Well, that was fun

( It's long )

I woke up this morning

and go myself a beer... No, wait. I didn't. But my sneezing and wheezing continued. Then I went out for 1.5 hours worth of chores. By the end of my chores, I was feeling pretty good. I could breathe and everything.

Now, I'm home, taking pills and squinting at my monitor. I'm sneezing again and I can't breathe through my nose.

It also feels like I'm breathing sand. I can taste the particles in the air around here.

I might not get to stay home at all today.

I've run away

I'm now at Amy's. Turns out that the air in my office area was/is the problem. (I think) As soon as I'm out of the office, I start clearing up and the air doesn't taste like dirt.

Aeire volunteered to clean up the place. Yeah.

In the meantime, I'll spend a couple of hours here. I can access my desktop machine and continue to work on the project that was increasingly hard to see over there.

It's nice that Linux allows me to start a new x session without giving up the current one. Nothing Amy was doing will be disturbed. That's a good thing.

Anyway. Now to find out if xforwarding is on. :) It's just easier (with high speed connections) to run xemacs over there then it is to run it locally and edit the remote file. Plus if something happens to the connection, the autobackups are there and not here.

TTFN

oops

Well, it's not as bad here, but I can stay inside at Amy's either. sigh. I wasn't getting anywhere on the script anyway.

I strolled around the neighborhood at Amy's place. Ambled slowly along. I was getting a "feel" for the air. Where particulates where thick enough that I could feel them in my nose or throat, I started filling up and sneezing.

I was also thinking about the cats. I spent years on Navy ships. No cats. Still had allergies.

I'm thinking it's not too important what the particle are, I react strongly to any sufficient particle count. This would account for my reaction to all blooming flowers, the alkali flat that burning man sits on, and almost every other environment where I've felt trashed.

I might need to just where a particle filtering mask. Next time I go to a building supply store, I might buy a couple of the paper one's to test this theory.

In the meantime. I LOVE my life and the people in it.

Happiness is

Well, it worked. Aeire vacuumed to office area carefully and I've been fine ever since.

I think we have a winner. :)

She gets a massage later.

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Well. I have finally generalized the calendar routine sufficiently to satisfy myself. :) Although, I do want to add the "fifth week" stuff.


# Given a day (Mon, Tue, etc) and a Month (Jan, Feb)
# and year (2004), return the x week date of that day
# for the indicated month if now is true or following
# month is now is false. Good for first 4 weeks only --
# no fifth weeks allowed.
proc get_x_day {instance day mon yr {now {true}}} {
if {$now} {
set when [clock scan $day -base [clock scan "1 $mon $yr month ago"]]
} else {
set when [clock scan $day -base [clock scan "1 $mon $yr"]]
}
regexp -- {([0-9]+)[ ]+([0-9]+)} [clock format $when -format "%m %e"] trash month date
set days [get_month_length [string trimleft $month 0]]
set til_end [expr $days - $date]
set next_date [expr { (7 * $instance) - ($til_end % 7) }]
set add [expr $next_date + $til_end]
return [clock scan "$add days" -base $when]
}


Comments welcome. I'd love to have this be more simple. The only command that isn't a standard tcl command is "get_month_length." It grabs the number of days in the month passed as an argument. the %e is not portable. It is the day of the month with leading zero's stripped. %d would be portable, but I'd have to strip leading zeros by hand. As I don't expect to run this anywhere but Linux, I'll leave it.

More code written

and a phone call missed. I think it was Ken, but as I was fumbling around to actually answer the call, I did something so the answering machine didn't record it -- and I don't have his phone number. Damn.

I've a bit of code that will check for a fifth instance of a give day in a month. I haven't figured out what I'd use that bit of code for, so I haven't tried to fold it into the procedure I posted earlier. I did think of a procedure I'd like, though, and I'll start on that soon. I'd like one that gives me the date of the last instance of a day in a given month.

Modeling job in the morning for Market Street Group. I like the artists in that group. They do very interesting work. And they like me. That's also good. :)

I'm sitting at my desk breathing normally. That is very good. But I'm also dozing off a lot. Might be because I didn't sleep more than three hours last night.

Did laundry today that included my bed linens and mattress pad. I think that will help. I hope. :)