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mdlbearThe big news is that COLLEEN IS HOME!!. The bad news is that she still is nowhere near being able to walk (despite PT twice a week), and can't even transfer reliably from the bed to her power chair. Getting her into bed the evening she came home was hard enough; she made several attempts to get back in the chair the next day, but couldn't.
It's going to be a long, difficult, expensive month. We have someone coming in during the day to take care of her and cook, but I still have to change her at least twice/day, and usually more. Ouch! I'm too old for the amount of bending-over required, and even with the suggestions that Naomi made about body mechanics, there's still a fair amount of it.
At least the cats are getting along better, and Curio seems to be especially fond of Colleen. Of course: the bed smells like me, and has someone in it all the time who's happy to pet him.
Having cats around is a Very Good Thing.
In other news, the disk in my file server is dead. And I haven't pulled the backup drive to check it -- that was supposed to be particularly easy because it's in a dock. It's not easy because the dock has a key, and I can't find it. So I'll have to pull the whole damned thing, or else install a new main drive.
If the backup drive is also hosed, I won't have lost too much -- most of the really important stuff is off on the web host. It's ironic, though, that I discovered this by trying to log in in order to convert my main website from CVS to git. I'm not sure the CVS repo is uploaded. I don't think the copy of my password keychain on the laptop is up to date, either. And I'll lose most of my audio -- ripped CDs and concert recordings.
And our TV is still dead. Its problem seems to be thermal -- it runs for a couple of hours, then turns itself off. I went to Fry's and got another -- smaller (29" as opposed to 32"), but newer and lighter.
I've also written an article about git: Why and How To Keep Your Master Happy. It's work-related -- all of our new hires and many of my other coworkers seem to be unfamiliar with git and how to keep their changelog nice and tidy. Should have written it six months ago -- I wrote a rather sketchy wiki page, but it didn't go into the motivation for any of it.
Other links, as usual, in the raw notes:
0901 Su % awake 5:30ish - slept badly, probably due to going splat before putting on my CPAP :( * up 6:30ish; W=203.2; d, n; shower @ Forward Progressives — President Obama Just Made a Brilliant Move On Possible U.S. Military Intervention in Syria * Ordered washer/dryer: Delivery 9/21 Sa * Container store on the way back. Found the kitchen soap trays I wanted. * There is now an actual doorKNOB on the door to downstairs. I don't think the cat burglars will be able to jimmy it. Put the old lever on the YD's door; she wanted something with an inside lock. * Finish RR shelves, if you can call using a paper towel to rub on a coat of varathane, "finishing". Today's varathane is called "spar varnish", but it appears to be the same water-based stuff that used to be called "diamond finish". Next time I'll wear gloves -- it may be water based, but it's still hard to get off your hands. And next time I'll use the sawhorses -- the porch swing is a little too low. My back hurts. * ... and shelf brackets up. Rejiggered so I could use all 5 shelves. * checked on the piggies -- they needed water. They also need their cage cleaned. * Put up a 1x12 in the space between the window and the fireplace: the intent is to use it to hang things. * Install RR shelves. The cats were scared; they seem quite timid sometimes. 0902 Mo Labor Day * up 6:30; W=203.2; d, n; laundry * Went in to work -- want to take Friday off, so need the hours. % Discovered that my steve.savitzky.net/Doc (non-fiction) directory is still under CVS. Ick! Especially ironic when I'm starting to write an article on git best practices. @ Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) | File 770 -- RIP Frederik Pohl, the man who transformed science fiction @ Anxiety & Depression Magazine | Healing Power of Pets | esperanza 0903 Tu * up 6:05; W=201.8; d, n @ 8 Ruined Cities That Remain a Mystery to This Day f(Mary Anne Mohanraj) 0904 We * up 6:20; W=201.8; d, n @ Windows Is Dead - Business Insider +Jim Dennis @ The Voluptuarian Wolfess, boggletheowl: rockstonicjuiicemagic said: Face... * mostly finished my article on git, Why and How To Keep Your Master Happy : Giselle, our amazing housekeeper, is leaving. Aaaargh! * Changed address with Alliance credit union. The instructions in the letter they sent were totally wrong, of course. 0905 Th * up 5:30; W=203.2; d, n; shower @ gatekeeping and recourse | Crime and the Blog of Evil How men can fight misogyny : Nova appears to be horked. Not good. Trying a reset. No bootable device. EEEK! Power cycle. ok, that seems to be working. Whew! Um... no; the disk is horked. Guess that explains why I couldn't print to it. BAAAAD... and I can't pull the backup drive because I have no idea where the goddamned key went. * Ordered bigger garbage and yard waste carts -> figured out why I couldn't do it on the web: last name misspelled. :P % (lead) Andy and (manager) Ravi, whose team I've been on loan to, had good words to say; R. mentioned that there were some permanent slots coming up in his group. ! They evidently think I'm better than I feel. This is weirdly encouraging. * Remembered that the reason Nova isn't able to send email is that I no longer have a reverse DNS entry. There's probably a way around it using an ssh tunnel, if nothing else. But it's annoying. 0906 Fr * up 6:45; W=204.2; d, n * Puttering. The little Dyson vacuum seems to be broken, or maybe just clogged with drywall dust. Very little suck. Not sucking is *bad* in a vacuum cleaner. * buy: queen mattress pad, commode, diaper pail, cat litter * 2pm Colleen coming home * buy: piggie food, piggie bedding; groceries (list from YD and Colleen) % It's very nice to have Colleen back. OTOH, transfer and changing were an ordeal. 0907 Sa * up 5:50; d, n; shower % changing Colleen is very hard on my back. Hot shower took care of most of it. @ Legislation Seeks to Bar N.S.A. Tactic in Encryption - NYTimes.com @madfilkentist : (Colleen's caregiver) May is wonderful. * buy: dishpans (for washing), washcloths, face masks, ankle brace : The Samsung TV works! I'm guessing that all it needed was new batteries in the remote. Changing them was the first thing I'd tried, but they might have been old. ... and now it's off again. Same symptoms. OK, so it's really broken. % I need to spend a couple of nights a week sleeping upstairs 0908 Su * up 9:30; W=205.2; d, n; shower * used N's suggestion of lunge position for working on Colleen. Helped. % My calf muscles hurt. Not entirely sure where that comes from. :P * TV working today; I'm thinking it's thermal. * 15min: cleared a box (helped that it was mostly magazine boxes) * buy: cat food, drinking straws * Went to Fry's for a new TV. Got a 29" Samsung, with a 3-year service plan. * Ribs for dinner. Yum! % aching all over, but especially in the calves. Pain level 5 or so; naproxen and methocarbamol took it down to maybe 3.5 by bedtime 0909 Mo * up 6:30; W=205.6, p=2ish; d, n % adding pain level to the morning status * 8:50 at bus stop; P=3 back, P=2 legs - they really eased up somehow. * ordered CPAP mask forehead pads from thecpapshop.com
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Date: 2013-09-11 09:51 am (UTC)Glad your family is complete
Date: 2013-09-11 12:29 pm (UTC)Robin
Re: Glad your family is complete
Date: 2013-09-11 02:43 pm (UTC)Also, we hadn't _had_ cats before, and didn't know how much we would like them.
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Date: 2013-09-11 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-12 01:14 am (UTC)