stuff done: Wednesday-Saturday
Jan. 7th, 2017 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfalling1. Recharged my bus pass.
2. Deposited my semi-annual mutual fund dividend check, which is more welcome this year than in some others.
3. Crossposted my remaining December three-sentence ficlets to AO3 and updated my fanfic directory posts through January 1.
4. Dumped a dead houseplant and cleaned its pot. I am sad about the plant, but not too torn-up -- I rescued it from Vicky about fifteen years ago, I never successfully identified its species, and it was always kind of finicky. (There was a reason Vicky was throwing it out, after all.) I figure it had a good life and that's all any of us can really ask.
5. Passed the online comprehension test for the live Not the IRS skills training session I attended on Monday. Also took the first of a series of online training courses for a new computer program we're using this year to do pretty much everything that isn't either tax prep or payment processing. I have three more to go. (This was all paid training, btw. I like that in a training course. *grin*)
6. Took compost to the outdoor bin.
7. Took trash out to my trashcan, and also put the bags already in the can into this bag, since it's one of a larger size that I'm slowly trying to get rid of and fewer bags means it's less likely the sanitation people will leave some behind by accident. I think that when I accumulate another bag's worth, it will be time to put the can out for collection.
8. Cut my fingernails.
9. Finished and posted a Cotton Candy Bingo prompt fic (Maboroshi, Naruto, 1,075 words) that I owed![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
runespoor7 from last August.
10. Photographed my flock of flowers. :)
11. Swept snow from the sidewalk, on both sides of the house. (Corner houses are infinite generator of snow-related argh in winter.)
12. Called Vicky on Saturday evening, to catch up on what we've been doing since Christmas.
13. Finished reading The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton, which I need to return to the public library ASAP as it's now several days overdue. The book is well-written and engaging (it could, perhaps, do with more diagrams), but slightly odd to read because it's only half the history the title led me to expect; the other half is a vehement argument against a school of thought (relativism) that I have never personally encountered in this field of study, and which seems to me self-evidently ridiculous in its strong form, but which has apparently become the mainstream in history of science over the past couple decades; hence why this history is 'new'.
I suspect I have been insulated from this debate, despite my perennial interest in the history of science, because my dad is himself a historian of science and technology and he also thinks that the relativist school of thought is barking too far up the wrong tree. I should probably go read a book from that school just to ensure I am getting both sides of the debate in their own words, though I have a feeling I will still end up thinking it's wrongheaded. The big-name text from that school seems to still be Leviathan and the Air-pump by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, even though it's over thirty years old and has been extensively criticized on multiple fronts, so. Maybe that will be my next book to cart around and read bits of on busses and when bored at work, if I don't end up throwing it across a room in exasperation.
14. The rental company I work for three days a week has been busy getting ready for the launch of a new website. It goes live on Monday, though we aren't finished with the mountain of data entry. As of Saturday closing, Miss Cactus and I had the unit descriptions, prices, and availability all correctly listed and displayed, but we're still in the middle of redoing all the unit pictures and their captions, which is a process of extreme tediousness since the program we have to use is not very user-friendly when it comes to shuffling the order of image files, plus they have to be attached one at a time rather than in batches. *sigh*
15. Pulled aside a bunch of my spider plants for repotting, hopefully tomorrow. I figure that if they're making an inconvenient mess of my table and counter, I am much more likely to take further action than if they were still sitting or hanging in their accustomed spots. *wry*
And now to bed. :)
2. Deposited my semi-annual mutual fund dividend check, which is more welcome this year than in some others.
3. Crossposted my remaining December three-sentence ficlets to AO3 and updated my fanfic directory posts through January 1.
4. Dumped a dead houseplant and cleaned its pot. I am sad about the plant, but not too torn-up -- I rescued it from Vicky about fifteen years ago, I never successfully identified its species, and it was always kind of finicky. (There was a reason Vicky was throwing it out, after all.) I figure it had a good life and that's all any of us can really ask.
5. Passed the online comprehension test for the live Not the IRS skills training session I attended on Monday. Also took the first of a series of online training courses for a new computer program we're using this year to do pretty much everything that isn't either tax prep or payment processing. I have three more to go. (This was all paid training, btw. I like that in a training course. *grin*)
6. Took compost to the outdoor bin.
7. Took trash out to my trashcan, and also put the bags already in the can into this bag, since it's one of a larger size that I'm slowly trying to get rid of and fewer bags means it's less likely the sanitation people will leave some behind by accident. I think that when I accumulate another bag's worth, it will be time to put the can out for collection.
8. Cut my fingernails.
9. Finished and posted a Cotton Candy Bingo prompt fic (Maboroshi, Naruto, 1,075 words) that I owed
10. Photographed my flock of flowers. :)
11. Swept snow from the sidewalk, on both sides of the house. (Corner houses are infinite generator of snow-related argh in winter.)
12. Called Vicky on Saturday evening, to catch up on what we've been doing since Christmas.
13. Finished reading The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton, which I need to return to the public library ASAP as it's now several days overdue. The book is well-written and engaging (it could, perhaps, do with more diagrams), but slightly odd to read because it's only half the history the title led me to expect; the other half is a vehement argument against a school of thought (relativism) that I have never personally encountered in this field of study, and which seems to me self-evidently ridiculous in its strong form, but which has apparently become the mainstream in history of science over the past couple decades; hence why this history is 'new'.
I suspect I have been insulated from this debate, despite my perennial interest in the history of science, because my dad is himself a historian of science and technology and he also thinks that the relativist school of thought is barking too far up the wrong tree. I should probably go read a book from that school just to ensure I am getting both sides of the debate in their own words, though I have a feeling I will still end up thinking it's wrongheaded. The big-name text from that school seems to still be Leviathan and the Air-pump by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, even though it's over thirty years old and has been extensively criticized on multiple fronts, so. Maybe that will be my next book to cart around and read bits of on busses and when bored at work, if I don't end up throwing it across a room in exasperation.
14. The rental company I work for three days a week has been busy getting ready for the launch of a new website. It goes live on Monday, though we aren't finished with the mountain of data entry. As of Saturday closing, Miss Cactus and I had the unit descriptions, prices, and availability all correctly listed and displayed, but we're still in the middle of redoing all the unit pictures and their captions, which is a process of extreme tediousness since the program we have to use is not very user-friendly when it comes to shuffling the order of image files, plus they have to be attached one at a time rather than in batches. *sigh*
15. Pulled aside a bunch of my spider plants for repotting, hopefully tomorrow. I figure that if they're making an inconvenient mess of my table and counter, I am much more likely to take further action than if they were still sitting or hanging in their accustomed spots. *wry*
And now to bed. :)
