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Oct. 23rd, 2002 09:54 amI don't know where the last couple of weeks have gone. Looking back I can't see that I've gotten all that much done. My writing has slowed to a crawl because I can't seem to concentrate enough to put words on the screen. I've ended up spending time wandering around online without finding much of interest, reaching the point of knowing that there's a vast array of information and amusement out there if I can only find it and not being able to summon the energy or interest to search through the dreck.
The change in temperature hasn't helped either. We've crossed the line from summer when the thermostat reading 73 would still seem too warm into winter when 73 still means layers of clothing and fingers that don't work quite right. Scott and I have spent the last couple of days looking for the small heater we bought for me to use in the basement and finally located it in the spare bedroom (that's why it took us so long. We expected it to be in the basement). I plan to set it up down there tomorrow. I'll have to clear a safe space for it because things have gotten rather crowded down there, but I think I can manage.
Scott had last week off, and some of my distraction can be put down to that simple fact. In grand tradition, he developed a cold during the first couple of days of his vacation and is still fighting it. (My current theory is that this happens because once he's on vacation he completely shifts his sleep schedule, staying up hours longer than he would normally.) Naturally, he didn't get everything done that he'd hoped to. The Linux test has had to be postponed because he didn't sign up far enough in advance (he needed to give them several days notice but didn't try to sign up until Tuesday at which point Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were no longer options from the testing center's point of view).
He did get the loft for the computer desk built, though. We now have the scanner, the tape player and the turntable up there. The whole point of the exercise is to let me burn CDs from my collection of vinyl and of the various bits of filk I have on tape that we got from various live performances. (Well, maybe not the whole point...) Scott also spent a lot of time struggling with trying to network our various computers. The machine he'd gotten from his sister proved not to be up to the task of serving as router, so he went to the university's property disposition office and picked up a cheap hard drive that could do the job. Now he just needs to get all the software where he wants it.
The change in temperature hasn't helped either. We've crossed the line from summer when the thermostat reading 73 would still seem too warm into winter when 73 still means layers of clothing and fingers that don't work quite right. Scott and I have spent the last couple of days looking for the small heater we bought for me to use in the basement and finally located it in the spare bedroom (that's why it took us so long. We expected it to be in the basement). I plan to set it up down there tomorrow. I'll have to clear a safe space for it because things have gotten rather crowded down there, but I think I can manage.
Scott had last week off, and some of my distraction can be put down to that simple fact. In grand tradition, he developed a cold during the first couple of days of his vacation and is still fighting it. (My current theory is that this happens because once he's on vacation he completely shifts his sleep schedule, staying up hours longer than he would normally.) Naturally, he didn't get everything done that he'd hoped to. The Linux test has had to be postponed because he didn't sign up far enough in advance (he needed to give them several days notice but didn't try to sign up until Tuesday at which point Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were no longer options from the testing center's point of view).
He did get the loft for the computer desk built, though. We now have the scanner, the tape player and the turntable up there. The whole point of the exercise is to let me burn CDs from my collection of vinyl and of the various bits of filk I have on tape that we got from various live performances. (Well, maybe not the whole point...) Scott also spent a lot of time struggling with trying to network our various computers. The machine he'd gotten from his sister proved not to be up to the task of serving as router, so he went to the university's property disposition office and picked up a cheap hard drive that could do the job. Now he just needs to get all the software where he wants it.
