State of Last week, with no bonus canoe

[catsittingstill]

I still have the cold I was getting on the 12th.  Now it is more of a stuffed up nose and coughing sort of a thing.  You know you have a cold when you ask "is this working?" as you stick your nose in the jar of Vics Vap-O-Rub and sniff.   It's kind of old Vap-O-Rub and I wondered if that was why I couldn't smell anything.

Last week I got very little done, except some work on the LWV booklet.  Plus, thanks to Howard, I actually downloaded Skype, put it on the new laptop, and attended Sally's housefilk virtually where I had a lovely time.  Skype's audio quality is not all it might be, but it often provided the sense of really being there, except trapped in a box at about coffee table level, but everybody was very nice to the box and I got some good views of Sally's pretty cat.

I need to do more work on the League booklet, but I have a call in to the County Commission secretary for the names and phone numbers of the people on the County planning board, and she hasn't called me back (because it was the weekend and is Martin Luther King day today.)  We ended up canceling the League meeting we were going to have this month because of ice and snow, but my speaker was willing to reschedule for February.

Exercise has pretty much fallen by the wayside because I have a cold and don't want to go out in the cold and breathe hard.

I have copied the recovered files from the dead hard drive onto the hard drive of the new laptop so they will exist in more than one place.  Copying them onto the hard drive of the old laptop is complicated by the fact that I needed a male-to-female USB cord, thought I had one that turned out to be specialized for something else, and had to go buy one, which cost more than I thought it would, which made me a bit grumpy.  But soon I will copy them onto the hard drive of the computer they started on, and at that point I will probably erase them from the hard drive of the new laptop--I don't think they need to exist in *three* places and don't want to bog down the new hard drive.

I have not done anything about pairing my iPod and the old lobotmized computer and I probably should do that pretty soon but am whinging about the cost of the program I will need to rescue some of my music.  (It's not costly as programs go--I am just ...ah... frugal.)

I did discover while loading Firefox that there is now an add-on that deletes flash cookies, which I used to go to a website to do by hand because they drastically slowed the old laptop.  So now the flash cookies are deleted every time I quit Firefox, or about once a week or so.

I have not done *anything* on my canoe because the next step is forcing the computer to cough up some sort of usable plans and every time I go near the computer I remember the LWV booklet and shy away.  The obvious solution is to just *do* the LWV booklet so I can get on with my canoe.  Rhino is a fairly complicated program and I'm afraid I may have to learn most of it before I can throttle the plans out of it.  We will see.

The other obvious step is that I need to finish putting up shelves in the back of the boatshop and move all the wood that I moved out of there back onto them so I have actual room to work.  I won't need the room until I have the plans, really, but it's something I could do.  And my workbench is a complete mess and I should clean it off and put stuff away.

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[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Having a cold is often a sign that you need a rest, so why not rest? Your energy will return when the cold is gone, no?

I haven't generally found Rhino that hard to use, or to have a long learning curve. Of course, I remember FormZ. Have you considered just, ah, putting the LWV booklet aside for a while? I'd offer to do some of the modeling work, but in fact I'm so busy I barely have enough time for my own work. When it comes to printing out, though, I'm willing to offer my services--Mac Rhino's printing module is still pretty thin.

Laughing at the cat...

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I've been putting the LWV booklet off too long.

I have too many LWV responsibilities right now, and need to transfer some to someone else. But until I do that, I need to live up to them.

It's okay, I got some done on it Friday and some today and should be able to finish it up in a couple of days. In the meantime, since the death of the laptop's hard drive took Rhino and Bearboat with it, I will need to re-download Rhino. Hopefully I can figure out how to do that.

All I have to figure out how to do once I have Rhino back is 1) cut the deck off and 2) create the proper cross sections, including a line across at gunwale level and a line up the center. If Rhino can print out a table of offsets for each cross section I can draw them myself.

If not I have to either print them out shrunk enough to fit on 8 1/2 x 11 paper and then expand them to proper size, or find a printer that can print big.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

If you need to draw more out of the EC account to be able to afford the music program, do so. That's part of what it is for.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but I'm whingeing about a mere 18$. I appreciate the thought, though.

Though I did just have the horrible thought that all my sheet music may have been wiped out.

I'll have to download and reinstall PrintMusic and go poking through the recovered files, I guess.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the sheet music. If you've lost any of the older stuff, Callie may have it via the master page proofs for the songbook. More recent material, we can't help you on, alas.

I don't tend to whinge, even in my head, about amounts less than around $100. I either spend them or I don't, but I don't worry about them. Callie finds this odd of me, especially since I sometimes insist that I can't afford to spend them and do stupid things which cost me energy or pain I really can't afford instead of just spending the money which I could. And then I'll go throw much greater amounts of money at something that I want, or a friend needs, without thinking about it for an instant. I admit that my way of handling money is both inconsistent and not always wise -- in either direction; I can be both too much a miser and too much a spendthrift -- but at least it means I don't spend much time fussing to myself about it.

I seem to have a natural "don't sweat the small stuff" filter built in. It may have been born of being constantly in the middle of the big stuff, but it does come in useful at times.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I brought a cold home with me from Gafilk and it's been taking up far too much of my week too....

Luckily most of my exercise-y type things are indoors so it doesn't impact that aside from from the blah-ness, congestion, malaise, and don't-wannas :).

Hope you feel better soon!!