The Mandelbear's Musings

0808 Mo
  * up 6:35; W=198.6; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, light
  * some G+ maintenance.  Ugh.  Tedious.
  @ Log of Smallship One - Before I descend into the maelstrom once more
    reflections on the riots in London.
  @ A Two-Bit Jeremiah - you little boy, you little boy (haikujaguar) 
    what's good about the Internet:  neighbors.
  * 15min: puttering about re-arranging the spice jars.  More room!  Yay!
  * Colleen needs the Honda this morning
  & once again I appear to have skipped a day (Saturday).  :(
  ' more IM conversation with N. and Ame
  ' ame: ~It took me a long time to get back in touch.  It's been a long,
    strange trip.~ 
    me:  Was that Grateful Dead reference deliberate?
    ame: ~Ghost?~
    me:  Oh, right.
  * 4pm Dr Awsare.  Head/neck/shoulder -> trapezius strain
    He says I'm doing everything right; it's just taking a long time. 
  & made app'ts with PT, Dr. Rogers, Dr. Reed
  * walk:  ~.75mi around former Zilog campus
  * central: buy: Logitech anywhere mouse, TP-Link Gig switch
  * The new mouse works as hoped:  menu button = middle!
  * installed new switch; uninstalled the 5-port.
    less power on Nova (2%), more on Stargate (6%)
  @ People Who Boost the Signal in Crowdfunding - PenUltimate Productions
    Non-Cash Support Methods for Crowdfunding - PenUltimate Productions
  @ Down Goes The Internet Again. Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Foursquare,
     Instagram, Quora, Reddit, Etc EC2 considered harmful?
  @ The Art of Grieving - Aberdeen, MD Patch 
    The Art of Grieving Gracefully | mothering 
    Beyond 'closure:' The art of grieving - The Search
    (sorta random, re:  my comment on haikujaguar: Black Blossom, Part 16:
     I must respectfully disagree with the Calligrapher -- there may be no art
     in tears, but there is art to be made of them, and grieving can be as
     much an art in its own right as loving can. 
       And the grieving have, I think, more need of art than the joyful. They
     have farther to go. 
    )

A pretty good day. I took off work early to see my doctor, who identified my head/neck/shoulder pain as all coming from the right trapezius muscle. I have no idea how I did that. He said I'm doing all the right things, and scheduled me for a PT appointment Tuesday morning. While I was there I took a walk all the way around the building complex, a little under a mile, and stopped in at the other Kaiser building to make a couple of other appointments.

On the way home I stopped at Central Computing, where I got a Logitech Anywhere mouse -- it works just as I'd hoped, with the menu button under the scroll wheel serving as the middle mouse button. Yay! I have a 3-button mouse again!

They also had the TP Link gigabit switch I've had my eye on. Unfortunately, it eats more power than the TrendNet it replaces, which makes me grumpy. It's compensated by the fact that it also replaces the 5-port gigabit switch, but...

My plan is to move the WAP back into the rack and use its switch for the DSL modem, router, and fileserver, moving the 16-port switch to the fileserver's UPS. That will rebalance the load on the two UPSs.

A nice lunchtime conversation with Naomi and Ame. That exercise stretches my mind in interesting directions; Naomi's always been good at prodding me gently outside my comfort zone.

There are links in the notes, as usual; one whole block is about "the art of grieving", inspired by a comment I made on haikujaguar's latest installment of Black Blossom:

I must respectfully disagree with the Calligrapher -- there may be no art in tears, but there is art to be made of them, and grieving can be as much an art in its own right as loving can.

And the grieving have, I think, more need of art than the joyful. They have farther to go.

Nevertheless, I'm doing ok at the moment. Time and Good Drugs work wonders. Or at least second-rate tourist attractions.