protein cocoa, caf, maybe or maybe not vitamins
CPAP: 7 nights badge
yogurt: 15g / 140 kcal = .1071 p.index (solidly "optimal" protein choice!)
1 ea turkey dog and turkey sausage w/kraut, mustanrd, chili and melted cheddar :Q
robovac
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The conundrum of information cataloging is something I've revisited many times over the decades, since before I became a computer hobbyist really. Certainly before Windows 95 inaugurated the commercial Internet and the cloud storage paradigm it eventually spawned. Considering local files, cloud files, email, and hardcopy: due to sheer usage, my email scheme is probably the deepest. But there'd be no point in having an email folder representing local filesystem, for example, so logically we know the email scheme doesn't supersede the others.
I settled on reinventing the cloud catalog index scheme. It could stand some tweaking yet but I feel pretty good about harmonizing offline files and email schemes against it.
There was an article or maybe a book I read a long time ago, about staying organized. It related a quote attributed to Abe Lincoln: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." The idea is analogous to any work that's not completely compartmentalized and mindless: if you spend some time "sharpening the axe", that is, tending to your tools, then you'll be more efficient at the more directly productive parts of the job. For jobs where we work on computers all day, "sharpening the axe" translates to a constellation of secondary work like regularly updating software and Windows (or OSX or whatever) itself; decluttering the desktop and filesystem to minimize distractions and highlight focal workflow entry points; keeping informed about emerging technologies and products to make our tasks easier or extend our capabilities; and much more.
And that's why categorizing and schematizing information is important enough to me to revisit regularly for a lifetime. I was an "information guy" at heart since my bookstore-clerking days, and schemas matter in informatics. For information people, developing and tuning schemas is a powerful chunk of "sharpening the axe".
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Earworms revisited
There was a particular song stuck in my head, Mike Oldfield's "Altered State", but my usual trick of parodizing the lyrics wasn't working because it's already nonsense lyrics interspersed with not-even-words caveman grunt-growling. I read somewhere that songs that fade out, as opposed to having a clearly conclusive terminal bar, are more prone to earworming - something to do with the cognitive significance of closure. "Altered State" does somewhat fade out - but if you turn up the colume and listen carefully, there is a dividing line where we get a distinct chord, one which happens to hamrnize with the next song on the CD arrangement. So when I find this song playing in my head (several times a day for the past ... week? more?) I've been skipping ahead to the conclusive chord.
What's odd to me is, this is not a new release nor one I just recently discovered. When Oldfield released "Tubular Bells II" in '92, I was pretty excited about it because I was already familiar with his 1973 "Tubular Bells" (incl "Theme from Exorcist", composed when he was just 17 years old). It didn't exactly fall off my radar, but it wasn't a super-important part of my life soundtrack either - minor compared to Front 242, Ministry, System of a Down, RATM, or my long dip in the gabber/hardcore pool.