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a work from home week
Oct. 17th, 2024 06:48 pm On Sunday I did manage to make some progress on my thesis corrections. This week most of my colleges in the Research Data group are out of town for meetings and I have no meetings on my work calendar until Friday, so I opted to try working from home. This has worked fairly well, and the cats enjoyed it.
On Tuesday early evening we went into town to see a an archaeology lecture on the earliest people living in this part of Sweden--the oldest evidence they have found is some burned bone bits and scrap from making quartz tools (no flint anywhere near this part of the country, so it was quartz), the bone bits date to more than 9,000 years before present, a time when the melting ice sheet would still have been in view from that location--hunters following the reindeer during summer migrations.
On Wednesday I had my second dentist appointment, and they've fixed another cavity and another external "filling" to cover another exposed and eroded tooth root. This time they also checked under all of my gums with pointy metal bits, which meant more bleeding than last time, and the tooth with the exposed root was more sensitive than its counterpart last week, so it needed an extra shot of novocaine (or whatever they use here, they just call it "bedövning"). This meant that the whole left side of my mouth was so numb that I didn't dare try to eat or drink (to say nothing of the bleeding gums), so I got home from the appointment and slept for two hours before getting up and really starting my day. However, it was a day when Keldor stayed after work to do a little on the car, and make a new knife blade, so I still managed to put in a full work day, just later in the day than normal.
Wednesday night I stayed up too late working on my entry for the Bard's choice round of the Norrskensbard contest (A mini Shakespearean play, in four acts, which explains why and how the Snaptun stone (pictured below), a Viking Age soapstone bellows stone, wound up on a beach in Snaptun, Denmark, to be discovered and later sent to a museum. ), and sent it off to the Mists Bardic College FB group for comment. The event isn't for another week, so if any of you have feedback, feel free to share. Needless to say, I was super tired today, and needed two naps to get through the work day.
After work I accomplished a wonderful milestone for the house--I finished emptying the closet under the basement stairs. You who have been reading this since I bought the house in December 2021 will remember that the house was sold "as is", with all of the previous owner's mess intact. He had a hobby of rebuilding car engines in the basement, and literally every room in the house had car parts (yes, even the bathroom) so when we did the initial clean out it was 1.5 tons of metal car parts that we took to the place that buys scrap metal, and another very large closet full of car parts went to a local guy who also has a car fixing hobby. While we have cleaned most of the previous owners stuff out of the rest of the house in the years we have lived here, we have ignored the closet under the stairs, as we didn't actually need that space. However, this summer that area smelled musty, so this autumn Keldor found the energy to go in their and take away to the dump the stack of old rubber and carpet floor tiles, and old dirt covered tarps, and a whole bunch of other things I never saw and won't miss. But he ran out of energy while there was still a small pile of car parts, some plastic scrap, and a box of random tiles that don't match anything else in the house. Today I finally got the last of that stuff out of there, filling an old, large, paint bucket with the car parts to go away later, the plastic is in recycling, and the tiles over near the tiles that will go into the downstairs bathroom, once we install it. (I look forward to that day. That day is unlikely to happen this year, but one can hope.)
This evening I have done a little prep för the event, and worked out which of us will be responsible for which feast course, and what I will be making. Now Keldor is home from making yet more knives--pretty pattern welded blades, into one of which he put a layer of rust-free steel, a thing that many people who do pattern welding says can't be done. See the one on the left https://www.facebook.com/share/v/bjJK2pSKu86xwo2D/
On Tuesday early evening we went into town to see a an archaeology lecture on the earliest people living in this part of Sweden--the oldest evidence they have found is some burned bone bits and scrap from making quartz tools (no flint anywhere near this part of the country, so it was quartz), the bone bits date to more than 9,000 years before present, a time when the melting ice sheet would still have been in view from that location--hunters following the reindeer during summer migrations.
On Wednesday I had my second dentist appointment, and they've fixed another cavity and another external "filling" to cover another exposed and eroded tooth root. This time they also checked under all of my gums with pointy metal bits, which meant more bleeding than last time, and the tooth with the exposed root was more sensitive than its counterpart last week, so it needed an extra shot of novocaine (or whatever they use here, they just call it "bedövning"). This meant that the whole left side of my mouth was so numb that I didn't dare try to eat or drink (to say nothing of the bleeding gums), so I got home from the appointment and slept for two hours before getting up and really starting my day. However, it was a day when Keldor stayed after work to do a little on the car, and make a new knife blade, so I still managed to put in a full work day, just later in the day than normal.
Wednesday night I stayed up too late working on my entry for the Bard's choice round of the Norrskensbard contest (A mini Shakespearean play, in four acts, which explains why and how the Snaptun stone (pictured below), a Viking Age soapstone bellows stone, wound up on a beach in Snaptun, Denmark, to be discovered and later sent to a museum. ), and sent it off to the Mists Bardic College FB group for comment. The event isn't for another week, so if any of you have feedback, feel free to share. Needless to say, I was super tired today, and needed two naps to get through the work day.
After work I accomplished a wonderful milestone for the house--I finished emptying the closet under the basement stairs. You who have been reading this since I bought the house in December 2021 will remember that the house was sold "as is", with all of the previous owner's mess intact. He had a hobby of rebuilding car engines in the basement, and literally every room in the house had car parts (yes, even the bathroom) so when we did the initial clean out it was 1.5 tons of metal car parts that we took to the place that buys scrap metal, and another very large closet full of car parts went to a local guy who also has a car fixing hobby. While we have cleaned most of the previous owners stuff out of the rest of the house in the years we have lived here, we have ignored the closet under the stairs, as we didn't actually need that space. However, this summer that area smelled musty, so this autumn Keldor found the energy to go in their and take away to the dump the stack of old rubber and carpet floor tiles, and old dirt covered tarps, and a whole bunch of other things I never saw and won't miss. But he ran out of energy while there was still a small pile of car parts, some plastic scrap, and a box of random tiles that don't match anything else in the house. Today I finally got the last of that stuff out of there, filling an old, large, paint bucket with the car parts to go away later, the plastic is in recycling, and the tiles over near the tiles that will go into the downstairs bathroom, once we install it. (I look forward to that day. That day is unlikely to happen this year, but one can hope.)
This evening I have done a little prep för the event, and worked out which of us will be responsible for which feast course, and what I will be making. Now Keldor is home from making yet more knives--pretty pattern welded blades, into one of which he put a layer of rust-free steel, a thing that many people who do pattern welding says can't be done. See the one on the left https://www.facebook.com/share/v/bjJK2pSKu86xwo2D/