mdlbear | Done last week (20151122Su

Rough week physically, so-so mentally. As for the physical, I can do no better than to quote from Tuesday's notes:

Clumsy bear got into a fight with a wet manhole cover and a sidewalk. The manhole cover tripped me and the sidewalk hit me in the face. Lost the fight, but got away quickly enough to escape serious injury. (Slipped, and would probably have recovered except that I tripped over the curb and did a faceplant.)

Hand apparently broke the fall pretty well, but I have some abrasions on knee and forehead, and a fair amount of bruising and a cut on the bridge of my nose. Grump. Ouch. Glasses had their nosepiece bent a little but nothing scratched or broken. Could have been *much* worse.

As it turned out, I had two small breaks in my nose; they showed up on the CAT scan. At this point everything but the nose and the abrasion on my knee have stopped hurting even a little. I got off easy.

Mentally, my current meds appear to be doing their job. I'm worried about Ticia, though. She hasn't been eating much, and has lost weight since we got her. (She was overweight, but still; I don't like it.) She is also still getting into fights with the other cats. On the other hand, she's also endearingly cuddly, especially with me.

The other biggish news is that we got the HELOC to cover the overrun on the remodel. Colleen and I went and signed for it yesterday. Of course, it makes me worry more about finances.

I've done a little practicing; need to do more, especially on the stuff I'm likely to be playing at and around Mom's birthday party.

Lots of links, as usual.

1122Su
* up 6:00; W=196; laundry, ..., dishes
: Ticia ate a fair amount of the lamb last night; very little of the fish this morning
: Ticia managed to jump out of my arms onto the desk and fall off, taking the cat-pad
and my nearly full cup of coffee down with it. For a cat, she's awfully clumsy.
Poor thing was frightened, too, and she's skittish enough already because of Cricket.
* 15min: change upstairs litterbox, litter genie. Tidy Cats litter is significantly
lighter than the Arm+Hammer stuff.
* 15min: puttering: bedroom closet
% blood sugar crash, brought on by standing plus the fact that I'd had breakfast
* shopping:
* leg plates for tables (Junction True Value)
* a variety of nuts, bolts, screws, and washers (HD) (didn't have a brass assortment)
* Dinner (steak, baked potatoes, and broccoli), cranberry relish ingredients (Metro)
% I am, on occasion, incredibly dense. Not only did I mis-count the steaks and potatoes
(got 4; we have 5 people) but what I've been drinking for the last week is not gin but
shochu. It's *good* shochu, and it was shelved next to the gin with its label turned
away, and I was taken by the name (Elvenstar), but still. Feeling more than a little
stupid. No point in getting another potato since they were already in the oven --
got an extra steak, and I'll scrounge the starch.
@ The Space Doctor’s Big Idea - The New Yorker (relativity, Thing Explainer style)
* Worked for about an hour or so; got new feature branch made and pushed. The idea, of
course, is to enable intermediate code reviews without disturbing the deployed branch.
% 9:40 cold. going up to bed where it is (hopefully) warm.

1123Mo
* Up 4:40; W=196.4; S=11450 (7:30p)
@ Time Bandits - The New Yorker Einstein and Gödel
: Met a coworker from West Seattle -- Susan. Works over on the marketing side of our
floor, and takes the 21x to someplace near White Center. Cool. Because of her, I
walked to the bus stop at 3rd and Virginia. That, getting off there, and going back
to 5th and Lenora to get the tablet looked at, pushed my step count over 10K. We
traded cat pix on the bus.
* Tablet to Gadget Fix at 5th and Lenora
-> The tablet, of course, just needed a different charging cord. Why that happens
primarily with Samsung tablets is an annoying mystery.
YouTube video advocates squeezing the cable connector with pliers. Plausible.
@ How to fix a phone that won't charge properly - AndroidPIT This is not,
apparently, even remotely an uncommon problem. The damned connectors are simply too
fragile. Unfortunate.
% 9:30 getting sleepy

1124Tu
* up 5:30; W=195.4; laundry, dishes
& Clumsy bear got into a fight with a wet manhole cover and a sidewalk. The manhole
cover tripped me and the sidewalk hit me in the face. Lost the fight, but got
away quickly enough to escape serious injury. (Slipped, and would probably have
recovered except that I tripped over the curb and did a faceplant.)
% Hand apparently broke the fall pretty well, but I have some abrasions on knee and
forehead, and a fair amount of bruising and a cut on the bridge of my nose. Grump.
Ouch. Glasses had their nosepiece bent a little but nothing scratched or broken.
Could have been *much* worse.
* 70 to 6th+Pike; change to 522
* 3pm Steve teeth cleaning
% DAMN. I apparently broke something when I fell -- my forehead has a flat spot. Will
have someone take me in after a fast dinner. There's a sinus up there; it probably
took the brunt of the shock. But still -- needs to be checked out.
* N drove me to Harborview Now waiting for a bed in the ER. Grump. Clumsy bear.
% The flat spot appears to have been nothing but soft tissue damage; the only thing that
showed up on the CAT scan was two small breaks on the bridge of my nose.
% would have made well over 10K steps except that we didn't get out of the ER until
after midnight.

1125We
* up 6ish; W=195.4; laundry
Loaded drugs because I hadn't done it last night.
* Knee trouble. Cut short my planned lunchtime expedition to Bartell's, and grabbed
lunch downstairs in Dawson. Yummy, but I kind of miss my gin, and could really have
used triple antibiotic with pain relief.
@ 13 Things to Remember if You Love A Person With Social Anxiety
@ The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any
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1126Th Thanksgiving
* up 8ish; W=195.4; laundry,
: kerfuffle about dinner time: the original plan had been mid-afternoon, but somehow
that fell through the cracks and it ended up at 7. It would have been possible to hit
the earlier time except that the turkey hadn't thawed; will take 4 hours to do that in
cold water.
@ Cry HADDOCK and release the cats of war!
& cream of buckwheat for breakfast. Perhaps cut a little smaller than kasha, but same
basic idea.
: Chrome slowed down to the point where I thought the machine was wedged. Probably
flash, though I suppose it could have been javascript
% 1:15 turkey prepped, dishes started... but my right QL is complaining mightily.
Methocarbamol, I think.
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~ 2ish finally took the methocarbamol, after a trip up where I got distracted and just
puttered in the closet :/
% 2:45 extreme slowdown. Partly due to the back problem, partly lack of motivation to
do anything but veg out on internet.
* checked on Conflict memberships. Seem to have gotten our memberships; YD's can
wait until the con when we know what their plans might be. We do not, however, have
lunch tickets. -> and now we do.
& Wikipedia dive into grains, groats, and porridge; starting at buckwheat.
* Dinner. Timed pretty much perfectly. I made the gibblet gravy and carved the bird,
as well as having made the cranberry relish the night before. Good relish, but there
was more of all three kinds left over than I expected. It was all good, and as usual
I ate a little too much, but only a little.
* buy Conflikt lunch tickets.

1127Fr
* up 5:20ish; W=197.8; laundry
: FB has way more ads than usual. Think I'll stay off it for the rest of the day.
% My scrapes are healing well except for the knee. That's probably because the band-aid
I put on it rubs it when I flex the knee. Which isn't good. Will try to leave it
uncovered as much as I can today, which means rolling up my pants leg. Which is cold.
* WFH. Cat-proofed the work laptop with the old Thinkpad keyboard's leather case. Sat
the Logitech touchpad on top.
* correct list of access points by IP; fix wap2, which didn't have the WAN port assigned
to the switch, which is why it didn't work when I tried to replace -up with it.
% in the Rainbow Room with Colleen, hammered dulcimer music, and a hot buttered rum.
% 7:42 I've had Ticia snuggled on my lap for over half an hour. possibly because I'm
using a blanket. In any case, it's sweet. (Update: 8:12 and she's still there, so
probably over an hour so far.)
: The backpack that I ordered from REI arrived: very nice. Bigger than it looked at
first. The main compartment isn't quite as easy to open as the old one because of the
rain flap, but this is Seattle. I'll eventually miss the elastic cord, but since the
new one has a column of loops down the front I may be able to improvise something.
& Some hacking in the make system: fix commit messages and add commit: target

1128Sa
* Up 5:05; W=197; dishes
% mostly recovered from the fall: scab gone from bridge of nose, knee scabbed enuough
not to hurt when touched.
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@ Whirlwind Wheelchair - RoughRider $875. Weight limit 220lbs; weight 44lbs
* noon: sign papers for loan Sound Credit Union, 16330 Aurora Ave. N, Shoreline
* Lunch on the way home at Saffron Grill (Northgate Way, just west of I5) Yum!
Chicken Vindaloo, lamb coconut curry, paneer biryani, endless chai, and gulab jamun
for desert. Bonus bakava. Big platter of rice for each of us. As I said, yum.
* Charlie's Soap or Allen's Naturally laundry detergent if we can find it
Detergents for Cloth Diapers Charlie's Soap arrived from Amazon
% Lovely Ticia time. Drifting.
" me: Cricket, are you stalking us?
Cricket: *looks guilty, turns around, and slinks away* "
% 9ish sleepy
* Practice: When I Go, Ship of Stone (1 verse inst), Millennium's Dawn, Stuff That
Dreams are Made Of. Wheelin'. Way out of practice. Have to do something about that.
Tomorrow. Tonight my fingers hurt. Which says I need to practice more. And I need
to take Plink down and check her out with a variety of small amps.
% back started acting up while getting ready for bed.