Various meanderings.

I felt nasty yesterday - I'd felt iffy Thursday, but it went away midday. Most of yesterday I felt icky. So I worked from home. I'd have loved to call in sick, but I had two critical tasks due that day - not the day for a sick day. I actually got a lot done, over the course of the day, and the two critical tasks were both completed along with a myriad of other little things.

That was, basically, yesterday. My focus was shot all to heck and by evening I kept falling asleep while trying to do other things. This morning I am feeling, as I expected, much better.

It's absolutely gorgeous and sunny out; my parents will be coming over at about 1 for a belated birthday for me; I may go for a walk before then. Unfortunately, if I do, it will have to be a very short/circling walk because I have that stupid phone. Which is what has dissuaded me from it so far. I get no exercise in weeks I carry that phone...that is not true. But walking is my favorite form of exercise and it takes me too far from response, too quickly, so I tend to neglect it badly when I have the phone. Feh!

It depends on how much I feel like circling the block. I don't, really. I want to go out and walk. And I can't, honestly, do that with this phone. So I'll probably find some other direction to channel the energy, which is a pity. :) At least on the new schedule, I'll dare more. Only one week in twelve will I have the twenty-minute-preferably-less-response-time phone. Meh.

Had to get up this morning to check a site we're doing regular check-ups on. Resented it last night. This morning, I was glad the alarm got me up, as I now feel energetic and ready to go. So, this is probably a good thing.

So, meme. My desktop.

Meme stolen from pelogrande and zou. This is a shot of my desktop.

( For obvious reasons, like a 95k image, I'll cut this.... )

The image I use as my wallpaper is here: http://www.confluence.org/fr/all/n49e002/pic1.jpg

The http://www.confluence.org/ site is an interesting one, trying to get pictures from each intersection of lat/long where both values are integers. It leads to some fascinating photos. And some very boring ones, I grant. :)

I am happy and not-happy.

My parents arrived, and it was good to see them. They brought lovely gifts! I have a trio of cats curled around a central well, meant to hold a votive candle in a holder. They're utterly gorgeous. I also have a beeswax pillar candle, and am quite thrilled about that. There was a worm that changes color when the soil's wet - Scott's the only one maintaining a houseplant around here, so that's sort of his, but it's cute and funny!

I am very, very happy.

I got an after-hours call, just after they were here, tho'. Fortunately, it was an easy one; a server had fragmented off the main system. Server rejoined within five minutes of receipt of the call. Spent the next 20 or so sorting out the log files, only to have the connection hang up on me and refuse to let me back in before I could transfer them for further analysis. Mutter. But they're still there. It will recover over time and I'll retrieve it - probably tonight.

Now I'm just poking around the web and enjoying a burning candle and all that fun stuff. Happy Laura, overall. Not much not-happy there after all. :)