Done last week (20171105Su - 11Sa)
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mdlbearI actually got in both walking and music this week, largely thanks to N and I prodding one another. On our Monday walk we worked out the new name for the household: the Rainbow Caravan. Which ties together Rainbow's End and N's new business name (Caravan Massage), and is explicitly designed to continue to fit after our next move.
Ticia has been very cuddly lately; she often lies by my head while I'm getting ready for sleep, and is usually back there when I wake up. She used to do that back at Rainbow's End; I think maybe she's finally comfortable enough in the new house. Or something. She's a cat -- humans aren't expected to understand.
I probably need to re-read "The Game of Rat and Dragon".
I'm still in need of a new phone; I keep coming back to the LG G5. It's still the best in its price range, with 4GB of RAM, upgradable to Android 7, and I like the always-on time display (which means I don't have to launch the clock app at night). The V-20 has a variant on that, but also significantly worse battery life. The thing I don't like about the G5 is the stupid accessory slot, which I'm unlikely ever to use and which completely destroys water resistance. The Samsung S5 (S6 to a lesser extent) remains possible due mainly to features and price. (The S6 removes some features; both are water resistant.) LG and Samsung are pretty much the only brands I'm considering because they're the only Android phones for which AT&T supports WiFi Calling (although I may want to reconsider that, since I'm getting a signal most of the time here). Really wish I'd gotten the S5 instead of the vastly inferior S5 Mini.
Colleen's caregiver called in sick, and she was out last week as well. Grumph.
Meanwhile, I'm continuing to work on shelving and unpacking, though not as much of the latter as I think I should be. (N says not, but if we want to get any work done on the garage we'll have to empty most of it; we may be able to move stuff to a shed, but it still means moving a lot of stuff.)
I'm also concerned about finances, as usual. Plus the usual depression. When I talk to a doctor (and of course I've been putting that off too) I should discuss my meds.
1105Su * up 6:30ish; W=198.6 % there is a dusting of snow on the ground. As of 7:17 it is in fact snowing @ Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease (ysabetwordsmith) Hmm. We have a few tree stumps on the property... @ Space elevator - Wikipedia @ Tessellation and Miura Folds - Science Friday W(Miura fold) * 15min: F/W: cut a new shelf for the SE corner of the bedroom; installed towel ring (maybe a little too low) for washcloths. @ Should I Choose an LLC, a Corp, a C-Corp or an S-Corp? | DailyWorth LLC vs S Corporation - Difference and Comparison | Diffen Comparing the LLC vs. S-Corporation ~ -Check fridge and freezer for- _have_ ground beef, beef for stir-fry * Shopping list: Chicken, x chicken Italian sausage, x Napa cabbage, mushrooms, salad greens, deli meat (corned beef), hearts of romaine lettuce; gallon ziplocs, sugar syrup, juices, tofu, grated cheddar, summer sausage, coffee, milks, eggs, friskies, kid bread, English muffins, x Swiss Miss Dark Chocolate Sensation, tofu, Earth Balance, maple syrup * order bed pads -> oddly, they were half the price at Office Max that they were at Amazon or anyplace else I could find. Also, Amazon's detail pages were incredibly screwed up -- all third party using a generic stock photo, and none of the pages that purported to show multiple sizes did. @ Biculturalism – Joel on Software Unix vs. Windows : YD has picked a wedding date -- in December of *next* year. We suspect that this is so that she can use the planning of it as a school project. * Rode with N to pick up the kids at the ferry - neither of us was fully confident of doing it without company. @ Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby – Joel on Software @ Building Communities with Software opinionated; some good points 1106Mo * up 6:05; W=197.6; * order gallon ziplocs * installed Brother printer drivers from CD onto j's computer; printer installation had been failing. @ The Book Designer - Practical advice to help build better books lots of good info free book on designing and publishing print books. (M$ Word workflow, alas!) @ Writing and publishing an ebook with LaTeX, pandoc, and calibre for example pandoc -t epub file-name.tex -o file-name epub # some manual editing required calibre for converting to mobi; ebook-converter is a command-line-driven calibre conversion - Use LaTeX to produce Epub - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange the conversion to mobi is lossy; it doesn't do inline images. -> There are several ebooks on $A (at $10 each) explaining how to do this using open-source tools. Something seems wrong about that. * Walk: to Skybird, with Naomi. Good company, good conversation. -> a little tired; N called a stop just past Middle on the way back. -> along the way we came up with the new household name, then confirmed it with the other residents: The Rainbow Caravan. Ties in both rainbows and N's new business, plus making it explicit that we're the same rainbow people wherever we travel. # New household name: The Rainbow Caravan. * Monday: Pasta with choice of meat sauce or pesto. -> Colleen: pesto; me: both * call Mom & Silly Bronx got himself up on the top shelf in our bedroom and couldn't figure out how to get down. I held the little cylindrical cat-tree up where he could get onto it, and used it as an elevator. @ LG G5 vs LG G4 vs LG V10 - Phone comparison Actually, the G4 comes out on top; the G5 is better on RAM, Android version (7 vs 6). The latter may decide things. The G4 also has many bad reviews. The G5, along with many other newer phones, has "slimport" which is basically DisplayPort in a USB connector. Damned if I know how they do that. 1107Tu & Awake 4:30ish; cuddle with Colleen and Ticia * Up 6am; ; % some pain (p=3-4) in left shoulder, almost certainly due to typing position. * send change of address, W4 to (pension) BNY Mellon. Raised withholding from 10% to 25 * leave 10:30 * Stopped at Whidbey Donuts, which is finally open. Not very good. The yeast donuts were terrible -- C said that the oil wasn't hot enough. The chocolate cake donuts were ok, but very sweet. No maple anything, no crullers. May go back in a month or two to see whether they've improved. * lunch at the bistro on the other side of 405. Tasty (as it was last time) * 2pm Colleen dentist * 3pm Steve dentist -> less tartar and less gum bleeding than last time. * Ivar's on the way home. Leaving at 4pm, we arrived just as a ferry was leaving, and got on the next one easily. ~ Tuesday: Soup and Sandwiches * 15min: W/F: mounted and partially populated the new spice rack. : Ticia more cuddly than usual; she's been getting that way recently. 1108We & awake 5:30ish; Ticia very cuddly. * up 6:10; W=197.6; @ How to enter arbitrary Unicode code points into Latex xelatex. Investigate using it in MakeStuff. Generates PDF so should be (almost?) drop-in replacement for pdftex Insert unicode symbol - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange XeTeX - TeX Users Group The XeTeX Companion @ Webcomics - Pepper&Carrot Great! another time sink! CC-BY 4.0; I should consider relicensing my song lyrics, too. @ VersionPress – Git for WordPress sites @ About: What We Do – Open Building Institute Includes models for... @ Sweet Home 3D - Draw floor plans and arrange furniture freely open source ~ teaching mostly science today; math is blocked on the DBA scheduled for tomorrow. : got invoice for bed boxes. Checked bank accounts. Both SS checks are now getting deposited in the household account. No withholding yet; I'll have to address that. @ Liberapay (Pepper&Carrot) Non-profit, open-source version of Patreon. They don't take a cut, they're funded by donations to their own account. & Wednesday: Stir-fry Beef with _green beans_ -Napa cabbage (pickle the leftover)- Never did get the Napa cabbage, but it wasn't needed. Made two dishes: garlic green beans, and ginger beef with onion, carrot, and mushrooms @ Cardinal Health buys AssuraMed for $2.07 billion | HME News "The move comes on the heels of AssuraMed’s January purchase of Invacare Supply Group for $150 million." ... which explains why I ordered Invacare bed pads and got Cardinal. And why Invacare was so hard to find on Amazon. Invacare is still around, but they're not making supplies, which I guess is the category that contains bedpads. Meanwhile, Office Max has a great price on them. : the large UPS looks like it wants a new battery -> no, maybe just needs charge 1109Th * up 5:55; W=200; : 8:52 M called in sick. * 9:30 j's math DBA * studying backup solutions. Backblaze is the way to go: $.005/GB-month; lots of command-line scripts and integrations with many backup packages. iDrive is a decent free solution for < 5GB. gDrive currently using 7GB of 17 total. (promotion from LG: 100GB expiring 7/19) * 15min: moved scissors, needles, thimbles, pins into smaller bin; took drawer and remaining contents back out to garage * 15min: set up the pole lamp in the garage so that there's light on the side away from the back door * 15min: unpackd Colleen's roses. They need 2'dia*2'deep holes; mix potting soil with the dirt from the holes. No granular fertilizer; it burns the roots. : j, after testing our soil as part of his current science unit on the lithosphere, reports that it has a pH of 8.5, which is moderately alkaline. No tomatoes. @ restic · Backups done right! @ HashBackup: Linux, [...] Server Backup @ rclone - rsync for cloud storage * 4:45 kids to 5:30 ferry - need to start herding around 4:30 next time. @ Campaign Starter Guide — Ragtag * Humira 1110Fr * up 6ish; ; : nova already has google-cloud-print-connector installed, but the configuration seems to be missing, but it's optional for sharing all printers in local mode. There's also a "cloudprint" package that lets you start a server from the command line; it asks for your google credentials. : The big UPS does, in fact, need new batteries -- unplug it, and the load immediately turns off. That, or the battery has gotten disconnected; still need to check that. -> nope. Dead. And it's a cartridge arrangement, so it's not like something's loose -> RBC #124 - $70 from APC, 54 from $A (123 or 124 -- same physical size; looks like the 124 is 9AH (what I have), and the 123 is 7) -> ordered : UPS 1300 moved to shelf in laundry room. Install tomorrow morning. @ Trello kanban board. Free. * call GM technical support 866-522-9559 9-6EST. -> not actually tech support, it's just GM customer support. -> case# 80412892 expect call 3-5 business days from 1110Fr -> actually got a supervisor who seems willing to work on it. -> said she was connecting me with tech support, ... -> but, in fact, just went through the same script (go into car, push button, log out, log in, refresh -- no, still the same). Gave me another case, 80412892, but that's just for the phone app. The web case with Executive Relations is still 117820169 <- I suspect that the customer service people simply can't understand the concept of a software bug. Their script handles driver errors and manufacturing defects, but not a problem with their app or their website. They can't seem to get through their heads the idea that this isn't something that can be "resolved" by power-cycling something. IDIOTS! I think that what I really want is for someone to simply _understand the problem_. N. says that I'm like someone who wants closure from a failed relationship, and keep trying to get one more conversation because the last one ended badly. I think it's more like an annoying squeak in the car, or someone singing the wrong words on a recording. * Practice October Country, The Travelers, Rosie, QV. N working on harmonies for Rosie and QV. Coming together. (She wanted to make me stop wasting time with GM) * 3:40 Bronx - sniffle He weighs 7.5 lbs now! When the vet put him down he jumped off the table, scampered over, and jumped into my lap to get cuddled and petted. Such a darling. @ Unlearning: Breaking Bias. Building Community. • CPTV (via an interview on Sirius: On Broadway) NCCJ | Equality.Justice.Community National Conference for Community and Justice - apparently the original name was National Conference of Christians and Jews, which is how I first (vaguely) heard of them. They have summer camps. ~ _Friday_-Thursday-: _baked_-Drunken- chicken (or some approximation); salad : C has gotten to the point where she can take a shower by herself with no assistance. 1111Sa * Up 6:36; W=197; @ True Story of Winnie the Pooh | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Tom Smith Online - Lyrics: House At Cthulhu Corner (ysabetwordsmith) audio link in the linked comment @ Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? - Atlas Obscura @ Chinese Mall Introduces Husband Storage Pods | News & Opinion | PCMag.com x 3pm Colleen hair -> she has a cold * W/F: Installed new shelf over the washer. This required cutting a notch for the hoses, which I used as an excuse to try out the new oscillating multi-tool. Worked pretty well once I got the hang of it, though it's slower than I expected it to be. Changing tools is a pain in the ass; I should have gone for quick-release when I ordered the tool set; I didn't realize that would be useful. Well, for the amount I'm likely to be using the thing, it doesn't matter much. * tuna, beef for stew, salad greens, baking potatoes, chicken, steak or lambchops, lamb or beef for curry, 2 pie crusts, instant oatmeal, malt-o-meal, eggs, English muffins, breads, stick butter, mint jelly, B12, apple juice, shredded parm/Italian blend, squash, milks, napa cabbage, snow peas, mushrooms, potting soil, cat litter, -> the mint jelly was hard to find. It was right there on the jelly shelves, but above eye level. & Asked Colleen whether she'd mind if I occasionally went out shopping or on other errands before she gets up. -> "go ahead". Which I expected, but wanted to verify. @ Weighing up the evidence for the 'Historical Jesus' (The Washington Post) 1105Su-1111Sa Menu * Sunday: leftovers * Monday: Pasta with choice of meat sauce or pesto ~ Tuesday: Soup and Sandwiches. Everyone but j was either eating out or scrounging & Wednesday: Stir-fry Beef with _green beans_ -Napa cabbage (pickle the leftover)- ~ _Thursday_-Friday-: Hamburgers, -salad- ~ _Friday_-Thursday-: _baked_-Drunken- chicken (or some approximation); salad * Saturday: _scallop_-shrimp- scampi
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