Counts on Fingers...
Apr. 14th, 2020 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrj Three days later? This is how one loses track of time. Let's see: I last posted on the 11th, that was Saturday which was my brain-break day. Sunday I slept in (courtesy of sleeping pills), had my DISTAFF group chat, got a little yard work done, and did more data entry for my finances as well as sorting through the last year's worth of paperwork for my financial files (mostly I'm all paperless). The next stage of finances/taxes is doing the month by month entry of the auto-pay bills and reconciling the various statements. I always swear that I'll keep up with this and enter things once a week at least, but I let it slide. No longer pretending I'll get my taxes done by the original deadline so I'm glad of the postponements.
Monday got up for my morning zoom-chat, then the day-job featured getting a hand-off of someone else's investigation three days before it's due (spoiler: it's not going to close by the due date) and determining that one of my "trivial minor investigations" actually involved a significant compliance failure and needs to be escalated to a Major investigation. My QA partners are always glad when I initiate that sort of thing myself rather than needing to be dragged kicking and screaming into it, but my manager sometimes wishes I wasn't so enthusiastic about putting on a QA hat.
Spent Monday evening fighting with my various devices to record a brief book reading video for a feature series that Bella Books is putting out. (I"ll provide a link when available.) I made the mistake of deciding it would be more convenient to use my iPad to do the recording because it was easier to position than the phone or laptop. Problem is, for various reasons my iPad OS hasn't been able to update for quite some time (claims it's out of room) and it was balking at side-loading the video file to the laptop in any convenient way. I probably need to do a factory reset of the iPad then upgrade to the current iOS, but first I need to sort through all my apps to make sure I don't have any data I'd hate to lose. The big hazard is the pdfs of articles loaded into my markup app where I take notes for LHMP entries. I need to make sure anything I've marked up has already been blogged.
Slept well again last night, long enough that I could have waited for the sun to wake me. I may just try that tonight. I also think it's time to turn the thermostat off for the summer. It was 80F this afternoon. I doubt we're going to have any more cold snaps sufficient to need central heating.
Got an email from Earl taking me up on my offer to do a shopping run for him and Dad. (Their usual grocery-delivery friend is feeling under the weather, though evidently not Covid-like, and they both have sufficient risk factors that he's hesitant to venture out himself. So I have a couple days to do the hunting and gathering then I'll drive over Thursday after work. We'll see how good I am at finding everything. My last time in Safeway they looked fairly well stocked, but I understand it's a day to day thing.
Did another co-movie-watching thing on zoom with East Coast friends that's become a regular Tuesday thing. I made them all jealous by setting up in my garden to watch (it being only 5pm my time) but it was cooling off enough that I moved inside before the end. We'd planned to watch Clueless but were having trouble getting it to show on the zoom link due to rights issues and ended up watching Amelie instead, which had certain thematic parallels when you think of it.
Monday got up for my morning zoom-chat, then the day-job featured getting a hand-off of someone else's investigation three days before it's due (spoiler: it's not going to close by the due date) and determining that one of my "trivial minor investigations" actually involved a significant compliance failure and needs to be escalated to a Major investigation. My QA partners are always glad when I initiate that sort of thing myself rather than needing to be dragged kicking and screaming into it, but my manager sometimes wishes I wasn't so enthusiastic about putting on a QA hat.
Spent Monday evening fighting with my various devices to record a brief book reading video for a feature series that Bella Books is putting out. (I"ll provide a link when available.) I made the mistake of deciding it would be more convenient to use my iPad to do the recording because it was easier to position than the phone or laptop. Problem is, for various reasons my iPad OS hasn't been able to update for quite some time (claims it's out of room) and it was balking at side-loading the video file to the laptop in any convenient way. I probably need to do a factory reset of the iPad then upgrade to the current iOS, but first I need to sort through all my apps to make sure I don't have any data I'd hate to lose. The big hazard is the pdfs of articles loaded into my markup app where I take notes for LHMP entries. I need to make sure anything I've marked up has already been blogged.
Slept well again last night, long enough that I could have waited for the sun to wake me. I may just try that tonight. I also think it's time to turn the thermostat off for the summer. It was 80F this afternoon. I doubt we're going to have any more cold snaps sufficient to need central heating.
Got an email from Earl taking me up on my offer to do a shopping run for him and Dad. (Their usual grocery-delivery friend is feeling under the weather, though evidently not Covid-like, and they both have sufficient risk factors that he's hesitant to venture out himself. So I have a couple days to do the hunting and gathering then I'll drive over Thursday after work. We'll see how good I am at finding everything. My last time in Safeway they looked fairly well stocked, but I understand it's a day to day thing.
Did another co-movie-watching thing on zoom with East Coast friends that's become a regular Tuesday thing. I made them all jealous by setting up in my garden to watch (it being only 5pm my time) but it was cooling off enough that I moved inside before the end. We'd planned to watch Clueless but were having trouble getting it to show on the zoom link due to rights issues and ended up watching Amelie instead, which had certain thematic parallels when you think of it.
