Done Since 2018-03-04

[mdlbear]

Things got done. Sorting the mail, enough to find the tax forms. Putting CDs on shelves. A sleep study (rescheduled from the 23rd). Making a budget spreadsheet. Finding out where the money has gone. Getting stomped by the elephant in the living room. Slacking. A lot of good reading research (c.f. [Lehrer53]). That kind of thing.

See userpic.

For some reason I don't seem to be nearly as panicked as my financial situation warrants - I have been retired for nearly 8 months, and I've been in deep denial over just how much money I've burned through during that time.

N starts a new job on Monday. That will help, but not enough. I could easily cover the shortfall by getting a job -- there are remote options out there and a lot of them look attractive. The problem is that they're all full-time, and given what else needs doing in the household I really don't want to work full time. (And that's assuming I could get one, which at my age isn't a given anymore.)

Not a happy bear at this point. And I'm going to owe a lot on my taxes, too, because I didn't set up enough withholding on my retirement income. Because denial and depression.

Notes & links:

0304Su
  * up 6am; W=204.6;
  * wikipedia dive including Commedia dell'arte, Punch and Judy, and of course Russell
    Hoban.  Now I want to read Angelica Lost and Found 
  ~ pick up C's glasses at the MedSearch desk at the hospital
    -> except they're not hers.  V's?
  * SL:  chicken breasts for stir-fry, x ground beef, beef for soup, butter or red lettuce
    for salad, pastrami and/or corned beef for sandwiches, rye bread, x gin, ginger,
    juices, soy sauce, small trash bags, English muffins, Italian cheese blend, tofu
  @ Code as Craft, Etsy's Engineering Blog
  @ etsy/DebriefingFacilitationGuide: Leading Groups at Etsy to Learn From Accidents
    (via Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems - Code as Craft)
    DebriefingFacilitationGuide.pdf
    -> Just Culture | Sidney Dekker
       Safety Differently | Sidney Dekker
  @ 5 Whys - Wikipedia (used in Amazon
    COEs for getting at root causes; generally useful.  Not part of Etsy's process.)
  * CD shelving
  @ The Digital Services Playbook — from the U.S. Digital Service
  @ The disadvantages of single page applications by Adam Silver 
  * 7:40 pick up kids at ferry
    -> the lot where we pick up and drop off now has a big sign saying not to do that.  It
       does not say where the pick-up/drop-off area IS.
  @ Infinite scrolling is probably a bad idea by Adam Silver
  @ ROCA: Resource-oriented Client Architecture
    *really* good set of guidelines for, among other things, good separation of functions
    between client and server, and separation of semantic markup from style.  Leads to
    APIs you can use from cURL. 

0305Mo
  * up 6am; W=203.4; 10 minutes of Tica-cuddle before getting up.
  * B1 guitar:  noodling; Nemesis
  * 15min:  CDs.  Down to 4 single-layer boxes; maybe 8' of shelf.  Bronx keeps chewing at
    the boxes, and trying to get his paws into the handholds.  "I know there's a mouse in
    here somewhere..."
  @ Recommended Reading for Allies - Code as Craft
  * 15min:  UT:  mail sorting.
  * 15min:  CDs:  cleared one of the file boxes, partly by redistributing, so we now have
    three that are reasonably full on the bottom layer.
  * UT: working on budget.  Question is whether I have to get a job.
    -> it's looking dicey.  About 1600/month, not counting drugs, food, and annual stuff
    -> Somewhere around -1500 if I stop supporting the kids; 500 is estimated drugs
  * peter.michaux.ca - Cross-Browser Widgets
  * The boring front-end developer by Adam Silver
  * B2 guitar:  Taught g how to play G, C, D7; later did a little noodling.
  * Monday: stir-fried chicken
    -> started the rice a little late.  Chicken's done 6:35; rice -may be-_was_ another 10
       Worked out to exactly the right amount for the 5 of us.
  : C has lost her right hearing aid.  It's somewhere in the house, but I can't find it.
  @ etsy/hound: Lightning fast code searching made easy
  @ File: SASS_REFERENCE — Sass Documentation
  
0306Tu
  * up 6:05; W=203.2;
  @ Washington becomes first state to pass net neutrality protections into law [LJ]
  # new teaching schedule; N working MoTuWe, starting later on Mo:
    Monday: morning:  N, afternoon:  swimming and C home ec
    Tu, We: I'm teaching
    Th, Fr: N teaching.
    V comes on Fr; Th, Fr would be ideal; We, Fr manageable.
  @ 'Getting to Done' on the Linux command line | Opensource.com
    to-do apps.  Nothing appealing except org-mode; todo.txt has some good ideas
    Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
    todotxt/todo.txt: ‼️ A complete primer on the whys and hows of todo.txt.
    x 2011-03-02 2011-03-01 Review Tim's pull request +TodoTxtTouch @github
    -completed-- created    	   	      	      task	    context
  * Found C's hearing aid -- it had fallen onto the crack between two of the catfood
    cartons.  Luckily onto and not into.
  * B2 a little noodling.  Trying to improve barre chords, esp. Bm and Bm7
  : sleep study rescheduled to this Friday at 8:30; need to buy pj's this week.
    The alternative would have been the 30th, but that's the day before N and the kids'
    trip, and might complicate things.
    -> N's pyjama bottoms fit me well enough to work, hopefully.
    
0307We
  * up 6:35; W=204;
  @ Wikipedia Invertebrate Page Edited to Include Paul Ryan (amaebi)
  @ Google’s New “AMP” Plan for “Interactive and Engaging” Email Is Awful – Lauren
    Weinstein's Blog [LWN]
  @ The House That Spied on Me [LWN] smart home saga
    " Thanks to the Internet of Things, I could live in my very own tech-mediated Downton
      Abbey. That’s the appeal of smart homes for most people, and why they are supposed
      to be a $27 billion market by 2021. But that wasn’t my primary motivation. The
      reason I smartened up my house was to find out whether it would betray me. "
    " . Ultimately, I’m not going to warn you against making everything in your home smart
      because of the privacy risks, although there are quite a few. I’m going to warn you
      against a smart home because living in it is annoying as hell. "
  @ Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths) - ACM Queue
  @ The developer’s dilemma – Nadia Eghbal – Medium [LWN]
    " When it comes to making money, software developers are an odd bunch. Developers
      produce code, and code is in high demand. At a glance, it seems obvious that this
      work pays for itself. 
      But when a developer produces code of their own choosing, they quickly find that
      while their code-writing skills have market value, their output (the code they
      write) has none. "
  @ Buttery Smooth Emacs (emacs news) double-buffering, and how emacs displays stuff
  * 1pm Steve & Colleen: dentist
  * singing.  Just me.  World Inside the Crystal, Wings, Millennium's Dawn.
    Wings was frustrating because the lyrics were on my phone.  Finally did it a capella
    and pretty much nailed it.  I no longer stem to have trouble with the bridge melody.
  @ netlify 
  @ The world’s fastest framework for building websites | Hugo (.deb package exists)
  @ Music Player Daemon
  
0308Th
  * Up 3:45ish; ;
    couldn't get back to sleep -- trainwreck and regrets
  * Thursday: beef barley soup, BAH bread, salad
    -> "Won't you come home Bill Bay Leaf, won't you come home..."
  * joined the leadership slack; has many of the typical problems of SPAs -- the back
    button doesn't work, and things like the channel list don't keep their place.  Bletch.
    Not clear at this point whether it will be useful
  @ The Nerd Handbook – Rands in Repose
  @ Electron | Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
    lists Slack as one of the apps built with it.
    There are quite a few music players.  Might be a good choice for the lyrics app
  * reading through some Ubuntu tutorials, mostly about Snaps.
  * paid AX
  * YD needs $1500 -> transferred from my checking account
  * -call- _create online account for_ YD's college fund to determine how to extract money
    $1500 plus the cost of her computer.  $480 ordered on 2017-12-21 order# H320255676 
    -> check to be mailed (to me) conf# NM63-4904012
  * slack:  write intro
  @ 11 powerful examples of responsive web design | InVision Blog
  @ Free typography resources: The big list - InVision Blog
  @ 11 mistakes freelancers make with design contracts - InVision Blog
  @ The 9 best online collaboration tools for remote workers
  . pack for sleep study tomorrow night:
    . med kit, x T-shirt, * PJs, * masks, * couple of Science mags * change of underwear
  * don't use CPAP tonight if possible

  o add Wings to songbook (it's in steve/Lyrics-Other)
  o confirm with N that rainbowsendbodywork.com can be dropped.  card to be charged 3/13

0309Fr
  * up 6:35; W=203.2;
  : we have woodpeckers
  * no swimming today
  * made resume, S.S website, and Linked-in profile more open to jobs.
  * B1 guitar: Wings.  Tried several keys; best is still D capo 2, but drop E works.
  . bring current mask -- both, preferably
  * make %/lyrics.html works in Songs, and handles multiple lyrics directories.
  * shower
  * kids to 5:30 ferry
  ~ pack:  -med kit and meds- no room for med kit; took toothbrush and mouth guard.
    -> water nose before leaving
    -> take laptop because I'll probably go someplace for coffee in the morning.
  * 7pm leave for sleep study
  * 8:30pm sleep study
    -> realized in the morning that they do 7:30 and 8:30 appointments because they handle
       two patients/night.
    -> Apparently I did sleep, even though all I remember was what seemed like hours of
       being awake and trying to sleep.  I was very surprised when (tech) Christine woke
       me during the night to go to the CPAP phase of the split session, since I had't
       noticed going to sleep.
    -> (stuffie rhino) Cyrano wasn't a great substitute for a cat, but he helped.
    -> overnight light bondage and cosplay isn't really my thing.

0310Sa
  * up 6:15; ; shower (at sleep clinic)
  * breakfast just around the corner on Rt 20 in Frank's Place.
  @ Zirconium was one step ahead of Chrome’s redirect blocker with 0-day [LJ]
    constructing a PDF document and splicing it into the DOM as an embed.
  @ The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String | Hakai Magazine (ysabetwordsmith)
  @ Photon · Components
  @ Community | Electron
  @ Atom text editor; JS and Electron.
    atomic-emacs
  @ DietPi - Lightweight justice for your SBC (DistroWatch.com)
  @ Jdhaimson/smilealways: Chrome Extension to redirect www.amazon.com to smile...
  : Chevrolet replied to my FB post -- looks bot-generated.
  * johnomarkid/elm-electron-webpack: A guide, not a template, for building electron apps
    with elm and webpack
  @ toml-lang/toml: Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language JSON/YAML replacement.  Like.
  @ Appium: Mobile App Automation Made Awesome.
  x 7pm Open Mic, Freeland Cafe
  & decided to try the L mask on the Wisp, as opposed to the XL I had been using for a
    couple of weeks. -> seems to fit better, now that the sleep center tech has adjusted
    the headgear.  Better around the eyes.

= menu: 0304-0310
  * Monday: stir-fried chicken 
  * Tuesday: hamburgers
  * Wednesday: sandwiches
  * Thursday: beef barley soup, BAH bread, salad