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cathyr19355 at 08:02pm on 18/08/2004
cathyr19355 at 08:02pm on 18/08/2004Had to crawl out of bed this morning, because I was scheduled to show up for a continuing legal education (CLE) course. In PA, lawyers need a minimum of 12 credit hours of these per year (at least one of which has to be in ethics) or their license to practice law can be pulled. My compliance date is August 31, too, so scheduling a different one for another time was likely not an option. And naturally this one was an all-day course.
Normally, CLE courses are a socially acceptable excuse for lawyers to sleep during the business day in public, but this one was, for a change, both informative and interesting. It was called "Negotiation Strategies for Lawyers" and it described, in depth, useful techniques for short-circuiting most of the stupid tactics that make negotiations go wrong. We even did exercises--one of them was a kind of twist on ye olde Prisoners' Dilemma, but with restricted information sharing.
Though I had more energy than I've had all week, I still have most of my symptoms after two days of antibiotics. So I called my doctor to tell him that, and to my surprise he had his office call back and schedule another appointment for me this afternoon. Unfortunately, the throat culture they took on Monday isn't back yet, so we're both still in the dark as to what's going on. It could *still* be a cold, but it could also be an antibiotic-resistant form of strep. I agreed to stick with my current Z-Pak until the throat culture results come back.
While I struggle to return to normal function, Eric has succeeded in making his GPS work. He even succeeded in getting a related speedometer program to work. That program uses trigonometry and multiple GPS readings to compute one's speed, then shows the result on a graphic that looks just like a speedometer dial. Fun stuff. He's still working on the "map the area networks" project, though.
Sugar is consoling herself about the fact that I'm no longer spending most of the day in bed by having found a new place to nap--the box in my room where I keep the fabric I'm saving for my next costume efforts. In fact, she's there right now, and sends her love. :-)
Hopefully, I'll be better (and more interesting) this weekend.
Normally, CLE courses are a socially acceptable excuse for lawyers to sleep during the business day in public, but this one was, for a change, both informative and interesting. It was called "Negotiation Strategies for Lawyers" and it described, in depth, useful techniques for short-circuiting most of the stupid tactics that make negotiations go wrong. We even did exercises--one of them was a kind of twist on ye olde Prisoners' Dilemma, but with restricted information sharing.
Though I had more energy than I've had all week, I still have most of my symptoms after two days of antibiotics. So I called my doctor to tell him that, and to my surprise he had his office call back and schedule another appointment for me this afternoon. Unfortunately, the throat culture they took on Monday isn't back yet, so we're both still in the dark as to what's going on. It could *still* be a cold, but it could also be an antibiotic-resistant form of strep. I agreed to stick with my current Z-Pak until the throat culture results come back.
While I struggle to return to normal function, Eric has succeeded in making his GPS work. He even succeeded in getting a related speedometer program to work. That program uses trigonometry and multiple GPS readings to compute one's speed, then shows the result on a graphic that looks just like a speedometer dial. Fun stuff. He's still working on the "map the area networks" project, though.
Sugar is consoling herself about the fact that I'm no longer spending most of the day in bed by having found a new place to nap--the box in my room where I keep the fabric I'm saving for my next costume efforts. In fact, she's there right now, and sends her love. :-)
Hopefully, I'll be better (and more interesting) this weekend.
uncomfortable
Eric's GPS.
I still think a dumb little hotplug script that tries to talk to a central webserver every 15 seconds or so to send its current GPS data and whatever info it has about the access point it's talking through would be a great way to map the stuff...
Yahoo Maps claims to have a wireless access overlay you can do on top of its maps. Sponsored by intel, apparently. (Haven't tried it, just saw an ad...)
Re: Eric's GPS.