We’re sitting in an internet cafe in Christchurch on a grey day, and I’m fumbling with this non-Dvorak keyboard, much to Kate’s amusement/horror. Christchurch is a really pretty, small, city, and except for the crazy drive-on-the-wrong-side thing, feels very familiar. Our B&B is very charming (and is rekindling fantasies of running one ourselves, years from [...]
Kate returned from dinner out and discovered Carlos lurking in the front bushes. On hearing this, I exhaled a breath I had inhaled when she told me he was still out, 3 hours ago. Like the relief one feels when an annoying, high-pitched whine suddenly … stops. I wonder what this presages for my ability [...]
It’s 7 p.m., and the work day’s been a blur of interruptions, crises, and hurried new definitions and clarifications for our new change control process, which I’m in charge of. I’ve got several pieces of audit information I’m late delivering; I’m hoping that my boss either accepts this tardiness or won’t notice until I’ve corrected [...]
So over the weekend, I moved my desk upstairs, into the living room. Roughly, I cleared off both the desk and the smaller return section, putting all the stuff on the downstairs guest bed. Then Kate and I moved them upstairs, and then I brought up the essential pieces, namely: laptop, external keyboard/mouse, external monitor [...]
We’ve been remarkably and densely productive for the last several days. (Densely in the sense that there hasn’t been a lot of our usual inter-task slacking, e.g. “Gosh, I’ve just folded all this laundry, so I’ll sit and play Halo for a while now.” We’ve mostly been going directly from task to task, spurred on [...]