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Thursday like a pseudoephedrine Friday
Thursday, May 27 2021
Since I wouldn't be working tomorrow, I treated today like a Friday, starting with 150 mg of pseudoephedrine early in the morning. Initially this didn't seem like it was working very well at what I hoped it would do: focus me on my work. But, as always seems to happen, once I forced myself to spend a few minutes investigating an issue (in this case, why a date wasn't being migrated), I had enough inertia to get something done. But all along the way I kept procrastinating. I'm still finding painting the laboratory floor to be the easiest form of procrastination, since (when I'm using small brushes that are easily cleaned) it's easy to get into it and then out of it briefly, often while listening to audio from my computer. The audio today was from the SpaceTime YouTube channel, the subject was singularities, and the shape I was painting was a large multi-tentacled splotch of dark blue. The dark blue shapes tend to need the least amount of repainting, and most of the shapes of that color still look pretty good without any repainting since 2017. But once I start repainting a part of such a shape (usually to fix some small flaw or spot of wear), I find I have to paint the whole thing or the sheen doesn't match.
The white shapes are the ones that need the most repainting; they often start looking dingy within weeks of repainting. This accounts for why the paint on the white shapes is noticeably thicker than the paint on other colors. At this point it's still possible to make out the texture of the underlying OSB for most of the shapes except for the white ones, where that texture has mostly been subsumed.
This evening I planted all the rest of the plants Gretchen has been buying. Most of these were herbs that I planted in pots out on the east deck, though I also started a new row on the west end of the garden for a ghost pepper and some sort of mint. I also planted a dark purple basil there, but then Gretchen said she wanted all the basil to be close to the house.
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