Done last week (21051129Su - 1205Sa)

[mdlbear]

Note the mood. I try to use the first term that comes into my head, since that's less likely to be overthought and edited. So the combination of Good Drugs and a good cat seems to be working. That, and things going fairly well.

• I am pretty much over my injuries from my run-in with a sidewalk last Tuesday; I have a referral to ENT to get the nose checked out, since it seems somewhat more congested than it used to.
• I am a lot less worried about how little Ticia is eating: As you can see in the notes for last Sunday and yesterday, she has gained back some of the weight she lost in the first few weeks, and since she was overweight to begin with, that's good.
• We have started brainstorming for what we're going to do after I retire (and the household starts bleeding money). Present thinking mostly involves tiny houses, and moving to someplace cheaper after N's kids are out of school.

Lots of links this time. Especially noteworthy are:

• Pack up my old guitar - not only how, but why.
• My dives into CSS frameworks and tiny houses on Saturday.
• www.musicforcats.com - which is in today's notes, but which I wanted to throw in because cats.

1129Su
  * up 5:45; W=197; laundry, dishes
    % all scrapes healing nicely except the knee.
    Ticia w=9.8, so she's lost about 10% of the 11 lbs she weighed when we got her.
  @ Saving Your Neck guitar travel stories from filkers
    Guitar packing for airline travel - how to protect your guitar
    Bob Brozman's Practical Advice for Flying with Guitars
    Pack up my old guitar I think this is the one I remember from the last time I
    looked this up.
  @ How Java 8 Lambdas and Streams Can Make Your Code 5 Times Slower LI
    The headline is misleading; what was slowing down the initial benchmarks was repeated
    unboxing and boxing of ints.  It does point out that it's easy to write bad code
    when you ignore the fact that ints aren't objects.
  * Attached legs to the Chinese chest.  The left front corner bracket curls up on the
    side; it'll have to be either taken off and straightened, or sealed in with clear
    epoxy.  Or both.
  * Plink sounds pretty good with the Fender mini-twin amp.  So I'll use that.
  * Out shopping for dinner+Monday+booze (Kraken and New Amsterdam)
  * Spelling corrections in alphabet.flk; index not being generated because list-mysongs 
    target not present in Lyrics -> put index generation into Songs/depends.make
  : C's leaking again, which will either mean a Tuesday appointment (which is hugely
    inconvenient) or another trip to the ER.  Either way it sucks.

1130Mo
  % awake 1:30 after going up to bed 9:30ish; stayed up reading until 3ish.
  * Up 6:15; W=195.6; laundry
  * re-order prescriptions, since the site failed on Sunday -> failed again, but worked on
    Firefox, so probably a Chrome or cookie issue.
  % Not a terribly productive day at work, though I did more in the last hour or so.
  % About the only thing that hurts on an ongoing basis now is the nose.  Ache, ~2.5-3
    Took acetaminophen around 11.

1201Tu
  * up 6:30; W=195.6; laundry
    % Overworked my left shoulder disentangling the laundry in the dryer.  It aches.
      Deltoid, probably; pain level around 4
  @ Flying with guitars - help for traveling musicians - airlines & guitars
  @ The history of the novelty song and mnemonic device Fifty Nifty United States. 
  * 2:15 Colleen UNW
  * Print new copy of "The Book Speaks" for the LgF songbook
  : one of the cats -- probably Morticia -- pissed in a box waiting to be recycled.  I
    suspect that her new litter is based on recycled paper/cardboard.  Or there could be
    something else wrong.  ->
    % worried
  * Fix patent list in Stephen.Savitzky.net  It's up to 40, which is
    kind of appalling considering what I think of software patents.
  * cleanup in wibnif.do, links
  @ Booth: Steve Savitzky's music in Winterfaire 2015 
  : DH is blocking email from LJ.  Works for everyone else--they probably got themselves
    labeled as a spammer.

1202We
  * up 6:15; W=195.0; laundry, dishes
  : Got a call from Harborview -- apparently the ER set me up with a referral to ENT.
    Their closest appointment is February; I took it.
  @ A green-roofed Hobbit home anyone can build in just 3 days | Inhabitat - Sustainable
    Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

1203Th
  * up 6:30; W=195.8; dishes
  @ The North Face's 'Moon Parka' Is Spun From Faux Spider Silk | WIRED (ysabetwordsmith) 
  * N presented her idea for the future of the household at the family meeting.  This
    would be about 10 years out, but something we need to start thinking about now.  And
    we still have to get through as many as 8 years after I retire.

1204Fr
  * Up 5:30; W=197; laundry, dishes
  @ tj/git-extras cool stuff.  .deb exists
  @ About Git Rev News (LWN)
  * 15min: sort bills
  : Good conversation with Naomi and Colleen about where to retire to.  Leading candidates
    are Montana, Vermont, and Maine.
  * humira
  
1205Sa
  * up 6ish; W=197.8; laundry
    Ticia w=10.4 lbs, so she's gained back a lot of what she lost as of last week.  I
    should stop worrying -- she's clearly eating as much as she needs to.
  @ Volvo Trucks: Kid Tested, Mother Approved | Hackaday This is a blast
    " Surprisingly (or maybe not), the truck seems to withstand everything the four year
      old throws at it. Including rolling it sideways down a hill, and of course smashing
      through an entire building. It’s well worth the watch and had us grinning from ear
      to ear. "
  @ Pure.css (LWN) lightweight CSS framework
    Font Awesome, the iconic font and CSS toolkit
    segmentio/myth
    reworkcss/rework
  * 15min: move the rest of the sorted books from next to the blue couch to the north
    klick-klack (which already had a lot of them).  ~300in = 25ft of books.
  @ Git Rev News Archive
  @ The Elements of Commit Style
  @ GitBook · Writing made easy
  @ Real Life Infocalypse | Zwillingssterns Weltenwald | 1w6 (Git Rev News Edition 5)
    distributed version control over Freenet
    Using Emacs and Git with Magit 2.1 [LWN.net]
  @ One in every 600 websites has .git exposed | Jamie's OC
    Mine do, but there isn't much of interest there.  Still...:
    server-configs-apache/file_access.conf and much other .htaccess goodness
    (Especially useful for S.S.net, for example)
  : Ticia is curled up asleep in my usual chair in the Rainbow Room.  I am sitting
    sideways so as to get back support without moving her.
  @ Book - Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
  & basically spent most of the day doing a deep dive into CSS and related frameworks
  @ SeattleTinyHomes.com/Trailers
  @ Tiny House Blog - Living Simply in Small Spaces
  @ Living large in 150 square feet: Why the tiny house movement is taking off 
  @ Let’s Get Small - The New Yorker
  @ Impressive Tiny Houses - Small House Plans
  % awake 3:45ish

Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Some sound advice in the "packing your guitar" thing but one huge mistake made me stop reading.

When he said not to detune an instrument with nylon strings. In 2005, the airlines neck-snapped my 4-string ukulele, which was in a suitcase, in its case, padded by clothes all around it.

I don't think that was good advice.

[tagryn]

This is very good to hear/read, Steve. Its important to recognize when things are going well.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. It's hard for me, which is why I mention it when it happens.