Sleep

Aug. 6th, 2005 09:38 pm
edg: (Broken)
When I think about the foreseeable future, it's all I can do not to break down in tears, because I can't think of the next time when I'm going to be able to get a decent night's sleep.

If it's not Alex, it's moving. If it's not moving, it's school. If it's not school, it's work.

I'm so damn tired. I just want to sleep well, and not be exhausted from the time I get up to the time I go to bed.
edg: (Predatory)
I don't know how many people are aware of MEPACON, Mid-Eastern Pennsylvania's premier gaming convention.

I do, however, feel it germane to note that a gentleman named Michael Sarno is apparently directly involved with the operation of the convention, if his sending out mass e-mails trying to recruit GMs to run games at the convention is any indication.

Mr. Sarno, it should be noted, is also the man responsible for this thread on the In Nomine Mailing List (I can't get a listing of the whole thing at once, so you'll have to keep clicking through Next Message to read the whole thing).

Take that as you will.
edg: (Crazy)
My I Aggro Drama T-shirt arrived yesterday. It is exactly as it ought to be.

I have pulled a muscle in my forearm by way of shifting a branch that fell onto my driveway as a result of last night's storm. Said branch was 30 feet long and six inches across at the thickest point. I had hoped to actually get it out into the swamp, but finally I just moved it off the driveway and left it. Now my arm hurts, but in weird ways - it's sort of a very quiet background ache normally, but I can't open a door without it hurting. (Weirdly, vertical stress, like carrying a bag, doesn't hurt at all.)

Also as a result of the storm, and the concomitant power outage, I slept horribly last night. I kept waking up from the heat, and when I did sleep it was restless, troubled sleep. I dreamt all night of code that didn't work right.

I am deeply, desperately afraid of a conversation I am probably going to have sometime in the next few days. There are really only two possible outcomes (well, I can think of several others, but they all boil down to the same two general outcomes) to the conversation; I know which one I want, and I know which one I expect, and ne'er the twain shall meet.

Feh.

Jul. 27th, 2005 08:47 pm
edg: (Default)
Stupid summer storms.

The power is out. (Thank goodness my laptop's battery was fully-charged.)

Our estimate on when we will have power back is "uh, as soon as we can?".

Tonight may be a very long night.

ow ow ow

Jul. 24th, 2005 08:29 am
edg: (Hair)
Good Lord, but I slept wrong. I ache from the base of my skull to the base of my spine, and although I was asleep for nine hours, I feel like I got about four hours of rest.

Le ugh. This is my punishment for not getting anything done yesterday, I know it.
edg: (I'm With Stupid)
EDIT: Okay, Chris, time to step away from the keyboard for a few hours. (I've removed the text that used to be here.)

In unrelated news, I have loved the term "angry font salad" ever since I first encountered it, and am now modifying it and applying it to everything. As an example, this support request is an excellent specimen of angry text salad.
edg: (Bad math)
Okay, so I'm grooving on LJ's new tags feature. But there's one thing I'm missing.

You can see entries with a certain tag by going to http://www.livejournal.com/users/[user]/tag/[tag].

You can see entries with multiple certain tags by going to http://www.livejournal.com/users/[user]/tag/[tag1],[tag2].

The latter will give you all entries that have either [tag1] or [tag2]. What's missing is that I can't find a way to get all entries that have both [tag1] and [tag2].

http://www.livejournal.com/users/[user]/tag/[tag1]&[tag2] doesn't seem to work; neither does http://www.livejournal.com/users/[user]/tag/[tag1]+[tag2].

Any thoughts from the LJ-geeks out there? Not having the ability to AND-filter seriously hampers the utility of the tagging feature.

EDIT: I went ahead and submitted a support request on this topic, if any of you are interested.

Ugh.

Jul. 20th, 2005 06:16 am
edg: (Hellboy)
I am tired, I ache, and I'm vaguely crabby. I'm desperately tempted to call in today.

On the other hand, I know that if I do, I'll get a kvetching-out from my supervisor, and I'll feel bad about not doing the work I need to do.

Oh well.

Meh.

Jul. 8th, 2005 10:13 pm
edg: (Wind and fire)
Aside from getting my mother to the airport, this has been almost entirely a waste of a day. Even a reasonably tasty Chilean white wine isn't helping. (It's Concha y Toro, if you're curious. I prefer red wines, but we finished the Australian shiraz - Fat Bastard - over the week, and this is what I have. Well, this and whiskey sours.)

Part of me wants to be really petty and self-deprecating here, but I won't be. You can imagine it if you like.

Oh well. Enough of this.
edg: (Broken)
I keep meaning to update this journal.

And then I realize that I'd just be posting boring life-bits that even the people who claim to care about my boring life-bits wouldn't care about, or things that somebody would be sure to take the wrong way even though I meant them completely harmlessly, or self-indulgent, self-pitying trash-journalkeeping.

So I haven't been posting anything.

I suspect that's the way it's going to be for a few days.
edg: (Pensive)

  • Learn to write with child around. (Substitute "work", "packing", or "school" for "child" as time-appropriate.)

  • Convince child to adjust to an Eastern-Time schedule. (This is compounded by his bedtime being later than mine.)

  • Do not decide that you're not good enough to deserve love. (Even if "I'm just keeping you from the happiness you deserve" happens to have been true in at least two cases.)

  • Figure out how to convince your brain that you're not 16 years old anymore, and shouldn't be reacting like a 16-year-old.
edg: (I just can't win)
Halfway to the hardware store, I realize that I've forgotten the easy-turn nut - so I can't measure the bolt against it. Curses. Still, I press on, not wanting to add twenty minutes to my errands just to get a piece of plastic and metal.

In the hardware store, my brain turns over: the easy-turn nut doesn't necessarily have to go at the hinge. I know the bore of the easy-turn nut because it fits on the engine-deck bolt, and I know the bore of the engine-deck bolt - 1/4". Therefore, I don't need to find a bolt that fits the easy-turn nut - I just need a quarter-inch bolt, and a nut that fits it.

I buy these, as well as a locking washer and spares for each.

I come home and everything fits together perfectly.

I start mowing the lawn.

The right arm starts getting loose.
edg: (Destruction)
Imagine a gas-powered push-mower. This mower's handle has two arms that rise from the sides of the engine deck for about a yard and then right-angle in to meet in the middle; essentially, it's every push-mower ever made. The handle assembly has a "hinge" (actually, it's two pieces, joined by bolts) that allows it to fold in the middle for storage or transportation. This handle assembly originally had nuts with large black easy-turn knobs on each bolt, but we've lost several of these over the years and had to replace them with standard quarter-inch nuts.

The last time I mowed the lawn, the nut that holds the left arm of the handle onto the engine deck loosened and came off. I couldn't find it when I searched, so I finished mowing by only turning in the opposite direction and using friction with the bolt to hold the arm on. Since that was really tiring, yesterday I went and bought a pair of quarter-inch nuts - one to hold the arm on, and one as a spare.

When I got home, I discovered that the nuts were not, in fact, 1/4" in diameter; they were 7/32". Such a minor difference - but it meant that they didn't fit the bolt. I did manage to scrounge an easy-turn nut from the other, non-functional mower (its engine died - it may be flooded - and I haven't gotten around to taking it to Sears to have them look at it. Since this is the second time since we bought it this time last year that the engine's died like this, I'm tempted to have my father just return it); the easy-turn nut was the same bore as the bolt, but had different threading, so I just locked it in place and hoped for the best.

That nut held just fine.

But the other bolt on the left-arm assembly - the one on the "hinge" - fell off while I was mowing yesterday, and now I can't find it. (I did find the easy-turn nut that was attached to it, but the bolt was nowhere to be found.)

So today I have to go to a different hardware store with the easy-turn nut from the second bolt - which I checked against the bolt on the engine deck; they're the same size - and say "okay, I need a bolt that'll fit this nut; and then I need a nut that'll fit that bolt."

Meanwhile, Alex is better at Kingdom Hearts than I am.

Thursday

Jun. 16th, 2005 12:08 pm
edg: (Bad math)
6:15 AM: I wake up to the captain's announcement that we're 20 minutes away from Charlotte. Alex and I have slept through the entire flight. (Except once, when I woke up just as the drink cart was going past and waved them off.) Irritatingly, I appear to have picked up an inflammation somewhere between my right nose and ear.

When the attendant comes by with the trash bag, before Alex is really awake, I throw away the remains of dinner from last night. I kept it because I was afraid Alex would wake up hungry in the middle of the night - he didn't eat much Wednesday - but after eight hours, half a hot dog and a bottle of milk, unrefrigerated, aren't going to be a particularly good breakfast.

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Wednesday

Jun. 16th, 2005 11:51 am
edg: (Per Ardua Ad Astra)
2:40 AM: I'm awake. Gah.

I got offline at 9 or so. I finally got to bed about half an hour later, due to some last-minute hunting for stuff. I didn't get to sleep until 11:30. So a kinda-solid night's sleep turned into a three-hour nap.

I'm glad I checked my e-mail before I left; it turned out I'd misremembered the hotel we were staying in. That might have led to some unpleasantness when we arrived in Orlando.

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