We still don’t really know what we are going to do. So after a morning just being at home, I think we are just going to wander and explore a bit in the afternoon.
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My mom’s flight will be here shortly. She is visiting for a long weekend. I’ve taken today, Friday and Monday off (absent any emergencies). We haven’t really determined exactly what all we will do once she is here, but we will figure it out. I just realized that ever since I made this post on August 21st, I have STILL been draggiing in one way or another ever since. Sometimes just lack of energy. Sometimes an outright cold or flu. Sometimes kidney stones and UTIs. But in any case, it has been OVER THREE MONTHS since I actually felt fully healthy and like there wasn’t one thing or another I either had or was getting over. That just sucks. Bleh. Well, I finally gave up on time machine. I only had it actually working successfully for a few days. Even then, it was only doing “hourly” backups every few hours. But then my computer crashed at some point while it was doing one of the hourlys. And it could never recover. It would think for a couple days, then Time Machine would crash. And then it would try again. Wash Rinse Repeat. If I zeroed everything and had it start from scratch, it would start an initial backup, but it would go slowly (at a pace to do my whole 500GB drive in about a week) and some random thing or other would crash the computer before it was done, and once again it would never recover. I used to use Super Duper! to do my daily backups, but it is not yet Leopard compatible, although the developer says “soon”. So I am now in the process of trying out Carbon Copy Cloner. As I speak it is doing an initial backup of my drive. The computer crashed last night while it was doing things, but CCC was able to just pick up and do a new incremental backup instead of getting confused. So crossing my fingers that I’ll get a new good backup again, and then nightly backups will resume. I really really wanted to use Time Machine. It was one of the BIG things I wanted from Leopard. And I still really want to use it. I will probably try it again when Apple releases 10.5.2, and 10.5.3… etc, until hopefully eventually it works well for me. Sigh. (And yes, I’ve tried all the things I’ve found on a bunch of different forums for making Time Machine work faster/better/at all, but no luck.) In the mean time, CCC for now. Sam talks about:
I still have work stuff to do today. But I ended up sleeping almost all the daylight hours on Saturday. So that is kinda sorta a weekend. I am awake now. Now that it is dark outside again. Awake is good. Next I’ll be working on productive. That is harder. Still doing stuff for work. Monitoring one issue over there, waiting to look at another one in another couple hours. Sleepy though. It will be nice once the holiday season is over. Then I’ll be able to sleep. I have barely even opened my home email at all, let alone answered any. I have barely done any of the things I usually do at home in the evenings (email, paying bills, reading, genealogy stuff). I’ve been on call for work, plus it is December and given where I work that means everything is going nuts and people are all on edge because it is the busiest time of year, and so every little thing matters more than it would any other time. So I’ve been taking more work home than I usually do. And when I haven’t been doing that, the last thing I’ve wanted to do is sit at my desk and be productive. So a little TV watching has happened. And some sleep has happened. But basically. Busy and exhausting week at work, means nothing gets done at home. That is OK I guess. I’ll catch up eventually. Maybe. Don’t know why I think I’ll get caught up. Last time I was caught up on all my basic routine tasks was something like 2003…. and even then there were long term projects outstanding.
Oops. It looks like it will last for days. Just saw this bit: The Federalism Issue
My immediate response is that this is probably a very good example of one of the major problems of politics today. All politics SHOULD start with a core vision of what comprises good government… completely independent of any specific issues… completely blind to who may or may not be in power… as both issues and who is in power shift over time… then when looking at how to address any specific issue, that discussion should be framed within the constraints of that model. When politics starts with individual issues and is organized only on trying to find the optimal way to game the system to get results on those issues, then of COURSE the system is going to get horribly corrupted over time. Maybe you will get results on those specific issues. The desired policy result in the short term will perhaps be exactly as desired. But over time, the shortcuts and distortions to the process eventually come back on some other issue in the opposite direction. It all becomes a muddled mess instead of a functioning system. Now, it is one thing if there really was a fundamental disagreement on what constitutes good government… in terms of balance of powers between state, federal, local and between executive, legislative and judicial… perhaps even between national and international… and of course on the fundamental of which things government should be involved in at all, and which it should not be… but I think Yglesias actually has it correct. The real case is that most people actually don’t care and don’t have a principled opinion on those issues. They only use those things in whatever way happens at the moment to push their own view on some specific issue. Yglesias seems to think that is OK. I think that is a horrible problem and perhaps core to the increasingly divided and dysfunctional political culture we see today. Having some sort of national consensus — or at least real discussion — on what the proper roles, functions, and interrelations of the various parts of government — divorced from the specific issues of today — would be very healthy. Unfortunately, it won’t happen. |
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