Woozle/to do/archive/2007-2008

Headspaces JS Josh HW housework paying bills journal entries updating to-do VBZD vbz.net - development (see vbzwiki:to do) migration VBZO vbz.net - operations shipping customer service PW paid work (Sage & Swift, guru.com... invoicing...) CR creative writing funny stuff recording funny stuff recording music SW "saving the world" Issuepedia & related stuff (reading blogs...) writing serious stuff Related Pages Harena's To-Do List /archive: to-do stuff done or abandoned Current events - The Hypertwin Calendar

A very incomplete log theoretically documenting what I actually spend time on. Note that some things may get preference because they help me to relax; if I don't relax, then I get all avoidant about the stuff that isn't relaxing and I end up neither relaxing nor getting any work done.

2007-10-03

Themes: VBZD, JS:

• Migrated most of the needed vbz queries for improving stock-form speed
• grocery shopping (unavoidable)
• Filled out most of Albemarle form
• Emailed Durham One Call to try to track down Jill Hoffman
• Revamped to-do list: new strategy
• Called Durham One because the email bounced; asked after-hours operator to report the problem
• Emailed Elizabeth Byars at TEACCH

2007-10-04

Themes: JS, PW, VBZO; +VBZD

• re-emailed Durham One, repeatedly, including from GMail.
  • all emails bounced, so I called and left my name and phone number.
• had to reinstall MS Office on Vincent because of Gonzo being temporarily invisible to some machines.
  • Copied install CD to Rizzo and installed from there this time. Should be able to get rid of install image on Gonzo at this point.
• shipped 2 vbz orders
• updated stock table to use remote queries; although remote cbx query still not working, just using the sub-queries remotely seems to make enough of a difference, and table display is now much quicker

2007-10-05 (Fri)

Themes: PW, HW, CR

• paid Sandy's bills
• got mixing board set up
• transcribed Stand Up to Your Rights from notebook

2007-10-06 (Sat)

Themes: +JS, +CR

• headache all morning
• Josh near-escape
• farmer's market
• dishes again
• artwork for woozalia.com

2007-10-07 (Sun)

Themes: PW

• email invoice to Lisa@S&S
  • ask if they need anything more formal
  • check how things are going
  • ask about keys (mention stopping by on Tuesday)
• test Durham One email again, to see if they've fixed it

2007-10-09 (Tue)

• picked up check and key from Sage & Swift
• bike ride ended abruptly with punctured tire on S's bike
• voted (Catotti, Brown)
• upgraded Gonzo to 7.04

2007-10-10 (Wed)

• spent day dealing with tech issues, mostly on Rizzo:
  • munged hard drive
  • Samba not working quite right (Mel's computer fighting for Master Browser)
  • dnsmasq needs to be on Rizzo, not Gonzo, dadgummit

2008-03-30 (Sun)

Day Two of Josh being at home for 10 days straight. Moving old to-do lists here and rebuilding from scratch:

• Josh
  • 2007-10-03 finish application to Albemarle people submitted; waiting for decision
  • 2007-10-03 keep sending email to Durham One Call (once or twice a day), and call if it bounces. (Trying to get msg to Jill Hoffman.) no longer applicable
  • 2007-10-03 make list of what else needs to be done, and prioritize. Go to school and bug people? Just need to have a list of all the things we could or "should" be doing, and then see what we can actually be doing. who knows
  • 2007-10-03 I'm totally lost about where we are with the whole TEACCH thing. I guess the next thing is to respond to her email? Mention about the Albemarle people wanting TEACCH's evaluation. no longer applicable
• vbz.net
  • thorns-in-side (hampering operations):
    • 2007-10-03 stock display is much too slow not sure what this refers to, but I think it was fixed by making Rizzo the server for operations data
      • finish migrating related queries to MySQL (almost done with this) just some tidy-up remaining
    • 2007-10-03 catalog building is also ridiculously slow; investigate fixability completely rewrote (twice)
  • migration - urgent things which can't be done until resolved (update: these got put off because some worse issues raised their heads)
    • 2007-10-03 topic maintenance
      • find old version of Access db which still has ID_Parent field in topics table
    • migrate data to MySQL
    • 2007-10-03 image maintenance
      • figure out shortest path to getting this working