Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Good: Small but noticeable progress on my to-do list, while managing to pace myself so that I didn't completely wear myself out.

Bad: Finding out that I had not solved the problems with hotsyncing Documents To Go, and losing a month worth of time and mileage tracking, medication and sleep log, and fuel economy records. I spent a couple of hours trying to get documents backed up, cleaning up places where it appended bits of one spreadsheet onto the end of another, sorting out which versions of files were more current than others, trying to convince it to play nice with my filenames (it kept wanting to add digits to them, or underscores, or both), wondering why certain documents simply would not transfer in one direction or the other, finally giving up on two low-priority spreadsheets and all the Word files, and then discovering that on the Nth iteration of the whole process, the up-to-date file on the PDA that kept failing to copy to the PC had mysteriously vanished from the PDA. WTF?

But hey, I've suddenly got 3MB more free RAM on the PDA. Apparently past hotsync operations were leaving extra copies of spreadsheets that Documents To Go couldn't tell were there.

Mixed, but exciting: There was a mouse in my bed (-) and Perrine caught it for me (+). It was peering out from a fold in the blanket. I summoned Perrine (she does seem to have learned the word "mouse", because she came into the room already displaying hunting body language). She caught it, and I managed to take it from her before she lost it again.

Noteworthy: Interesting episode of CSI earlier.

I'm tired. I should eat. And I'm really bummed about having a big old hole in my data. So much for having a complete log of car expenses and completely accurate cents-per-mile numbers since I got it. Puts a crimp in my plans to look for trends in my sleep patterns and drug use and whether they affect each other, but at least by the time I can afford to start seeing doctors again I'll probably have a long stretch of data to show them again. (Argh. I think my drug use was pretty typical for the lost month, but my sleep has been extra-wonky lately, and I did want to analyze that. Feh.)

The annoying thing is that attempting to back up the data is what destroyed it. And I'm not certain whether it's going to bite me the same way the next time or the time after that. Am I going to have to resume carrying my DayRunner to keep copies of these notes in? Again I say: feh. I know DTG works really really well for a lot of other people, but I have no idea what the relevant difference is in my configuration.

At least I made it to both rehearsals this week. And Perrine caught the mouse.

Are reggae and punk generally considered to follow one another in a set, or is that just among Baltimore/Washington area disc-jockeys?

"We have to work on this from the ground up. We can't just solve the violence, we have to solve the discrimination, We have to make our society better. We have to make it a community again, where gun violence isn't okay, where lack of respect for people isn't okay. If it's okay to tell a black joke, it's okay to tell a man-in-a-dress joke. If it's okay to attack an Arab because of some stupid connection to 9/11, it's okay to attack somebody for being Irish or whatever. If it's okay to murder a young Latina transgender woman, it's okay to murder you and me and anyone else." -- Mara Keisling, of the National Center for Transgender Equality, quoted in The Washington Post 2003-11-29.

I'm trying to find the lyrics to a song that Jack Teagarden recorded, called "It's All In Your Mind". Google turns up different songs with the same title, but none containing the fragment I jotted down when I heard it on the radio. (This is not a complete surprise; modern pop lyrics show up on the web more often than old jazz.) Are any of y'all familiar with this song and willing to send me the lyrics?

And unrelated to the above, or to the subject heading, happy birthday to aliza250.