mdlbear | Done last week (20131109 Sa

The big news: Friday Colleen went upstairs (supervised by two PTs -- they'd originally been planning to do car transfers but it was raining). They marked out where I should put grab bars; I got one of them in yesterday.

Lots of puttering, last weekend and this. Finally got new showerheads installed. The new hand shower has a vertical bar that can be used as a grab bar; it turns out that drilling tile is a bitch, so it's only held on by two screws at the moment. I'll work on that some more this afternoon. Brought up a box of cookbooks. Etc.

Friday came over yesterday (yes, Friday was here on Saturday) and made curried chicken. There are leftovers; not entirely sure what we're having for dinner tonight. We also had pizza (last Saturday) and Chinese (Friday).

I got some work done on the Steve.Savitzky.net and Rainbow's End Massage websites, though not all that much.

I had some notion last week of dropping the "Done" posts back to one per week, and doing occasional posts with real content in between. Well, I got halfway there...

Lots of links in the notes; you can read about the Autism Speaks kerfuffle, perfect forward secrecy and other security matters (Hi there, NSA), and Avengers AU fanfic with cats, among many others.

1109 Sa
* up 7ish?; W=206.6, BP=119/82, P=66; d, n; shower
: went out to go fetch supplies; found the van's battery dead. Not totally, but not
enough to start. Took Felicity, which turned out to have been a mistake; got back
11:30, just barely in time for N to get to work.
* Walgreens: supplies; HD: car jump-start battery, Cree 40W bulbs (on sale 50% off)
tried to refill HCTZ prescription; can't until Monday.
QFC: bacon, sweet rolls; 3 Dover sole filets on impulse
= N has to leave 11:15 on weekends.
& Colleen didn't want the sole filets, so I had them for afternoon tea, all to myself.
! feeling stupid and depressed.
* looks like pizza again Not complaining a whole lot.
* Got a quick version of Rainbow's End up
Ugly, but it has links to Rainbow's End Massage and my two sites.
& ordered pizza (for the second time this weekend) Probably shouldn't have, but...

1110 Su
* up 9; W=205.0; d, n; shower
: Net was down. Spent over an hour on the phone, mostly on hold; apparently some other
address and phone number is now associated with our account; that person had called
and had it disconnected because they'd been evicted from their appartment. WTF?
* Got the van restarted, after discovering that everything in the engine compartment
that looked like metal was actually painted. Resorted to clamping onto the negative
terminal, which had an exposed nut. :P The battery is wimpy, but it did the job.
* Walked to Trader Joe's -- same distance from home as my usual bus stop: .3mi.
* Brought up a box of cookbooks from the garage and put them on the shelves; stood up
the cookbooks that were already there. Adjusted the shelves to be tall enough for
magazines and most large-format cookbooks.
* Moved an unused floor lamp from the sewing area to the Rainbow Room next to the other
chair, where a little extra light is needed for reading.
: Glenn made dinner, while Colleen kibbitzed.
: The wind blew down the archway in front of our second entrance; needs fixing.
@ Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?
-> Tufts Magazine / fall 2013 Up in Arms: The battle lines of today’s debates over
gun control, stand-your-ground laws, and other violence-related issues were drawn
centuries ago by america’s early settlers.
% my left ankle is complaining about something. It started around 1pm IIRC

1111 Mo Veterans' Day
* up 6:30; W=203.6, BP=123/83, P=68; d, n
@ 10 Creative Workstations to Get Your Juices Flowing
* call Comcast about account phone number
~ call to verify payment to Seattle City Light -> no humans; balance check doesn't work.
paid full amount via UB even though I'm pretty sure it's not needed.
% ankle not complaining as much this morning. Good.
* refill C's humira prescription (call in)
* On the way home (between the streetcar and bus) dumped the contents of my change
pocket into a hat collecting for typhoon aid. Particularly satisfying because I'd
bought chips with a $5 and so had about $4.50 in change weighing me down.

1112 Tu
* up 6:45; W=204.2; d, n
& took the kids to the bus stop; had a nice talk with G.
* Walgreens: fill HCTZ prescription. Figured as long as I was in a car...
% nasty acid/gas attack around 11ish; went to Bartell and bought GasX and Tums for work.
@ 13 Characteristics of a Date Rapist similar to an abuser, too. No surprise.
@ Troy Hunt: Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password hints
@ The Big, Fat Polyamorous Asexual Post | The Thinking Asexual (ysabetwordsmith)
More specifically this is about being a polyromantic asexual.
@ no more – a letter to suzanne wright | a diary of a mom "Autism Speaks" fail.
@ The Ferrett - When Your Back Is Against The Wall, You Can Still Surrender

1113 We
% dreams: I was in something between a hotel and a dorm, getting ready for a trip. I
couldn't find something, then several things, then someone else came in and after
arguing for a while I looked at my key card which had a totally different room number
on it (on the back on a sort of sticker).
I was in an unfamiliar airport getting ready for a flight to Japan. On impulse I
bought a kitten, and was scrambling around trying to find a carrier when I realized
that the conference I was going to was in student housing and didn't allow pets. But
that was ok because somebody was going to meet me to take me to the airport, and I
could send the kitten home with them.
* up 6:45; W=203.2, BP=117.85, P=75; d, n
@ The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone +(Jim Dennis)
I had to deal with one of these abominations at Ricoh. Scary.
* walk: REI. About .6mi each way, plus stairs
@ Pandoc - A Universal Document Converter
gitit - wiki using git or darcs as a backend and pandoc for markup
@ How to Be Naked. | elephant journal f(George P Burdell III)
@ Dia de los Muertos by berf on deviantART wonderful student-made video
: Argument with YD over cat food -- she wanted to get Purina from Safeway. Went to
Petco, but it was after 9pm and they were closed.
@ Phil Coulson is not a crazy cat lady - nyargles - The Avengers (2012)
finished at 2:55am because I couldn't get back to sleep. Maybe now I can.

1114 Th
% miserable night - two wakeups and trouble getting back to sleep after the first.
-> maybe I should go to bed later. I'm functional, this morning, oddly enough.
% dreams again involved air travel, hotels, and food. Generally not all that good.
* up 6:45; W=204.2; d, n; shower
@ Chromebooks Have Finally Arrived. Why? Because Tech Pundits Are Arguing Over Them
@ Let's talk about perfect forward secrecy [LWN.net]
SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow | Netcraft
@ Browsing together with TogetherJS [LWN.net]
* out to Petco (cat food, piggie bedding, air freshener, spot remover) and QFC (dish and
laundry detergent). Purina is about 1/3 the price of the stuff we're getting at
Petco, but it appears to be mostly carbs.
@ Look Me In The Eye: I resign my roles at Autism Speaks

1115 Fr
* up 6:50; W=204.2, BP=136/82, P=69; d, n
@ Devil's Dictionary of Programming—programming is terrible
* make sharable git repo for s.s.net top level (by pushing from ~/vv/...)
* Chinese ordered for dinner

1116 Sa
* up 9:05; W=207.2, BP=120/78, P=63; d, n, t; shower
: out of underpads and seriously low on other supplies.
* Walgreen's: pads and pantsu; Safeway: banking, corn tortillas, bacon
@ Americans – why do you keep refrigerating your eggs? f(George P Burdell III)
* Install LED bulb in basement stairs (required extension ladder)
* Home Depot: showerheads, 36" grab bar, wallboard anchors, bulk picture hooks
A couple of Cree 9W bulbs -- have a lot of 6's, but couldn't find a 9 when I wanted one
* started working on the showers; got all the fixtures in, but the new vertical bar
needs holes drilled into tile. Slow going.
* s.s.net is seriously out of date -- "in the process of buying...?"
* Friday came and made dinner -- sort-of curried chicken. Yum.
. 10pm shower bar up with two of its four screws; not going to sweat it for now. Plenty
of time to work on it tomorrow. Considering a hammer drill, though.
@ New study finds that individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome don’t lack empathy – in
fact if anything they empathize too much | seventhvoice f(Stephanie Weippert)
@ A Reporter's Guide to the Autism Speaks Debacle | Psychology Today