Once more into the gym

I'm on vacation. It made more sense to take the whole week off than to go to work today, run myself ragged working out and packing afterwards, and then get on a plane tomorrow, so my vacation started Friday afternoon from my viewpoint: that's when I handed in my timesheet for last week, left a note explaining exactly where I'd gotten to on the pages I'm proofreading, and left the office.

This morning, I had a good workout, including adding something sort of new to my routine (it's a variation on two things I have done). Then, down to Chinatown for lunch, a bit of a walk, and home with an assortment of useful things, including chocolate, citrus, and coffee. Economy Candy once again has the Cote d'Or "Noir de noir" bars I like (confusingly, the company distributes two different bars under that name, with visibly different shape, different artwork on the labels, and different tastes). The citrus is Peruvian satsumas, 8 for $2 on Canal Street. I prefer clementines, which are sweeter and have a slightly different flavor. So, apparently, does julian_tiger. It took him half a second to perk up when I started peeling one, and 8 seconds to start walking over, but while he accepted a few nibbles, he wasn't eagerly trying to get more, as he will with in-season clementines. (Given that his doctor would rather he not have many sweets, this is probably for the best.)

When I did my ritual weekly check of what's on my PDA calendar today, I realized that I'd misremembered the time of my flight; had I somehow not checked, I'd have been up and out unnecessarily early tomorrow, and spent more time being bored at the airport. But I'd probably have caught it when I printed out a copy of the flight itinerary to take with me.

I'll be more-or-less reachable while on vacation; that is, I'll be checking email moderately regularly. I may or may not be on LJ; I won't be on IM.

( gym details )

Once more into the gym

I'm on vacation. It made more sense to take the whole week off than to go to work today, run myself ragged working out and packing afterwards, and then get on a plane tomorrow, so my vacation started Friday afternoon from my viewpoint: that's when I handed in my timesheet for last week, left a note explaining exactly where I'd gotten to on the pages I'm proofreading, and left the office.

This morning, I had a good workout, including adding something sort of new to my routine (it's a variation on two things I have done). Then, down to Chinatown for lunch, a bit of a walk, and home with an assortment of useful things, including chocolate, citrus, and coffee. Economy Candy once again has the Cote d'Or "Noir de noir" bars I like (confusingly, the company distributes two different bars under that name, with visibly different shape, different artwork on the labels, and different tastes). The citrus is Peruvian satsumas, 8 for $2 on Canal Street. I prefer clementines, which are sweeter and have a slightly different flavor. So, apparently, does julian_tiger. It took him half a second to perk up when I started peeling one, and 8 seconds to start walking over, but while he accepted a few nibbles, he wasn't eagerly trying to get more, as he will with in-season clementines. (Given that his doctor would rather he not have many sweets, this is probably for the best.)

When I did my ritual weekly check of what's on my PDA calendar today, I realized that I'd misremembered the time of my flight; had I somehow not checked, I'd have been up and out unnecessarily early tomorrow, and spent more time being bored at the airport. But I'd probably have caught it when I printed out a copy of the flight itinerary to take with me.

I'll be more-or-less reachable while on vacation; that is, I'll be checking email moderately regularly. I may or may not be on LJ; I won't be on IM.

( gym details )

fscking spammers

Someone appears to be faking a "from" address in my redbird domain on spam--I've deleted something like 150 error messages from postmasters in different places in the last half hour. As a short-term measure, I have removed the catchall address for email sent to users other than my and cattitude's known addresses here. This is annoying because it means that some of my email will bounce: I've given names like theircompanyname at redbird dot org for some mailing list signups. But I'm not in a mood to try to delete that much stuff by hand, and I really don't like the idea of trying to do it on the webmail interface while I'm traveling. (Were I not going on vacation, I might have tried handling it with Eudora filters. I may do that when I get home; I may try reenabling the catchall sooner, and see what happens. Or I may do something weird like send it to Yahoo or gmail.)

My @livejournal address should still work.

fscking spammers

Someone appears to be faking a "from" address in my redbird domain on spam--I've deleted something like 150 error messages from postmasters in different places in the last half hour. As a short-term measure, I have removed the catchall address for email sent to users other than my and cattitude's known addresses here. This is annoying because it means that some of my email will bounce: I've given names like theircompanyname at redbird dot org for some mailing list signups. But I'm not in a mood to try to delete that much stuff by hand, and I really don't like the idea of trying to do it on the webmail interface while I'm traveling. (Were I not going on vacation, I might have tried handling it with Eudora filters. I may do that when I get home; I may try reenabling the catchall sooner, and see what happens. Or I may do something weird like send it to Yahoo or gmail.)

My @livejournal address should still work.