Work: hard again but only 3.5 days, since I gave two successful presentations on Thursday (both related to the PRD I'd finished the Friday before) and then took Friday mostly off. My Tuesday morning workout seems to be the shortest of the three in my current Perth program, which is good and makes it easy to fit in before a half-day in the afternoon. Email continues to be a morass that is both boring and stressful; this week I invented "email tango", in which I go through chronologically and, without looking ahead, try to handle each email and get to a state of poise before seeing what the next one is. There's breathing and eye-closing involved. And yeah, it's named after how it feels to follow in tango, not for the sexiness of it.
Less work meant I had the chance to prod all my personal projects along. I did some useful things on the rental cottage -- particularly calling the USPS address management system office and learning that a #3 address already exists in their database at the property. If it hadn't, I could have gone in there with a deed and gotten one created, and it's cool to be learning about things like that. I also snagged a big old AirBnB in the path of totality for next April's solar eclipse (I was somewhat surprised to find things not already all booked up, but pleased. Quite pleased.)
Finished books. Started new books. Filed for vacation time the whole week of my birthday. Hassled my ex-allergist, who is now clearly past HIPAA time limits on releasing my records (the P in HIPAA is for "portability"). Overnight-mailed some of those tamales to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
apfelsingail, which was a ridiculous thing to do, but hey. Learned how to play quantum tic-tac-toe, which is fun because the second player can actually win (yes!). And got further through It Takes Two with the squirrel, though I didn't feel I played very well. Read the first chapter of Deep Learning with Python, which I'm beginning to slowly work through with the bug. Overall, my brain feels stretchy and my body is starting to feel stretchier again too. My hip is still vaguely sore, but splits aren't bothering it so I'm back to that weekly.
Uncertainties: Hypercube finished her 30-day course of antibiotics last night, and we'll see how she does in the next week or so. I am worried. I also am not sure whether our taxes are getting professionally done as we speak or not; our CPA has a nasty habit of going radio silent at the scariest times. If she doesn't reappear then we'll need to file for an extension on Tuesday.
Less work meant I had the chance to prod all my personal projects along. I did some useful things on the rental cottage -- particularly calling the USPS address management system office and learning that a #3 address already exists in their database at the property. If it hadn't, I could have gone in there with a deed and gotten one created, and it's cool to be learning about things like that. I also snagged a big old AirBnB in the path of totality for next April's solar eclipse (I was somewhat surprised to find things not already all booked up, but pleased. Quite pleased.)
Finished books. Started new books. Filed for vacation time the whole week of my birthday. Hassled my ex-allergist, who is now clearly past HIPAA time limits on releasing my records (the P in HIPAA is for "portability"). Overnight-mailed some of those tamales to
apfelsingail, which was a ridiculous thing to do, but hey. Learned how to play quantum tic-tac-toe, which is fun because the second player can actually win (yes!). And got further through It Takes Two with the squirrel, though I didn't feel I played very well. Read the first chapter of Deep Learning with Python, which I'm beginning to slowly work through with the bug. Overall, my brain feels stretchy and my body is starting to feel stretchier again too. My hip is still vaguely sore, but splits aren't bothering it so I'm back to that weekly.Uncertainties: Hypercube finished her 30-day course of antibiotics last night, and we'll see how she does in the next week or so. I am worried. I also am not sure whether our taxes are getting professionally done as we speak or not; our CPA has a nasty habit of going radio silent at the scariest times. If she doesn't reappear then we'll need to file for an extension on Tuesday.
