February 15, 2005
A good day. I ended up not going to Writer’s Group, as I awoke this morning feeling out-of-sorts. It’s not illness; more exhaustion. So I spent the evening at home, lazily taking care of a few chats and getting used to RSS syndication via NewsFire. Reading blogs through RSS feels much more efficient than reading blogs via the web. I’m not immediately sure if this is a good thing. […]
February 14, 2005
I didn’t mention this, but I had a terrible time waking up last week. I kept sleeping through my alarm and opening my eyes at 10:00 or even later. Combine that with my router adventure last Friday, and I missed a fair amount of work last week. So I’m making it up this week. I’ll probably go to writer’s group tomorrow, which doesn’t start until 8:00. This is both good […]
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Yay! After a very quiet week, things have quickly accelerated. I slipped home early Friday afternoon so I could pick up my DSL router, as UPS was delivering it and they absolutely require that somebody’s there to pick it up. The little sticker that the delivery person leaves has a series of checkboxes indicating when the delivery person will try again the next day; helpfully, he’d checked both […]
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Well, I re-installed OS X on my new laptop, and it does seem to be working smoothly thus far. I’m generally pleased with it. Moreover, it’s been an excellent test of my backup procedures. I wiped the hard drive and was back up pretty much like before within a few hours. Otherwise, I’ve been watching more Zeta Gundam, which has officially reached the point where I’m disappointed when […]
Monday, February 7, 2005
I took my laptop back to the Apple Store on Sunday, and kind of wimped out. I described the bugs I’ve encountered—the CD drive disappeared, the latch won’t open at times, preferences won’t stick—and the techs investigated. I should have just asked them to replace the unit. They were pretty confident it was a bad OS install, and suggested I reinstall the OS from scratch. So, I’ll see if I can find the time this weekend to do that. […]
Saturday, February 5, 2005
Here’s how my to-do list worked out last week: I had fifty-nine items on my list, of which I completed twenty-nine (about half). I couldn’t complete two items. Most of the things I couldn’t complete were those daily tasks that I’ve found I’m poor at completing daily. So, I’ve set up next week’s task list so that I’ll do them less often, but for longer periods of time. […]
Friday, February 4, 2005
And this is why I love Terry Teachout’s theater criticism columns in the Wall Street Journal: Even if the constituent parts of “Good Vibrations” were better, though, I doubt it would be worth seeing, for it is a disastrous example of a fundmanetally flawed genre, the “jukebox musical,” in which pre-existing songs are loosely strung together to tell a new story. The problem with building such a show out of rock songs is […]
February 3, 2005
The best-laid plans of mice and men…. My recent illnesses have reminded me of my childhood allergy to dust mites, and suggested that my allergy has perhaps not dissipated with the passage of time. So, I decided to buy a dehumidifier. According to WalMart.com, Wal-Mart sells half a dozen brands of dehumidifier. After work, I stopped by my nearest Wal-Mart and spent half an hour wandering its aisles. They didn’t have any. None at all. The two employees I asked […]
January 31, 2005
My truck wasn’t towed. I got a temporary extension through February, so I’ll have time to get my truck tested for emissions and return to the DMV. To my delight, I spent a total of maybe five minutes at the DMV. I’m feeling better today, by the way. Much of the black hue to yesterday’s entry was caused by my illness, I think. I always feel down when I’m sick. And I’m sick every couple of months. A co-worker suggested that I may be […]
Saturday, January 29, 2005
I’ve found that an effective way to keep a project on-track is to test it. By “project,” I mean anything from writing a book to implementing a to-do list, as I’m doing. I had a total of fifty-nine items on my new weekly to-do list this past week (some of them regular chores like laundry, others specific tasks like calling about my DSL service). Of those, I completed thirty-seven, and another seven could not be […]