is it Saturday, already?
Feb. 20th, 2010 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaFriday's progress consisted of getting an e-mail from my boss suggesting some changes to the settings for those calculations I've been trying to get to work. Much to my delight, they worked well enough that I enjoyed several hours of time compression--you know, where you do this and that and the other and it all seems to take no time at all, but suddenly you realize hours have elapsed. The results still aren't a perfect match to the results obtained for these analysis before, but they are close enough to make it possible to play with them and look at graphs.
The rest of the day was spent helping![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clovis_t update his resume. He found a couple of jobs advertised for positions in Milan where the single most important criteria is "native English speaker". I hope that he gets one, for his sake. I don't mind supporting him, it isn't a burden to feed him, and the apartment would cost the same were he not here, but I can't afford to provide him with extras that he might enjoy. Besides, he'd like to have an income.
In the evening my latest CouchSurfing houseguests from Poland arrived. This is a nice young couple who live in the Krakow area for university, but come from some 150 km from there. We visited for an hour or so after they arrived, then I accompanied them into the city center and showed them the Duomo (Cathedral), which they say is prettier than Notre Dame. I love showing that building to new visitors--it really is a stunning example of architecture, with some amazing detail work in its establishments. After a brief stroll in that area I sent them off to find a restaurant (I couldn't recommend one--the fact that I'm not interested in food at night means that I haven't tried any restaurants in Milan, since they don't open till 7pm, which is later than I care to be eating). I walked home and went back to Uni, whereclovis_t and I spent time on line (he's in Scotland this week for his Granny's funeral) polishing up his resume and fixing the layout and design.
Today there isn't yet any progress to report. I spent the morning enjoying breakfast with my guests, then walked with them part way to the city center, where I went to my favourite store to stock up on more supplies for making museli, (and pointed them on their way so they could go sight-seeing), then went home, put some food into the ricecooker to start for lunch and took a nap. 1.5 hours later (boy did that feel good!) I got up and came in to uni, where I saw a note on LJ explaining that it is possible to access facebook chat from other programs. So rather than doing whatever it was I might have done, I set up Pidgin to communicate with Facebook as well as MSN and Yahoo. I then sent a quick test-message to a friend in Alaska, and we talked for an hour and a half! These things happen. Besides, I enjoyed the conversation.
I'm now hungry again, and it is getting close to the earliest that my guests might come home from their adventures, so I shall take my computer home, have some food, read my 1000 words of geologic literature, and see if I can get some work done before I play host again.
The rest of the day was spent helping
clovis_t update his resume. He found a couple of jobs advertised for positions in Milan where the single most important criteria is "native English speaker". I hope that he gets one, for his sake. I don't mind supporting him, it isn't a burden to feed him, and the apartment would cost the same were he not here, but I can't afford to provide him with extras that he might enjoy. Besides, he'd like to have an income. In the evening my latest CouchSurfing houseguests from Poland arrived. This is a nice young couple who live in the Krakow area for university, but come from some 150 km from there. We visited for an hour or so after they arrived, then I accompanied them into the city center and showed them the Duomo (Cathedral), which they say is prettier than Notre Dame. I love showing that building to new visitors--it really is a stunning example of architecture, with some amazing detail work in its establishments. After a brief stroll in that area I sent them off to find a restaurant (I couldn't recommend one--the fact that I'm not interested in food at night means that I haven't tried any restaurants in Milan, since they don't open till 7pm, which is later than I care to be eating). I walked home and went back to Uni, where
clovis_t and I spent time on line (he's in Scotland this week for his Granny's funeral) polishing up his resume and fixing the layout and design.Today there isn't yet any progress to report. I spent the morning enjoying breakfast with my guests, then walked with them part way to the city center, where I went to my favourite store to stock up on more supplies for making museli, (and pointed them on their way so they could go sight-seeing), then went home, put some food into the ricecooker to start for lunch and took a nap. 1.5 hours later (boy did that feel good!) I got up and came in to uni, where I saw a note on LJ explaining that it is possible to access facebook chat from other programs. So rather than doing whatever it was I might have done, I set up Pidgin to communicate with Facebook as well as MSN and Yahoo. I then sent a quick test-message to a friend in Alaska, and we talked for an hour and a half! These things happen. Besides, I enjoyed the conversation.
I'm now hungry again, and it is getting close to the earliest that my guests might come home from their adventures, so I shall take my computer home, have some food, read my 1000 words of geologic literature, and see if I can get some work done before I play host again.
