Woke up at 6:30 AM. Out the do' for a run by 7:00 AM. Went for a 3.1 miler with Teh Wags. 24 minutes later, back at the apartment. Sub-8 miles? I'm comfortable with that.
Stretchingness ensued (as it always does). Finally gathered myself up and got myself out the door by about 9:30 AM. Rode over to work - beautiful day, if just a trifle chilly. The thermometer said something like 36 when I woke up. I love it when it does that, and then proceeds to increase by entire degrees every half hour or so between when I wake up and when I walk out the door.
At work by 10:00 AM-ish. I made pretty good progress today. I had some things that needed refactoring to encourage reuse, and some other things that needed refactoring because they sucked. I think I did a lot of code reviews today. Ended up leaving the office at 7:00 PM and taking the long way home. The long way, for future reference, is taking Third Street down to Kendall, hopping over to the river, and following Memorial all the way back to Harvard, and then cutting through the neighborhoods (The "overland route") back up to home. Always a pleasure. Especially at a pleasant temperature.
Upon arriving home, I threw some laundry in the washer (won't be needing winter's flannel sheets anymore!), made myself a bagel, veggie burger, gorgonzola, salsa, and cheddar sandwich, grabbed a Guinness, and had a lovely little meal.
After that, I bummed around for a little bit, then resolved to get some guitar practice in. This is what our esteemed headline is referring to. Hopefully something will come of it tomorrow.
For now, though, day two of try-to-get-plenty-of-sleep.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
For future reference
David, you feel much better - all day - when you get eight hours of sleep.
Just, you know, think on that.
Just, you know, think on that.
Monday, April 12, 2010
More or less schleepy.
Woke up at 6:30 AM, went for a run with Jules at 7:00 AM.
I could not figure out how the hell to run. Geeze. It's like I'd forgotten how. Regardless, we ended up doing a 3.2 mile route in 26 minutes. I felt like crap. Or, well, at least, I felt like I must be able to do a lot better, because that sucked.
Anyway, at least the company was awesome. She didn't seem to mind my grumbling. (Thank you!)
After that, I had myself a little breakfast of an English muffin and some yogurt with granola/Craisins in it, cleaned m'self up and shipped myself off to work. It was a beautiful morning for my various commuting walks.
Work was... fragmented. By the end of the day I felt sorta grumpy and ineffective. I'm planning on sleeping right after this in an attempt to make sure I'm bright eyed in the morning.
I didn't end up going to class today, either. I felt like crap on my way home, and just wanted to sit and not think. It would have been a rough set of classes.
Instead, I will admit that I vegged out. I booted up Windows, I spent some time installing Starcraft II, and played one little game of it against the Very Easy computers. I won, needless to say.
And... that's about that. As said, I think I'm going to go crash. Maybe 8 hours of sleep will do me some good.
Ugh.
I could not figure out how the hell to run. Geeze. It's like I'd forgotten how. Regardless, we ended up doing a 3.2 mile route in 26 minutes. I felt like crap. Or, well, at least, I felt like I must be able to do a lot better, because that sucked.
Anyway, at least the company was awesome. She didn't seem to mind my grumbling. (Thank you!)
After that, I had myself a little breakfast of an English muffin and some yogurt with granola/Craisins in it, cleaned m'self up and shipped myself off to work. It was a beautiful morning for my various commuting walks.
Work was... fragmented. By the end of the day I felt sorta grumpy and ineffective. I'm planning on sleeping right after this in an attempt to make sure I'm bright eyed in the morning.
I didn't end up going to class today, either. I felt like crap on my way home, and just wanted to sit and not think. It would have been a rough set of classes.
Instead, I will admit that I vegged out. I booted up Windows, I spent some time installing Starcraft II, and played one little game of it against the Very Easy computers. I won, needless to say.
And... that's about that. As said, I think I'm going to go crash. Maybe 8 hours of sleep will do me some good.
Ugh.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Running low on battery power: The weekend
The title here is not a description of the weekend, but rather, a description of the state of my computer after this weekend.
Saturday... is a blur. This is, I think, why I try to do this every day. Fail.
OH.
Yes.
On Saturday, I woke up at 7:20 AM and rode down to Julia's, and we went on a 5+ mile run along the river and through Back Bay from her place to the northeast corner of Boston Common. Then we went on a 5+ mile walk back to her place via Mass. Ave., Prospect, Broadway, and through Harvard. With a mile bike ride on either end, just for good measure.
That was pretty epic. My legs are tired today. Not sore - just tired.
After that, or rather, on the way back to Julia's, we stopped at Carberry's for some coffee/breakfast. We ate it at her place. Eventually, I got back on my bike and rode home to get a few things done with the day.
Like a two hour nap.
But first, on my way in, I ran into Eric and his friend Demarcus (I think that might be how it's spelled?) who were heading to Jose's Mexican Restaurant for some lunch. I decided to join them. I had a Burrito con Mole. I ate half. The rest I brought home and saved for dinner.
Prior to this, Julia and I had decided to make plans to watch The Triplets of Belleville at 7:30 PM or so. So with the intervening 6 hours or so (our lunch began a little after noon), I got a few things done, took said nap, and made a quick trip to the store for ice cream and beer, just to try to be a good host.
Not half bad. As always, a good movie. Eric watched it with us. And Paul showed up half way through! That was cool!
After the movie, the four of us went over to Christopher's for a late dinner-ish thing (I had eaten the rest of my burrito around 5 PM). Julia and I had yuppie nachos and beer. The dudes got... I can't remember what else.
And then there was sleep, basically.
Sunday morning, Julia and I headed over to the Deluxe Town Diner for a late brunch (which makes it sound more like a lunch, I suppose). This was around noon, I think. We had to wait for 20 minutes or so, but it was worth it. We sat at the counter. We had coffee. We had orange juice. We had Deluxe Colossal Hungry Person Specials, which include pancakes, hash browns, toast, two eggs, and some form of meat or soy-meat product. I finished all of mine, somehow. Julia finished most of hers, tried to take it home, and we forgot about it in the restaurant.
Hopping back in the car, I drove her home, and then went back to my place to prepare for tonight's Ars business. That, and take a 25 minute nap before leaving for Pete's around 5:00 PM. Jason and I carpooled (I picked him up). The session went pretty well, I think. Lots of thinking, a little action.
Holy crap, sleep now.
Saturday... is a blur. This is, I think, why I try to do this every day. Fail.
OH.
Yes.
On Saturday, I woke up at 7:20 AM and rode down to Julia's, and we went on a 5+ mile run along the river and through Back Bay from her place to the northeast corner of Boston Common. Then we went on a 5+ mile walk back to her place via Mass. Ave., Prospect, Broadway, and through Harvard. With a mile bike ride on either end, just for good measure.
That was pretty epic. My legs are tired today. Not sore - just tired.
After that, or rather, on the way back to Julia's, we stopped at Carberry's for some coffee/breakfast. We ate it at her place. Eventually, I got back on my bike and rode home to get a few things done with the day.
Like a two hour nap.
But first, on my way in, I ran into Eric and his friend Demarcus (I think that might be how it's spelled?) who were heading to Jose's Mexican Restaurant for some lunch. I decided to join them. I had a Burrito con Mole. I ate half. The rest I brought home and saved for dinner.
Prior to this, Julia and I had decided to make plans to watch The Triplets of Belleville at 7:30 PM or so. So with the intervening 6 hours or so (our lunch began a little after noon), I got a few things done, took said nap, and made a quick trip to the store for ice cream and beer, just to try to be a good host.
Not half bad. As always, a good movie. Eric watched it with us. And Paul showed up half way through! That was cool!
After the movie, the four of us went over to Christopher's for a late dinner-ish thing (I had eaten the rest of my burrito around 5 PM). Julia and I had yuppie nachos and beer. The dudes got... I can't remember what else.
And then there was sleep, basically.
Sunday morning, Julia and I headed over to the Deluxe Town Diner for a late brunch (which makes it sound more like a lunch, I suppose). This was around noon, I think. We had to wait for 20 minutes or so, but it was worth it. We sat at the counter. We had coffee. We had orange juice. We had Deluxe Colossal Hungry Person Specials, which include pancakes, hash browns, toast, two eggs, and some form of meat or soy-meat product. I finished all of mine, somehow. Julia finished most of hers, tried to take it home, and we forgot about it in the restaurant.
Hopping back in the car, I drove her home, and then went back to my place to prepare for tonight's Ars business. That, and take a 25 minute nap before leaving for Pete's around 5:00 PM. Jason and I carpooled (I picked him up). The session went pretty well, I think. Lots of thinking, a little action.
Holy crap, sleep now.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Dragons and We Rule
Today went pretty well. Julia and I went for a run this morning at around 7:10 or so. Approximately 3 miles-ish. The Oxford/Mass Ave route, with a few slight additions. It was perfect weather - it wasn't raining, but it was very damp and misty. Maybe 50 something degrees.
After that, we stood around, drank water, and ate fruit. Wonderful.
Upon getting myself together, I trudged off through the morning mist to work. Work went well, if slowly. I thought I was awake in the morning, and by afternoon I was kinda beat. I ended up leaving a little after 6:00 PM, and trudged through the formerly-mist-now-rain.
A dinner of cheese, crackers, and hummus ensued. It doesn't get much better than that. I sat around for a bit and played this little iPhone game called "We Rule". It's very relaxing. You make a little kingdom, plant crops, tax people, build fun structures, and compare cities with your friends. Pretty simple, but nice. Things grow over the course of hours in it, so you're continually coming back later to check on your shtuff.
Around 8:30 PM or so, Eric and I got in the car and drove out to Natick to watch How To Train Your Dragon, which was superb. Really, really awesome. The animation on the main character dragon was just gorgeous - such wonderful facial expressions. Cutest thing ever in dragon form.
The movie lasted until 11:00 PM or so, after which we drove home. And here I am.
After that, we stood around, drank water, and ate fruit. Wonderful.
Upon getting myself together, I trudged off through the morning mist to work. Work went well, if slowly. I thought I was awake in the morning, and by afternoon I was kinda beat. I ended up leaving a little after 6:00 PM, and trudged through the formerly-mist-now-rain.
A dinner of cheese, crackers, and hummus ensued. It doesn't get much better than that. I sat around for a bit and played this little iPhone game called "We Rule". It's very relaxing. You make a little kingdom, plant crops, tax people, build fun structures, and compare cities with your friends. Pretty simple, but nice. Things grow over the course of hours in it, so you're continually coming back later to check on your shtuff.
Around 8:30 PM or so, Eric and I got in the car and drove out to Natick to watch How To Train Your Dragon, which was superb. Really, really awesome. The animation on the main character dragon was just gorgeous - such wonderful facial expressions. Cutest thing ever in dragon form.
The movie lasted until 11:00 PM or so, after which we drove home. And here I am.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Where in the world is Wireless Passwordiago?
Look at me! It's the day that I'm talking about.
Today started at a very leisurely pace. Julia and I met at Dado in the morning for a little chatter, a little coffee, and a little scone. Nice. After that, I scurried off to get to work. I was having some really, really annoying issues with my computer today. The hard drive somehow got corrupted a bit, and I ended up spending a lot of time trying to track down what was going on and clean it up. I ended up bringing my backup drive in as well, so I could do a backup immediately upon getting things solved (the last one was in February, and a lot has happened since then). The backup was also having some corruption issues, and... yeah. What a mess.
Regardless, in the afternoon I dug into the next (last) big piece of this integration I'm working on. Hopefully it'll go smoothly - I don't see any real reason why it shouldn't.
I left work around 5:00 PM, surprised at how cold it had gotten. I walked down to the T and took the Red Line to Park, and the Green (D) Line out to Longwood for my lesson. Not the greatest lesson - I didn't feel very prepared.
BUT.
Coming out of it, I have a really strong sense of what I think I need to do. Maybe that makes it a better lesson than I let on, I don't know. Regardless, not so bad.
After arriving home around 7:45 or so, I proceeded to install Windows 7 on a partition on my machine. Unfortunately, I can't find the damn wireless password for our router here. I've looked everywhere. So... I'll just be done with that effort, for now. Grr. How frustrating. I wanted to get that out of the way.
Instead, well, I'm sorta sitting here. I think I may head to bed shortly - I'm wicked tired.
Today started at a very leisurely pace. Julia and I met at Dado in the morning for a little chatter, a little coffee, and a little scone. Nice. After that, I scurried off to get to work. I was having some really, really annoying issues with my computer today. The hard drive somehow got corrupted a bit, and I ended up spending a lot of time trying to track down what was going on and clean it up. I ended up bringing my backup drive in as well, so I could do a backup immediately upon getting things solved (the last one was in February, and a lot has happened since then). The backup was also having some corruption issues, and... yeah. What a mess.
Regardless, in the afternoon I dug into the next (last) big piece of this integration I'm working on. Hopefully it'll go smoothly - I don't see any real reason why it shouldn't.
I left work around 5:00 PM, surprised at how cold it had gotten. I walked down to the T and took the Red Line to Park, and the Green (D) Line out to Longwood for my lesson. Not the greatest lesson - I didn't feel very prepared.
BUT.
Coming out of it, I have a really strong sense of what I think I need to do. Maybe that makes it a better lesson than I let on, I don't know. Regardless, not so bad.
After arriving home around 7:45 or so, I proceeded to install Windows 7 on a partition on my machine. Unfortunately, I can't find the damn wireless password for our router here. I've looked everywhere. So... I'll just be done with that effort, for now. Grr. How frustrating. I wanted to get that out of the way.
Instead, well, I'm sorta sitting here. I think I may head to bed shortly - I'm wicked tired.
Focus, foooocus.
Perpetually one day behind, lately.
This is for Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
As foreshadowed in Tuesday's post, Wednesday began with a lazy puttering around the Wagner household, chatting with Grace and Julia, and then a spirited bike ride back to my place to shower and get ready for the day.
Work went well enough - it kinda felt like a maintenance day. Or, rather, a "sharpening the saw" sorta day. I did some documentation, some estimating, some task definition, some communication, and a smidge of actual coding. Eventually, I checked out around 5:00 PM-ish. It was like 80 degrees outside, I had my bike, and I had the desire to use it whilst daylight remained.
So, I set out from the office, rode down to the river, and headed in the general direction of Washington state. (That'd be west, for the geographically challenged. [That'd be away from work back towards home, for the directionally challenged.])
On my way, I took a little detour to Julia's school - rode by, surprised her a bit as it seems, and then continued on my merry way to JFK Park. There, I proceeded to sit for a few (until maybe 6:20 or so), made a little house of twigs, and then leisurely rode myself back home.
Not. Bad.
After I got home, chatted with Jules for a moment, re: my very short and abruptly ended visit, and we arranged for another working evening to try getting some stuff done. I think we're both feeling a bit behind. Plus, there was left over ice cream from Monday night.
So we hung out, she did some reading, I did some programming, and all was well. I did find out, however, that my backup hard drive seems to have some sort of error on it, cause Time Machine can't back up to it. This is extremely frustrating, as I refuse to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp until I know I have all my stuff backed up somewhere. I've been trying to fix it today in the background, but with no luck.
This is for Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
As foreshadowed in Tuesday's post, Wednesday began with a lazy puttering around the Wagner household, chatting with Grace and Julia, and then a spirited bike ride back to my place to shower and get ready for the day.
Work went well enough - it kinda felt like a maintenance day. Or, rather, a "sharpening the saw" sorta day. I did some documentation, some estimating, some task definition, some communication, and a smidge of actual coding. Eventually, I checked out around 5:00 PM-ish. It was like 80 degrees outside, I had my bike, and I had the desire to use it whilst daylight remained.
So, I set out from the office, rode down to the river, and headed in the general direction of Washington state. (That'd be west, for the geographically challenged. [That'd be away from work back towards home, for the directionally challenged.])
On my way, I took a little detour to Julia's school - rode by, surprised her a bit as it seems, and then continued on my merry way to JFK Park. There, I proceeded to sit for a few (until maybe 6:20 or so), made a little house of twigs, and then leisurely rode myself back home.
Not. Bad.
After I got home, chatted with Jules for a moment, re: my very short and abruptly ended visit, and we arranged for another working evening to try getting some stuff done. I think we're both feeling a bit behind. Plus, there was left over ice cream from Monday night.
So we hung out, she did some reading, I did some programming, and all was well. I did find out, however, that my backup hard drive seems to have some sort of error on it, cause Time Machine can't back up to it. This is extremely frustrating, as I refuse to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp until I know I have all my stuff backed up somewhere. I've been trying to fix it today in the background, but with no luck.
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