Well, yes and no. Lots of people have the week off, but some of us will need to be working. I expect this week to fall in the middle. I’ve got some work to do, but I don’t think I’ll be hard at it, since I’ll have the excuse that some of the people I need to work with are out for the week.
The weekend? A mix. Friday night with the cousins and their families was good. There were a couple new kids in the mix, and four of my six cousins are now grandparents. It was good to see everyone, and I made out pretty well in the “Christmas Present Bingo” we play.
Christmas Day at mom’s. Well, I had been hoping to convince mom to go out to dinner, and arrived wearing a tie and sport-jacket, figuring that might help. But mom was adamant about staying home, and I ended up cooking dinner there. It can be frustrating. Mom complains that nobody comes to visit her, but won’t take an opportunity to get out of the house, either. I can understand that feeling, but when I spot it in myself, I usually try to make an effort to get out more.
Yesterday felt almost like it should have been a Monday. I woke up early, checked the internet to make sure the world was still out there, and then realized that it was Sunday, and there was nothing I had to do during the day, so I went back to bed and slept until almost two pm. At that point, any shred of motivation I’d had was gone, and I spent the afternoon and evening watching movies on the TV until almost one this morning.
Which brings us to today. I’ve got a fairly long laundry-list of things to do that includes laundry, but they’re a fairly even mix of easy to do and things that nobody will miss if I put ’em off for another week. Figure in the short sleep, since I was awake about six am, and will probably feel like a nap at some point, and I forsee difficulty in getting motivated for the the things that I could put off. Hopefully a sense of acomplishment from doing some of the easy things will get my momentum up this morning. We’ll see.
- Here’s
a blast from the past: Project C-90 catalogs cassette tapes. Not stuff on them, just all the various flavors of tape that used to be out there. But unlike Stavros, who was a Maxell fan, I was a TDK guy. [emptybottle]
classic rock - There’s an Internet Radio Recorder called Replay Radio that captures live audio to a variety of formats. Sadly, it’s Windows-only, but it’s an application that I thought of shortly after the first TiVo shipped, and have never had time to write. I’d still like to see a Mac version of the same kind of thing.
- Seeing someone who looks afraid will scare you? Scientists seem to think so: Why whites of eyes spell “danger”. But the best quote is
Psychologists have suggested that people with anxiety disorders are very sensitive to subliminal threats and are picking up stimuli the rest of us do not perceive.
So it’s not paranoia, it’s just paying attention! - Jason Kottke has put together The Best Links 2004. It’s worth checking out if you’re not hard at work today. If you are supposed to be slaving away, you might want to avoid it, since it appears as though you could spend a lot of time there. He also has a list of his favorite weblogs from 2004, and not surprisingly, I don’t appear there. [kottke]