User talk:TheEileen/Mar 2009
March 2009
07 Mar 2009
Updated list yesterday, updated wiki today. I am getting rather annoyed with my new keyboard as the 'a' key is really hard to hit. Still everything else works well. I am working my way through re-naming all the png files and then I can finally upload port mystery. I managed up update/fix the some of my broken images but need to be at work to actually download and pull out one page of the others still needing doing.
The weather has been crazy today. It was very cold this last week (VERY) but sunny. Then today it was overcast, sunny, hailing (little hail), snowing, sunshine again that melted the nearly 1 inch accumulation to nothing in less than 20 minutes, overcast and raining, sunny. Facebook is only taking so much time and makes a good break from forums and such for 5 minutes here and there. I am in pretty good health, although I've been really cold a lot. Which is making me eat more than I should but the weight is not creeping back. yet. I've been nice and consistent with my exercises, keeping everything (food, workout, work, such) on a nice schedule and so I'm on a fairly even keel. Gotta go eat dinner and make pancake batter for tomorrow morning now.
14 Mar 2009
Updated the list yesterday, updated the wiki today. Time is just getting away from me so much. In addition to the 'a' problem with this keyboard, I've noticed in the last couple of weeks the additional annoyance of something on my webpage loads taking some sort of delayed 5-10 second thing to do. What it is doing, I do not know. The problem is the result of this little hiccup is that the page appears to load, I go to click on something and the page does this little scroll up and down like something showed up on the page and then went away. The problem is that it happens anywhere from 2-15 seconds in and so nearly every time I go to a page specifically to do something, I end up clicking on something I do not want. I click for yes, and the page bobbles and I click no. I am having to re-do some actions 2-3 times just to get them through. It seems to be happening a bit at work also but much more so at home. So, I have to try to remember that I can't just flow through any of my processes. I must open a page, and then sit and stare at it for 20 seconds before trying anything. I've managed that a few times and the damn page ALWAYS bobbles. No matter WHAT page. Any page anywhere bobbles like this. I want to SCREAM and stop using the computer or the internet, which honestly, I have been. I've just spent nearly 2 hours doing minor updates to my pages on the wiki and adding a link I needed and it should have been about 45 minutes worth of work but the damn bobble thing has been causing me problems. Sigh. I have the content for the project nearly ready. I have renamed half of the png files and when I remember this, I go in and do another batch. I have not had times to keep up with the forums and do dp-feedback, so I'm trying to read about 4-5 of my favorite forums and leave the rest for some day when I can not feel overwhelmed.
Part of this is my social life picked up which is impinging on my DP world! :grin: I've joined some friends in their D&D games on thursday nights. Except I have to actually do some reading and prepping for this, so it takes up more time. Plus, this is a good month for dining out in Seattle - they have these specials at all the fanciest of restaurants - 3 courses for $30 it's called. I've been out at least one night a week for the last few weeks and it is fun and great, but again disastrous consequences for my DP time. Then my Xbox showed up! huzzah but that will be several hours today just trying to get it connected, checking out it works, test playing at least one game (you know I have to), then I have to start looking for my rock band stuff for the best price. To get my xbox (at half price!) took a couple of hours a week for a few weeks (and all my friends were jealous of what a great deal I got - that's a sneakily pleasant feeling) and I know it will take the same for Rock Band. Then of course, there will be the time lost playing it! With my friends, on line. I drum, fyi for anyone else out there who plays and needs a drummer (innocent, yet rocking, smile). Work is about the same, the annoying guy is still annoying but not really my problem. I've got a few projects suddenly on my plate I didn't expect, however, I have gotten two biggies off my plate and onto the rest of the team. The work isn't that tricky, it just requires paying attention and doing it. My time is slammed, theirs not so much. And if it doesn't get done, well, I wouldn't have managed it with my load anyway and their boss will deal with that. The weather is gray and drizzly this week but freakishly cold and snowing for nearly every day last week. Two days in a row I wasn't sure I could get to work with the icy roads, but did okay. Weird health thing in that I have popped SOMEthing out in my neck on the left side. It could be a vein, it could be a tendon. Two nurses and one doctor do not know. It's possible the orthopedics people will know - I've got to try for an appointment with them next week. They want me to ice it and the other weird health thing is that I've been having difficulty with cold for the same amount of time, in that I cannot seem to get my CORE warm, nor can I find my heating pad. So, I just cannot and will not put ice on my neck when I'm already suffering the shivers in my perfectly warm house. So, I increased my NSAIDs and in many respects the pain associated with this thing is fading, but the weird tiny little vein/tendon is still popped out. Freaky. I am looking at my desk piled with financial paperwork and I think that'll be my main thing to do today after (smugly) I go work out now. I've been so good! consistent for nearly three months now - no missing a week. huzzah! Then I have to get groceries this afternoon and check out the organic, free-range only meat market someone found near by. I have been saving money in groceries by following all the conventional rules, and that now allows me to make sure I only buy meat (chicken, pork, beef) that is organic and free-range, and kosher would be good also. I am a meat eater, but I don't want the animals to suffer (more than the dying part, which is where the kosher would be good is coming in). Okay, that should be it, off to the gym.
23 Mar 2009
Drat - I meant to do this several days ago and I even had the time! Oh well, I updated the list and my heavens was there a lot of movement. I updated the wiki and that had some minor but no new posted. Bum. I'm nearly done with the images and as long as I don't get too distracted, may even upload this week. Huzzah. the computer problem listed on the 14th stopped. I have a different one but I think I have a line on what it is. There is something about facebook that if I do too many apps in a row, messes everything else up. I literally have to reboot my machine each time. So, I'm experimenting with only doing 2-3 things at a time. Logging out of Facebook. Then not logging in for an hour or so. Seems to be working.
Weather has been sunny and cool or rainy and cool. 40's and very low 50's. Nearly leather jacket all the time weather. Which means I really should oil that thing. My health has been pretty okay (occasionally female related stuff related equally to aging, annoying but manageable). Work, same. House, same. Life, same. Not so bad really. I'm letting annoying work stuff just float by. I'm clear with my boss about my boundaries and he's backing me up. So, I'm being more challenging when I feel like it to my annoying work guy. I actually told him a few weeks ago that he didn't get to say that he wasn't going to work on things because he didn't like them. "tough," I told him, "you're an adult and you don't get to say in the business world, 'I don't wanna' like you are three. you have the job, you don't stop working on it until you have gotten the end result demanded. Since you haven't, you'll keep working on it." He was stunned but stammered out an agreement and actually did work some more on it. What he does and does not get done is the bosses problem, not mine. There is work not getting done, but I wouldn't be able to do it either (and get what I'm working on done), so I focus on what are my tasks and let go of what is not (a bit of a struggle now and then - but I must adjust to the fact that it isn't all on me now - two other people have equal responsibility and I don't to them or me any good if I try to take it on. They'll never learn and I'd burn out.) All and all, I'm okay. Oh, the weird thing in my neck is mostly subsided (I never did manage to see an ortho doc), so I think the treating it kindly and taking lots of NSAIDs helped. I still have some pain and owyness but it's less.
29 Mar 2009
Updated list and wiki. Have completed my images and so could upload my content but realize due to some RL things (generally good, just time consuming) I don't feel I'd actually give it the attention it needs. So, I'm not uploading yet. I haven't been working on Ibsen, and I just realized it was because I plain forgot. Talking to myself: If I put the instructions together, I could release at least one project into Foofing. That would be okay, I think. But I have so much going on, and so little of it is DP right now, that I gave myself the space to back off of DP for a bit. Wouldn't you know this was just at the same time I thought I could do the board. In RL? I was asked to join the Board of my library guild. I'm a little overwhelmed right now.
Weather is typical spring. Wet, cold, sunny, cold, wet, cold. I am taking a week off in mid-april, just because I get "spring fever" this time each year. I just need to take the time off and be distracted and lazy and unfocused. :smile: Better at home than at work! I have one or two minor annoyances at work - the same people are there, but I am doing "pretty" well with keeping inside my boundaries and not taking on the world. The one guy swings between being mad at everyone and reasonable. I don't know if this is illness or medication related or just him being a random and emotional dude, but it makes it deucedly difficult to work with him. No allergies yet, but I'm in my spring "can't sleep" mode. I find myself up til all hours although tired, but not sleepy. Then I pop wide awake as soon as the sun comes up even with the shades drawn and a mask on. It's just the time of year - another reason to take the week off. Weird thing in neck isn't popped out any more but I continue with the increased stiffness and pain and it's migrating its way to the front of my neck. I sort of wonder if it is connected with my jaw in some fashion. I really MUST go to doctor this week. Ciao.
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