Nov 10: blogger's block / to do lists

Well, I made it 10 days before I hit my usual blogger's block. It's some weird combination of stage fright and weariness. Do I talk about my son? Should I complain about my computer? I've told you some of the major thoughts I've had. My mind is a blank.

So um, here are some of my smaller goals:

Knitting projects:
- Socks for Tobo: Nobody makes warm winter socks for toddlers because they grow like weeds. I'm take the chance to make a small set of socks for Tobo from left over yarn.
- No more yarn: I've cut myself off from buying anymore yarn until I use up the odds and ends I've got stashed away for a rainy day. So these socks are perfect kind of thing.
- Next? I'm debating making a hat or socks for myself next.

Diaper projects:
- flips: I've been thinking about picking up some disposable flips from cottonbabies.com for our christmas travel. Happily, it looks like you can buy the covers and the insert separately. I really don't need more regular diapers. We'll see if its actually worth it.
- better inserts: I am investigating hemp inserts for night time in an attempt to get away from disposables at night. I don't want to spend too much money on anything, so I'm going to be looking at used and ebay first, no rush really. If I procrastinate long enough he'll be potty trained. Another option is to look at hemp fitted diapers that would work with our dancing bear cover. The cover works great, I just need to find a combination that is thin and absorbent. We're also looking at cutting back on liquids at night.
- replace the diaper bag: We're also trying to replace our backpack/diaper bag with something that is more travel friendly than what we have. I've got one I like at Landsend, but the jury is still out.

Computer projects:
- Fix the *$%^ mac. Really tired of getting a notice on my phone that I have new mail before I see it on my computer. I have no idea what is going on with mac mail and I'm about ready to chuck it and install thunderbird, mozilla's mail client. If I can get this resolved, I will be completely off the old mac and ready to move onto software upgrades.
- Quicken 2010 is coming out for mac, which is the first update since 2008. I highly doubt it will have anything earth shattering in it, but it will hopefully be less buggy than 2008 has become. I've looked around at iBudget, but not sure if I really understand their premise. (envelope budgeting)
- InDesign CS4: If I upgrade I can work some from home. Probably.

ok, boy is crying, off to save the day.

Nov 9: file dump

I tried to be flexible about my plans, but they are plans. This was one of those days where we were on plan Q by about noon. [Plan Quelle, determined by German historians to be a plan reflected in they synoptic plans A and B but a lost source] I hope I manage it with some grace, but I know I can be a bit grouchy if left to my own devices. The biggest problem right now is that I've had short nights for about 6 days for one reason or another, so I don't really have control over what my mouth is saying. No filter. I just say what comes to mind, it just pops out of my mouth. This is probably a positive when it comes to blogging.

The big event this weekend other than the retreat and a boy called boy, is that my new macbook pro completely didn't complete it's migration from my old machine. I finally got a chance to sit down and troubleshoot it today, but not after a lot of hair tearing and carrying on. It was like a hang nail. I had other things to do and I just couldn't help but poke at it during the day. Fortunately we had kind of a quiet day today, what with Tobo sleeping for most of it. He was one exhausted puppy after talking all night last night from 11p to 4a.

Eventually I found that I had to turn off Airport and all other network connections to get the Migration Assistant to work properly. This would have been really good to know 3 days ago when I originally was working on moving things over. Once I did that, it copied basically a complete set of all my user profiles over from my old G4 powerbook, including third party software like InDesign and Quark, Quicken, etc in about an hour. It was pretty cool. My IPhoto library is again in one piece. I can move my personal files off of a firewire drive I have from work, its good. The one sticking point is I'm having trouble getting my mail application to respond properly. But after I fixed the networking issue, Migration Assistant was very handy.