Month: April 2013

Sara is going for a hike, and I’m home with the kids today. Mostly, they’ve been playing pretty quietly, with a few squabbles here and there. I feel as though I have a lot to do today, as I often do on a Sunday. I’ve been working on my Beeminder studying tasks, trying to get…

I went into the office early today, and it seemed to help me get a lot done. Amy, my sister, recommends that I blog about this site that creates a “Works Cited” page for your paper, in MLA format. I suppose it could prove useful to you someday in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances…

Followed what’s going down in Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown, MA. Went to a NERT recertification class. Met with my mentorship student: I’m mentoring a middleschooler at work, as part of a volunteer program we’re doing in my office. We’re working on a text-based adventure game.

I was thinking about what features I would like to see in a phone. I realize that as I’m coming up with these, they’re probably not imaginative enough. From the perspective of 2020 or 2025, the phone I describe will sound ridiculously old-fashioned, just an incremental improvement upon what we have today. Nevertheless, I thought…

I spent most of the day at work, quite busy. This evening we had a PTA meeting, getting ready for our big culinary event, Now I realize I still have a lot of personal stuff I want to do before I get to bed.

I’m having a hard time getting things done now, because it’s late, and I’m tired. I’m probably not getting enough sleep. I’ve been getting about 6 hours a night, and either I’m one of those lucky 3% who can get by on that little, or I’m chronically sleep-deprived. I’m nervous about getting sick. My daughter…