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Hard LJexit
Feb. 2nd, 2022 03:28 pmCrossposting to LiveJournal has stopped working reliably, and I've decided now is as good a time as any to stop that entirely.
Milestones Big and Small
Sep. 13th, 2016 08:31 pmWork continues to be busy but tiring. I'm only now getting to clearing some of my backlog both there and at home. Hence the delay in posting.
Two weekends ago (Labor Day weekend) was my sister's wedding! It was a wedding retreat, a whole weekend with immediate family old and new at a vacation home in the mountains in Newry, Maine. The wedding was beautiful, and the whole weekend was very relaxing. Congratulations again to Melissa and Elliott!
The highlight of the weekend for me, actual wedding aside, was taking the kid on her first hike. I bought an awesome backpack carrier, Eris enjoyed surveying her domain, and it was quite a workout! You can really tell the optimists from the pessimists among the people you pass on a steep hike, the former tell you encouragingly that the summit is right around the corner, the latter tell you accurately that it's still quite a ways. (One inversely-directed hiker compared Erica in her backpack to "the Queen of Sheba", to which I responded "and I, her loyal servant".) I definitely need to get in some more use of that backpack. It's fun!
(That and stargazing from the roof deck of the house. It's been a long time since I've had such a good view of the stars.)
I've been trying to get in more of activities I consider worth having done in retrospect and less of stuff that seems like a waste of time. It's not always what I expect.
Things that were good uses of my free time:
Eristic improvements: Dancing (including moving to the beat of music), standing assisted, bouncing up and down from a standing position (every day is leg day!), pulling herself up to sitting, kneeling, or half-standing poses on her own. Getting bored mid-hygiene and trying to get away (come back, baby!). Trying to get into the container of wipes to chew on them (evidently delicious?). Eating more varieties of food (though her reaction to some really new things is very dramatic: super-exaggerated disgust-face followed by demanding more followed by surprised laughter at every bite). Trying to remove books from lower bookshelves (the bungee cords are deterrent enough for now). She still is way into making that growling sound, too!
Two weekends ago (Labor Day weekend) was my sister's wedding! It was a wedding retreat, a whole weekend with immediate family old and new at a vacation home in the mountains in Newry, Maine. The wedding was beautiful, and the whole weekend was very relaxing. Congratulations again to Melissa and Elliott!
The highlight of the weekend for me, actual wedding aside, was taking the kid on her first hike. I bought an awesome backpack carrier, Eris enjoyed surveying her domain, and it was quite a workout! You can really tell the optimists from the pessimists among the people you pass on a steep hike, the former tell you encouragingly that the summit is right around the corner, the latter tell you accurately that it's still quite a ways. (One inversely-directed hiker compared Erica in her backpack to "the Queen of Sheba", to which I responded "and I, her loyal servant".) I definitely need to get in some more use of that backpack. It's fun!
(That and stargazing from the roof deck of the house. It's been a long time since I've had such a good view of the stars.)
I've been trying to get in more of activities I consider worth having done in retrospect and less of stuff that seems like a waste of time. It's not always what I expect.
Things that were good uses of my free time:
- Going to Michelle's birthday party
- An extended Sunday brunch that ended up taking all of the morning and a bit of the afternoon
- Getting back to reading S.
- Starting to read Fix (the conclusion of a trilogy)
- Reading books in general, including on the Kindle app on my phone
- Long strolls with the kid
- Catching up on Fear the Walking Dead (even though that's not nearly as good as the show it's a spinoff of)
- Watching Dennou Coil (most briefly described as "Google Glass the anime")
- LJ discussion threads, even though it takes me entirely to long to edit entirely too wordy comments
- Cooking, even when it's something simple
- A super-aimless Saturday morning, where it took me far too long to get up and do anything
- Playing a bit of Borderlands (I thought I would enjoy it, but it was just too repetitive and grindy)
- Excessive Facebook browsing
Eristic improvements: Dancing (including moving to the beat of music), standing assisted, bouncing up and down from a standing position (every day is leg day!), pulling herself up to sitting, kneeling, or half-standing poses on her own. Getting bored mid-hygiene and trying to get away (come back, baby!). Trying to get into the container of wipes to chew on them (evidently delicious?). Eating more varieties of food (though her reaction to some really new things is very dramatic: super-exaggerated disgust-face followed by demanding more followed by surprised laughter at every bite). Trying to remove books from lower bookshelves (the bungee cords are deterrent enough for now). She still is way into making that growling sound, too!
Tuesday's Deadline
Jul. 29th, 2011 02:54 pmLJ seems to have survived yet another bombardment from the Russian internet death lasers.
The US hits the debt ceiling on Tuesday, if a deal isn't reached. I did some writing on that here. Basically, the most likely case if a deal isn't reached is that some government spending doesn't happen. What spending does happen is based in part on constitutional requirements, Treasury Bonds get paid off (so it's not technically a "default") and judicial salaries also continue uninterrupted. It's a pretty steep cut, though, about a third of ongoing bills would not get paid. (This visualization is pretty good, but I wish that constitutionally-protected payments were separated out better, the aforementioned judicial salaries are lumped in with the salaries of a lot of clerks who really would be out of work during a budget crunch.)
I'm going to do that thing I do where I paste in a link and say "no, seriously, read the whole thing". It's very astute analysis on an important political issue (if no compromised is reached, the most important political issue of the year... I hope). Except this time it's four links, to this series by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird: One, two, three, three, four. (If you liked those, bonus one and two.)
The US hits the debt ceiling on Tuesday, if a deal isn't reached. I did some writing on that here. Basically, the most likely case if a deal isn't reached is that some government spending doesn't happen. What spending does happen is based in part on constitutional requirements, Treasury Bonds get paid off (so it's not technically a "default") and judicial salaries also continue uninterrupted. It's a pretty steep cut, though, about a third of ongoing bills would not get paid. (This visualization is pretty good, but I wish that constitutionally-protected payments were separated out better, the aforementioned judicial salaries are lumped in with the salaries of a lot of clerks who really would be out of work during a budget crunch.)
I'm going to do that thing I do where I paste in a link and say "no, seriously, read the whole thing". It's very astute analysis on an important political issue (if no compromised is reached, the most important political issue of the year... I hope). Except this time it's four links, to this series by
solarbird: One, two, three, three, four. (If you liked those, bonus one and two.)
Heading to Camp
Jul. 1st, 2011 03:10 pmI'll be gone from internet and phone contact while I'm at Sandy Island Camp from tomorrow morning until I get back on Saturday, July 9.
Who Saw That Coming?
Feb. 23rd, 2011 05:03 pmMonday was fun. Hit the gym, relaxed, and had a nice dinner with Tara. If only the weather wasn't so cold!
In other news, the comment spammers are still hounding me, though now with actual accounts. Hopefully the site admins are listening to those spam reports.
The real news continues to be interesting. If I'd ventured a guess about which country was most likely to provoke the next politically-caused spike in oil prices (any time after the Iraq invasion), I would have gone with Iran. But turns out it's Libya! NYMEX futures up to $98 today, briefly hitting $100. Gold's up, too (mainly from people fleeing stocks). The split between the major oil futures is way higher than previous. Demand for shipping has cratered again. Can't imagine my industry will be terribly happy about this.
Gaddafi, being a professional crazy man, is determined to go down fighting / ranting / hiring mercenaries to fire on the crowds. Don't see him winning this one, though.
In other news, the comment spammers are still hounding me, though now with actual accounts. Hopefully the site admins are listening to those spam reports.
The real news continues to be interesting. If I'd ventured a guess about which country was most likely to provoke the next politically-caused spike in oil prices (any time after the Iraq invasion), I would have gone with Iran. But turns out it's Libya! NYMEX futures up to $98 today, briefly hitting $100. Gold's up, too (mainly from people fleeing stocks). The split between the major oil futures is way higher than previous. Demand for shipping has cratered again. Can't imagine my industry will be terribly happy about this.
Gaddafi, being a professional crazy man, is determined to go down fighting / ranting / hiring mercenaries to fire on the crowds. Don't see him winning this one, though.
Admin Note
Feb. 18th, 2011 03:47 pmI'm getting a lot of comment spam all over this journal in the last week or so, and the site administrators have yet to clamp down effectively, so I'm disabling anonymous comments for now.
