rent. At least I’m going to get to work over Christmas.
Tues., on the train home. Busy at work, the house is tidy. Usual weekend, tidy, shop, w/o, prod deployment Sat. night-a service was down, so I panicked until it came back up. Bush the Elder died, and the praise rolled in, but his legacy is mixed at best. And then there’s individual 1. Enough. W/o tonight, gamelan tomorrow, plus laundry, dishes, and tidy. It never ends.
Thurs., on the bus. Payday tonight-so much still to pay on bills. No gamelan-drove there, no one, drove back. Good w/o Tues., negs, no M, noisy with kids running around, but I pushed hard and my chest is still sore.
Still Thurs. I think I’ll call this post-the every 2 weeks/when I finish the next book is here. Upgraded the site to WordPress 5-not much change, except the editor. Also changed to the new theme, which sucks. Or at least is different-no big header image that rotates randomly. I liked that a lot. Plus the header CSS is a mismatch, at least for the senior page.
Links. brighter side: gotta find some cute kittens and puppies, stat! Surfing Orca, marble maze. Not so bright: everything else, especially all the naked power grabs by outgoing pols and climate change. And individual 1.
Page 23, sentence 5.“Germs multiply in the lungs.”, Homo Deus.
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My MO for this is to do the life unfolding, then come back and put a paragraph at the top just before I publish. This is that paragraph. I usually talk about politics or how I feel. Since it’s Thanksgiving week, that. I don’t feel it, though. Tired, just tired. I don’t like the contracting grind-no vacations, because I don’t get paid if I take time off. I’m having nice chats with my oldest-that’s really nice. My niece might visit over Christmas. She’s had it rough. We’re trying to be here for her. OK-time to post.
Thursday. Another day-gamelan was fine. I want to play suling, but need the patterns. No choir.
Friday-stepped into something last night, but was able to resolve quickly. Trying to finish things up-I got a new laptop, and I have to install 2 versions of websphere and 2 versions of eclipse, then set it all up. The proxy is throttling, and the same on the VPN, but I got Websphere done. Usual weekend-cleaning, laundry, etc. Worked up the bass for an easy song that we didn’t do, but had the chart for the one we did, so it wasn’t horrendous. Not much else, Sat. night drove C and a friend home from a haunted house in Beaverton-it was dark and rainy, missed 3 turns, but it wasn’t horrendous. Time for bed and another week.
Tues. on the train in. Nice to be able to do this anywhere. Got the installs done, starting the setup. Pretty much same ‘ol otherwise. W/o was negatives-I’m feeling it today.
Here it is, the next Tuesday. Totally out of money. And now Thursday. No gamelan, no thing. House turned Dem. majority, some gov’s as well. Good w/o, but I use this and I got some on my nose-not fun, that. Weekend was the usual, and Halloween, and 20th anniversary, and E’s b’day. System failure at work yesterday. Prod release got pushed. My new laptop is almost set up-so close. So close. Choir, but not going to play Sun.
Monday. Didn’t get much cleaning done. A little laundry and that’s it. Blew off w/o Friday, ate Chinese instead. It was yummy. Not much else-drove around, shopped. Burned a bunch of cd’s for E’s phone. Cooked, shopped, S to PWS for play practice.
Wednesday-banging out deployments. Now to troubleshooting-ok in dev, not in QA. Gamelan at PSU tonight-but first…nothing. C is single again. W/o-negatives, not so sore today. M had to jump the fence to get the key, and scared the sh!t out of S. I talked to E about it later, and they were laughing about it afterwards. Mindy was late to gamelan, but Bonnie let us in. My suling was passable-I need a lot more practice. Train home, M is stressed. E to Dr’s this morning. Work-things are going. My new laptop is pretty much there, except for web services in RAD 9.6.
Friday-finishing up a change, looking at ancestry-found a few ancestors of my dad’s mom’s mom. I have it almost solid up to my great-grandparents-a lot more further back on many, but I will never get more on my mom’s dad’s side-the records all burned up in the great fire of 1904 in Alesund, Norway. I also found that Nathaniel Parker Willis is a grandparent. That puts me at several famous/notable people in my family tree (Boone, Abe Lincoln, a CA Supreme judge, Howards, but that’s way back). Ancestry seems to have upped its game-they’re suggesting potential mothers/fathers…
Monday, short week. W/o Fri., skated with M & S for 3 hours Sat.-tired and blisters afterwards-S to a birthday party. Hometown Buffet with E & M & C. Bagged church on Sun., w/o too. Tidied, ripped CDs for E. I’m kind of sore today, restless sleep.
Links. brighter side: juggling otter. Not so bright: everything else. Well, maybe the mid-terms.
Page 23, sentence 5.“Governments were obligated to promote happiness for everyone.”, Happy City.
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What should I do? I don’t know. Get a new job? Maybe. Learn more about react, angular and kendo? Definitely! Practice my shakuhachi, guitar and keyboard? Yes. Record some music? Maybe. Do some more inner dev work? Well, yeah. I’m not getting any younger. Organize things? That too. But first, work, then workout, then clean things. Time is my enemy. But I really need to practice for Sunday-I have a recording, so tonight after workout and dinner.
And here’s Monday, no cleaning, didn’t get to practice until Sat. night, panic with work-turned out to be nothing. I did pick up an stovetop espresso maker and a Pocket Chip at the binz for maybe a dollar. I put angular on there and we’ll see if I can use it for web dev-getting errors-I think it’s an issue with compiling for the ARM. The pi might be a better candidate, but I need to get that working again. Watched “Skyscraper” Fri. night. Church Sun., the song went well. Everything else I could cut and paste from any other weekend, except no cleaning. I did get clothes sorted and distributed, and the kitchen organized, but that’s it. Just not motivated for anything else-I did work out Fri. and Sun., which is pretty good, seeing as most other motivation was lacking. I’m coming down with a cold-sore throat, sniffles, stayed home Tues.-it was nice to sleep in. Getting stuff done, but waiting on access for another thing. W/o-my knee is getting better, but not going to push it.
Gamelan tonight, stuck on a train. Woke up at 3, up for awhile. Late for work-missed train, stuck train, missed bus. E picked me up at OMSI, gamelan, pizza, bed. Choir tonight. Big lottery-dreaming… C has a thing-hopefully nothing. And it was something-hopefully it’s not huge, but concerning nonetheless. M is under the weather too, but my cold came and went fast. Choir went OK-still a little blurry on one bit-practice needed.
Monday evening, now Tuesday afternoon. Another week. Trying to keep the house clean-wash last night. We got a huge recliner for E, but S is sleeping on it for now. Church went well-applause and compliments and everything! I practiced Sat. night… Cleaned too. M has moved from having nausea to stomach pains. Hopefully the doc can figure it out. And he said it’s muscle soreness, and the nausea went away, so no problem. W/o-no negatives, as M is taking it easy. To bed late. Working on three things at once. My knee is healing. Gamelan tonight.
Page 23, sentence 5.“Along with measurements in the cosmic microwave background, the supernovae measurements established the existence of dark energy.”, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs.
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Here we go with another post-only 2 weeks late! As usual, not much happening. I still despair about the state of politics, and it’s beginning to have a negative impact on the economy and foreign relations. And not to forget climate change, and the ongoing destruction of the environment. There’s just so much bad happening everywhere. Sometimes I just want to curl up and make it all go away. There is good, though, and mostly neutral-people going about their lives and jobs and school, etc. My family is doing OK, and community too, and mostly good in Portland, but there’s so much negativity and division. OK, enough-I don’t like to dwell on it, and there’s only so much that can be done-work locally, think globally…onward.
Sitting in the lobby of an eye doctor-M is getting his eyes checked. I should too. W/o last night, late-intervals and Basic 1, the usual. Pizza for dinner. Deployment tonight. At work on Monday-E started today too. Didn’t do much Sat.-sat around, didn’t want to move, so I didn’t. I may have picked up a few things, but mostly jelly watching TV.
Church Sun., back home, start cleaning, pick up E, binz, home, more cleaning, laundry, etc., w/o-continuous run and Basic 5, dinner late, more laundry, bed. Mon night, E only got through half a day. Trying to keep things clean.
Watching Nerd TV-robot fightin’ time and e-sports, drone racing to come. More mess at work-and not reproducing-I hate those the most of all. I have a bug identified, but it seems as if it works OK. Had to run really fast, and still have to leave work late… and the deployment didn’t go through. W/o-elliptical and negatives-beat M up with it-he’s still not acclimated to the continuous half-hour run. Late dinner, bed, up, more fixes with this mess.
And it’s Thursday, and I found the solution to the mess! Yesterday was pretty chill-thought I had fixed the mess, deployment. Dinner, laundry, dishes, tidy, etc. E picked me up, binz. Tidy, choir rehearsal, dinner, more nerd TV-drone racing. Gamelan starts next week.
The weekend is ovah, Monday afternoon. Failed to get a deployment going, Sat. one was nothing. W/o Fri. was same ‘ol, M wasn’t up for much. Watched Jurassic World. Chill Sat., E had a church thing early. Picked her up, estate sales, etc.. Skipped church, tidied, laundry, etc. W/o, my left knee started hurting at the end. I have until tomorrow to recover. Not much else-politics is all us vs them, old vs new: the beginning of the war of all against all. The quote about glaciers melting still holds, but I’ve lost the words again.
Tuesday-now Weds., waiting on a long batch process for Websphere. W/o last night, M was at an interview, but he came late to do t’ai chi. Had to not do a few negatives. Not much else-E cleaned her side of the closet. I had been trying to keep it contained, as she has a habit of letting stuff spread all over the place. Gamelan tonight, after a long summer break.
And now, it’s Monday. Gamelan was fine, work, the usual weekend, watched GotG 2 Friday., w/o-my nagging knee injury finally got worse. It’s wrapped and I’m doing bike only. Tidy Sat., work thing, no church Sun., shop and drive around. Did a carpet spot clean. W/o, dinner, lazy. Wednesday, gamelan tonight. Got a lot of work to do. W/o last night, still babying my knee. M had a hard time-ran a continuous, then negatives. I picked up a combo amp at the trash! It works, but the knobs are crackly. Also a bunch of nice food.
Here’s Friday. Lots to do, jumped on another set of tasks. I feeling a bit frazzled. My knee is a bit better-I’ve had a sleeve and cuff on it all week. Gamelan, choir, busy at work, trying to tidy, short on $$$=same ‘ol, same ‘ol. W/o late-M came late and was tired. Picked up C late. House isn’t in bad shape.
Back to work Monday. Woo-hoo. Pretty normal weekend, except for the Kavanaugh thing. A lot of people are pissed. Slacked on vacuuming and laundry-E has a pile in a corner of the living room. Got everything else done. Sat., picked up a cool Philips natural light alarm clock, saw a Bose pro level speaker set-nice, but spendy. Stopped in at the Portland Music Co. on 99E-the typical music store… Church Sun., binz-picked up another blank book for cheap. W/o earlyish-M isn’t feeling well, my knee is better but still not right-I think I’ll go to only one run per week-cycle and elliptical the other days. Ramping back up weights. Up-the light was nice, but I turned it off so S & E could sleep in.
Friday, and this
popped into my head. Memories of teenage me on many Fridays… The week was OK, but short on $$$, as usual. W/o Tues, gamelan Weds., choir Thurs.-the usual stuff. The house is pretty messy. E has done some stuff, but I haven’t, and it shows. I’ll be busy tomorrow cleaning. I really want to finish going through my paperwork. The new light is pretty nice. I need to practice the tune we’re doing for Sunday as well-I have a recording of it, so it should be fine-that reminds me…
Page 23, sentence 5.“Yehlh creates the world and populates it with man-but there’s no light!”, The Kingdom of Speech. It seems that I post to the blog in the time it takes me to read one book.
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Chilling in bed on Saturday. A week of no $$$ upcoming, and Monday is a holiday. No plans. Prolly clean and laze. Got Panda Express for S’s dinner, watched GotG, she opened presents, M and I worked out. Someone turned off the a/c, so it was an oven. I propped the doors open for a little bit. I’m liking the variety-even better than what I was doing many years ago. If I had a Nordic Track it would be perfect.
Now Labor Day-rather be working because we need the money. Pretty quiet weekend, C’s gf is staying with us for a few days-problems at home. Sat., binz, clean, tv. Sun., church, market, binz, w/o-hot again, made them turn on the a/c-didn’t help. Grill, Harry Potter. Restless sleep, up, laze. At work-we’re short for rent. Labor Day-lazy, keep things clean, grill, bed, again, hard to sleep, but not horrendous.
Weds-same ‘ol, no gamelan yet. W/o last night, late. Keeping the variety going-no M, so skipped some negs-on a few of the others I was still sore from Sunday. Aging rears it’s head again-also got an achy adductor tendon. Plus the knee one. And the shoulder one(s).
Thurs., payday tomorrow, and a ton of bills to catch up on. Stuck at work, as 2 things I need to get my work done are down/non-functional-I did the changes I need to make, but can’t deploy. And now Friday, one of the things is working, the other isn’t. Got up at the same time S did last night, and she got up this morning too. Blew off church choir thing-too far away. Trying to cut down on visual stimuli-I think visual overload is contributing to my fatigue. I noticed it a few months ago while grocery shopping. I’m extending it to my commute. We’ll see. It’s hard, because I spend my work days in front of a computer screen.
Sunday, sitting in church. W/o Friday, shop and clean Sat. Not much else. Busy Sun., market, S is sore from games, binz, shop, school party, river, w/o, late. I’m sore and achy today. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.
And it’s tomorrow-walked into a huge kerfuffle. At least it’s fixed now. More failing things, but everything seems ok now (it wasn’t, but close). W/o-change of pace-always weird. Watching stuff about Florence. Big storm. Been there, done that. E would rather be in a hurricane than an earthquake, I don’t know.
And now Friday. Have to sit in an interview-I hate interviews, but I don’t mind being on the other side. So, choir practice last night-I’m getting a little better at sight reading, but not much. The other song was charted, so I could follow along better. No gamelan yet. Everything else is pretty mellow-no $$$, but E got a job, so that may change a bit. She started today. C gets his braces off.
Links. brighter side: nothing, but I’m not looking either. Not so bright: everything else.
Page 23, sentence 5: “It’s become a popular date for romantic young couples.”, The Human Age
I listen to music all the time back and forth on the Max/bus, and in the car, but iPhone and iTunes don’t let me track it. That was one of my favorite things to show.
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So, so smoky-many fires, funneled up and down the valley. It’s into the red for particulates-my throat is scratchy. It’s OK inside, but I had to wait, wait, wait for a bus, so I got to breathe the bad air.
Not much else, dinner, bed, slept meh. S was up early. I’m thinking of going to the Nautilus workout order, where I alternate a bunch of workouts. We’ll see-same thing with cardio-intervals, long continuous, and elliptical/stair climber. I did, and it was hard-elliptical and negative routine 1. I’m feeling it today, but I’m probably in as good shape as I’ve ever been. And cutting out dessert and a lot of sugar from my coffee should translate into weight loss. Maybe. Only time will tell that particular tale.
I’m feeling like I need a nap now, though-rice cakes didn’t do the trick-need sugarrrrr…
And here we are at Friday. Rushing in changes to production over the weekend. One was a lack of regression testing. We need automation-that was one of the nice things about ECRT-I had a really good QA guy who automated everything. Then they got rid of all of us. Second time that has happened to me-it’s still upsetting. I can understand Leon firing me way back with PIC because I was damaging business relationships and fucking things up, but at Quest and Huron, no. I was doing quality work. Whatever-money talks, I guess.
Now Monday. I’ve been sleeping badly-I have a compressed nerve in my shoulder and I think it’s affecting my sleep-I wake up a bunch. The weekend: w/o Friday-first full week of Nautilus routines, doing HIIT, continuous run, elliptical for cardio. Makes for variety. The compressed nerve affects w/o some. Tidy Sat., school picnic later. Church, Sat. market, w/o-getting that 2.5 miles in a half-hour…decent. Production deployment went easy. Hard to get up today. Prod looks good-1 small change and an unreproducible issue-I checked the monitor and it’s monitoring fine. Getting jumped into another support thing.
Tuesday-yet another month of not enough $$$, and short on bills. Not good. I so want the big score, whatever it is, but it usually means more work than I’m willing to do right now, so I guess I have to suck it up. Weds., went to bad late-watched part of John Wick. W/o-elliptical and negatives. M was sore, but I wasn’t. S’s birthday today-she was up, so I hugged her. They decorated the classroom at math camp for her. She slept on our floor the past 2 nights. She got up when I did last night and I told her she could sleep on the mattress, but she didn’t, and she scared the crap out of me when I was in the kitchen.
Links. brighter side: rabbits. Not so bright: everything else.
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I want to say that the long nightmare is over, but it’s really just beginning. I read several pessimistic articles this morning on the way in. I’m not going to link them here-there’s just too much bad news to bother spreading more. Suffice it to say, we need to find ways to undo our impact on climate and the ecosystem, and reverse the divisive nature of our politics. Maybe that’s what I should be working on rather then Anthrodev. Or maybe anthrodev is the solution…or Thanos snapping his fingers.
Tuesday morning-last night was better-I woke up once, maybe twice. No pain while going to sleep. We are out of $$$, and in negative land. Hard to get motivated. I’m hurting now. W/o-no arms again, S came and did cardio and I showed her how to lift on really light weights and stretching. No t’ai chi for her. My shoulder’s getting better, but not there yet. Finally got my technical issue resolved. That’s a relief.
It’s Friday, going to be a tight month. The raise nets to something, but a big bill to pay. Didn’t sleep well at all last night-so tired.
Now, Monday. Was so tired this morning. Actually slept a little on the train. Not much else of note: usual weekend-tidy, laundry, vacuum, shopping. Got a new bed for S. Delicious pot pie last night, my wife is a binz maven. W/o Friday and last night-I did a full 30 mins running, but slow-will be increasing pace over the next week. My shoulder still hurts-tough to sleep, skipping arm lifts.
Thursday-trying to get a final production release out-and hopefully it’s done with this QA push. I’m tired. Tue. w/o was 28 mins at 5 mph-just about my limit, and legs only. If I can keep to this, cut down on sugar in coffee & after dinner, I might lose some weight. My shoulder is improved, and I think I’ll go back to arms tomorrow. Now Friday-getting last-minute changes in-luckily nothing big. So far-it’s only 11. And it ended with a few minor things. Hopefully the deployment will go OK.
It’s Monday-didn’t sleep so well last night. The air quality is in the orange-the sun was a fine shade of orange this morning. Weekend was ok-deployment went fine, except a glitch with an external service being down. Tidied Sat., the usual-the vacuum had a huge clog. Watched Avengers infinity war. M can see Thanos’ point, I debated it, because we live in an energy-rich and resource rich Universe-local shortages and Universe-wide limits are really only important over Galactic scales. We also watched the new “In search of” and talked about time travel. Picked up C & J from school, went to the bins and drove them to her house.
Church Sun., go to Woodstock Farmer’s Market to stand around the Micha’el booth-got sunburned. Home, lazy, just the basics-kitchen, laundry, tidy. W/o Fri. and Sun.-I ran 2.5 miles in a half hour! That’s a milestone-it means my shape is improving-I started out last October with light cycling, moved to walking Thanksgiving, running April. I had been doing walk/run intervals, and moved to a full 30 mins run last week. I think I’ll cycle between full run, intervals and elliptical/stairs. No idea whether to move to multiple lifting routines-with a limited quantity of machines my options are limited. I think I’ll revise the cards to accommodate what I have.
Links. brighter side: I got nuttin’-I could post cute pictures of kittens, otters and puppies, or uplifting stories of people helping each other and the natural world…but not feeling it today. Not so bright: everything else.
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57th birthday coming up. I hope my family didn’t get me anything. S is at camp and misses us at bedtime-I’ve been giving her long-distance hugs-hope it helps. It seems to-she didn’t have to call yesterday. W/o last night-I worked hard and was tired afterwards. Got news of a pay raise today-that helps some! Maybe I can get a house sometime soon. Pretty quiet otherwise without S around. And it’s Friday. Pretty quiet, but traffic is supposed to be bad, so I don’t know what to do yet. Missed my bus last night, E picked me up, went to the bins, found a pair of jeans and a tripod.
Sat. night, hanging out, w/o last night, picked up S this morning, after breakfast in Molalla. Shop, pool party, tidy, dinner. This.
Sunday, time to work out. Church, blackberries, home, tidy, vacuum, folding. It’s hot. Playing a lot of hole.io-addicting… In bed early, woke up a few times, up and to work on my birthday. A number of happy birthday wishes on FB, including Becky H, who I had a huge crush on Freshman year at Miami. Her and Katy K, Frosh comp. Then there was Susan B. and that other girl whose name I never found out. And the one Sophomore in my Fortran class-who sat next to me on the first day with short short shorts on. I could go on…I did find out later, after I started going out with Kris, that Becky and Katy had a bet on who would kiss me first. lol. Actually, ack! I was so oblivious. Same thing happened in London with Valerie & Stacia & Cat. Plus all the chasing after women who weren’t interested…Marie, Diane, Sue B., Meg, Leslie, etc., etc. Then there’s Susan S. I dunno-glad I found E, tho’ I sometimes daydream about what would’ve happened if I hadn’t…
My right shoulder is killing me-hard to sleep, and I can’t reach it to massage the muscle that’s complaining. E tried, but I may need PT if it doesn’t resolve. I’m reluctant to go to a massage parlor, as I’m not sure they’ll be able to treat that particular problem. Thurs. afternoon, still hurting, though less. Still hard to sleep, but less.
E got me clothes. W/o Tue., walk and jog, dropped the weights-don’t want to overexert, as it’s 74 in the room-did perfect lifts rather than max weight. M swam, then t’ai chi. Quiet Weds., out of $$$…
Now Friday, production deployment this weekend. E is selling some stuff to raise $$$. W/o, cooler, shoulder still hurts.
Monday, deployment went, but not perfect. Halfway there. Sat., tidy, the usual. Church Sun., shop, out of $$$. W/o, skipped arms. Hard to sleep, finally was able to, but hard to get going this morning.
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Don’t have many deep thoughts this time-trying to stay afloat, and it’s not easy. I have no idea what’s happening with our country-the news and social media shows it fracturing, but when I walk outside and travel back and forth from work, it’s not. Like I said at the end of my electronic senior page, I feel despair at the mess, but true, deep change is messy, and the old order is highly resistant to change that strikes at the core of their worldview. Unfortunately, they’re good at indoctrination, and a good third of the people in the US are highly indoctrinated and have no way of thinking through it. More mess to come-100 million people is a lot, and demographic change is inexorable. But then again, so is climate change, and this is going to be a big squeeze. I’ve tried really hard not to drag specific, political issues into this blog, because it would swamp everything and just make me agitated. I’ve said that before…onward.
It’s Sunday. Back to work tomorrow. At the libe on the tablet. I’ve been contemplating using a tablet fulltime. It comes down to the storage unit, as I can do most of the rest from here-Orion is the key-I need to be able to do development on a tab.
Not much else, it’s super hot in L.A.-called my mom to check in. Saw S’s play, cleaned the house, failed to grill (need a key), watched TV. Got shelves at the bins, S rode her bike to the dollar tree. Played Let It Be at church-we were going to do the ending and the pianist didn’t, so I did a lame quiet version…
Monday-hard to sleep last night. M and I played pool yesterday-too hot to work out, libe, Mike’s for ice cream. I need more sleep. Didn’t get it, in bed at 11:30, up at 2ish, and when E got up for her Dr’s. app’t. Plus also I missed a call from work at 4:30-sorta not sad about that. Weds.-no gamelan over the summer. M is in Salem for FBI camp, E & S have to drive him back & forth-aargh.
And it’s Friday morning, and I had to drive M to Salem and come back-at least I’m working from home and E is going to do the afternoon drive unless M gets a ride. Tough being in a car for 2 hours without a break. I’m tired, coffee only helped for a little bit, and it’s going to be 94 out. E got a new window A/C unit, and I had to put it in last night-so unpleasant, and now a ton of cleaning needs to be done. Watching the Tour on and off.
Monday afternoon-been quite hot-we have A/C, so it’s not bad. Very tired, though. The house is mostly clean-vacuumed and tidied and did laundry yesterday, hard time sleeping. Worked out last night for the first time in a few weeks-the broken A/C in the gym is fixed. Not much else-grilled burgers, it was cooler, E gave me a sleep aid. It worked, but I felt slow when I woke up.
A weekend has passed, back to work. S went to church camp, not much else-it’s hard for her to be away from us, hopefully she’ll be OK. Spent some time getting the house clean, per usual. Got a nice old sewing machine for S for $20 at a yard sale. Yummy blackberries from church. Going to be hot, but not as bad as last year.
Links. brighter side: Saint Jimmy, haka!. Not so bright: everything else.
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Monday, after a very busy weekend. I’m super tired/fatigued. Friday-home, w/o, dinner, bed. Packed the car for Pride. Got up after E and M left, S and I had breakfast and I started a load of laundry. Left, bus, train, walked to the side entrance, guard wouldn’t let us in. Around the front, had to drink my coffee quick. In, sat around, talking to people, telling families about the changing table, watching the freak parade. It rained a little later, then pack up, Whole Bowl, Goodwill, home, dinner, bed. Up, church, back downtown, S marched with Rev. J from church, it just got hotter and hotter, then a storm blew in. They called it, we packed up in a hurry and get everything to the car before it started raining. E fell on her face, but was OK, TJ’s, home, dinner, bed.
Up Monday morning, so, so tired, dozed on the bus/train/bus. Tough to get moving. Got stuff done, but flailing. Home, didn’t sleep on the way-well, maybe a little. Dinner, laze, watch ninja warrior, bed-so hot, used S’s cooling thing. Up, feeling better.
Thursday afternoon. Got a big change jumped on. meh. Gamelan was good-getting more comfortable on peking. E & M got the air conditioners installed, but it didn’t help much last night. And E made me take the bedroom one out, and water got everywhere. Friday, just did the money check, and we’re underwater. Not broke, but more needs to go out than is coming in. This means walking a tightrope until July 6th. I dislike the lack of $$$ intensely-dream about having enough to not have to constantly worry-and it’s just going to get worse. I dread that day.
And it’s Thursday-I haven’t wanted to do this-just listless and not interested in anything. I did work out Tuesday after blowing off Sunday-the AC wasn’t right and it was hot-did a less effortful run and weights at min reps.
And now it’s the 4th. Working from home this week. Got the tablet up. Dentist yesterday-took the bus & picked up S from theater camp at PWS. Been running on the street because the gym A/C is out. Weekend-don’t remember-church, E is redoing S’s room-tossed the bunk bed and all her stuff is scattered everywhere. House is clean otherwise…
