lunch-break posting

[lagilman]

Personal/Health: I am sleeping long and far too late -- to bed by 11:30pm. Awake at 7am. This is an interesting trend and one I'm not entirely displeased by. I'm sure it won't last -- at some point the Universe will right itself and I'll be back on the midnight to 5:30 feline feed-me train...

I tend to be very productive when I wake up early, and not so much when I sleep in. It's like my body announces its intent from the git-go. Unfortunately, I also get my second wind at 10pm most days, so it's not like I can train myself to go to sleep earlier.
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Food, and Feline: My parents, just recently in Belgium, brought me back a box of Galler chocolates. And a tin of cats tongues!

o nom nom nom....

[no, I didn't have them for breakfast. I had leftover sweet and sour fish and brown rice for breakfast. Doesn't everyone?]

Meanwhile, Boomer has decided that turkey-and-apricot is nummiest EVAH and has his head stuck in the tupperware container. There's nothing in there (we used the last for lunch) but he's Hopeful in a way one usually associates with dogs...
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Tech: In geek amusements, I was showing off my new jump drive (4 GB for $9.50, I am mighty tech shopper!), and my dad the former tech manager (back in the 70's and early 80's) got this very funny look on his face. "Tell mom what a 4-gig computer looked like, back in the day," I encouraged him. "And how much it cost..." Ah, memories.

Also, I have officially made the move from Windoze to Firefox. Yes, it really took me this long.
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Work: Meanwhile, HARD MAGIC is in the hands of my betas, I am done with all freelance, and there's only one side project that needs revising this week. The only thing on the main platter is Research. I feel practically...slothful (now watch something land in my in-box with an overnight response time. I just know it...)

So, should I:

A) go to the gym
B) curl up with a non-researchy book
C) watch a movie

EtA: I did my home workout instead of the full gym-thing, cleaned the kitchen, and spent an hour or so working on website updates. Woo. Now back to the Research.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Your tin of cats' tongues did confuse me briefly, because to me langues de chat are a type of sophisticated biscuit, which I have made a time or two - but then, I did make them for dipping into chocolate cream, so actually my product and yours don't end up too far apart. (Also, yours sound yummy.)

First computer I ever knew couldn't have dreamed of a gigabyte; it was the Oxford University computer, in the days (1968, I think?) when Oxf Uni had exactly one computer, and this was it: the size of a small gym, it read punched holes in ticker-tape and took a week to solve a problem that I could work myself in twenty minutes. And I was nine years old, and I loved it. Hell, I'd had to learn a whole new language (anyone remember KDF-9?) just to talk to it...

And, I favour option (B) on your list: (A) being the size of an ancient computer and hence just too big, and (C) - well, books have better pictures.

[lagilman]

Yeah, my early memories of my dad's job involved computers that filled rooms, and had to be kept at an exact coolth, and used punchcards that fascinated me... (and my first ever relay-chat was with an employee in their, um, South Carolina office? Who thought he was chatting up a twenty-something intern, not the pre-teen daughter of his boss. My dad is a cruel man who found that wildly amusing)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

My dad was Chief Accountant (so grand, I thought that was) for a small furnishing company in Oxford, and occasionally when there was a rush on he would take me into the office of a Saturday morning and let me help. Genuinely, not like when the cats help me type: he'd sit me down with a calculator and a pile of accounts, and let me do the sums. After the first time, he stopped checking on me (I think - at least he never let me catch him at it). I was, oh, less-than-nine, because he was still living with us; and I loved this like a very loving son, because not only did I get to spend all morning! with my dad! in his office!, but also calculator! That is, mechanical calculators: you set various switches and wound a handle, and watched all the gears rotate. I loved that. And never ever loved electronic calculators, because you couldn't see what they were doing...

Basically, I think I was born to be steampunk. Alas...

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

All of the above?

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I feel practically...slothful (now watch something land in my in-box with an overnight response time.

Sloths work very hard to get the universe to align so they can hang out.

[lagilman]

*snicker* True. They are Zen masters of Entropy.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Gym!

[handlebar605.livejournal.com]

I'd go to the gym, with a non-researchy book and upon returning from the Gym, watch a movie.

I myself haven't seen the Incredible Hulk yet.

[lagilman]

How many hours do you think I have in a day?

(and I don't take books to the gym. Very tough to read while using weight machines...)

[cedunkley.livejournal.com]

What would you consider a "non-researchy" book? Are you able to read simply for pleasure's sake or do you find yourself at some point critiquing the writing?

[lagilman]

What would you consider a "non-researchy" book?

Anything I'm not currently reading for a specific research purpose, basically. I read a lot of non-fiction for fun, and I read fiction for market research, so... it's all in the intent.

Are you able to read simply for pleasure's sake or do you find yourself at some point critiquing the writing?
I don't really see the two as incompatible. A well-written book is a pleasure to read. A badly-written book I stop reading. Do I think "I would have done this differently?" Sure. I do that when watching movies, too. Doesn't stop the enjoyment.

[tezmilleroz.livejournal.com]

Had to double-check to make sure those were chocolate cat tongues, and not cat tongues dipped in chocolate. Just to be safe, best keep Boomer and Pandora away from them ;-)

Have a lovely day! :-)