The Visible Woman...November 2, 2003

It's true I'm home a lot more, but getting schedules to sync with FFP and everyone is harder than you'd think.

I wanted to get in sync with FFP today. Do what he was doing when he was doing it. It proved harder than I thought. I am also trying to coordinate playing a tennis match or two. And I was planning a day trip with Dad, figuring out when we could get FFP's car in for maintenance and planning some stuff for trips next year. Or and figuring out what to do for FFP's Dad's birhtday and Thanksgiving. Getting everyone on the same page is one thing. At the same time, truly remarkable. We spend about an hour a week I'd guess, fixing our calendar, doing RSVPs, etc. Yeah, we are such social butterflies.

And the thing is that I just feel that there is a right time to do certain little creative or mundane activities and if, at that time, someone else is on a different schedule, it's hard. That's why it's tough for me to go to exercise classes or play tennis at set times rather than just go when the spirit moves me to the gym on my own. I do make dates and punctually keep them, but sometimes it seems a terrible burden.

I know...I'm such a whiner.

You can't go at your own pace with others but you have got to have other people for lots of things to be fun.

To send me into yet another out-of-sync and out-of-sorts time warp, a computer I was still using for this and that (including updating this journal) had a hard drive failure while I was out and about today. I hunted up the boot disk and CD, managed to pull a few things off the drive (like the very text above that I was working on and hadn't yet saved anywhere). I had lots of backups around but I had to figure out where they were and I had to install software on other machines, or convert files so they'd work with newer software. I had to restore backups, make other machines forget the bad one ever existed. What a pain. It's good to have other machines when this happens, but the more machines you have the bigger mess it all is. Keeping things in sync is so hard. Just keeping backups, OS updates and virus scan updates going is one thing...when you have to actually deal wit a problem it's a big time waster.

Anyway. We did sync up with one of Forrest's clients for dinner albeit a few minutes late. The wonderful wine and food was a nice remedy for an out-of-sync day.

v a perfect salad really helps my attitude	getting in sync It's true I'm home a lot more, but getting schedules to sync with FFP and everyone is harder than you'd think. I wanted to get in sync with FFP today. Do what he was doing when he was doing it. It proved harder than I thought. I am also trying to coordinate playing a tennis match or two. And I was planning a day trip with Dad, figuring out when we could get FFP's car in for maintenance and planning some stuff for trips next year. Or and figuring out what to do for FFP's Dad's birhtday and Thanksgiving. Getting everyone on the same page is one thing. At the same time, truly remarkable. We spend about an hour a week I'd guess, fixing our calendar, doing RSVPs, etc. Yeah, we are such social butterflies. And the thing is that I just feel that there is a right time to do certain little creative or mundane activities and if, at that time, someone else is on a different schedule, it's hard. That's why it's tough for me to go to exercise classes or play tennis at set times rather than just go when the spirit moves me to the gym on my own. I do make dates and punctually keep them, but sometimes it seems a terrible burden. I know...I'm such a whiner. You can't go at your own pace with others but you have got to have other people for lots of things to be fun. To send me into yet another out-of-sync and out-of-sorts time warp, a computer I was still using for this and that (including updating this journal) had a hard drive failure while I was out and about today. I hunted up the boot disk and CD, managed to pull a few things off the drive (like the very text above that I was working on and hadn't yet saved anywhere). I had lots of backups around but I had to figure out where they were and I had to install software on other machines, or convert files so they'd work with newer software. I had to restore backups, make other machines forget the bad one ever existed. What a pain. It's good to have other machines when this happens, but the more machines you have the bigger mess it all is. Keeping things in sync is so hard. Just keeping backups, OS updates and virus scan updates going is one thing...when you have to actually deal wit a problem it's a big time waster. Anyway. We did sync up with one of Forrest's clients for dinner albeit a few minutes late. The wonderful wine and food was a nice remedy for an out-of-sync day.
JUST TYPING Synchronize. Backup. Copy. Collect. Update. Install. Out of sorts. Out of sync.
		Food Diary. *breakfast* nothing *lunch* two bowls of salad with greens, green onions, carrots, some walnuts, mozzarella cheese, Marie's Jalapeno Ranch dressing some rotisserie chicken, mostly white meat, a little dark *snacks* none dinner [Zoot] a chowder (small bowl) Bread and butter a salad with arugula, duck confit and a quail's egg a glass of Sauvignon Blanc Several glasses of 1994 Silver Oak lamb with merlot braised cabbage and potatoes with turnips more bread and butter part of a cheese plate glass of Port Today I didn't - eat stuff at the food show - eat snacks - worry about eating anything I wanted at Zoot
		Time flies.... I was up at a reasonable hour. But sitting at my computer messing with my journal and stuff was then interrupted by going outside to try to put out a hose where the sprinkler system isn't working. I usually do that kind of thing after I go to the gym and sweat. I had to wash dirt and mud off my hands, legs and gym shorts (the last clean ones I had). And then it was past 10:38. I don't know where the time went. I was sending e-mails trying to arrange various schedule things for the week. FFP went to the club but I felt I just had to send this e-mail, then that one. Then I felt I was holding him up so I skipped part of the aerobic work I usually do. We cleaned up and went to the Food Show together. When we got home I found the hard drive had crapped out on an old machine I was still using for this and that. I spent lots of time finding boot disks, finding backups, figuring out where to put stuff, redoing network stuff and backups. I hate this kind of stuff, I tell you.

		Reading. Read Paris in Mind ed. by Jennifer Lee in gym. I would have read the paper but instead I was looking up ftp information, backups, yada yada.
		nada except what you are looking at
		Exercise twenty-two minutes on recumbent bike my new chest and tricep exercises
	.	109/60 67 Feel good physically. Mood is steady in spite of computer mess.
	It's a Tangled Web we weave...these days of our lives.	One year ago "Like the wrapped Reichstag this is one of those 'you had to be here at the right time' deals." Two years ago "The scale says I weigh 183 pounds this morning. I try again and it says 182 as if it is afraid of the truth."