t-minus eleven days
Oh hey, I never wrote any part of a draft of this entry this morning before lunch! Actual work got in the way. Or more accurately put, for some reason that was just where my focus was all morning. Strange day today, I guess!
I have very little to report on anyway. I walked home from work yesterday, slightly detouring to Target for the second evening in a row, this time to buy the cotton balls I forgot to get the day before. Exciting stuff!
Shobhit made parathas for us to have with our leftover sambar for dinner. When I ate my lunch yesterday afternoon, I ate the full amount of leftover rice and sambar that was in the to-go container, and that was a mistake. I was so close—within a pound and a half—of getting below 150 lbs as of yesterday morning, and this morning I was back up about a pound. God damn it! Lesson learned. Karen had to cancel lunch today and she is too busy next week, which means we can't have lunch again until after I get back from Australia. I did bring my last lunch of rice and sambar today, and this time I only ate half of it, leaving the other half for tomorrow. I did also have some of the delicious asparagus and cheese risotto Lynne baked up again too, but it was maybe half a cup's worth. As long as I'm strict the rest of the day I think my weight should be down again tomorrow.
I do have Happy Hour with Laney tomorrow after work, though, and that's going to throw a wrench into things.
Shobhit and I watched the latest two episodes of Avenue 5 on HBO Go last night. The first three episodes were pretty blah on average, and I had decided if episode 4 was not an improvement I would give up. But, these episodes actually were both better. So for now, we'll keep with it.
Then we watched a couple more episodes of the 11th and final season of Cheers on Netflix. After that I retired to the bedroom, where I think I finally have my email account figured out in Outlook for Office 365 on my Mac. I had it set up as IMAP and I needed to change it to POP, apparently. I don't know what the fuck those things mean, I just know it was something I needed to do. It was clear that with IMAP, the emails were being stored somewhere other than on my computer, which was why the very old emails still in my inbox had disappeared. Now they're all back—both at home and in web mail, incidentally. So that part is still different, but I'm no longer worried about losing archived email. I have every bit of my archived email back, as a matter of fact, so that was $33 well spent.
I'll have to be sure to research the risks involved with something like this before I upgrade to a new macOS that tells me certain programs won't work with it. I feel like that may not happen again though, since instead of trying to stick with an Office suite I got with Shobhit's employee discount when he worked for Microsoft a decade ago, installing via discs, I'm now paying for an annual subscription to Office. That means Office and macOS will continue updating to latest versions concurrently.
Anyway. You see how uneventful and dull my previous 24 hours have been? It's much more fun to look forward to eleven days from now, when I'll be flying across the Pacific!
[posted 12:29 pm]