Presentation day is Friday.  I have seven papers I want done by then, and I'm done with three and 90%+ done with #4.  And there's also getting 'em printed; my local Office Max closed last month, so I need to find a new place.  Still to be done are Metaculture, Cascadia/Steampunk Synthesis, and Macroeconomic Modeling ( Read more... )

It went as well as could be expected.  We blew the socks off the low-level corporate flunkey we met with, the limit of whose authority is to buck us one level up the chain of command, which he has agreed to do, and I am to call him late tomorrow morning to find out how that went.

I didn't have to rely on the Depends I bought for the occasion, which ( Read more... )

I'm still working on *how* to do creative-and-political writing, campaign research, and 15 events next week. Time management itself would be easy; this is harder. Each class of work requires a completely different mindset, and I still need to devise and implement hot kernel-swapping in my brain. And the pile of papers grew another one, 'Fury'. ( Read more... )

Hi, all -- I've finished my first draft of a white paper on Positive Proxy, and would appreciate your ( input and commentary, )

So I'm as ready for tomorrow's trip as I can get. Still need to put the CPAP machine, the computer, and the pillow in my backpack, and take the meds laid out on the dresser, and that's it and I'm out the door ( Read more... )

My comfy chair has eaten my cell phone ( Read more... )

My intention was to go up to Rainier, put a new roof on the cargo trailer, and replace the jack on it ( Read more... )

Had a great day, doing some difficult even if eventually unproductive phone work, going to an East-side democratic Club event, leafletting at Fred Meyer (for discriminatory pay policies), and phone banking for Lee for Congress. No further work on the white papers, tho ( Read more... )

A lot of life-changing events possibly happening. It's the 'possibly' part that causes anxiety -- *maybe* nothing will happen at all ( Read more... )

Today I fixed the bed and got rid of the paper drift in the bedroom. I still need to redo my filing system (more accurately, *make* a filing system out of the current filing *non*-system), and sort the two small remaining piles into it. But that's less timely than the other stuff ( Read more... )