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Done last month (20160124Su - 31Su)
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mdlbearConflikt was this last weekend; I'm posting on Monday so as to get in the whole con, as well as the end of the month. It was a pretty good con, though I ended up doing very little singing. Missed the smoked salmon (dead dog) filk -- Colleen was fading and neither of us was willing to spend much more money on hotel food. Dinners were bar snacks, because they were cheaper.
I had conversations with two new (to me) people, and did a little catching up though not as much as I often do. I actually spent much of my time listening to concerts and working on my lyrics-to-html conversion. Which looks really good now, since it no longer relies on monospaced fonts. Not on the site yet, though.
Also not on the site yet is my Sasquan concert, which I finally got the audio for.
In other news, there are lots of good links, mostly related to tiny houses. If it wasn't for the possibility of eventually moving into someplace we can actually afford I would have no hope at all. Even with that, it will probably come too late, and our house will take too long to sell. I've been making some progress at work, but it's like slogging through mud.
Financial ruin is only a paycheck away, and despair is never far from the front of my mind. I have noone to blame but myself, of course.
0124Su * up 6:45; W=199.6; dishes, ..., laundry @ Living With An Introvert | How To Understand An Introvert (ysabetwordsmith) @ Building Tiny On A Budget: The Incredible $8,000 Tiny House! - TinyHouseBuild.com @ Living large in 150 square feet: Why the tiny house movement is taking off : I'm really liking the look of recycled lumber, and especially pallet wood. May have to buy a planer. @ The truth about Flint: Kids drank poisoned water because of the GOP’s radical, anti-democratic “reforms” - Salon.com infuriating @ A gooseneck couples to a standard 2 5⁄16-inch (59 mm) ball mounted on the bed of the tow vehicle. The operational difference between the two is the range of movement in the hitch. The gooseneck is very maneuverable and can tilt in all directions, while the fifth wheel is intended for level roads and limited tilt side to side. * Out to the garden with Colleen (having decided that there wouldn't be time for a market run, and besides it was cold) The front lawn is a wretched expanse of weeds. -> took down the maypole (which has been up since May) and trimmed branches hanging over the sidewalk. * Made broccoli beef for dinner. Not my best; couldn't find any cornstarch or arrowroot for thickening the sauce. 0125Mo * up 6:20; W=198.2; laundry, dishes @ Marvin Minsky, 1927-2016 - The Washington Post & brought the box N was wanting to paint upstairs, along with a set of brushes and the paint. % my nose probably wouldn't ache as much if I didn't keep rubbing it. :P 0126Tu * up 6:15; W=197; @ Quick, Healthy Meals You Can Make in a Mug | Greatist (via Samsung Health) Some good recipes, but they all click through to different sites. Tedious. cf. Meal in a Mug: 80 Fast, Easy Recipes for Hungry People - All You Need is a Mug and a Microwave: Denise Smart: 9780091958114: AmazonSmile: Books * 7:20 leave for work * 8:30am phone screen -> went pretty well, partly thanks to a good reverse shadow. I need to work on my note-taking and time management. @ A Request for Your Consideration | Love Prevails (amaebi) : Ticia has been stalking and chasing Cricket, waiting outside the door to N's room and chasing her when she comes out. Desti waits for Ticia the same way, but T has learned to jump over her on the way out. Wish C could learn that. Wish T wasn't so pushy. 0127We * up 6:20; W=196.6; laundry, dishes * Got home very late after chasing a problem for hours, and not finding what I needed. @ SSH authentication with your PGP key | teranex weblog Subkeys - Debian Wiki Creating the perfect GPG keypair - Alex Cabal 0128Th * Up 5:45; W-197.6; laundry, dishes @ Fountain Pen Ink Bottles good selection with descriptions * fired up (mac mini) Whitewood, since it's getting close to tax time. * 2pm Colleen dentist * Got my KVM switch installed, finally. Currently on Trantor and the (work) laptop dock. The Mac mini is presently using Nova's monitor via DVI, so I can switch Nova over to the KVM if I feel like it. Best thing for the mini would be x2vnc. * Half a year's worth of Mac upgrades is taking forever. Skipping El Capitan, given the highly mixed reviews. @ ’Not everything happens for a reason’: The magic words to say when everything’s going wrong f(Alison Gianotto) : the KVM switch sucks -- if a computer blanks the screen and isn't connected when it wakes up -- or something like that -- it thinks it's connected to a small screen. :P I'll just use it as a USB switch, thanks. 0129-31 Conflikt * book hotel room: Confirmation # 3213432841 2 nights 2 beds * membership & lunch for Conflikt -> Colleen, Chaos, and I are already members. YD -probably- isn't going. 0129Fr Conflikt * up 0615; W=198.6; laundry, dishes, packing * check for Giselle - last time and this * Finished packing around noon. Finally found Colleen's cat bag, but too late for her to load it. Minimal luggage: C's large suitcase, my rolly, the scooter bag (taking the place of the Hartmann and doesn't have to be carried), and Flame. * leave for hotel about 2:30 % by the time we got registered etc I was *extremely* frazzled. * 4ish drinks and bar snacks. The restaurant doesn't open until 5, but happy hour is on in the bar. One can get stuff off the dinner menu (mushrooms and onion soup); their happy hour deviled eggs with bacon are awesome. So are the oyster shooters -- the coctail sauce is made with Hendricks. : The stupid hotel wifi can't be started with any real website because of https everywhere. Clicked on nova, which doesn't actually exist on the internet. * Sang Travelers, Bigger On the Inside, and Millennium's Dawn. 0130Sa * up 6:45; ; bath : This time we were sensible and asked for one of the first-floor handicap rooms. It's in the wing near the garage; the bathroom is huge. Both a tub and a roll-in shower. * breakfast in the hotel with Chaos because the con suite wasn't open yet. As it turned out, it wasn't as substantial (though the coffee was/is much better). * finally implemented lyrics conversion using HTML tables. Easier than I expected, actually. Needs to be refactored, but it works. Some tweaking over the course of the afternoon/evening. : Some good conversations. Notably with a woman named Becca. ~ but no singing in the evening open filk. Conversation in the bar with Alysa and Louis, plus putting Colleen to bed and hacking in the filk room. It's ok. * Came in about 1:45; took a bath 0131Su * Up 5:54; ; ..., laundry * ask for early checkout. May still be necessary to clear the room before lunch -> 1:00, so yes. & decided to hold my weekly post until tomorrow so that it can include both the end of Conflikt and the end of the month. * noon Brunch * Got a copy of my Sasquan concert from Algeh. /home/steve/vv/users/record/2015/08/21--Sasquan * Went home 6ish with Colleen -- will go back to pick up Chaos around 11. -> did that; got home about 11:30. Transit time is about 25-30 minutes.
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Date: 2016-02-01 04:53 pm (UTC)On your behalf and on the behalf of so many others--
I blame the socio-economic systems we have constructed, that make decent life unaffordable to most workers, and I blame us who have permitted or chosen those systems.
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Date: 2016-02-02 04:40 am (UTC)Unfortunately my financial problems are entirely of my own making; I'm in debt up to my eyebrows despite making an embarrassing amount of money.
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Date: 2016-02-02 12:00 pm (UTC)However, that does sound to me like avery productive week.
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Date: 2016-02-02 12:41 pm (UTC)I'm not quite sure what your lyrics to HTML conversion is. I find monospace fonts very useful for keeping the chords above their corresponding words in a document that is easy to send to others and explain how to print out. But there is ChordPro format, which several different programs can use, and some of those programs have extremely useful characteristics like the ability to transpose.
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Date: 2016-02-03 06:43 am (UTC)My HTML conversion program takes my source files, which use the same chord format as ChordPro (but represent metadata differently) and generates HTML by using tables to align the chords with the words. I used to use monospaced fonts, but this looks better.
Contrast http://steve.savitzky.net/Tools/TeX/alphabet.html (new) with http://steve.savitzky.net/Tools/TeX/alphabet-mono.html (old).
I transpose with a Perl script. A lot of this stuff was done before ChordPro even existed.
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Date: 2016-02-03 08:52 pm (UTC)I use a pre tag and spaces to align the chords but it does limit me to a font that some people really hate, so there's that.
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Date: 2016-02-04 04:36 am (UTC)Much easier than I expected it to be, but I wouldn't want to try doing it by hand. The code and some meager documentation is here
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Date: 2016-02-04 02:37 am (UTC)But, on the + side, at least disaster *is* at least a paycheck away...not much consolation, but its something.
We make do with what we have, and can, sometimes just day to day, but most of the time, that's enough.
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Date: 2016-02-04 04:37 am (UTC)