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Mar. 10th, 2006 08:23 pmI don't have much to say, but I'm giving you plenty to read (see end of entry; I'm sorry I've been forgetting to give you fabulous links).
We're feeling a little sick around here these days.
Today's weather was absolutely perfect for having lunch outside in the shade, and I got to do that exact thing with raaga123 today.
Meanwhile, I'm still having problem-du-jour episodes at work. Since I was gone three days, of course I had three broken things waiting for my return, plus an additional broken thing for that day, and today I found another broken thing. These are all related to the fact that I was given a new computer.
I know I am supposed to love having an exciting new computer, but I never do. This adventure involved having to find all the software I use that the installer forgot about and get it installed. I had to get some things properly re-connected. The software is also new--all the latest versions--which means I've got an extra learning curve for everything I do for a while.
Plus apparently orange is in because all the new applications have way more orange than they used to. I like orange fine, when it is with other earth tones. What I don't like (in general--there are exceptions) is a lot of blue with a highly contrasting, jarring orange popping up everywhere. Flight-suit orange in large doses is the color of headaches.
And then I had to do all that other stuff I've been doing gradually since the last time I got a new computer, like mapping the two Enter keys to both act line returns, some default colors to more soothing combinations, re-populating the old memory banks with the full e-mail addresses of the colleagues I write to frequently, etc.
This evening I'm not going to the gym or to dance class but just doing whatever I feel like, which is getting into the spirit of the "Creative Deprivation" entry below, and which is an excellent Friday evening plan.
Journal Entry of the Day - Creative Deprivation on The Bemusement Park - long and not humorous, but it's wonderful when someone explains something complicated so clearly. "I've missed too much by reducing my life to a series of tasks to be prioritized and completed as efficiently as possible; no one has asked me to turn my life into a giant 'to do' list to which anyone may add things. I've done it to myself, in a quest to justify an existence the validity of which no one was questioning."
Other Journal Entry of the Day - See cartaufalous's premier journal entry, 100 Miles. "In fact about the only sticker on the truck is the one on the windshield, pink neon, four inches tall and blinking, that says, 'Please Officer, pull me over now!'"
We're feeling a little sick around here these days.
Today's weather was absolutely perfect for having lunch outside in the shade, and I got to do that exact thing with raaga123 today.
Meanwhile, I'm still having problem-du-jour episodes at work. Since I was gone three days, of course I had three broken things waiting for my return, plus an additional broken thing for that day, and today I found another broken thing. These are all related to the fact that I was given a new computer.
I know I am supposed to love having an exciting new computer, but I never do. This adventure involved having to find all the software I use that the installer forgot about and get it installed. I had to get some things properly re-connected. The software is also new--all the latest versions--which means I've got an extra learning curve for everything I do for a while.
Plus apparently orange is in because all the new applications have way more orange than they used to. I like orange fine, when it is with other earth tones. What I don't like (in general--there are exceptions) is a lot of blue with a highly contrasting, jarring orange popping up everywhere. Flight-suit orange in large doses is the color of headaches.
And then I had to do all that other stuff I've been doing gradually since the last time I got a new computer, like mapping the two Enter keys to both act line returns, some default colors to more soothing combinations, re-populating the old memory banks with the full e-mail addresses of the colleagues I write to frequently, etc.
This evening I'm not going to the gym or to dance class but just doing whatever I feel like, which is getting into the spirit of the "Creative Deprivation" entry below, and which is an excellent Friday evening plan.
Journal Entry of the Day - Creative Deprivation on The Bemusement Park - long and not humorous, but it's wonderful when someone explains something complicated so clearly. "I've missed too much by reducing my life to a series of tasks to be prioritized and completed as efficiently as possible; no one has asked me to turn my life into a giant 'to do' list to which anyone may add things. I've done it to myself, in a quest to justify an existence the validity of which no one was questioning."
Other Journal Entry of the Day - See cartaufalous's premier journal entry, 100 Miles. "In fact about the only sticker on the truck is the one on the windshield, pink neon, four inches tall and blinking, that says, 'Please Officer, pull me over now!'"