Year: 2018

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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.

Links. brighter side: cow playing fetch, puppy. Not so bright: everything else.

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…

Links. brighter side: blue marble, cat mom, baby gorilla, size scales. Not so bright: everything else.

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.