Yesterday and today (3)

[netpositive]

My intentions create my reality.
-Positive Affirmations at About.com

Yesterday:

+ savored taste of first cup of tea
+ practiced Portuguese numbers via license plates
+ ate healthily throughout the day
+ rest of team in Requisite tools training
+ finally freed from fixing HTML and Javascript myself
+ issues with prototype reported, some even got fixed
+ leftover fried rice was still perfectly edible
+ had plenty of spinach and radishes as well
+ reviewed the DwtS exercise DVD, looks useful
+ relaxed in the evening, got to bed early
+ good, encouraging conversation before going to sleep
+ looking forward to spring

Today:
+ slept through the entire night
+ two cute cats waiting for food
+ quick drive to work, practice numbers again
+ issues with prototype being fixed faster than reported
+ plenty of broccoli and red peppers with lunch
+ finally get shower filters ordered
+ use 'searchfu' to find a great template for UI documentation
+ amused how much it looked like something I created at previous job
+ listen to Phantom of the Opera song on the way home
+ have someone else make dinner for me
+ like the taste of the red wine
+ save half of steak for leftovers
+ use more 'searchfu' to find "Notes/Primadonna" lyrics online
+ listen to Jonathan Coulton in the frozen food aisle
+ able to turn someone's van headlights off
+ realize Queen's "Live at the Bowl" is in car CD case
+ give someone a lift home from work
+ start planning to do errands during tomorrow's after-work gap
+ remember dinner plans the night before, rather than the day of
+ looking forward to dancing

I reject your reality and substitute my own!
-Adam Savage

Comments

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

I envy you your second entry on "yesterday"

I can't even parse at speed digits in French or German (my first and second foreign languages).
Portuguese (my to-be-learned third/fourth language, along with Finnish) is a losing battle.

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm being even loonier than that for no particularly good reason except I like languages. :) The commute to the new job takes 30-45 minutes - so I'm alternating beginning Portuguese¹ CDs with reviewing my almost-intermediate Japanese². And while at work, I am also ending up employing my adequate but highly rusty and vocabulary-deficient French³. But no, I am not considering hauling out my barely serviceable Latin⁴ from the mental mothballs... at least, not yet. Not unless the time machine actually starts working⁵.

¹Why Portuguese? Mostly because I already knew some French, and both Brazil and Portugal seem like nice places to go (or even to live there).

²Upon finally going to Japan last year in order to NOT go to Worldcon, I drew on my 4 semesters of Japanese and was both appalled at how little I remembered and happy that I remembered any of it, so I decided to try not to lose it as completely this time around.

³My coworkers include both a native of Cote d'Ivoire who listens to French Internet radio all day, and a Taiwanese woman who teaches Mandarin Chinese at the local community college but wants to practice her second-language French on us.

⁴Though I'm not sure if I've ever *seen* a "Learn to Speak Latin" CD. I'm sure there's something out there somewhere, however, if only for those who want to learn "Church Latin". Which IIRC bears much the same relationship to "Literary Latin" pronunciation that Brazilian Portuguese bears to Iberian Portuguese, come to think of it...

⁵In which case I'd actually need the French soonest, as my first journey back in time would be to try and explain to Django Reinhardt how modern recording techniques work -- while I use them on him, naturally.