Goals:
(Recreation and fitness)
Blue belt done
Green belt progress
Brown belt
Climb an Adirondack high peak
Complete my electronics project (the WSG)
(Work)
Rewrite polarimeter software progress
Complete next experiment (HAPPEX-III)
(Home)
Organize shed
Repair house exterior progress
(Financial)
Reduce debt y y n – – – – – – – – - / Y (y(n) means we did (did not) meet my specific [...]
A week ago Monday I was at the dojo; it was Fitness Week, so they were putting us through a lot, and I’m stupid, so I was giving it to them, and by the end I was pretty wiped out. My voice was hoarse. Also, I was coughing a lot. Had been since earlier in [...]
Did I mention our Matrix got rear ended back in November? What with holidays and so on it didn’t get repaired until January. Insurance covered it in full and there were no injuries so no problem other than the inconvenience. As I recall the nice people at Jamesville Collision told me when I picked it [...]
I decided I need to add a victories list to my goals list. Not much to list so far for this year but let’s see:
Purple belt second tip
Blue belt
Rewrote Compton polarimeter decoder software
There’ll be more.
We don’t have cable TV, and we don’t have an antenna that works acceptably. No hardship, we haven’t had either since 2003 and we’re doing fine, but I sort of assumed we’d have one or the other by now. Now I’m not so sure we’ll ever bother. Online video has a long way to go [...]
Kenny got his first tip on his green belt yesterday. I guess it’s mathematically possible for him to get the second tip a month from now and then test for brown belt in April, though I’m guessing May — or perhaps even later — will be more likely. That’s out of the intermediate levels and [...]
Don’t know why, but I’ve had an urge lately to get the bass clarinet out and honk on it a bit, and today I did.
Despite all I said over a year ago — I think I’m much more inclined to grab the bass than the soprano to play just for fun. Not that I have, [...]
