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Public Service Announcement: RainbowCon 2.1 is happening here the first weekend in May.

Word of the week: Trumpery. noun, plural trumperies.
1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
2. nonsense; twaddle. (h/t to ysabetwordsmith)

Another bad week. My finances are dangerously close to the edge; if I don't get a job within the next couple of months I'll be in serious trouble. N. points out that I only have to work for a year or so to both replace the hit to my savings and keep the household above water for the rest of the five years we're planning to stay here. But that assumes that I find work, and my track record is not encouraging.

Case in point: I've done a little more Project Planning, and quite a bit of research into languages and frameworks, but no actual programming. Talk's cheap. (If I were getting paid for it, that would be another matter. But I don't think I can offer much of value for patrons at this point. Working on it.)

The careful reader may have noticed that neither self confidence nor self care are among my strong points.

Highlights among the week's links are Purrli, the Online Cat Purr Generator, and Seedship.

Notes & links:

0415Su
& Awake 3:30; woken by Ticia, back to bed 4:20ish
* up 5am; S=5:00, ; cat cuddle. CPAP thinks I got another half hour of sleep
@ ysabetwordsmith | 20 Lost Words to Rediscover ... in particular,
" trumpery:
noun, plural trumperies.
1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
2. nonsense; twaddle: His usual conversation is pure trumpery.
3. Archaic. worthless finery.
adjective
4. of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.
"
* church with G.
: N points out that if I get a full-time job that pays similarly to my previous ones, I
only need to work for about a year to cover the entire time we expect to be here.
* official name for this house: Rainbow's North End. (The other one is Rest Stop)
@ Agile Otter Blog: Principles for Large Organizations
Agile Otter Blog: Taking Breaks in a Disciplined Way

0416Mo
* Up 6ish; W=204.6, S=7.1;
@ The authoritative guide to blockchain development – freeCodeCamp
@ CryptoZombies | Learn to code games on Ethereum
: as it turned out, the two deadbolts I bought today _were_ keyed alike. Interesting.
Possibly left over from a set. That would make sense, since they were in rather plain
cardboard boxes rather than normal retail packaging.
% brain kind of fried right now. Stressed.

0417Tu
* up 6:15; W=202.8, S=7.6;
@ Mozilla Foundation: Internet Health Report [LJ]
The Internet has serious health problems, Mozilla Foundation report finds | Ars
A scandal, a napkin and the health of the internet – Home
@ Zenroom - Crypto Language Execution [LJ]
* tax filing deadline -- Getting over $8K back.
Some deductions may be missing. Can't find all receipts for the first year's work on
the old house - specifically the yard work and the stairlifts. Can't find the sale
paperwork for Molly.
Modulo the stuff I couldn't find, we *exactly broke even* on the house. So much for
hot real estate markets. Probably down at least another $50K, so I can file an
amended return when I find the paperwork.
I expect to take a bath on this one because of the addition
% mood: slightly better than okay. Also, drained
@ How to Turn Off “Ok Google” on Your Android Device looks like there's no clean
way to not get Google Assistant, which is unfortunate but unsurprising.
@ Phacility - Phabricator S(L)
@ Privacy Tools - Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance S(L)
@ Gitter is an instant messaging site tied to
github, gitlab, and twitter accounts. Took me a while to find out how to sign up --
turns out all you need to do is sign _in_ and it asks for OAuth from GitHub.
* HSX signed up as an Amazon Apps & Services Developer
Currently left the "plan to monetize" boxes unchecked; will have to add tax info if I
develop anything I plan to sell.

0418We
* up 4am; S=4.9;
Tried the size M mask pillow; still unclear which is better. Apparently "therapy
hours" may just be mask-on-face time rather than actual sleep time :P
* moved a litter box from the Annex to the LR. Might work better in the hall bathroom
@ GDPR and client-side tools
How to: GDPR, consent and data processing
@ 5 things I wish I'd known about Kubernetes before I started | GitLab
@ The Confidence Gap - The Atlantic (via GitLab's job listings)
compares men vs. women, but my self-confidence is way on the low end of the scale.
: all of GitLab's dev jobs that I could find require Ruby and Rails experience.
waffle between g and m for a while. ]
* for cat boarding - make sure all of their shots are current and documented. (C)
* the bamboo flatware sets arrived. All I could find for blunting them were a shureform
plane and a nail file -- fortunately these did the job, though not as smoothly as I'd
hoped. May take another nailfile to the forks and go tine-by-tine.
-> glass nailfile worked pretty well.
~ schedule follow-up appointment with sleep clinic. MUST be 31-90 days from 4/9 -
insurance requirement. -> they called me. Somewhere around here, anyway.

0419Th
* up 5:30ish; W=202.2, S=6:58;
# S: The device shows time in hours and tenths; the website shows hours and minutes.
-> used the small pillow; that fits better. Size refers to length of nose, not width
% left QL hurting. applying heat.
@ Restaurant noise levels are climbing. Here’s how to fight back. - Vox (ysabetwordsmith)
@ Facebook Compartmentalization | Linux Journal FB over TOR, among other things
$ email to Firestone. See ./2018 Set up call for tomorrow at 8
* I'm teaching; mostly science. Math in the morning
$ need to pay 11,281 to builder -- sending 3500 from Union Bank to cover the difference.
That leaves enough for the home and car loans, but not much else.
~ 2pm C Freeland Clinic (V will drive)
~ C and V will pick up cat paperwork
& to Seattle with N and m.
@ The Internet has a Cat! Meet Purrli, the Online Cat Purr Generator. (Boing Boing)
* humira

0420Fr
* up 6:30; S=7.2;
* cleverly spilled a nearly full cup of coffee. Nothing damaged -- all ended up on the
floor -- but took a while to clean up. The microfiber kitchen towels are next to
useless; I eventually went and grabbed a bath towel out of the laundry area.
* call, as arranged, from (financial advisor) Jerad;
-> raising draw $500/month; that will net some 350/month.
-> I should cash out Tri Continental
-> ask Vanguard about borrowing against the 401K
-> Find out the tax consequences of moving or selling the Amazon stock. Even moving
it will be a taxable event because it's going out of the 401K.
? now ? a month from now ? a year from now
$ HI $11,280.89 to Whidbey Home Remodel and Repair from BECU household account, after
wiring the bulk of it from UBOC. Leaves both accounts seriously depleted.
& to Seattle with and m.
@ Seedship
fun interstellar colonization game; built in Twine (interactive fiction platform)
Twine Forum

0421Sa
* Up 5:45; W=203.6, S=7.5;
: Bronx managed to step on my laptop's reset button. No lossage, thanks to a
journalling filesystem, and it needed a reboot anyway for updates, but still...
@ The Checklist Manifesto - Wikipedia just want to get these link in here for gf.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right: Atul Gawande
: just got a loud and obnoxious ad -- for an "ad blocker" -- on my phone. Probably time
for a reinstall. Might try malware removal first.
-> uninstalled an app called "yeescan", then ran Lookout. Didn't bother with the
upsell. Might be worthwhile reinstalling chrome / switching to firefox / both.
-> lookout didn't find anything; maybe that was it? Doubt it.
-> if I get any more crap, I'll reinstall. There were several weird texts recently;
that was very likely the vector for the latest one.
& N told me to go off in the bedroom and read something.
-> I picked The Annotated Thursday; finished it somewhere around dinnertime