Done last year (20161225Su - 31Sa)
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mdlbearIt was a long year last week. 2016 is dead and buried; it wouldn't be hard to do better, but I don't expect 2017 to make the effort.
I was going to put a summary of the year here. I'm not up for it. See my previous post for a wrap-up of what I mostly didn't do. I can't think of any major accomplishments to report, except maybe living through it. That may have to do.
1225Su Newton's Birthday/Christmas
* up 7am; W=207.2; laundry
Dragging bags of clean laundry downstairs counts as laundry
@ All I Want for Christmas Is a Goat Is a Holiday Album of Goats Singing "Silent
Night," "Jingle Bells," and More (VIDEO). f(Kathy Horning)
@ Preparing for Trump: A Ten-Point Plan | Common Dreams f(Valerie Voigt)
@ What Those Who Studied Nazis Can Teach Us About The Strange Reaction To Donald Trump
| The Huffington Post (margaret-yakoda - We can't get comfortable with Trump.)
: Desti bumped off a mouse again. As usual, it was the one on the kids' computer in the
Rainbow Room. Pun intended.
@ Myoclonus seems to describe my abdominal twitching symptom, but none of the usual
causes mentioned seem plausible. Hmm: Psychogenic myoclonus?
" Psychogenic myoclonus has been described and has several typical features: decrease
of the myoclonus with distraction, periods of spontaneous remission.... "
... biut that last, and most of the other features listed, don't apply either because
mine comes in acute episodes, not chronic. HMM:
" For crying to be described as
sobbing, it usually has to be accompanied by a set of other symptoms, such as slow
but erratic inhalation, occasional instances of breath holding and muscular
tremor. "
@ La La Land - Audition (The Fools Who Dream) - Chords may have to learn for lgf
Emma Stone – Audition (The Fools Who Dream) | Genius
: grump. once/future nova not booting. Green light comes on, but no signal in
monitor. Could be either miswired power switch, lack of reset, or some other
weirdness.
* Twice-cooked pork for dinner. Really need to hit Central Market for proper
ingredients. Making do.
1226Mo Babbage's Birthday/Boxing Day
* Up 5:15; W=207.6; laundry, dishes
Ticia woke me at 4:30ish, so I had some nice snuggle after a bit of struggling to get
my facehugger off. She insisted.
% felt weak and ?feverish after a few sips of coffee; three eggs over rice helped, so I
think I guessed right that it was low blood sugar. I don't usually get that first
thing in the morning, though.
@ Why Introverts and Extroverts Are Different: The Science (ysabetwordsmith)
8 Tips to Help Stop Ruminating | World of Psychology
How to Stop Ruminating: 14 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
: O/F Nova booted this time; may simply have had the monitor on the wrong input.
* Grocery shopping. Naturally Safeway has been out of the on-sale prime rib since last
week. Got bottom round (also on sale; alternatives are 10.99)
& and again to QFC for prime rib -- which _wasn't_ on sale. Ouch!
* N and kids return
* Gift exchange - virtual Christmas. Most of my gifts were custom gift certificates; a
couple were IOUs.
* Create/print gift certificates:
* Glenn - baseball game
* Joey - planetarium or any museum in the area
* Grace - air time
* Naomi - electric blanket
* 15min: 9:40 all food put away. (except for the gravy, of which there is comparatively
little, and it wasn't all that good.)
@ ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "As Is" good links esp. on coping with meltdowns and
NT/NV relationships.
1227Tu
* up 5:30ish; W=207.0; laundry, dishes
@ Backstopping: Supporting the Autistic Person in Your Life | Musings of an Aspie
(ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "As Is")
@ Stimtastic Chewable Jewelry, Stim Toys and Fidgets
% apparently the last time I loaded the dishwasher I forgot to run it. :P
@ The logic of Russian Internet censorship - The Washington Post
" LiveJournal has only been taken down explicitly twice to my knowledge. Last July, on
the morning of the Navalny verdict, the entire site was suddenly taken down with a
notice of “Planned Maintenance.” And the blocking of Navalny’s blog on LiveJournal
Thursday was the only time it had been specifically taken down. "
... and now the servers have been moved to Russia. Right.
dw_maintenance | Nginx has been banished!
fail_fandomanon | FFA DW Post # 569 - Wham!
mdlbear.livejournal.com has IP address 208.93.0.150, which https://www.iplocation.net/
says is in San Francisco. So no concrete evidence of this yet.
traceroute to mdlbear.livejournal.com (208.93.0.150), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gw.rainbows.end (192.168.1.1) 0.182 ms 0.217 ms 0.276 ms
2 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.155 ms 1.443 ms 1.758 ms
3 tukw-dsl-gw68.tukw.qwest.net (63.231.10.68) 24.487 ms 24.519 ms 24.692 ms
4 tukw-agw1.inet.qwest.net (71.217.186.25) 26.717 ms 27.300 ms 29.004 ms
5 bil-edge-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.154.69) 49.084 ms 49.906 ms 50.859 ms
6 209.181.1.98 (209.181.1.98) 52.657 ms 53.117 ms 54.291 ms
7 * * * # after which the trail goes cold. So they could be routing to Russia.
It's also rejecting pings; the last host in the chain has no reverse DNS. Hmm.
@ Bloggers of “LJ” now “under the hood” of the Russian intelligence | 24-my.info
@ Boris Khodorkovsky
on Twitter: "Farewell free #Livejournal. Welcome to Russian reality, now at full
100%. https://t.co/J0wEXom0Uu"
Oddly, the ip-tracker link they give a screenshot for still says San Francisco when I
try it. Caching? Probably not. Weird.
@ blog entry in Russian - requires translation. LJ for understandable reasons
appears to be doing their best to hide the transition. Iiiiiiinteresting:
Servers Alive magazine moved to the Lubyanka: dolboeb screenshots a traceroute
to 81.19.74.3
(cygnus:~ 507) host 81.19.74.3
3.74.19.81.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer livejournal.com.
(cygnus:~ 508) host 208.93.0.150
150.0.93.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer www.livejournal.com.
(cygnus:~ 509) host livejournal.com
livejournal.com has address 208.93.0.150
livejournal.com mail is handled by 10 mail.livejournal.com.
DNS records with long TTL not caught up? Entirely possible.
@ Within days after moving servers LJ in Russia ILV blocked almost 100 entries
* 15min: got the last of the laundry downstairs. Just in time for G' to arrive and do
more, but...
@ Emotional Dysfunction: Alexithymia and ASD | Musings of an Aspie
@ Sadness
@ Carrie Fisher Had Just One Request for Her Obituary | Vanity Fair
" no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my
own bra. "
@ Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia in 'Star Wars,' Dead at 60 - Rolling Stone
@ CyanogenMod is dead. Long live LineageOS | ZDNet
@
Kirsten Lindsmith - Neurologically Mixed Relationships at Love and Autism
emotional empathy. alexithymia. sensory processing differences. info-centered
conversation vs. emotion-centered conversation
* Delivered N's electric blanket. She loves it. Yay!
% pretty much wasted the entire day on LJ and alexithymia research. :P
* Beef fried rice for dinner for me and Naomi; C had beef and mashed potatoes
* Installed the other electric blanket upstairs on our bed. Difficult, involving lots
of bending, which hurts my back. Grump.
* Wrote draft of the year-end post.
1228We
* Up 6:15; W=206.4; laundry
@ [LJ, DW, Admin] Why Now - Sibylla Bostoniensis
[LJ] The servers are in Russia, political purge of accounts alleged
* LJ import. Need to do that more often
@ How can I claim my OpenID account with my Dreamwidth account?
@ Using Your Own URL as Your OpenID – Stack Overflow Blog
@ Acceptance as a Well Being Practice | Musings of an Aspie
@ My Anxiety is Not Disordered | Musings of an Aspie !!!
" When a person with impaired social communication abilities has anxiety about social
situations, they are like a poor swimmer who is anxious about boarding a boat. The
perceived risk is real and rational. "
@ TAKING THE LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE TEST fear=20, avoidance=50
... so I don't have social anxiety.
@ Stimming 101, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stim
* called Safeco about windshield repair. Appointment for Tuesday afternoon.
: Had been wondering what had happened to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haikujaguar
Turns out she's closed her LJ and moved over to patreon. Which makes sense, although
I think she also didn't feel safe on LJ.
* Called Mom to wish her a happy 96th. Spoke briefly to (nephew) Alex
@ Making a local archive (of LJ) with wget - Antennapedia
@ Debbie Reynolds Dead at 84 | Variety one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher.
% bending too much cleaning the GR litterbox hurt my back. :P Need to figure out a
better way to do that.
1229Th
* up 6am; W=205.6; dishes
@ No More Heroes
" Alongside the icons we lost in 2016, we're mourning for a world that felt like it
was changing for the better. "
@ Google Scholar Citations
Remote Service Software at the California Research Center
* 2pm Realtors: Chris, our main POC, and introducing Matt, their main negociator.
* N and I talked with C' and C" about the move.
@ LiveJournal servers moved to Russia: darkoshi
@ Two projects designing Android apps that respect users' privacy [LWN]
@ 34 of the best free and open source creative tools in 2016 | Opensource.com [LWN]
: The Google business page for HSX has been suspended, presumably because it's moved,
and should have been created as a "brand page" because it doesn't have a physical
location. But there's no way to create a brand page -- the form that's supposed to do
it doesn't have a submit button.
-> apparently one is supposed to hit return. So all it really does is create a G+
page. Whee! And it doesn't show up in Google searches, only in G+ to followers.
So.. who cares?
@ Amazon.com : Join Advantage looks like a better idea.
-> except that it costs $99/year; not clear I could make that back. I get 45%, so
$6.75 per CD. Createspace (see below) is POD
@ Distribute and Sell Your CD through Amazon.com, eStore or as Amazon MP3
1230Fr
* Up 5:15ish; W=205; laundry, dishes
: Geolocation data from IP2Location (Product: DB6, updated on 2016-12-5)
Domain Name Country Region City
mdlbear.livejournal.com Russian Federation Moskva Moscow
ISP Organization Latitude Longitude
Rambler Internet Holding LLC Not Available 55.752220153809 37.615558624268
(End of the road for LiveJournal [The Mad Filkentist])
@ A Letter to Donald Trump About Health Care - The New York Times
(The toddler president - Bitter Grace
" an example of the only sort of approach I think might work with him. Flattery, plus
setting up advocates of the policy you decry as attempting to con him. " )
@ FBI, DHS release report on Russia hacking | TheHill includes report on scribd
@ Neuroscientists Discover a Song That Reduces Anxiety By 65 Percent (Listen)
Instrumental, not a song, and specifically designed to be relaxing. But still...
direct link [YouTube]
Marconi Union - Wikipedia
(their website, marconiunion.com, has an invalid cert.)
* order humira -> next Thursday 1/5
: M digging in his heels about move. We'll probably have to stay in WA.
! scared, depressed, anxious, angry.
: Email in that thread hasn't reached Colleen because they were sending it to
savitzky.net. Working on it.
@ megpie71 | How To Get Through This: Tips From A Lifelong Depressive (archangelbeth)
@ How to see EVERY Google search you've ever made (thnidu)
* 1:30?-4:30 Sorting - Most of it was easy. Some of it wasn't. Ame. Old girlfriend
and might-have-beens: L, G, W, E, M... My senior prom pic. Kat's birth announcement.
Yeah, we're keeping that and almost all of the stuff I wrote. Really ought to scan
that. Songbooks for Interfilk. Shirley.
% back hurts. Got through, ... maybe 2/3 of our boxes?
% Definitely dry sobbing - started as soon as I got upstairs and into my chair.
Colleen's taking the change of plans especially hard. Guess I am too.
: wget https://mdlbear.livejournal.com
--2016-12-30 16:59:04-- https://mdlbear.livejournal.com/
Resolving mdlbear.livejournal.com (mdlbear.livejournal.com)... 81.19.74.1
Connecting to mdlbear.livejournal.com (mdlbear.livejournal.com) [...]
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://mdlbear.livejournal.com/ [following]
--2016-12-30 16:59:11-- http://mdlbear.livejournal.com/
-> So they're actively redirecting https to http, forcing insecure connections.
Why are we not surprised?
1231Sa
* up 6ish; W=204.8; laundry, dishes
& 15min: spent some time on DW profile/circles management, now that there are more LJ
refugees to add.
$ $20 AX MR bought 2 cds in Flowinglass Music's end-of-year sale
@ Novel diet therapy helps children with crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis reach
remission -- ScienceDaily f() Interesting. Difficult:
" SCD is a nutritionally balanced diet that removes grains, dairy, processed foods and
sugars, except for honey. The diet promotes only natural, nutrient-rich foods, which
includes vegetables, fruits, meats and nuts. "
Specific Carbohydrate Diet: Diet Review - webmd
Specific carbohydrate diet, FODMAP, DASH diet
Low-carbohydrate diet - all related; but different in important ways.
@ posted mdlbear | River: Goodbye and Good Ridance to 2016
@ GitHub - ibukanov/ljdumpgo: LiveJournal backup utility in Go
@ LiveJournal - Archiveteam
@ Archiveteam
@ Modern, Eco-Friendly, Spacious Tiny Homes | ZeroSquared Aurora
@ Will Ubuntu automatically adjust to the leap second at the end of the year?
yes, but it might not show it.
* bath, ~11:20
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