18. December, 2003 - hitting the wall
- I’m starting to hit the wall on the new-house thing. Everything seems to be in order with the other people involved, but I’m behind on the things I need to get done to be ready for the move next week:
- There are two piles of boxes in front of my bookcases that I have to do something with so I can get to the remaining books in order to pack them.
- I’ve got to get my trike out of the way so I can start packing up the stereo, but that means getting enough air in the tires that I can ride it over to the new place and then walk home.
- I need to get the two dressers full of "not this time of year" clothing moved so I have room to get into my closets to do some sort of triage there.
- I have to figure out how to pack up and move the computers while still trying to push a software release out the door for a client.
Yes, I’m hiring professional movers, but if I don’t get at least a little organized before they show up, I won’t be able to find anything until summer.
I did get a fair number of things done yesterday. All the smoke detectors are working and there’s a new carbon monoxide detector set up. I put a sacrificial furnace filter in so the dust from the hardwood floor refinishing wouldn’t clog the furnace. I ordered a dozen of the right size of furnace filters (it’s an odd sized filter, apparently – stocking up feels like the right thing to do). And I cleared a bunch of the crap out of my car so I can haul other things back and forth. And there were trips to Home Depot and Target for various things that I needed at the time.
I also made time to take a much-needed nap in the afternoon and have dinner with a couple friends last evening. I think that might have been the most important accomplishment of the day, since it means that I got a decent night's sleep last night, and this morning I feel as though I might actually be able to get everything done yet.
But now it’s time to get some breakfast and get myself cleaned up, since I have to be over at the new place (hopefully with a load of stuff I can carry in) so I can let in the guy who’s going to measure my bedroom for the new carpeting.
- In The Campaign of Hate and Fear Orson Scott Card opines that the democrats
platforms range from Howard Dean’s Bush is the devil
to everybody else’s I’ll make you rich, and Bush is quite similar to the devil.
Since President Bush is quite plainly not the devil, one wonders why anyone in the Democratic Party thinks this ploy will play with the general public.
It gets better from there (he is, after all, a professional writer), as he dissects the press coverage of the war in Iraq, the Democratic candidates stances on that war, and what it’ll mean for the country in the long run.
- Iraqi minister tells UN to stop sniping, start helping
The UN as an organisation failed to help rescue the Iraqi people from a murderous tyranny of 35 years,
he said. The UN must not fail the Iraqi people again.
Good for him.
- Panel on Terror Calls for Board on Protecting Civil Liberties, basically asking the White House to decide whether laws it’s advocated and which are enforced by the Executive Branch, might possibly infringe on people’s rights. Yeah, that sounds like a spiffy check and balance to me.
- Michael Crichton’s Commonwealth Club Speech talks about environmentalism as a religion, the Eden myth, and then goes on to bust some myths. The solution to the problem with the current environmental movement is science, and he says it better than I can. [colby cosh]
- Are we heading for A Net of Control rather than a free internet? John Walker thinks we are, and he might be right if the FCC continues with the plans it’s currently cooking up. What to do about it? I don’t know. [doc]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:25:52.