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[mdlbear]

Not such a long week. But both productive and exhausting in its own way.

Sunday of Conflikt was pretty good, especially Jeff Bohnhoff's "Alternate Guitar Chords" workshop, and some great music. But around, what, 4pm? Colleen's scooter abruptly stopped working. Dead in its tracks, with the battery indicator happily stuck at the halfway point, where it's always been for the last several months. The YD, who was accompanying Colleen between buildings, proceeded to panic. I talked her through pushing the scooter back indoors and plugging in the charger.

As soon as I could, I got down there, to find that there was enough charge in the battery to move slowly, but not fast -- push too far and it would simply cut off. So charging helps. I had some difficulty persuading the YD to help me get Colleen all the way into the conference center and up to the Conflikt lobby, where she would be warm and have music and company while the battery charged.

At which point it developed that the YD needed to get home and finish her homework. Due Monday. Oooooookay then. I drove her home, which gave me the opportunity to drop off most of the luggage, swap vehicles, and snag a walker at Naomi's in case charging the battery didn't help.

But of course it did help -- the battery finished charging, and the scooter was just fine. I still don't trust it.

Monday was reasonably productive, plus the inevitable odds and ends of paperwork. Despite coming down with the con crud. The chills came on the way home; I went to bed early, under a pile of blankets.

I woke up feeling as though I was swimming in sweat, of course, and wisely decided to work from home. I got through two new API methods that had been scheduled for two days each.

Which was a good thing, since I wasn't quite as productive Wednesday, when I had a urology appointment in the morning and got to sit around while Colleen had an MRI in the afternoon. All afternoon, as it turned out. So much for going in and pushing my changes to the local github in mid-afternoon. I started writing functional tests.

... but all in all not that bad a week, considering.

0127 Su
  * up 7:15ish; d, n
  @ Bacon.js Makes Functional Reactive Programming Sizzle 
  * Alternate Guitar Chords variant workshop with Jeff Bohnhoff
  * N. left 2ish
  * Cat and Barigato concert
  * Colleen's scooter abruptly stopped working.  Dead in its tracks.  The YD
    panicked, and when I came down after recording my song into Kathleen's zoom,
    continued to freak as I calmly coaxed the scooter, which had been put to
    charge and was now merely *mostly* dead, up the ramp, into the elevator, and
    down the hall to the con's part of the conference center.  And plugged it in.
  * At this point the YD was freaking about not getting home in time to finish
    her homework.  So I took her home, stopped at N's to change vehicles, get a
    little bit of quiet time, and pick up the 4-wheeled walker just in case.
  * ... which we didn't need, because the scooter was fully charged by the time
    I got back.  So it's clear that the charge indicator is borked.  Probably
    expensive to fix.  The behavior is consistent with the voltage falling too
    low for the circuitry to function, without the indicator giving the
    slightest warning that it was low.

0128 Mo
  * up 7:15; W=202.2; d, n, l; dishes
  @ Coding Freedom: a review
  * Reasonably productive day at work, plus a couple of things taken care of wrt
    the house purchase.
  % threw up after only a couple of bites of lunch.  Got much better after that,
    but still (7pm) have slight chills and a fever of 99.7.  Brought home enough
    info to WFH tomorrow if I'm not up to going in.
  ! My emotional range the last few days has mostly been from "good" to "very
    good", with a couple of "ok"s thrown in.  This is good.
  % (20:04:08) ***mdlbear gets a throw blanket and tucks himself in.
  * bed:  10:15ish

0129 Tu
  * up 9am; d, n, l; dishes
  * WFH today.  Got 2 API endpoints, scheduled for 2 days each, done.
  % (19:05:45) mdlbear: I seem to be over my flu, and my increased dose of
    antidepressant seems to be starting to work.  And I finished two tasks
    scheduled for two days each today.  I am starting to feel as though things
    may be going well. 
  ! good, contented, optimistic?
  @ the problem with polynormativity « Sex Geek (ysabetwordsmith)

0130 We
  * up 6:30; W=198.4; d, n, l; dishes, light
  * 8am leave for urology apt
  * 8:30 Dr. Downey - Urology (BPH) 806005 244th St near Mazatlan rest.
    it's big, but as long as the doxazosin is working, he doesn't have to go to
    the next level of drugs (testosterone inhibitors).  Wants to see me in 6
    months because there's a spot he wants to keep an eye on.
  : Humira will have to come from Aetna's specialty pharmacy.  They'll call.
  * 12:30 Colleen at radiology -- took nearly 5 hours door-to-door.
  * managed to get some work done, regardless.
  * to N's for a while 
  * fax last form to dave