Weekend!
Setting: Tail end of April
“Jay?”
“Yes, Boss?”
“Those things that I told you in March to not worry about until July?”
“Yeah?”
“They’re due at the end of May.”
“Oh.”
As it turns out, I surprised myself by discovering a rough outline of how I needed to best attack the tasks that was apparently written by me in March before I back burnered this stuff. Go March version of me! I should seriously endeavor to be more like that guy.
So, with his help and preparation, I got what I thought was a two month project done in one month, in time for everything to be sent out to the people who need it. Who, I suppose, are also me. Dang it.
But there is, seriously, nothing that feels as awesome as handing in a final project.
Now I just have to get back to the stuff I didn’t do while I was doing the project.
But that means that this weekend is a weekend of glory and celebration! Woooo! And chores and errands (including a trip to the dump to get rid of the old futon that has been replaced with a real grown-up bed!) and preparations for my being out of pocket for a couple of weeks in a couple of weeks.
But mostly I’m just looking at the stuff I finished and said “I honestly thought I’d still be working on it.”
Whew.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Photo is “Footrace finish line, 1925” from the Seattle Municipal Archives, used under a creative commons license)
Brewing! This time around, it’s a simple fruit cider. Orange-rind cream ale is ready to go so it’s time to get some more fermentation happening. I think a simple green apple cider is what the doctor’s going to order up in the three weeks or so it’ll take us to go through the beer. cider ferments faster than beer, so we can have this stuff ready for a 4th of July barbecue.Report
Tomorrow we’re going down to the elementary school to talk to some more development specialists about Lain. We think that they’re going to tell us that she has progressed out of the state’s development assistence program. Or they’ll tell us that she hasn’t, which will make us sad but will mean free day care.
We’ve had some truly amazing progress on the sleeping front. There is an ebb and flow, but the bad nights are better than the good nights used to be, for the most part. We’ve got her completely off of night milk, and she is relying less on us to soothe her.
I’m hoping to actually get some TV watching done, but life keeps intervening.Report
Hey, does anybody here have a Pebble Watch? I got one, and I’m looking for some interesting apps.Report
What’s a watch? (I actually had to look up what a Pebble Watch is.)Report
My Pebble vibrates whenever I get an email. I get an email every time someone comments on my post.
So every Friday I get a wrist massage.Report
Wrist.
Right.
You know, I think I’m just going to stop commenting on those.Report
My watch is a wind-up!Report
@aaron-david
Mine has a battery, but it’s a pocket watch, so i feel i should get points for that.Report
Some people don’t understand the point of a watch in age of smartphones. Those people are wrong.
However, I do not understand the point of a pocketwatch in the age of smartphones… or even most dumb phones.Report
A watch would led me read email more efficiently, because every time I get an email, instead of having to look for my smartphone, I could look for my reading glasses.Report
I don’t bother trying to read them on my watch. I mostly use it for being alerted and triage.Report
My colleague has one. I’ll pick his brain on Monday.Report
It turns out it’s mainly his wife who uses it. She uses it mainly for
– quick review and canned responses to text and email messages (“I’m at work, I’ll reply later today” etc.)
– calendar notifications
– exploiting the phone/watch pairing to locate her phone
– a few gamesReport
@dragonfrog Thanks. I haven’t tried any of the games yet. I’ve considered looking around, but with three buttons I’m not sure how they would work.
As someone with a terrible sense of direction, I like the compass functionality! And as someone who snores, I’m gonna see how the snoring app works.Report
Plz to note that we’ll still have a futon mattress on the grown-up bed, and that the grown-up bed cost 200 (on deep sale) and has to be put together, so I’m not sure HOW grown-up it is. BUT, it is not broken, and it superficially LOOKS like a grown-up bed, and that means we will be a 2 grown-up bed household, and man, that’s weird. And grown up. An actual bed for guests to sleep on!
Other than putting the bedframe together and helping with getting the old stuff into the truck for the dump run (THANK YOU FISH), my biggest hopes for the weekend are a) reading a lot, b) actually writing some review thingers so I can post more bookposts to my blog, c) resting. Oh, and I have a therapy appointment on Monday.Report
No worries, glad to help. Also, being able to say “no” to working this weekend because I need to help my friends with stuff they’ve put off for three weeks is also good. 🙂Report
post more bookposts to my blog
I don’t think I knew about that.Report
@mike-schilling I find I get less spam if I don’t post the URL directly very often, but it’s the linkback in my name on every comment I post…
Er, assuming you were asking to know more about it 😀Report
You see right through me 🙂
I’m looking forward to reading it.Report
I’d like to get some home projects done. I have some painting I’d like to do, and a lotta dirt I gotta move (a good friend once told me that much of human existence is schlepping heavy objects from one place to another, then back again. The challenge is to find this Zen, rather than Sisyphean).
I also cracked my first book in a while (Bone Clocks). Hoping to maintain momentum, as it was only the topmost book in my ‘to-read’ stack.Report
My GF is going to be out of the country for most of June including her birthday.
She is having a picnic on Saturday and Sunday we are going to SPQR to celebrate:
http://www.spqrsf.com/Report
She has good taste. I’ll hope for a full review; I don’t often get to dine at Michelin-starred restaurants.Report
@burt-likko
SF is an embarrassment of riches in terms of restaurants right now. We might not have enough good restaurants considering how hard it is too get a reservation at many places. We were out last night and looking for a spot to eat. Many places had a long wait even though it was 9 PM on a Thursday night. I have seen restaurants packed with people at 10 PM on a Sunday night.Report
I went to a restaurant in SF that would literally cross your name off the waiting list if you seemed too ignorant.Report
I am calling BS on this one.Report
It was in Jtown, and they have a small place… and a line at most times of day and night.
But if you like Ramen like I like Ramen…
Ten bucks says you haven’t eaten there.Report
If you gave me a name I would be able to tell you whether I ate there or not. I am well acquainted with lines at SF restaurants. They will cancel if it is your turn but you are too late at getting back.
I have never seen a test of foodie knowledge. Your refusal to give a name or address makes me think you are BSing.Report
That is, if you took too long trying to spell it.Report
You could tell when things were really slow in SF (about 4 or 5 years ago), because you could just walk into any restaurant you liked without even thinking about making a reservation.Report
I also think that SF and NYC are places where a lot of people do not cook at home.Report
At the airport now, heading home from Manchester,NH after two weeks on the road. Going to kiss the wife and the dogs and enjoy a weekend of nothing.Report
Bliss! Enjoy.Report
Man, there is nothing better than the feeling of going home.Report
Waking up in a 5-star hotel in London or Paris?
Waking up in a 5-star resort in the Tropics with a sea breeze on your face and the smell of fresh air, salt water, and fruit?Report
My home is pretty cool.Report
This was one of those returns that felt really weird. I was excited to be heading home but also felt some nervousness about it. The project is going well in the Northeast but there is still a ton of work to do (apparently opening a $45 million facility is harder in practice than it was on paper). I knew I needed to leave but I also felt guilty. I’ll be back in 2 weeks but that seems like a mountain of time for all sorts of things to go wrong without me there. Have to trust the team we hired can handle it and remember that home life always trumps work life. I’m in one of those seasons where the lines have gotten a little blurry.Report
Meeting my best friend of 25 years’ new girlfriend for dinner on Sat.Report
Memorial BBQ Sunday for my deceased brother as we approach the anniversary of his death. Hanging with my bestie on Saturday. He’s determined to make me feel better since I didn’t get that job I really wanted.
I’m not on call this weekend!!!Report
Replaced a washer machine last weekend. New one installed, but playing catchup on chores.
As mentioned last weekend I will explain the instructions of the oyster mushroom kit that is currently waiting assembly. *some instructions abbreviated/liberated and spell corrected/incorrected
1. wash hands, put on clean latex gloves
2. empty bag of hardwood pellets into lower tray of terrarium, spread evenly
3. boil 1 1/3 cup water and pour evenly over pellets, allow time for pellets to expand
4. make 4 evenly spaced holes in wood fluff and apply spore medium into holes
5. in one to two weeks white mycelium will be growing, take care that no other funk is growing in there (bacteria and such) or the mycelium could perish.
6. 1-2 weeks after the mycelium grows, star-like pinheads will begin to form. When these baby mushrooms begin to form. place the terrarium base near moderate sunlight and moisten each day with approx. 1/4 cup of cold water.
7. within 4-6 weeks mushrooms should be ready to harvest. To harvest wash hands and twist mushrooms out of the woodfill softly not disturbing the woodfill. Do not dig into the woodfill. Harvest as soon as the caps start to split.
8. after harvesting, “cold shock” the woodfill with cold water to stimulate the mycelium to grow again.
9. if cold shock worked, goto step 5.
mentions 2-3 grow cycles are average for the kit
Hope everyone fares well this weekend!Report
Thank you. That seems like something even I could handle, modulo planning around a couple of months when I’m not going out of town.Report
We’re in Rosebud Alberta ttoday, having watched the opening of Fledermaus’s show (costumes on The Wizard of Oz!).
Probably the next stop is the Tyrell dinosaur museum, which I haven’t visited since I was little, and kiddo has never seen. Depending when we get back to town, I might go out dancing tonight.Report