Performance reviews are onerous enough to count for the whole day. I declare you all fabulous!!

t waves hello to all the Seattle folks from Seatac

I still have the plague, but I made it to work early for a meeting. I'll be digging into work tasks steadily until my next meeting where someone gets to shadow me on the job. If I'm still upright at 5:30, I'll go to the gym.

I've been to the doctor recently, already made a dentist appointment, and filed my taxes weeks ago. Other than some 401(k) paperwork I need to do at some point, I think I might be caught up on onerousness.

One semi-onerous call down.

Right on, Ginger.

Yeah, flea that last week before school starts is always a dead zone for summer camps. Twas always thus.

Onerosity #1 done: exercise. I ran all the steps at Kezar (772) after dropping off Matilda. I need to do that every day. Maybe twice. I'll try to do it again this afternoon. I'm so freaking out of shape.

Onerosity #2 yet to do: Dishes

Onerosity #3 yet to do: long, tiresome phone call through a phone tree to cancel something. Feh.

Onerosity #4 yet to do: Job applications.

On the plus side, one of the earlier onerosities has borne fruit. The espresso machine I dropped off several weeks ago (and was under warranty) is now fixed.

Drip coffee's all fine and dandy but we missed (in Matilda's words) "the fluffy milk."

I've been to the doctor recently, already made a dentist appointment, and filed my taxes weeks ago. Other than some 401(k) paperwork I need to do at some point, I think I might be caught up on onerousness.

Dentists, doctors and taxes? Oh yeah, you're good. Throw in a trip to the DMV and you're good for a year.

Huh. From IO9:

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Michael Chabon’s new HBO series: Magicians Vs. Hitler

Meredith Woerner

When he's not working Disney's John Carter of Mars script or penning Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, apparently Michael Chabon is pitching alternate-history series to HBO about the magicians that fought Hitler. Which sounds fantastic.

According to Variety HBO has picked up Chabon's new TV show called Hobgoblin, which is about "a motley group of conmen and magicians who use their skills at deception to battle Hitler and his forces during WWII."

Fingers crossed this includes Jasper Maskelyne and his "magic gang," who used their skills of illusion to confuse and befuddle German troops.

I did an onerous task last night that turned out to be fun - I replaced the broken screen in my friend's MacBook with a new one.

Apparently Apple would have charged around $800 to do the repair. Instead she paid $120 for the new LCD screen.

Instead she paid $120 for the new LCD screen.

They're that cheap? Was it hard? My screen is slightly broken--not worth getting professional repair, but if the parts aren't extravagant (for my MacBook Pro of a year's age), I might consider doing it myself. It has been forever since I opened up a laptop, though.

The only drink I could find in the cafe that looked tasty was V8 tropical blend. Man, I used to love this stuff, but it's straight sugar to me now.

They're that cheap? Was it hard? My screen is slightly broken--not worth getting professional repair, but if the parts aren't extravagant (for my MacBook Pro of a year's age), I might consider doing it myself. It has been forever since I opened up a laptop, though.

Yeah, $120 including shipping for an 11.5" (or whatever) screen. You have to carefully pry the bezel that covers the screen, remove about 15 tiny screws, avoid messing up the WiFi antenna that surrounds the screen, and handle the power and data connections carefully. Otherwise it was pretty easy. (You don't need to open the laptop case, just the the display part.) I think it took me about 90 minutes.

I have an old MacBook with a broken screen - I think I'll try to fix that one too and maybe sell it or something.

eta: I'm guessing the procedure for an aluminum body MacBook Pro would be similar, but I'm not sure.

onerous tasks

1) walk to work in drizzle. I've been walking to work twice a week -- but this week I just want to slounge.

2) tomorrow is my day off -- and I have a bunch of onerous task to do tomorrow. so today I have to make a list of stuff to do tomorrow. When I would prefer to slounge.