Brief updates
- 21:53 @meiran Eccleston rules, as far as I’m concerned. However, Tennant does get 2-3 awesome episodes per season. #
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Too much realism, thanks
Insurance companies: if you don’t stop showing me commercials where a car accident is re-enacted in first-person perspective, I may just go all PTSD on you, and none of us want that.
Perhaps I’m whining and should just suck it up, but every time someone does that on TV or in a movie, I have to restrain the urge to freak out. Been there. Did that. Did NOT enjoy it.
The silhouette of a Martian machine
My “grown-up” moment for the week: not bidding on a Lego Mars Rover on eBay even though it came to $10 below retail. I just don’t need to be spending $85 on Lego right now. But I thought about it for a second.
Worked on a shell script today which will automate and streamline installation and troubleshooting of our backup services. I keep forgetting how much I love writing code, especially the bit where it executes and everything works properly and I feel like Dr. Frankenstein shouting “It’s alive!!” I caught the coding bug when the TRS-80s came out, and I’ve never gotten over it.
I headed in to work early today, to help install a glut of new monitors which arrived. Not my usual assignment, but I wanted to help out, and the monitors were the lightest of the equipment to be installed. On the other hand, that does mean a lot of crawling under desks, and even a 22-inch flatscreen isn’t that light after you’ve lifted the tenth one onto a desk. I’m a little tired.
Going to try to get in touch with Mom again tonight.
Brief updates
- 07:51 Down from 38-inch waist to 36. The walking and Coca-Cola deprivation is accomplishing something! #
- 10:46 It’s amazing how motivated I can become from just a bit of kudos and recognition. #
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Veteran of the Psychic Desk
How insane have the last two days been? Well, I feel naked without my wristwatch, and I almost never go out in public without it. Sunday, I took it off and set it down for some reason – probably related to cleaning the apartment – and I don’t know where. But, since Sunday, I just plain haven’t had time to look for it. I keep looking at the pale band of skin on my wrist, and wishing I could scratch the mental itch of my watch’s absence, but it’ll have to wait!
On the other hand, my efforts from yesterday have not escaped notice. In the morning meeting, I heard phrases like, “Michael’s documentation sets a gold standard that we’d like to see our other documentation reflect.”
Now, focusing on one thing for that length of time is a real strain for me. I left work yesterday rather loopy, the last couple of pages do have some interesting typos, and my brain felt like I’d just tried out for preliminary Psionic Combat training. But the results seem to have been worth it!
Brief updates
- 18:36 Wow, “Ice Road Truckers” is just like “Deadliest Catch” except, boring. #
- 19:38 As I suspected, my Jedi robes were ruined by the leaking battery in the trunk. My fault for not cleaning trunk quicker. #
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To Do Checklist
Things to do today, in random order:
1) Have large breakfast so I don’t mope all day.
Completed at 1:00 pm.
2) Call Mom and check up on her. Continue searching for home care.
No answer at Jon Reid’s. Left message on his phone.
3) Clean gerbil cage.
Gerbils looking much happier. Cat still sad this is not a buffet.
4) Get badly needed haircut.
This is being put off for a week-and-a-half due to time and budget issues.
5) Get lamp for spare bedroom.
Lamp secure. Only been meaning to do this for months.
6) Do laundry.
Third load in dryer. That’s all I have energy for tonight.
7) Contact plumber who fixed kitchen sink at Kentland to make payment arrangements.
Number not in phone. Left voicemail with neighbor contact.
8) Try for Azeroth Olympics tabard and pet.
Got tabard. Pet looking unlikely.
9) Clean up living room. Empty dishwasher from last night.
Dishwasher is empty and reloaded. Living room in progress. Vacuum cleaner belt is broken.
10) Make dinner.
Seared then baked chicken randomly seasoned with garlic, lemon, cumin, and cilantro, with couscous on the side. An Iron Chef would be appalled, but it came out yummy.
11) Call local lifestyle group about demo they asked for on Tuesday.
Done. No problem, they just need me to revise the entire presentation, that’s all.
12) Buy new pantz to replace 1 holed pair and 2 pair falling off my hips (good thing, right?)
This is being put off for a week-and-a-half due to time and budget issues.
The Spirit of Getting Your Tail Kicked
Players who participate in WoW Battlegrounds from the 8th to the 24th get a Competitor’s Tabard with 4 linked colored rings. What could that refer to? Battleground winners *may* get a gold medal summoning a special dragon pet.
So, I jumped into my first PvP Battleground ever today: “Warsong Gulch”, a capture-the-flag competition. Great Cthulhu, but that was lame. I see the enemy, and I’m preparing a spell – oh, I can’t move while casting, and they’ve run off. Okay, another enemy, and I’m using my lower-damage instant spell – oh, their warlock has “feared” me, and I will now run in circles while they zap me dead. Okay, I’m back, and I’ve infiltrated their base… oh, wait, the enemy Priest just killed me with a single instant spell. Yes, that’s right, their Healer class one-shotted me.
Hmm, three captures for the Horde, and they’ve won. How many did we have? Oh. None at all.
I have the tabard. I’ve lost interest in the pet.
Surrender the Werewolves
I wasn’t a fan of Kid Rock before, but he’s dead to me now. How can a digital mashup of “Werewolves of London” with “Sweet Home Alabama” be a ‘new song’ even with new lyrics? It’s not even a re-recording of the music, he just loaded them both into GarageBand and went with it. Total junk.
On a brighter note, when I switched radio stations, they were playing “Surrender” by Cheap Trick. To my amusement, I found myself muttering the “Guitar Hero 2” chords under my breath during the song: “Red, (beat, beat), orange, (beat, beat), green…” I do it for Dance Dance Revolution cuts too. Anyone else do this?
