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Aug. 17th, 2016 12:44 pmThe city got back to me about the water and just told me to flush the pipes by running a faucet in the lowest part of the house for ten to fifteen minutes and then running all the other faucets until the water runs clear. I think that the laundry I did actually flushed most of the system and that what freaked Cordelia out when she tried to shower was just residual. The diagnosis was that it was likely rust from the water pipes due to some pressure change or another. At this point, the water is running clear (I’m not sure Scott actually believes us that it was brown).
Scott is working 3:00 to 3:00 today. I stayed up past 11:00 last night just to be sure I’d be awake if his work called to say they weren’t going to need him early. I just didn’t want to be scrambling for the phone in the dark again.
It took me a couple of hours after Scott got up to get back to sleep. I don’t know why. Well, I’m pretty sure that the problem is my mind running around in circles. I just don’t know why that’s happening or how to stop it.
I woke around 10:00 with a headache. Once again, coffee with creamer helped that. I don’t know— Is it that I’m sleeping later than I’m used to doing and having heavy duty caffeine withdrawal? I’d usually get up around 9:00, and I wouldn’t have thought an hour would make that much difference. Maybe I’m headachy because I’m still kind of low on sleep?
I got the two loads of laundry done yesterday but only a tiny bit of shelving. I simply forgot that I wanted to do further work when I went downstairs. Maybe I’ll get to it today. I don’t know. I’m still kind of groggy, so I’m not willing to commit to anything of the sort.
I bought a couple of sets at storybundle.com and haven’t yet downloaded them. I’ve got a Sony ereader that I may or may not be able to charge and a Kindle that I may or may not be able to connect to my laptop to transfer files, so I’m not sure what format I should ask for. I just keep putting off trying to figure that out. It feels like one more hoop to jump through. I also need to do the downloading at a point when Scott’s not trying to stream video. It might not have any impact on him, but I don’t want to take the risk.
The other hoop to jump through is trying to figure out Scrivener without dedicating a lot of time to it all at once. I think I’ve got about fifteen different projects I’d like to use it for if I find it helpful once I figure it out. About six of those projects are things I’m not heavily invested in but that would be nice to have all of my notes in one place that isn’t the inside of my head (two are more or less abandoned original novels, three are notes of all sorts about particular canons and how I interpret various bits and pieces, and the last is likely to be notes on plot bunnies that I don’t expect to do anything with any time soon but don’t want to either forget or have take over my brain. I don’t know for sure that Scrivener will work for these, but maybe I’ll be lucky). Right now, I’m thinking to just pick a project and play around to see how things work.
I’ve whittled down my email inbox considerably. Most of what remains requires me to make decisions or to do research or something else that will take time and resources.
The thingy that we use to get scratches out of CDs and DVDs is broken. It’s a manual thing with a crank. There’s a grinding wheel and a platter sort of thing that holds the disc and turns it as one turns the handle. Right now, the platter will turn in one direction but not in the other. The instructions say to put the disc through once in each direction, and I can no longer do that.
I use the stupid thing once or twice a month, mostly for library CDs, and it only works sometimes. At one point, Scott got an electronic scratch removal thing. I never figured out how to get it to work, and when Scott used it, it never made the disc playable. It also stopped working entirely after about a year. If I’m going to replace this, I’m inclined to go for the same sort of thing just because I know it will work on minor scratches. More or less the exact thing we’ve got is $25 on Amazon. I don’t know. It’s really nice to have the option, but spending money… I don’t know.
Scott is working 3:00 to 3:00 today. I stayed up past 11:00 last night just to be sure I’d be awake if his work called to say they weren’t going to need him early. I just didn’t want to be scrambling for the phone in the dark again.
It took me a couple of hours after Scott got up to get back to sleep. I don’t know why. Well, I’m pretty sure that the problem is my mind running around in circles. I just don’t know why that’s happening or how to stop it.
I woke around 10:00 with a headache. Once again, coffee with creamer helped that. I don’t know— Is it that I’m sleeping later than I’m used to doing and having heavy duty caffeine withdrawal? I’d usually get up around 9:00, and I wouldn’t have thought an hour would make that much difference. Maybe I’m headachy because I’m still kind of low on sleep?
I got the two loads of laundry done yesterday but only a tiny bit of shelving. I simply forgot that I wanted to do further work when I went downstairs. Maybe I’ll get to it today. I don’t know. I’m still kind of groggy, so I’m not willing to commit to anything of the sort.
I bought a couple of sets at storybundle.com and haven’t yet downloaded them. I’ve got a Sony ereader that I may or may not be able to charge and a Kindle that I may or may not be able to connect to my laptop to transfer files, so I’m not sure what format I should ask for. I just keep putting off trying to figure that out. It feels like one more hoop to jump through. I also need to do the downloading at a point when Scott’s not trying to stream video. It might not have any impact on him, but I don’t want to take the risk.
The other hoop to jump through is trying to figure out Scrivener without dedicating a lot of time to it all at once. I think I’ve got about fifteen different projects I’d like to use it for if I find it helpful once I figure it out. About six of those projects are things I’m not heavily invested in but that would be nice to have all of my notes in one place that isn’t the inside of my head (two are more or less abandoned original novels, three are notes of all sorts about particular canons and how I interpret various bits and pieces, and the last is likely to be notes on plot bunnies that I don’t expect to do anything with any time soon but don’t want to either forget or have take over my brain. I don’t know for sure that Scrivener will work for these, but maybe I’ll be lucky). Right now, I’m thinking to just pick a project and play around to see how things work.
I’ve whittled down my email inbox considerably. Most of what remains requires me to make decisions or to do research or something else that will take time and resources.
The thingy that we use to get scratches out of CDs and DVDs is broken. It’s a manual thing with a crank. There’s a grinding wheel and a platter sort of thing that holds the disc and turns it as one turns the handle. Right now, the platter will turn in one direction but not in the other. The instructions say to put the disc through once in each direction, and I can no longer do that.
I use the stupid thing once or twice a month, mostly for library CDs, and it only works sometimes. At one point, Scott got an electronic scratch removal thing. I never figured out how to get it to work, and when Scott used it, it never made the disc playable. It also stopped working entirely after about a year. If I’m going to replace this, I’m inclined to go for the same sort of thing just because I know it will work on minor scratches. More or less the exact thing we’ve got is $25 on Amazon. I don’t know. It’s really nice to have the option, but spending money… I don’t know.
