Not a bad week. Almost counts as productive -- at least I finished $writing-gig-3 and shipped it off to $editor. Ended up ~ 3400 words (though a good bit of that is code blocks, which I don't really know how to allow for).
The musical highlight of the week was the Lamplighters Music Theatre's 2007 ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Lamplighters Music Theatre. Their 2007 production of "The Merry Widow", available to their Patreon supporters, is outstanding.
• Having no writing projects I have to finish. (I.e., shipped $writing-gig-3. Which is misnamed, but oh well.)
• Singing with N again. (Short concert at Festival of ( Read more... )

It's been way too long since I did any singing in public -- we pulled off ( Read more... )

So I actually made some music on Saturday, for once, with a 25-minute concert in the Festival of the Living Rooms (you can find FotLR via FB or any filk-related discord server -- send me an email if you can't find it and want to).
N wanted to be part of it, so she came up to Whidbey with me for the ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• (laptop)Sable's 6+ hour battery life.
• Microwave ovens. Have I been thankful for microwave ovens before? I don't think so.
• Moore's law, especially as it applies to solid-state mass storage.
• Thinkpads from eBay.
• ThinkWiki - Linux ThinkPad Wiki

Some things I miss:
Sharing a bath with Colleen. Back before her arthritis made it difficult ( Read more... )

I have no damned idea how to characterize this last week, so I won't try. My sleep time has bounced around between 6.5 and 8.5 hours; normal for me used to be closer to 6. And those aren't real numbers anyway -- they come off the CPAP so they include the (mostly unknown) time spent trying to sleep. Blarg.
I spent altogether ( Read more... )

This ad by an Indian jewellery company featuring a trans woman, is a thing of beauty. The BBC news article, India jewellery ad starring trans model wins hearts News, says
The one-minute-40-second video charts the story of transition of a trans ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• (Slowly) getting out of my writing slump. (It's not writer's block if the problem is finding motivation rather than finding things to write about.)
• (Slowly) getting back into singing.
• (Very slowly) getting back into exercises. NO thanks to my piriformis and quadratus lumborum muscles.
• ( Read more... )

So... My sleep has been irregular; most nights I wake up, read for an hour ( Read more... )