Crossed of the list
For weeks, I've had a long list of things needing to be done on my *new* PC. I bought it in mid- July to play City of Heroes, which I did only a couple of times from this machine. The first item on the list was get reliable Internet access to it. It's wireless card barely reached the base station and it liked to drop connections, if it even connected, and take forever to load. I've been toying with all sorts of complicated ideas to run wires in non-seeable places to fix this. Of course I haven't been trying that hard since its been SIX weeks of poor to shitty Internet access from the PC.
Until today. Sometime last week I realized that I have cable jacks in my bedroom and I might be able to move the base station in there, making it close enough to place nice with the PC. And I did.
And it worked. My PC happily connects faster than my iBook. And now the long list of upload and download chores is complete.
Yippee!
While I've spent most of the day staring at this computer screen making my wrists hurt, I wasn't quite as reclusive as I planned on being this weekend. Friday, I bailed on my lists altogether to go meet Susanne & Seth for beer.
Saturday morning yoga was great. We only did a few poses and the instructor gave in-depth explanations on how to do them right and how to know you were doing them wrong. I liked that since I don't know much yoga. Plus we got to use lots of props, which makes it easier to bend my inflexible, weak body around.
Saturday night I watched Outfoxed. Everyone should watch this. Expect to be horrified and furious, and learn why its important to not allow the fourth estate to continue to be handfed information by the government.
I've been on the "journalism is dying" soapbox for years (since I got my BA in Journalism actually), but watching this was a good fucking reminder that I shouldn't just sit back and watch our media be overrun by conservative corporations whoring themselves out to the government.
This morning, my friend Dallas and I went to his friend's house to read the NY Times and have breakfast. Since I haven't even been keeping up on news lately, I was actually excited about reading the paper. I like the group reading because I don't get as distracted and we swapped stories from different sections. (side note: I think the independent newspapers do a much better job of remaining objective and critical than the 24-hour news stations. The NYT has its faults for sure, but it's not inherently screwing people.)
I also made a trip to the local nursey, The Great Outdoors, to get some plants to
spruce up my front walkway. I have a surplus of cool pots since I terribly neglected the plants TK left in my care. (I thought I was taking good care of them, but they died pretty suddenly and all at once - Stupid Texas sun). I'm excited about the Night time Jasmine I got. It gest fragrant at night.
Since then I've been at this not comfortable, not uncomfortable desk. I've logged 9 hours and I'm tired. My to-do list isn't complete, but at least its a new list of stuff that can languish for weeks.
Until today. Sometime last week I realized that I have cable jacks in my bedroom and I might be able to move the base station in there, making it close enough to place nice with the PC. And I did.
And it worked. My PC happily connects faster than my iBook. And now the long list of upload and download chores is complete.
Yippee!
While I've spent most of the day staring at this computer screen making my wrists hurt, I wasn't quite as reclusive as I planned on being this weekend. Friday, I bailed on my lists altogether to go meet Susanne & Seth for beer.
Saturday morning yoga was great. We only did a few poses and the instructor gave in-depth explanations on how to do them right and how to know you were doing them wrong. I liked that since I don't know much yoga. Plus we got to use lots of props, which makes it easier to bend my inflexible, weak body around.
Saturday night I watched Outfoxed. Everyone should watch this. Expect to be horrified and furious, and learn why its important to not allow the fourth estate to continue to be handfed information by the government.
I've been on the "journalism is dying" soapbox for years (since I got my BA in Journalism actually), but watching this was a good fucking reminder that I shouldn't just sit back and watch our media be overrun by conservative corporations whoring themselves out to the government.
This morning, my friend Dallas and I went to his friend's house to read the NY Times and have breakfast. Since I haven't even been keeping up on news lately, I was actually excited about reading the paper. I like the group reading because I don't get as distracted and we swapped stories from different sections. (side note: I think the independent newspapers do a much better job of remaining objective and critical than the 24-hour news stations. The NYT has its faults for sure, but it's not inherently screwing people.)
I also made a trip to the local nursey, The Great Outdoors, to get some plants to
spruce up my front walkway. I have a surplus of cool pots since I terribly neglected the plants TK left in my care. (I thought I was taking good care of them, but they died pretty suddenly and all at once - Stupid Texas sun). I'm excited about the Night time Jasmine I got. It gest fragrant at night.
Since then I've been at this not comfortable, not uncomfortable desk. I've logged 9 hours and I'm tired. My to-do list isn't complete, but at least its a new list of stuff that can languish for weeks.
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