Done last week (20141116 Su - 22 Sa)

[mdlbear]

A bit of a rough week, but with several high spots. The first of which was brunch with Colleen and Emmy at Salty's -- a local seafood place with a fantastic buffet on weekends. Turns out I get a senior discount. :P

I am cautiously optimistic about my mood, between selling the house and starting on l-tryptophan. I think it's generally better, but it's also more volatile -- I run out of cope and go into overload. Not good. Especially because it upsets Colleen, which sets up a positive feedback loop. (Positive in the feedback sense -- it has negative consequences, of course.)

Another high point was music night, Thursday after dinner. The original plan had been for a new friend of N's to come join us, but she ended up canceling. We had fun anyway -- playlist in the notes. We've decided to do it more often, and N is setting things up to spend more time in the Great Room. Which means I have to fix the control on the broken lift chair that we parked there.

To which end I tracked down a soldering iron. The one I bought because I couldn't find my good one, which is still in a box somewhere.

Looking at the notes, I seem to have been pretty productive this week. So... ok.

1116 Su
  * up 5ish; W=217.2; dishes
  % (I'm going to start putting laundry and dishes back on the list because I'm feeling
     useless and unproductive again.)
  * 15min: swapped outlet extenders between stairway and Rainbow Room (where it made more
    sense to have one that screws into the wall).  Moved phone base stations and dsl modem
    to UPS (finally!)  That still leaves two routers unprotected.  One is just a
    simple matter of an extension cord.  Problem is it's a daisy-chain rather than a
    proper star, because it's all too easy to use the routers as ethernet switches.
    ... now down to one (West), because I want an extension cord the right length.
    ... 8:35 done.
  * put SS#s into password "vault" so I only have one thing to protect/pass around
  @  poetTown - GoFundMe (ysabetwordsmith)
  * 15min:  brought up a box of fabric from the garage.
  * 12:15 brunch at Salty's with Colleen and Emmy
    -> excellent!  And I get a senior discount!  Pricy, but worth it.
  * Southcenter.  Took the scooter battery pack in to Batteries Plus, but it checked out
    ok.  I suspect the controller, then.  :(  Tiring.  I can't walk as much as I used to.
  * 15min:  changed the bulb on the NE corner floodlight.  LED.  Now we have light on the
    back stairs, which is a win.  (Glenn had noticed that we had a light there...)
  * definitely a hot buttered rum night.  Cold.
  * 15min:  make that two boxes of fabric.
  * Ordered razor blades, CPAP forehead spacers.
  ~ Trying to figure out where my damned 7" tablet went.  Might be upstairs; I know it was
    there a while ago, and I've looked pretty much everyplace else.
    -> found -- in my suitcase :P
  * Bath - definitely helped both with sleep and pain

1117 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=215.2
  * Funds disbursed; nothing in my account yet.
  : YD got "attacked" by another online, for-profit school.  I feel like shit for telling
    her that I don't have $50K to waste on it, but...
  ! I feel like shit, period.  Yes, I know depression lies.  I'm a soft touch.
  * import LJ into DW -- basically just the comments, since posts are mirrored anyway.
    Last done 104 weeks ago (!)

1118 Tu
  * up 6:15; W=215.2
  : The new lift chair has a problem:  it gets under the bottom shelf.  Needs to be either
    far enough out to go down all the way, or close enough to rest on the shelf and not go
    down.  Colleen would probably be more comfortable with the latter.
  @ Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web | EFF 
  @ There's a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why 
    tl;dr: altitude.  low O2 -> lower serotinin
  * WFH - shadow oncall
  * 2pm Colleen UNW
  * Wire transfer came through.  Yay!
  ! why don't I feel relieved?  Closer to scared, though as usual it's rather hard for me
    to tell.  Maybe I just ate too much.  Or too little.  Damn, I hate alexithymia!
  * tried taking tryptophan before bed

1119 We
  * up 6:32; W=214.2
  @ The 9 Best Linux Distros - Datamation [LWN]
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1120 Th
  * up 5:55; W=214.6
  * 8am - phone conference
  @ Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before? brilliant!
  * Music night!  Great fun.  We'll be doing it more regularly from now on.
    Waltzing With Bears, The Bears, Wheelin', QV, Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack (G),
    The Mary Ellen Carter, Bigger On the Inside, The October Country, Lock-Keeper, Gentle
    Arms of Eden.

1121 Fr
  & cat cuddles
  * up 6:30; ;
  @ Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers | Computerworld 
  : Cricket will make an excellent Villains's Cat when she grows up.

1122 Sa
  * up 6ish; W=214.6; Shower, laundry
  * 15min:  maintenance on Colleen's power chair:  pump up the tires, detach the broken
    power socket and pull it through to make it accessible.
  * 15min: two-monitor setup for Cygnus.  Attempted to get gnome-panel working on Nova,
    but no dice.  Dropped back to an old-school xterm.
  @ The missing story of the 2014 election - GOPlifer one can hope
  * 15min:  found the new soldering irons in garage, in the shoe bag.  Still looking for
    the good one.
  * 15min:  moved music and travel books out of the hallway bookcase and into the Great
    Room next to the cubhouse.  The eventual goal is to give the bookcase back to C.
  @ Blazing the Self-Publishing Path (haikujaguar)
  * Out for a drive with Colleen.  Very unsatisfactory; a couple of very tight parking
    areas and I got overloaded.  Bailed on TJ's, which was the second one.  Made Colleen
    upset, which makes things worse for me.  Up until then I was doing ok, though.
  % Oh, my!  The Hackers' Heaven album would be *perfect* for LGF.  Add Cat Faber's recycling song
  * Resurrected Stargate, the former Linux router, and upgraded.  We are unlikely to be
    using it as a router; it would make a decent backup machine if the backup drive
    is still usable (suspect that the write problem might be a timeout in the usb driver
    rather than any problem with the drive itself).