Landlord's critically low disk space: fixed. Seems he had his weekly scheduled backups backing up his whole drive into his user folder... on that same drive. Scanner not scanning: fixed. After reinstalling drivers and running the manufacturer's troubleshooter, determined the scanner wasn't actually powered on. D'oh. In my defense, its perch was above eye level. Never, never assume the user has checked the obvious... Laundry: laundering Accounts registers: _ Pretty sure the teller screwed up my trans... (...more)

session #35: 3.3mi / 45m50s, peaking at 6.8mph for... not quite 2 laps... I just didn't have the stam. If the weather isn't so dreary tomorrow I might sneak another run in, because that worked so very well last Saturday. Subway's $5 footlong of the month is Chicken Marinara, which sounds great until you chomp down on flecks of gristle. So I'm sticking to the omelette melts this month. Today it was egg+turkey, cheddar, tomato, pickle, black olive, banana pepper and chipotle dressing. Breakfast was a turk... (...more)

Last treadmill session (#33) was Monday, Nov. 7, where I clocked 3.3mi in exactly 46 minutes. Then I got dragged down by the stress of finalizing annual software changes, in combination with a storm of domestic disturbances. The software update project is done aside from some final testing and debugging, and I'm at-ease with that and looking forward to making some advances in re-engineering it as an intranet application. The domestic situation was good while it lasted - clean, quiet, economical and... (...more)

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I did a little shopping at Target before I hit the gym yesterday. By long habit, I was an up-the-calf white cotton tube sock kind of guy. Before she fell out with Sl.-, M.- gave me package of Hanes ankle socks, which I never opened but also never tossed or gave away. Then when I started doing the gym thing I felt self-conscious about my socks, which either trap heat and sweat or slip down to rumple around the ankle anyway, so I cracked open the ankle socks. And turns out I really like them, so much so that... (...more)