What's everyone up to right now?

[Angrboda]

Working on my budgeting spreadsheet. I've made a ton of changes to improve itemization, but somewhere I introduced a $50 error. I've been working on it for over two hours and I need a break. Depending on how things go at the end of the month, as there's a $30 deposit about the same time as a $40 withdrawal, I'll either be fine, or short $10. (ETA: It looks like the withdrawal is a day before the deposit. That's my internet. Maybe I'll just let it be disconnected for a day or two.) I'm budgeting $20 for the Vietnamese New Year celebration, and I've got $10 in cash for bus fare - that and about $10 in returns should go back in my account, leaving $30 for the New Year's celebration ($20, figuring $10 in miscellaneous at the end of the month). I've also figured out how to afford the 55 gallon aquarium I want to buy next month. I've got enough food reserves to last the first week or two of February; I budget $40 a week for food, so if I coast on what I have, that will give me over $200 to buy the aquarium and parts to build a stand.

So much to do. Read 800 pages by the 23rd, finish budgeting, spend 4-8 hours reorganizing by Friday, prototype a media pc for my sister. It's going to be a busy week. Fortunately I go play with the Dachshunds on Saturday. I'll need the refreshment.

[ElleBelle]

Getting home and relaxing.

[truthBtold]

Working on my budgeting spreadsheet. I've made a ton of changes to improve itemization, but somewhere I introduced a $50 error. I've been working on it for over two hours and I need a break. Depending on how things go at the end of the month, as there's a $30 deposit about the same time as a $40 withdrawal, I'll either be fine, or short $10. (ETA: It looks like the withdrawal is a day before the deposit. That's my internet. Maybe I'll just let it be disconnected for a day or two.) I'm budgeting $20 for the Vietnamese New Year celebration, and I've got $10 in cash for bus fare - that and about $10 in returns should go back in my account, leaving $30 for the New Year's celebration ($20, figuring $10 in miscellaneous at the end of the month). I've also figured out how to afford the 55 gallon aquarium I want to buy next month. I've got enough food reserves to last the first week or two of February; I budget $40 a week for food, so if I coast on what I have, that will give me over $200 to buy the aquarium and parts to build a stand.

So much to do. Read 800 pages by the 23rd, finish budgeting, spend 4-8 hours reorganizing by Friday, prototype a media pc for my sister. It's going to be a busy week. Fortunately I go play with the Dachshunds on Saturday. I'll need the refreshment.

Just read the end of that 800 page book.

[ElleBelle]

My little one just sat up for her first long period of time!

[Angrboda]

Sardines in olive oil and smoked kippered herring. I'm planning to read for 4 hours in a short while, so I want to put my hunger on hold.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Political documentaries on Netflix suck. I can't find much substantive discussion or information. It's all "rich people scary derpy derp."

[BrokenQuill92]

Looking after my uncle, he's sick but won't let us take him to the hospital

[ElleBelle]

Political documentaries on Netflix suck. I can't find much substantive discussion or information. It's all "rich people scary derpy derp."

Political documentaries suck.

[c172]

Had a nice workout at SDSU, but it was blistering hot today. No bueno.

Soaking up AC now. Pondering dinner. Waiting for my Mounds bar to refrigerate.

[Angrboda]

Political documentaries on Netflix suck. I can't find much substantive discussion or information. It's all "rich people scary derpy derp."

My impression is that Netflix has a lot of documentaries, but they're almost uniformly either less popular History channel stuff, or bargain basement quality. One afternoon, I wanted to watch some documentaries on serial killers. What I found was, with the exception of a single documentary, all the material having to do with serial killers was fictionalized treatments. I was so disgusted that I couldn't even find enough true documentaries just to sate me for a few hours. I don't watch a lot of TV or movies, but anymore, I research titles and aquire them through libraries or other non-streaming distribution channels. On top of everything else, the streaming ability of their servers sucks. I have a 6 mbs pipe which typically delivers a solid 4 mbs. Even at medium quality rating (needs 1-1.5 mbs), the bandwidth I get from their servers is frequently in the 0.7 to 0.9 range, causing frequent pauses for buffering, and stutters in playback. My payment card has lapsed with them, so I may just not renew and concentrate on getting all my content centrally hosted on a home theater pc; I've got multiple terabytes of movies and shows on disk, I don't need them. And I have Amazon Prime; not as many documentaries and less free stuff, but I can use them for the odd fix I need that I can't satisfy otherwise.