$0.46... Illustrator 9 Wow! Book -- had another one of these (similarly priced) which had the formula for isometric projection. Had a sheet that listed the formulae for various projections and managed to lose it. Difficult information to replace, it turns out.
Waiting for the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 package to be delivered. That was expensive. So was the graphics tablet and Painter. DO something with them. Now that they're no longer on my wish list DO something with them. Create something. Finish something.
Is there really any point to that any more? I wonder. What the hell, at least the graphics tablet and Painter aren't something I'm pining for. Maybe I'll do something with it. At least play with it. Is that wrong?
The electric guitar(s) didn't hurt me much. They made interesting sounds. If that six-string electric had a vagina I may have married it. But I wasn't playing them and I have no discernible musical talent.
Make small cartoon drawings. They're interesting and unusual. Not everyone does that. Have a little faith in myself.
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
I expect the sun to rise presently.
Finished ALL of Cassidy's ironing and got ALL of the laundry put away. Still have more dishes to do. Served the mice square noodles with chopped up roast pork from Saturday. Tasty.
Out of milk completely. Cassidy didn't want to consider going to the market last night, so that's that.
Had a dream about Frizzy and woke up remembering her.
Out of milk completely. Cassidy didn't want to consider going to the market last night, so that's that.
Had a dream about Frizzy and woke up remembering her.
Monday, May 02, 2005
Afternoon
Three. Putting a few things from the garage in the newly-emptied trash can. Keep the good stuff. There's so much to get rid of. You've gotta stop clutter at the door, just about. I can see why people use that trash can by the mailboxes. Don't even let it in the house.
Cleaned the kid's new game CD, it had gotten a smudge which kept it from working. Used the crank-based disc cleaner and it worked. Hooray. Everyone is happy again.
Emptied the dishwasher again. Filled the dishwasher again. Have a few more dishes to put away. Have a large pile of laundry to put away, I'd put away clothes this morning from a previously existing pile of laundry. I wish I liked putting away laundry as much as I like putting groceries away.
I like the whole grocery shopping things, planning meals or having certain things on hand to make meals out of or to feed the mice with that they'll actually eat. We don't run out of food and they are hopefully getting all the nutrients they need. It wouldn't hurt them to eat more vegetables. Or fruit. OTOH, they're not starving.
I could go weed part of the front garden area. Haven't touched that all year in favor of the lawn project. I wonder if the concrete block wall couldn't be extended further towards the street, at a lower level..? And maybe face it with bricks for show. Finish the front how? Face it with bricks. Incorporate the small steps? End with a low wall and leave space for parking? Or opening car doors?
If we keep the house. If we continue living here.
Make a third bathroom for Cassidy, entered through her room. A girl thing. Make the two rooms/bathrooms equal.
Fan for the attic area above the kid's rooms. Also for the garage, something to relieve the heat that gets stuck in there.
That place in Vista (?) for windows someone on the Community Association Board mentioned and recommended. Get at least Cassidy's windows double-paned/double-glazed against the summer heat.
The living room windows on the front door side, the dining room windows, too. Those are the windows the sun directly hits.
If we keep the house I'd like to look into solar panels. It's certainly sunny enough here to consider doing that.
Cleaned the kid's new game CD, it had gotten a smudge which kept it from working. Used the crank-based disc cleaner and it worked. Hooray. Everyone is happy again.
Emptied the dishwasher again. Filled the dishwasher again. Have a few more dishes to put away. Have a large pile of laundry to put away, I'd put away clothes this morning from a previously existing pile of laundry. I wish I liked putting away laundry as much as I like putting groceries away.
I like the whole grocery shopping things, planning meals or having certain things on hand to make meals out of or to feed the mice with that they'll actually eat. We don't run out of food and they are hopefully getting all the nutrients they need. It wouldn't hurt them to eat more vegetables. Or fruit. OTOH, they're not starving.
I could go weed part of the front garden area. Haven't touched that all year in favor of the lawn project. I wonder if the concrete block wall couldn't be extended further towards the street, at a lower level..? And maybe face it with bricks for show. Finish the front how? Face it with bricks. Incorporate the small steps? End with a low wall and leave space for parking? Or opening car doors?
If we keep the house. If we continue living here.
Make a third bathroom for Cassidy, entered through her room. A girl thing. Make the two rooms/bathrooms equal.
Fan for the attic area above the kid's rooms. Also for the garage, something to relieve the heat that gets stuck in there.
That place in Vista (?) for windows someone on the Community Association Board mentioned and recommended. Get at least Cassidy's windows double-paned/double-glazed against the summer heat.
The living room windows on the front door side, the dining room windows, too. Those are the windows the sun directly hits.
If we keep the house I'd like to look into solar panels. It's certainly sunny enough here to consider doing that.
Monday
Did some more laundry, washed some more dishes. I do a lot of laundry and I wash a lot of dishes.
Go pick Flynn up in ten minutes or so.
Pleasant day outside, not too hot. Not in a hurry for the heat to arrive. Trash and recycling were collected and I was thrilled to see the mountain of clutter and garden waste go.
Lawn looks good, transplanted plants appear to be surviving for the moment. Clean everything up. Keep it all organized, keep on top of everything.
Received another notice about a court date, this one 2/3rds of the way through June. Is the May court date postponed? I thought the next date was May 24th or so.
I wonder if we'll get to keep the house? Worry about that sometimes. Maybe we'll have to move somewhere. Wait and see.
Go pick Flynn up in ten minutes or so.
Pleasant day outside, not too hot. Not in a hurry for the heat to arrive. Trash and recycling were collected and I was thrilled to see the mountain of clutter and garden waste go.
Lawn looks good, transplanted plants appear to be surviving for the moment. Clean everything up. Keep it all organized, keep on top of everything.
Received another notice about a court date, this one 2/3rds of the way through June. Is the May court date postponed? I thought the next date was May 24th or so.
I wonder if we'll get to keep the house? Worry about that sometimes. Maybe we'll have to move somewhere. Wait and see.
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Saturday Afternoon
Drove the kids to Diane's house and got home about eleven. Trimmed the rose in the front, trimmed the pine tree, trimmed the bougainvillea, transplanted the shrub that smells like fresh laundry and planted a rose I had in a container. I think I dug it up from the front last spring or two springs ago. Cleaned up the corner area and added some outdoor soil I bought @ Home Depot the other day. Dug that in. Transplanted the volunteer tomato from last year which had been in the planter box. Transplanted a small tomato that had been growing under the larger of the two tea roses. Excavated the tenacious geranium which had been ensconced next to the stairs. Transplanted the smaller tea rose over a bit. Then I transplanted the other one. And watered outside. Took a shower and watered the front lawn area. Feels good to sit down.
Maybe I'll watch a movie and take a nap. Or I could start on dinner. Build a fire and brine the pork tenderloin I bought yesterday. I also have a whole chicken. I was going to roast the chicken tomorrow.
Have a lot of garden debris to dispose of.
I ought to brine the pork and start the fire... then watch a movie. Or not. I have ironing to do and Cassidy's clothes haven't been put away in a while. I get stuck putting laundry away for some reason.
Dozing off in my chair. My back hurts.
Maybe I'll watch a movie and take a nap. Or I could start on dinner. Build a fire and brine the pork tenderloin I bought yesterday. I also have a whole chicken. I was going to roast the chicken tomorrow.
Have a lot of garden debris to dispose of.
I ought to brine the pork and start the fire... then watch a movie. Or not. I have ironing to do and Cassidy's clothes haven't been put away in a while. I get stuck putting laundry away for some reason.
Dozing off in my chair. My back hurts.
Friday, April 29, 2005
Friday Morning
LOTS of birds @ the bird feeder starting @ 5.45. Hungry birds. Many hungry birds. They've been EMPTYING the bird feeder once a day. I had no idea there were so many different kinds of birds around here. I've started buying the 20-pound bags of bird seed.
Friday. I need to get to the market today.
Mac OSX "Tiger" ought to arrive today
Have a new HD
Have a Firewire cable to digitize the camcorder tapes
Have new CDR media and cases
Graphics tablet and Painter on the way
Macromedia Studio MX on the way
At long last ALL the software I have on the computer is 100% legal. Aren't I a responsible citizen!
Donated $250 to Wikipedia the other night. It's tax-deductible. I like Wikipedia. Do I have them on my links page?
Friday. I need to get to the market today.
Mac OSX "Tiger" ought to arrive today
Have a new HD
Have a Firewire cable to digitize the camcorder tapes
Have new CDR media and cases
Graphics tablet and Painter on the way
Macromedia Studio MX on the way
At long last ALL the software I have on the computer is 100% legal. Aren't I a responsible citizen!
Donated $250 to Wikipedia the other night. It's tax-deductible. I like Wikipedia. Do I have them on my links page?
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Heavy rain started just after I got home with Cassidy. Just pissing down. Lasted about half an hour, heavy rain. Excellent.
The license plates arrived for the Prius already so I put those on the car. Buying a new car was far easier than I'd imagined it might be.
I'm surprised at the cars I saw advertised in the newspaper that were the same price or less than the Prius, big SUVs or manly pickup trucks... I think the Mini Cooper was cheaper. But the Prius gets excellent mileage. And has a LOT of interior space. Quite pleased with the Prius.
Even though I may have to buy a third tank of gas... eventually.
The license plates arrived for the Prius already so I put those on the car. Buying a new car was far easier than I'd imagined it might be.
I'm surprised at the cars I saw advertised in the newspaper that were the same price or less than the Prius, big SUVs or manly pickup trucks... I think the Mini Cooper was cheaper. But the Prius gets excellent mileage. And has a LOT of interior space. Quite pleased with the Prius.
Even though I may have to buy a third tank of gas... eventually.
Rain
Nice surprise. Pretty good rain, too.
Cassidy asked for her green umbrella while we were walking to school. She said that the clear umbrella with polka dots is too small. I had bought the green umbrella for her. Flynn said he can't find his umbrella. Again. I broke out the big automatic umbrella. Got to use the little rear-window wiper on the Prius.
Mac Office arrived in the mail yesterday, along with my license plates, which were a surprise, it took months last time to get the plates. So put those on the Prius later on.
I've been having a difficult time getting out of bed for weeks. Once upon a time I'd jump out of bed at the first alarm. Now I'm resetting the alarm time over and over again until it's nearly six o'clock. Yipes.
Made sausages and hash browns and toast for the mice this morning. A good breakfast.
Scan in the last paper clutter and drawings. Save the kid's artwork. Throw out more stuff. Found some books that got the boot last night. A few I'd like to keep. I threw out my copy of Deadbase. You can access Deadbase on the net, now.
I definitely get the feeling that life is a matter of taking care of the kids and planning for them than it is anything else. I'm excited about the Mac OS revision and getting to see another Dodgers game on television on Friday. I'm very pleased with the lawn. It's felt good to throw things out. Finally part with clutter which had become meaningless over the years. Whitney's notes. Everything goes.
Scan in a LOT of photographs. Then sift through the CDs and get rid of the first iteration of those. Keep photos and music. And drawings/artwork.
I'd like to do something with the drawings. Leave them in a nice complete set. What I saw, what I had to say. Someone might enjoy looking at them someday.
Develop a cartoon strip and submit that. I love to write and that would be an ideal outlet. Tons of money and a tiny bit of graphic design.
Something to consider. The Tiny Islands.
Tempted to get another graphics tablet and Painter. Kind of the final jewel in my software. Excited about winning the Macromedia Studio MX suite later today. Hope my bid is high enough. Retail is nearly $1000. My bid is about $600. The suite includes Flash. Always wanted to learn Flash. And it sounds like Dreamweaver is much better than GoLive.
Digitize the camcorder tapes and see if I can't digitize some old MNF games. Virtually all the movies I like are available on DVD, either commercially or as a hobbyist/collector DVD. DVDs are convenient. Less bulky than tapes. Glad to see the tapes go. The cassettes and tapes got out of hand long ago. I had lots of great stuff. Too much to possibly listen to. I found a web site that archives Dead shows and downloaded 841103 from the Berkeley Civic Center or some small room. Sounds great.
Last week I snagged "Real Cool Yule" and "Papa's On The Housetop" from a Dr. D. site and edited those using a demo version of Peak. I had a commercial copy of Peak for OS9. I wanted those two songs in particular from the cassettes.
Still raining. Pretty hard. Nice rain. I love rain.
What else? Need to look at some bills.
Cassidy asked for her green umbrella while we were walking to school. She said that the clear umbrella with polka dots is too small. I had bought the green umbrella for her. Flynn said he can't find his umbrella. Again. I broke out the big automatic umbrella. Got to use the little rear-window wiper on the Prius.
Mac Office arrived in the mail yesterday, along with my license plates, which were a surprise, it took months last time to get the plates. So put those on the Prius later on.
I've been having a difficult time getting out of bed for weeks. Once upon a time I'd jump out of bed at the first alarm. Now I'm resetting the alarm time over and over again until it's nearly six o'clock. Yipes.
Made sausages and hash browns and toast for the mice this morning. A good breakfast.
Scan in the last paper clutter and drawings. Save the kid's artwork. Throw out more stuff. Found some books that got the boot last night. A few I'd like to keep. I threw out my copy of Deadbase. You can access Deadbase on the net, now.
I definitely get the feeling that life is a matter of taking care of the kids and planning for them than it is anything else. I'm excited about the Mac OS revision and getting to see another Dodgers game on television on Friday. I'm very pleased with the lawn. It's felt good to throw things out. Finally part with clutter which had become meaningless over the years. Whitney's notes. Everything goes.
Scan in a LOT of photographs. Then sift through the CDs and get rid of the first iteration of those. Keep photos and music. And drawings/artwork.
I'd like to do something with the drawings. Leave them in a nice complete set. What I saw, what I had to say. Someone might enjoy looking at them someday.
Develop a cartoon strip and submit that. I love to write and that would be an ideal outlet. Tons of money and a tiny bit of graphic design.
Something to consider. The Tiny Islands.
Tempted to get another graphics tablet and Painter. Kind of the final jewel in my software. Excited about winning the Macromedia Studio MX suite later today. Hope my bid is high enough. Retail is nearly $1000. My bid is about $600. The suite includes Flash. Always wanted to learn Flash. And it sounds like Dreamweaver is much better than GoLive.
Digitize the camcorder tapes and see if I can't digitize some old MNF games. Virtually all the movies I like are available on DVD, either commercially or as a hobbyist/collector DVD. DVDs are convenient. Less bulky than tapes. Glad to see the tapes go. The cassettes and tapes got out of hand long ago. I had lots of great stuff. Too much to possibly listen to. I found a web site that archives Dead shows and downloaded 841103 from the Berkeley Civic Center or some small room. Sounds great.
Last week I snagged "Real Cool Yule" and "Papa's On The Housetop" from a Dr. D. site and edited those using a demo version of Peak. I had a commercial copy of Peak for OS9. I wanted those two songs in particular from the cassettes.
Still raining. Pretty hard. Nice rain. I love rain.
What else? Need to look at some bills.
A lot of stuff arrived yesterday. New hard drive, CDR media, CD cases... looking forward to receiving a copy of the latest revision to the Mac OS, Tiger, on Friday.
Received a new Firewire cable, digitize the camcorder tapes and get rid of the old camcorder. Don't delete the support files this time, idiot.
Light rain this morning. Baking some sausages, making some hash browns. Feed the mice.
Bidding on a copy of Macromedia Studio MX on eBay. Ordered a couple of books on Flash and Dreamweaver, which sounds superior to GoLive.
Time to go attend to the mice and all that real-life stuff.
Received a new Firewire cable, digitize the camcorder tapes and get rid of the old camcorder. Don't delete the support files this time, idiot.
Light rain this morning. Baking some sausages, making some hash browns. Feed the mice.
Bidding on a copy of Macromedia Studio MX on eBay. Ordered a couple of books on Flash and Dreamweaver, which sounds superior to GoLive.
Time to go attend to the mice and all that real-life stuff.
Monday, April 25, 2005
Monday
Expecting a Firewire cable to be delivered tomorrow. I'll use that to digitize the camcorder tapes. I'm also expecting a file cart with folders to be delivered tomorrow. Made a list of household accounts. Left the $20 filing cabinet out for the recycling. An actual filing cabinet will be useful to keep things organized.
Have several piles of bills and papers on the floor near my desk. I have virtually no clutter left at all. A drawer in the tool chest full of product manuals, another drawer full of photographs and negatives and slides. More photographs in other drawers. A LOT of photographs. A big drawer full of data CDs. But I've really been ruthless about getting rid of stuff this time around. The most productive cleaning frenzy I've ever been in.
The cassettes are going or gone along with a lot of videotapes. I've ordered DVDs of most of the movies I like well enough to want to watch again. Shitty science fiction movies aren't worth collecting or having around. I don't need all kinds of weird clutter. I don't need ANY weird clutter. I could have used a larger trash can.
I didn't put the trash can out last Monday since we were going to go visiting. So I put out some regular trash in a plastic trash bag. And some recycling. Today the trash can was full and heavy. Lots of videotapes and cassettes on top of it.
Looking forward to having the Firewire cable and getting the camcorder tapes digitized. Then get rid of the camcorder and the tapes. Looking forward to the filing cabinet arriving and filing all that stuff away once and for all, logically. I just don't need to save a bunch of weird stuff. And now most of it is gone. Get rid of stuff. Don't acquire more stuff. Have what we need and that's more than enough. No more clutter. Ever.
Scan in the photographs.
Have an external 80Gb drive arriving. The internal HD is nearly full. Amazing. Digitize more photographs. Get rid of the paper photographs.
Still have more cleaning to do in the yard and garden.
Expecting the newest revision to the Mac OS at the end of the week. Play with that next Saturday. Also ordered 100 blank CD-Rs and 100 cases. Go through old CDs and evaluate what I have on them, burn new CDs without the useless crap.
Go through the video games and get rid of the ones the kids don't play any more. Get rid of that clutter. Keep what we use and what we need. Get rid of the rest. We don't need a larger house, we need less clutter.
I set aside a few VHS tapes with MNF games on them, try digitizing those and burning them to DVDs. THEN GET RID OF THE TAPES. Definitely sick of seeing stacks of videotapes and/or cassettes around. Digitize it, takes up no real space that way. Maybe a DVD as a backup. No endless boxes of clutter. No one puzzling about what to do with this trash when I'm dead.
Nearly time to go and collect Cassidy.
Have several piles of bills and papers on the floor near my desk. I have virtually no clutter left at all. A drawer in the tool chest full of product manuals, another drawer full of photographs and negatives and slides. More photographs in other drawers. A LOT of photographs. A big drawer full of data CDs. But I've really been ruthless about getting rid of stuff this time around. The most productive cleaning frenzy I've ever been in.
The cassettes are going or gone along with a lot of videotapes. I've ordered DVDs of most of the movies I like well enough to want to watch again. Shitty science fiction movies aren't worth collecting or having around. I don't need all kinds of weird clutter. I don't need ANY weird clutter. I could have used a larger trash can.
I didn't put the trash can out last Monday since we were going to go visiting. So I put out some regular trash in a plastic trash bag. And some recycling. Today the trash can was full and heavy. Lots of videotapes and cassettes on top of it.
Looking forward to having the Firewire cable and getting the camcorder tapes digitized. Then get rid of the camcorder and the tapes. Looking forward to the filing cabinet arriving and filing all that stuff away once and for all, logically. I just don't need to save a bunch of weird stuff. And now most of it is gone. Get rid of stuff. Don't acquire more stuff. Have what we need and that's more than enough. No more clutter. Ever.
Scan in the photographs.
Have an external 80Gb drive arriving. The internal HD is nearly full. Amazing. Digitize more photographs. Get rid of the paper photographs.
Still have more cleaning to do in the yard and garden.
Expecting the newest revision to the Mac OS at the end of the week. Play with that next Saturday. Also ordered 100 blank CD-Rs and 100 cases. Go through old CDs and evaluate what I have on them, burn new CDs without the useless crap.
Go through the video games and get rid of the ones the kids don't play any more. Get rid of that clutter. Keep what we use and what we need. Get rid of the rest. We don't need a larger house, we need less clutter.
I set aside a few VHS tapes with MNF games on them, try digitizing those and burning them to DVDs. THEN GET RID OF THE TAPES. Definitely sick of seeing stacks of videotapes and/or cassettes around. Digitize it, takes up no real space that way. Maybe a DVD as a backup. No endless boxes of clutter. No one puzzling about what to do with this trash when I'm dead.
Nearly time to go and collect Cassidy.
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Mowed the new lawn for the first time. It looks really good. The bare patches hardly show. I re-seeded those patches and added Kellogg's Topper sprinkled over the new seeds. Overall the lawn looks very good, I'm pleased. My suburban lawn.
Diane unfortunately showed up at ten o'clock this morning and collected the kids, they were going to have brunch @ the pancake house with Mike and Pat and then go to Diane's house. So I will collect them at six o'clock from there. I'd rather be at home on Saturday at six. Listening to Garrison Keilor on the radio and watching the Dodgers on television.
Bid on and won a copy of MS Office for Mac OSX. Didn't really need it but at least I'll have an OSX version in my name.
I seem to have erased the support files I needed to play a movie I'd made out of video clips from the ancient camcorder. I'll re-digitize those tapes and put it back together.
Yesterday I moved the blue ice chest out to the garage. The trash can is full of tapes and trash. I plan on emptying the blue ice chest into the trash can once the trash is collected on Monday. That will be it for the cassettes.
Maybe I'll find time this afternoon to attack the filing cabinet and the tool chest and try and get rid of more clutter. And the pile of stuff in the garage. Go through that as well.
Five hours and twenty minutes until I pick the kids up.
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