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House and Health
Aug. 19th, 2012 10:27 pmSo the past week as been a bit mixed.
The repairs on the house - specifically the garage which had been delayed - were "completed"* and signed off. Unfortunately when I closed the garage door it didn't go all the way, and when I attempted to remedy this by adjusting the chain (which I have done before) it decided it was going to throw the chain and in the process seems to have buggered the drive-sprocket slightly. So I think I will have to contact the manufacturer and get a tech out. Notch up another $100 I expect :(
* There's a cosmetic crack left in the foundation shell - I really can't be bothered about it. They did far more than required to the garage and I've done pretty well out of the interior.
The other outstanding detail is paying for the write-on-walls extra - hopefully that will get sorted this week. I chased up the relevant sub-supervisor last thing on Friday. (Next week is also a pay-tax week and a pay-rates week and pay-all-the-bills week so it is to be expensive.)
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Since last Saturday I have been hit by a fairly substantial head cold on top of bottomed-out mood (compounded by finicky client and raft of urgent projects). As indicated above it would be really useful to be maxing my earnings right now so the hit my hours have taken from these is doubly unwelcome. The cold has mostly cleared as of this morning but I am still dealing with substantial lethargy and apathy. My sleep patterns are quite shot (if phelgm hasn't been keeping me awake the hamster-wheel in my brain has), to the point where I napped from 5-7 this evening and then worked (yes it is a Sunday but you take headspace where you can get it) from 8-9:30.
Luckily last week I managed to put some solid and mostly uninterrupted work into the project I've been most wanting to get to - and that was good. With the work I've done (on another of the projects) this evening I should be able to get directly into it tomorrow as well (touch wood).
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Other than sleep I spent most of the weekend at SAGA's Minicon playing board games or wanting to play board games but not having the spoons to herd people. Today was better than yesterday, but yesterday had my best game (and the first game of the weekend), a 65 point Seven Wonders (tied for first). I also nearly had the perfect mining game in Race for the Galaxy but was one round short of getting the final development down. Wasn't enough to win, someone else managed 14 cards in their tableau :-/ Was introduced to Death Angel today (card-based version of Space Hulk), quite fun as long as people don't trip over each other trying to be in the center of the action all the time.
Also recall playing Citadels, Dominion, Stone Age, Castles of Burgundy. More than one game of Seven Wonders.
The repairs on the house - specifically the garage which had been delayed - were "completed"* and signed off. Unfortunately when I closed the garage door it didn't go all the way, and when I attempted to remedy this by adjusting the chain (which I have done before) it decided it was going to throw the chain and in the process seems to have buggered the drive-sprocket slightly. So I think I will have to contact the manufacturer and get a tech out. Notch up another $100 I expect :(
* There's a cosmetic crack left in the foundation shell - I really can't be bothered about it. They did far more than required to the garage and I've done pretty well out of the interior.
The other outstanding detail is paying for the write-on-walls extra - hopefully that will get sorted this week. I chased up the relevant sub-supervisor last thing on Friday. (Next week is also a pay-tax week and a pay-rates week and pay-all-the-bills week so it is to be expensive.)
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Since last Saturday I have been hit by a fairly substantial head cold on top of bottomed-out mood (compounded by finicky client and raft of urgent projects). As indicated above it would be really useful to be maxing my earnings right now so the hit my hours have taken from these is doubly unwelcome. The cold has mostly cleared as of this morning but I am still dealing with substantial lethargy and apathy. My sleep patterns are quite shot (if phelgm hasn't been keeping me awake the hamster-wheel in my brain has), to the point where I napped from 5-7 this evening and then worked (yes it is a Sunday but you take headspace where you can get it) from 8-9:30.
Luckily last week I managed to put some solid and mostly uninterrupted work into the project I've been most wanting to get to - and that was good. With the work I've done (on another of the projects) this evening I should be able to get directly into it tomorrow as well (touch wood).
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Other than sleep I spent most of the weekend at SAGA's Minicon playing board games or wanting to play board games but not having the spoons to herd people. Today was better than yesterday, but yesterday had my best game (and the first game of the weekend), a 65 point Seven Wonders (tied for first). I also nearly had the perfect mining game in Race for the Galaxy but was one round short of getting the final development down. Wasn't enough to win, someone else managed 14 cards in their tableau :-/ Was introduced to Death Angel today (card-based version of Space Hulk), quite fun as long as people don't trip over each other trying to be in the center of the action all the time.
Also recall playing Citadels, Dominion, Stone Age, Castles of Burgundy. More than one game of Seven Wonders.
