I was trying to clean up a bunch of messy situations caused by my hitherto-unknown identical twin, and gradually came to the realization that it wasn't my identical twin, it was time-traveling future-me, coming back to test me. And now I've forgotten all the details.
Feb. 3rd, 2020
da weekend
Feb. 3rd, 2020 06:51 amSaturday late morning: ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shalmestere and I went into Manhattan for a Viola Da Gamba Dojo concert at St. John's in the Village, a cute little church where we've heard a couple of early-music concerts before. Then went around the corner to a barbecue restaurant for dinner. Came home, tired. I don't know why this relatively mild schedule should have been so tiring -- at least shalmestere was actively playing music, while I spent most of the time just sitting in the pews reading or doing Google-work. But I made a start on this year's income taxes, which I think I can do without paying Turbo Tax or anybody else for the privilege.
Soaked Moongrrl's foot. The corn seems to be emerging a bit.
Sunday: I woke up, earlier than I intended to but later than usual, with Moongrrl panting. I thought she might need to go out, so I took her downstairs, whereupon she lay down on a nest and stopped panting. I offered her some water, because I'd been pretty dehydrated overnight, but she wasn't interested. So I started soaking the Romertopf to bake bread. (I had fed the starter Thursday night, made a sponge Friday night, added eggs, salt, and more flour Saturday morning, and formed a loaf Saturday night.) Fed dogs, walked dogs, set a beef roast to lying in salt (which should ideally have happened the night before), baked bread, and went back to work on the taxes.shalmestere woke up, and I made pancakes for brunch.
We both had showers, and the drain clogged: I got some hair and gunk out of it with the plunger, but it was still clogged, so I went to the basement to get the snake. Which also didn't seem to make much progress, although I eventually got the water level low enough that it wasn't standing in the tub (but left a bunch of gunk in the tub). In the evening, I tried to rinse out the remaining gunk, and it didn't go away, but at least the water drained more quickly. Still need to do some scrubbing and apply some drain-clearing compound.
shalmestere did several loads of laundry. I soaked Moongrrl's foot again.
I didn't make any progress on the (first) bedside table, but retrieved from the basement the thrift-store lamps we were planning to put on the bedside tables once both of them are built: confirmed that (a) the electrical connections work, (b) both lamps will need some gluing before I feel secure putting bulbs into them, and (c) both lamps need shades, but currently have no harps onto which to attach shades.
I made more progress on the taxes. We make too much money to use free-file, but we can use "free file fillable forms", in which there's minimal software support but at least you can fill out the forms on a computer, it does much of the arithmetic for you, and you can e-file. At the state level, we make too much money to e-file without paying a tax-prep company for the privilege, but there are forms one can fill in on a computer, it does much of the arithmetic for you, and you then print out the forms on dead trees and mail them in, because e-filing would hurt the business models of the tax-prep-software companies. And some of the forms have bugs. There's a line on Federal Schedule 1 that says "please attach Form 8889", and it'll automatically fill in the 1040 line from form 8889, except that form 8889 isn't actually available on-line -- I presume because the relevant law was changed in December, and they haven't finished implementing it in software yet. And on State form IT-196, line 42 is supposed to be auto-computed from lines 40 and 41, but in fact it ignores line 40, so line 42 is always zero, and I can't fill it in by myself because it's auto-computed, so the subsequent lines are wrong.
Mid-afternoon: the bread had cooled enough to try some. Much tastier than the previous batch: not only did I remember the salt, but I think I gave it a longer rise time. Yum!
Made and ate dinner -- roast beef and Brussels sprouts, both producing leftovers.
After dinner, we (mostlyshalmestere) took most of the ornaments off the Christmas tree, found the appropriate boxes to put them in, and played Tetris to get those boxes into bigger boxes and the bigger boxes onto a shelf in the basement until next December.
Also looked at Moongrrl's foot. With a nail-trimmer, I managed to remove a majority of the corn that's been in her toe for months. Maybe she'll limp less now. Still needs more soaking to get out the remainder.
shalmestere and I went into Manhattan for a Viola Da Gamba Dojo concert at St. John's in the Village, a cute little church where we've heard a couple of early-music concerts before. Then went around the corner to a barbecue restaurant for dinner. Came home, tired. I don't know why this relatively mild schedule should have been so tiring -- at least shalmestere was actively playing music, while I spent most of the time just sitting in the pews reading or doing Google-work. But I made a start on this year's income taxes, which I think I can do without paying Turbo Tax or anybody else for the privilege.Soaked Moongrrl's foot. The corn seems to be emerging a bit.
Sunday: I woke up, earlier than I intended to but later than usual, with Moongrrl panting. I thought she might need to go out, so I took her downstairs, whereupon she lay down on a nest and stopped panting. I offered her some water, because I'd been pretty dehydrated overnight, but she wasn't interested. So I started soaking the Romertopf to bake bread. (I had fed the starter Thursday night, made a sponge Friday night, added eggs, salt, and more flour Saturday morning, and formed a loaf Saturday night.) Fed dogs, walked dogs, set a beef roast to lying in salt (which should ideally have happened the night before), baked bread, and went back to work on the taxes.
shalmestere woke up, and I made pancakes for brunch.We both had showers, and the drain clogged: I got some hair and gunk out of it with the plunger, but it was still clogged, so I went to the basement to get the snake. Which also didn't seem to make much progress, although I eventually got the water level low enough that it wasn't standing in the tub (but left a bunch of gunk in the tub). In the evening, I tried to rinse out the remaining gunk, and it didn't go away, but at least the water drained more quickly. Still need to do some scrubbing and apply some drain-clearing compound.
shalmestere did several loads of laundry. I soaked Moongrrl's foot again.I didn't make any progress on the (first) bedside table, but retrieved from the basement the thrift-store lamps we were planning to put on the bedside tables once both of them are built: confirmed that (a) the electrical connections work, (b) both lamps will need some gluing before I feel secure putting bulbs into them, and (c) both lamps need shades, but currently have no harps onto which to attach shades.
I made more progress on the taxes. We make too much money to use free-file, but we can use "free file fillable forms", in which there's minimal software support but at least you can fill out the forms on a computer, it does much of the arithmetic for you, and you can e-file. At the state level, we make too much money to e-file without paying a tax-prep company for the privilege, but there are forms one can fill in on a computer, it does much of the arithmetic for you, and you then print out the forms on dead trees and mail them in, because e-filing would hurt the business models of the tax-prep-software companies. And some of the forms have bugs. There's a line on Federal Schedule 1 that says "please attach Form 8889", and it'll automatically fill in the 1040 line from form 8889, except that form 8889 isn't actually available on-line -- I presume because the relevant law was changed in December, and they haven't finished implementing it in software yet. And on State form IT-196, line 42 is supposed to be auto-computed from lines 40 and 41, but in fact it ignores line 40, so line 42 is always zero, and I can't fill it in by myself because it's auto-computed, so the subsequent lines are wrong.
Mid-afternoon: the bread had cooled enough to try some. Much tastier than the previous batch: not only did I remember the salt, but I think I gave it a longer rise time. Yum!
Made and ate dinner -- roast beef and Brussels sprouts, both producing leftovers.
After dinner, we (mostly
shalmestere) took most of the ornaments off the Christmas tree, found the appropriate boxes to put them in, and played Tetris to get those boxes into bigger boxes and the bigger boxes onto a shelf in the basement until next December.Also looked at Moongrrl's foot. With a nail-trimmer, I managed to remove a majority of the corn that's been in her toe for months. Maybe she'll limp less now. Still needs more soaking to get out the remainder.