What Are You Doing?

Last time I moved, I moved the length of two gardens. I can see my old place out of my window.

 

Now that I look back, I remember the year we changed apartments within the same building, on the same floor, three or four units down the hall. For some reason we liked the new layout better, I don't remember why. A year later we moved again, a few blocks away, to a much nicer apartment/condo, then two years later we bought our current house, a few blocks from there. And we have been here now for about 20 years, and I plan to leave here feet first.

 

Scares me that I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

I’m waiting for my left arm to fall off. Noticed a bite of some kind, just below my elbow, after scarifying one of the bowling greens a couple of days ago. It itches like a mofo and is inflamed with a redness around the bite which appears to be growing. I suspect a horsefly was my assailant but can’t be sure.

 

It's 3:27am. I'm tired. I'm watching a hamster gallop like a stallion on it's wheel.

 

You're not alone there.

 

I had Mint on this machine (Dell Vostro 1000 - 4G RAM, 240Gb SSD) and it worked OK, but I had to jump through some hoops to get the wireless working. Ubuntu just installed wireless along with everything else. I think Ubuntu is finally the 'Linux-on-the-desktop' we've been waiting for, even as a replacement for the abomination that is Windows 10.

I had intended to get this machine up and running (if Amazon ever decides to actually ship the new battery I ordered), then look for some kid in the area to give it to who needs a computer to do his/her remote schoolwork, but our school system went back to school in person (about 900 students, K-12 in one building). Haven't heard a peep about virus cases so far.

 

I was just about to get dressed and nip into the town centre in time to catch the shops opening at 10:00 when I checked my phone and noticed it was actually only 08:50, not 09:50, because the clocks went back last night. It's a good job most devices change the time automatically nowadays or I'd spend the whole winter arriving an hour early for everything.

 

Waiting for the rain to stop but it looks like it's in for the day. So much for my trip out into the wilds to collect moss and other plant life for my paludarium.

 

I have a cousin who is a professor of biological sciences at a US university and he keeps a wide variety of such things, as well as doing genetic plant research. I'm presuming yours are purely flora?

 

No, there's life in there, at least above the water. I found three nano snails on the frame of my front door so re-housed them in the paludarium. It's an open top, though, and one has already made a bid for freedom (he's on the outside of the tank as I type - I think they're from the glass snail family (Vitrinidae)). The other two seem happy where they are, though. I'd like some nano aquatic life but not sure how I'd introduce that.

 

eating a late dinner alone, as always -sighs-

cant decide between British historical dramas, Law & Order: SVU, or some kind of documentary

 

Fourteen minutes left... I can do this!

 

I've spent the last twenty minutes trying to determine what i'm doing.

 

multi tasking, nice.

 

You get it.

 

Yeah, multitasking can go horribly wrong.


In my case, I often forget why I came into a room at all. Half an hour later, I remember why and when I get into the room again, it's gone once more.

 

I guess this would be better for the "what were you doing" thread, but I bought some index cards with the purpose of using them to help me with my writing... and then proceeded to stare at them blankly for a long time, then intermittently glance at them laying there next to me as I do other things.

Now, I am watching Gilmore Girls. One of the few non-anime shows that I really like.

 

Trying to teach myself Excel, beyond spread sheets and the "sum" function. Just in case I unretire and drift back into the workforce, it's one more little notch on the resume. As if any of that's going to happen.

As for the learning, it's like another language and a whole new way of thinking. I can already make cool, useless, charts, though.

 

Once you get a hang of the functions, Excel can be a real efficiency and data crunching powerhouse.

 

So no more free lunch offer?

 

TANSTAAFL!