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lillilahI have to laugh at myself. I was kind of worried, but it turns out that I really like the taste of ground flax seed, which I should have known, as I used to eat it all the time. It is kind of woody/grassy. Also, it is full of calories, so I'm hoping that eating 10g every day will make up for taking out the cheese without making me gain weight. Of course, I'm fine with eating less of it, so if I do start gaining weight, I can cut back. Of course, this means I need to get more organized and start weighing myself again, although honestly, it seems like if my blood sugar is over 5, then it means that I'm gaining weight. So, probably, I'm doing okay right now. Still, I should check. It would be easier if it wasn't so darn cold here. I'm not uncomfortably cold, but I'm also wearing a long sleeve shirt, a hand-me-down cashmere sweater, and my puffy bathrobe. And a scarf. Anyway, I don't think we have much more than a week left of this chilly weather. I hope. It is chilly, and the outside world smells like wood smoke at night.
In other news, Joel has my cold, so we're heading back to bed shortly. There is something I meant to add to my to do list, but I can't remember what it was, so it will have to wait. I did get a bunch of little things taken off it, though, which is nice. Of course, there are always other things that I need to work on. Hopefully, I'll manage to get some of those recurring things worked on tomorrow. If nothing else, I have gotten permission for a bunch of songs for my podcast, so I have several months of podcasts planned. I'm really hoping that I can get enough potential episodes organized that I will only have to ask for permission once a year (although, that would still mean sending out dozens and dozens of requests). I had planned to calculate how many requests I send out vs the number of positive responses that I get, but I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe I will at some point, since that would make it easier (maybe) to figure out approximately how many songs I need to request. I also wanted to calculate how much music I listen to and what percentage of those songs I think aren't something I want to hear again. However, that would require more organization. I wrote out instructions for dealing with my top 100 songs of the year list. Perhaps I should do that for each batch of songs I listen to. I could put all the songs into a dated directory, write down in the database how big the directory is (or how many files are in it? or both? or how many songs I put in the playlist of songs that I will listen to plus how much space they take up? Probably all of the above.), and then when I have finished with my weeding, I could write down the numbers again. It wouldn't be totally accurate, of course, since there are lots of files that come with an album of music that aren't music (although with the number of songs in the initial playlist, I would have a better idea). However, if I knew that I needed 13 GB of music to get approximately 250 requests, which would result in approximately 70 positive responses, which would let me make 12 podcasts of 5 songs each (plus a few that didn't go with the other songs and would be carried over to the following year), then I would know if I only have 9 GB that I needed to go download some more songs. Or if I had only 150 songs that I was planning on requesting, then I would need to work on finding more. These numbers are just random ones (although I do have about 13 GB of songs in each batch). Hmm... I really like the idea of having this be more organized. I'll have to work on it.
In other news, Joel has my cold, so we're heading back to bed shortly. There is something I meant to add to my to do list, but I can't remember what it was, so it will have to wait. I did get a bunch of little things taken off it, though, which is nice. Of course, there are always other things that I need to work on. Hopefully, I'll manage to get some of those recurring things worked on tomorrow. If nothing else, I have gotten permission for a bunch of songs for my podcast, so I have several months of podcasts planned. I'm really hoping that I can get enough potential episodes organized that I will only have to ask for permission once a year (although, that would still mean sending out dozens and dozens of requests). I had planned to calculate how many requests I send out vs the number of positive responses that I get, but I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe I will at some point, since that would make it easier (maybe) to figure out approximately how many songs I need to request. I also wanted to calculate how much music I listen to and what percentage of those songs I think aren't something I want to hear again. However, that would require more organization. I wrote out instructions for dealing with my top 100 songs of the year list. Perhaps I should do that for each batch of songs I listen to. I could put all the songs into a dated directory, write down in the database how big the directory is (or how many files are in it? or both? or how many songs I put in the playlist of songs that I will listen to plus how much space they take up? Probably all of the above.), and then when I have finished with my weeding, I could write down the numbers again. It wouldn't be totally accurate, of course, since there are lots of files that come with an album of music that aren't music (although with the number of songs in the initial playlist, I would have a better idea). However, if I knew that I needed 13 GB of music to get approximately 250 requests, which would result in approximately 70 positive responses, which would let me make 12 podcasts of 5 songs each (plus a few that didn't go with the other songs and would be carried over to the following year), then I would know if I only have 9 GB that I needed to go download some more songs. Or if I had only 150 songs that I was planning on requesting, then I would need to work on finding more. These numbers are just random ones (although I do have about 13 GB of songs in each batch). Hmm... I really like the idea of having this be more organized. I'll have to work on it.
