1. Spent far too much time debugging what turned out to be a really stupid problem. I had a bound defined by a min when it should have been a max.

  2. Headaches. Last night I had a headache so bad that it woke me up around midnight. This was not the only headache this week.

  3. Kafkaesque conversations with the specialty pharmacy. I called them today, and I gave them my name and date of birth so that they could find my file and explain to me why the pharmacist still hasn’t called. They looked up my file and reviewed the notes. The pharmacist hasn’t called my because my file is not complete. They have my prescription and my paperwork from the drug company, but they are missing my name and date of birth and that my doctor’s office needed to fax them this information. (There is someone at my doctor’s office who deals with this sort of stuff, so I had her call them. I also emailed her a copy of my phone log.)

  4. My insurance covers this medication. The drug company has given me a copay card. I am running out of patience for this program that gives me two months for free but doesn’t actually give me anything but wastes my time by having me call up and wait on hold for someone to give me the run-around. I could get this medicine for $5 from a different mail-order pharmacy.

  5. Hiring stuff. I have a form letter that I send to people who do not send the information that is requested in the job ad. Like a cover letter. The ad says to send a resume and a cover letter. Please send a cover letter. Please? (We also ask what your favorite math problem is, but you can write about that in the cover letter. Maybe you don’t know what to put in a cover letter? In this one you can write about your favorite math problem because we specifically asked you to do that.)

  6. I made some really lovely graphs about the past (to better understand the future). The future is still hazy and confusing.

  7. Someone quit, but technically he is on vacation for the rest of the month. Or maybe he is “sick” for the rest of the month.

  8. Got the new-to-me (six-year-old) laptop on Thursday. Need to finish setting it up and installing everything on it this weekend. I’m thinking that I’m going to try to install ImageMagick with homebrew so that I can do everything with one package installer.