You know those days when everything goes as well as can be expected, but not as well as you’d like? That’s how yesterday was for me. I was pretty productive, getting some work done, finishing all the errands I could, and even put in the last of the carpeting in my bedroom (though it took an hour for the last three tiles — I was right when I thought that cutting them in around the closet door was going to be a pain).
So that’s the good. The bad? Well, I’d forgotten that it was a holiday, which meant that I couldn’t do things like go to the bank or buy stamps to pay the bills with the checks I’d gotten in the mail and deposited in the bank. That’s a chunk of errands that needs to happen today. And I didn’t finish the work I’d hoped to, so that’s still on for today. And I discovered (I’ve known this for a while, but I got the final confirmation after not screwing up a single cut) that I way overbought the carpet-tile for the bedroom. I’ve got twenty tiles left over, which is about $300 (out of $1800) I didn’t need to spend. I’ll find a use for them elsewhere (if nothing else, I may carpet the closet), but dang!
And that’s what I mean that things went as well as could be expected, but not as well as I’d like. The day was pretty good, but I’m stuck with a nagging feeling that a few small tweaks would have made it an excellent day. I guess I should be happy with what went well, but I’m enough of a perfectionist that I just can’t enjoy the successes when I think I could’ve done better. Especially when the holiday catching me by surprise left stuff to do today that I had hoped to be done with yesterday.
- I knew it wasn’t just in my head: eBay to Law Enforcement – We’re Here to Help. I’m not the only one concerned about the lack of privacy whenever you do business with eBay or any of its (many) children, such as paypal and skype.
…eBay has probably the most generous policy of any internet company when it comes to sharing information.
We do not require a subpoena except for very limited circumstances.
I’d really like a service like paypal (that was just as ubiquitous) but without the privacy concerns. But I’ve covered this before, pointing to a book review of a book I still need to get. [endwar] - Silver has been attempting to sort out how much credit card payments are going to go up, and went to the Source of the new credit card minimum payment to find out. It’s illuminating, especially since credit-card companies have not been telling people in advance (possibly because they weren’t sure themselves) what their new minimum payments are going to be. But it takes effect soon, I think, so we’ll be finding out. [claire]
- Dick Lugar (R-IN) says Bloggers “Probably Not” Considered Journos under the shield law. Which means there’s got to be some way to decide if someone’s a journalist or not. If it’s left to Congress to decide, does that mean you’ll need to be licensed to be a
journalist
? David Codrea has a response I like. [war on guns] - A newish blog, First Post! takes a look at the first posts of
famous
bloggers. It’s like a time-machine. [holy schmoly] - This Saturday is the Zombie Pub Crawl in NE Minneapolis. The zombie horde (over 100 of the shuffling undead are expected) meets in the park at 3pm, and takes to the streets at 4pm. Bars on the route will have zombie specials, which you’ll get by default if you ask for either “braaaaains” or just grunt (because, y’know, zombies aren’t the most articulate of beings). [Metroblogging Minneapolis].