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Dec. 6th, 2003 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizillaCouldn't decide whether to go to Toronto today for the motorcycle show. The weather report said it was barely going to get above freezing today, and while it's dry here I have no idea what the weather is there today, so probably not a good idea to ride a motorcycle up there. It would be a long boring drive in my truck. In the end I decided not to go. I have too much to do here anyway. Not that I did any of it.
This afternoon I did a little gardening. I cut the dead branches from the tops of the blue geraniums out front, and split off some pieces of two of them, planted them in the empty space in the flower bed. I don't know if geraniums are supposed to be split like that, and if they are, I don't know if they're supposed to be done in the spring or the fall. It will be interesting to see if the pieces I moved come up. I put a plastic knife or fork sticking up from the ground next to each transplanted piece so I can find it in the spring.
Went out and picked up my sewing machine from the repair shop. The traffic was terrible, so I decided not to do any Christmas shopping; I couldn't face the crowds in the stores. And it's only going to get worse. I need to start ordering some gifts online and from catalogs, before it's too late to have things shipped, or I'll have to brave the madding crowds.
When did large numbers of people start to bug me so much? I used to be much more social. Michael has gamers here tonight. I know and like every person here, but I don't know what to do. I can't focus on the games, don't really feel like playing them. I might make cookies later, people will like that and it'll give me something to do with my restless hands.
I've spent most of my day sitting around reading. Books sometimes screw up my social abilities, because until I finish them and find out how they end, I don't have patience for interacting with other people, I barely come up for air. Today I feel tired and stressed so I have been reading books I have read before. It recharges my batteries a bit, knowing the ending in advance, and looking forward to favorite parts of a story. So I should be able to go down there and make cookies later and not be grumpy.
I'm not sure this LJ thing is a good idea. Is it really good for me to sit around verbalizing thoughts of that type? Sometimes when you talk about these things, it gives them a power they would never have otherwise. Also, some of you are probably going to read that stuff and think I'm not OK, but really, I am. On the other hand, I read of my friend's inner disquiets here in LJ and I feel closer to them, more in touch. So that's a positive good; I should reciprocate so I don't become a stranger. And it's easy to sit and type.
I paid for my LJ account today. It seems to me the web is going in two directions: big budget, big media corporation with lots of flash, and low budget tiny sites that are irregularly updated and hardly get traffic. But so many of my favorite things on the web fall in the middle, and these websites need money. I've been trying to be a good supporter for the websites I visit all the time. So I paid for an LJ account. I also have subscriber accounts at various places, such as Salon. I bought a DVD from www.redvsblue.com earlier this week.
Tasks I neglected today
This afternoon I did a little gardening. I cut the dead branches from the tops of the blue geraniums out front, and split off some pieces of two of them, planted them in the empty space in the flower bed. I don't know if geraniums are supposed to be split like that, and if they are, I don't know if they're supposed to be done in the spring or the fall. It will be interesting to see if the pieces I moved come up. I put a plastic knife or fork sticking up from the ground next to each transplanted piece so I can find it in the spring.
Went out and picked up my sewing machine from the repair shop. The traffic was terrible, so I decided not to do any Christmas shopping; I couldn't face the crowds in the stores. And it's only going to get worse. I need to start ordering some gifts online and from catalogs, before it's too late to have things shipped, or I'll have to brave the madding crowds.
When did large numbers of people start to bug me so much? I used to be much more social. Michael has gamers here tonight. I know and like every person here, but I don't know what to do. I can't focus on the games, don't really feel like playing them. I might make cookies later, people will like that and it'll give me something to do with my restless hands.
I've spent most of my day sitting around reading. Books sometimes screw up my social abilities, because until I finish them and find out how they end, I don't have patience for interacting with other people, I barely come up for air. Today I feel tired and stressed so I have been reading books I have read before. It recharges my batteries a bit, knowing the ending in advance, and looking forward to favorite parts of a story. So I should be able to go down there and make cookies later and not be grumpy.
I'm not sure this LJ thing is a good idea. Is it really good for me to sit around verbalizing thoughts of that type? Sometimes when you talk about these things, it gives them a power they would never have otherwise. Also, some of you are probably going to read that stuff and think I'm not OK, but really, I am. On the other hand, I read of my friend's inner disquiets here in LJ and I feel closer to them, more in touch. So that's a positive good; I should reciprocate so I don't become a stranger. And it's easy to sit and type.
I paid for my LJ account today. It seems to me the web is going in two directions: big budget, big media corporation with lots of flash, and low budget tiny sites that are irregularly updated and hardly get traffic. But so many of my favorite things on the web fall in the middle, and these websites need money. I've been trying to be a good supporter for the websites I visit all the time. So I paid for an LJ account. I also have subscriber accounts at various places, such as Salon. I bought a DVD from www.redvsblue.com earlier this week.
Tasks I neglected today
- Garage wiring, insulation.
- Finish cleaning and organizing walk-in closet
- Clean my desk
- Install SQL Server, WFC, DCM, get a database going and get my 480 terminal to work.
- Go through some customer logs, make some case notes.
- Christmas shopping
- Change the handlebars on the V-Strom, install the grip heaters and the heat-troller.
- Bake christmas cookies
- Sew insulated curtains
- Reserve a hotel room for ConFusion, and a cabin at North Bend for the Sabmag spring shakedown.
- Mop kitchen floor
- Clean upstairs bathroom
