Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Frustrated and anxious[*]. Taking a write-chatty-nonsense break to settle my nerves.

Inanimate objects are not obeying my directions. This is part of the frustration. (And no, I am not giving them commands in English; I'm aware that most inanimate objects cannot grasp English commands other than "Stay!" and "Fall!". I use the generally accepted language for instructing inanimate objects: directed application of kinetic energy. They're still not listening. Or possibly the gravity in my house is off kilter and needs to be adjusted. (Is that something I have to repair myself, or is it considered a city-provided service that I should call 311 for?))

Consequently, while I am searching for two items that migrated from their last known locations without permission by stealth, other objects are diving in a less-stealthy fashion toward my toes. Makes me a bit jumpy.

Hmph. And now I'm losing track of virtual objects as well. *grrr* But at least I can send the 'find' and 'grep' golems to hunt those for me while I go back to changing the potential energy of things that might have other things under them.[**]

Also, new item for my to-do list: carve a new knob for the lid of the kettle.

Throat still bothering me. Nervous about a couple of deadlines.

Still need to post cat-adventure from a few days ago. Should probably not be trying to debate the merits of hate-crime laws elsejournal while so sleep deprived.

[*] Having gotten a mere single hour of sleep before leg cramps woke me is probably an exacerbating factor in this.

[**] Since two of the five realms I may need to have the golems search for me are in Windowships (the others are two Linuxocracies and a BSDom), I must add: huzzah for Cygwin! Though ifwhen I get around to converting the XP machine from FAT32 to NTFS, I wanna play with 'andLinux'. And yes, I know there's a 'more user friendly' search function in the Windows Start menu, but 'find' commands are more automatic for my fingers, and I feel more comfortable using it. *shrug* I use Windows but I'm not really a Windows person.