Well, it's "Wishful Wednesday" again, for the first time this decade. You'll find the actual Caregiver's Wishlist here.

I probably ought to do some refurbishing on it, now that it's the new year. Also, is every other week too much? Too little? Inquiring minds...

The day started with a dentist appointment (teeth cleaning). No problems, so it's good. The advantage to 9am appointments is that Guitar Showcase, located right across the street, isn't open yet.

Got in a good walk: to Safeway and back via the back (hilly and longer) road. My step count for the day was 10257, so Go Me!

Making some progress at work, but as it involves understanding somebody else's code in an unfamiliar language, it's going slower than I'd like. Still, it has its moments.

Lots and lots of good links -- see behind the cut if you like that kind of thing. Almost all gadgets this time. The thing that excites me about the Lenovo Skylight is that it's ARM-based. There is no Windows port for the ARM.

... to rowanf!!!! Have a great one!!

A pretty good day, for all that it involved oversleeping my alarm, going back to work after the long weekend doing a lot of running around, taking Chaos to the airport (with a stop at Barefoot on the way so she could buy coffee), ... But, ok.

Oh, and finishing up the charities, and recycling a box of old begging letters. I feel good about that.

An interesting IM session with N, mostly about kids' books and role-playing. More on that later, I hope. And a Private Journal entry, the first in a long time. About a month, I think.

So, yeah. Good.

... to sandy_tyras and idea_fairy!!!! Have a great one!!

A rather low-key day, but good. The really big happy thing happened 34 years ago, at about 2pm, when we got married. The man who forgets his anniversary is something of a stock character, but I really did spend most of the day not thinking about it. Of course, the party had been on Saturday.

I got in a good walk, a couple of times around the Rose Garden. I suppose that if I walked more often, it would hurt less.

I tracked down all the begging letters, and got a good start on writing the checks (a process I finished this morning). Should have been done in mid-December, of course; this year I didn't even sort them in December. I figure as long as the checks are dated 12/31 and in the mail on the first business day of the new year, ... I really need to start spreading them out, two or three per month.

Of course, that would require being organized.

While tracking down the charities I found a rebate form (that I hadn't thought I'd printed out) that had to have been mailed by December 8. Grrrr. I also now have a big pile of stuff that needs to be looked at Real Soon Now.

Colleen, Chaos and I went out to Mongolian Barbecue for dinner, after which we dropped off the Wolfling and went to Barnes & Noble. Then I dropped Colleen off and went to the airport to pick up the YD.

Then I wrote checks, until finally falling into bed around midnight. The snuggle was nice. If I'm going to take benedryl at bedtime, I need to make that no later than 11.

If you're ever in Palo Alto, CA and in need of a guitar pick or three, be sure to stop by Gryphon Stringed Instruments.

Good party. A little small, as they tend to be these days, but Colleen was home and that made everything work right. This year is starting out so much better than 2009! I spent a lot of time in the office. Now that both Colleen and I are comfortable with that, parties and Wednesdays go a lot more pleasantly.

The Bohnhoffs were there in the afternoon and we swapped songs for a while: I sang the Bears, Riverheart, Toolmakers, and Wheelin'. Chaos hauled her bodhran for Toolmakers, and used my dumbek (which she liked and many people admired) on Wheelin'.

A couple of good conversations, plus a nice wide-ranging IM conversation with N spread out in little snippets over the entire afternoon. Realized that I'm actually overcoming my aversion to role-playing, at least when it involves a little gentle whimsy rather than putting myself in a social role I don't understand.

A little system administration and a fair amount of physical puttering-about.

Good day. Not really happy so much as contented, most of the time.

A good day. Slept over 9 hours; Colleen got up well before me to watch the Rose Parade. After I joined her I spent what was left of the morning in the living room watching the parade, chatting with N, and feeling happy and hopeful. And loved -- let's not forget loved.

I didn't get much done, and due to the late start didn't get in a walk either. (The step count, a miserable 3847, clearly reflects this, and the lack of exercise may account for my difficulty in falling asleep.)

Around 4pm, while Selkit was packing and K was still cleaning and chattering, I got somewhat overloaded and peopled out. Fortunately, people understand "peopled out" as an excuse, so I was able to minimize the damage in both directions.

I did get to try out the new coffeemaker, transfer the DNS for six domains from GoDaddy (which remains the registrar for most of them) to Dreamhost, and move the last of my websites off of the gateway, also to Dreamhost. It needed doing, and was a lot easier than putting them on the interim gateway. Some work is still needed. And I put the new gateway machine on the rack shelf where it belongs, and did some pre-party decluttering in the kitchen.

So, OK, I guess I did get some things done. And a day of relaxing and recovery is good every once in a while.