The Mandelbear's Musings

Not a very good day, on the whole, despite a couple of good practice sessions. Worry? Empathy? Yeah, probably empathy. I guess I cut myself off from my emotions for a reason, all those years ago.

The YD's phone is broken. Again. This time one of the pins on the charging connector is broken. The insurance we've been paying for has a $50 deductible, and would take a couple of days to replace it -- you can't just walk into an AT&T store and do a swap. (Cell phone companies are second only to cable companies in customer dissatisfaction.)

So what I am going to do is buy a "go phone", which is a dirt-cheap refurbished phone with a prepaid SIM, and just plop her SIM into it.

The other alternative would be upgrading my phone (her contract still has a month and a half to run), but I don't want to do that until I can get one with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in it, which won't be until next year sometime.

Between the phone hassle, assorted frustrations, and a bad smell something like laundry detergent (apparently coming through the AC vents near my office), I left work a little before 5pm feeling drained, depressed, and discouraged. I still felt down after dinner, so it wasn't just low blood sugar. (Mostly better now.)

I've been enjoying Mimi and Eunice's archives.

1206 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=195.6; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, light
  @ enjoying Mimi and Eunice
  @ Crowdfunded Creativity - Paypal Account freezes over Donate button
    Crowdfunded Creativity - Question on accepting tips
  * LgF work; several songs.  I'm hitting the Bm's and Am/B's dead on for once.
    ! encouraged.  Quite a lot of improvement.
  : YD's phone isn't charging.  :(  She may be able to put her SIM card in
    the UBF's phone for now.  -> no.  Could upgrade mine.  
    -> There's insurance; she has called them.
  & left work ~4:45; combination of a bad smell and being totally... don't
    know.  But unproductive, anyway.
  ! please make it stop.
  ! drained and depressed, even after dinner
  : another of my USB chargers has vanished.  Weird.  Had them coming out of
    my ears a few weeks ago...
  * load /media/xfer; pack cygnus and power brick into the Belkin bag
    Yes, the Belkin was the right choice -- it's pretty full.
  * cleanup in lgf/Lyrics.  Chord positioning; deleting TG* material.
    practice on a couple of songs.