The weekend in review, minus insomnia

[annathepiper]

This has been pretty much an editing-free weekend. I should be more vexed about this than I am, but on the other hand, my brain has not been running at full steam anyway, and what brainpower I've had has had to be spent on various and sundry day-to-day tasks that really needed attention. Plus just a little bit of general relaxation, which was also sorely needed after nearly two weeks of suckful sleep.


+/-0: On Friday night, spazzkat, solarbird, and I went and had some sushi to celebrate Paul having a job again for the time being. Dara and I convinced ourselves we could allow ourselves a sushi outing if and only if we pledged to skip pizza for the next two weeks, though it's been a hard go now that our favorite local pizza joint has a store here in Kenmore. And although we still adore I Love Sushi, Hana Sushi in Bothell is much closer and also does not suck. Also, it amuses us that they have a fish tank at the sushi bar, full of tiny fish that dart around while you're eating their cousins. Snicker.

After sushi, we watched the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica. More on this in a separate post. Paul is also waxing rhapsodical about Lost, which has piqued my interest in checking it out, though I'm reluctant to dive in without getting caught up on prior episodes.

Mostly on Friday, aside from the watching of BG, I played Jawbreaker on my handheld. And I took a long hot soak and read more of the Detection by Gaslight anthology Dara bought the other day.



+/-1: Just about all of Saturday was given over to doing a bunch of tasks that needed doing, partly to get caught up on day-to-day stuff the insomnia's been interfering with, and partly to try to clean up loose ends with my retirement from TM. Stuff like:

1. Running a couple of errands down to the Lake Forest Park Town Centre.
   
2. Helping out one of murkworks.net's actual users who hadn't used his account since we got hacked. He was having the same issue logging into lodestone as several others have had since we brought lodestone back up on a new IP address.
   
3. Getting @decompile dumps of a lot of my old code objects on TM, and chowning over the ones that might be of further interest to assorted builder characters, and progressively blowing up anything not immediately useful.
   
4. Doing a writeup of how to conduct an idledest for the benefit of whichever staffers will need that information.
   
5. Balancing the checkbooks, which took quite some time as I found several errors and had to figure out where they were in my registers.
   
6. Saturday evening's dose of relaxation took place via chatting with gerimaple in IM, about our differing approaches in checkbook balancing, our differing opinions of coffee, about the recent round of TM drama, and about the eye-catching wonderfulness of B'ys in Shorts, which was brought to my attention by otoselkie at the tail end of her last post of a huge swath of pictures of Séan McCann. Mmm, Séan.
   
7. Also, yakking was done in IM with kathrynt, with such scintillating topics as Adventures in Frozen Lasagna, and whether Boxey from the Original BSG ought to be hurled out the airlock before, after, or at the same time as Ms. Tigh from the latest aired episode of the New BSG.
   

+/-2: Today has pretty much gone to random small tasks as well:

1. Making sure I got in a treadmill session this morning, so as not to fall behind on my exercise resolve.
   
2. Acts of kitty maintenance, which, in addition to making the laundry room tidier, should hopefully make the cat less likely to yowl at me tonight.
   
3. Taking out of assorted cans' worth of trash.
   
4. Laundry.
   
5. Putting away of assorted pieces of clothing that were stacked up on my dresser.
   
6. Handing off of various tasks pertaining to the TM web page to janne, who will be taking it over from me now that I'm a-leavin' TM. This has also cleared out a lot of my pending email, which is oddly liberating.
   
7. Writing up a couple of emails about how to update the TM news file for the benefit of whichever staffers need that information.
   
8. The paying of a whole pile of bills.
   

Now to try to have dinner when it's done, finish off the last of this swath of bills, and see if I can edit anything at all tonight.

Comments

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

I wish the treadmill were more... interesting. It's just so darn boring that I have a hard time making myself use it. Can't really afford the mini-TV and wireless headphones type solution. Tried weighing down a big hardback book on the console but I sweat so much it's hard to keep my glasses on while I'm treadmilling, so that didn't work. Not to mention it sufficiently distracted me that I nearly fell off the treadmill a couple times. Don't currently own a Walkman type thing. Whee. :P

What I ought to do is find out how long a term pass at WOU's pool is good for, as a non-student. Swimming, despite its inherent hassles (spend as much time preparing and then de-preparing as is spent swimming, nearly) is a lot more fun than a treadmill! I am such an inertia-bound individual, though. Sigh.

[annathepiper]

mizkit says she watches TV while she treadmills, but I don't know if she's got an actual full-sized TV where her treadmill is.

I've tried reading on a treadmill before, and have found it difficult just as a matter of keeping my balance while looking at the words on the page, and trying to hold the book rather than hold on to the treadmill's sidebars.

Music really works for me, so I guess I'm fortunate in that respect. It helps to have music that really inspires me to work out--Great Big Sea is most excellent for that, not that I needed another excuse to listen to them anyway. ;) But when I'm listening to suitably inspiring music, I almost dance rather than just walk on the treadmill.

But you should definitely find what exercise works for you, and if that's swimming, go for it! :)

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Paul is also waxing rhapsodical about Lost, which has piqued my interest in checking it out, though I'm reluctant to dive in without getting caught up on prior episodes.

Here's something to pique your interest a little more perhaps. Naveen Andrews (Kip from English Patient) is in Lost. >;) But I'm gonna have to wait for the DVD I guess.

[annathepiper]

Oooooo, I didn't know the lovely Mr. Andrews was in it, though Paul had mentioned it was chock fulla eye candy.

It's also got the guy who played Merry in the LotR movies!

[kieri.livejournal.com]

It's definitely an eye-candy show, yes!

I watched the first 10 episodes pretty much back-to-back, I enjoyed them so much. But. (And it's a biggie) I have my doubts about whether or not they can continue to build the tension and 'mystery' at the pace they are, without ever making any major revelations, and keep the show watchable.

I've got it on probation at this point, but it's worth a watch if you've got the time and inclination.

It's not a patch on BSG, though. (heart)

PS: You owe us a BSG post! Thoughts on 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'?

[annathepiper]

Paul has also been wondering whether they actually have a goal towards which they're building, or whether, like unto the X-Files, they'll start strong and peter out when it becomes apparent that they don't actually know where the story is going!

I shall issue an opinion on this if I manage to get caught up on the episodes.

As for BSG, I do indeed owe an episode post for that, and I shall attend to it forthwith. :)