Done Since 2018-06-17

[mdlbear]

Last Sunday was Father's Day, which has always been kind of a downer for me since Dad died, but I did get calls from both my kids (and my Mom), so there's that.

I went for two walks. Not enough. I used to walk three miles every lunch-time.

Everyone's looking for Python, Ruby, and Javascript programmers these days, so when I found myself wanting a program to help me split up web pages into body content and metadata (as input to a template engine) I wrote it in Python. No harder than I expected; after the first dozen or so programming languages they all start to look alike. I'll use Ruby for tne next one, I guess. The first thing is to revamp my "formal" (i.e. job-hunting) website -- I want to move the blurb on the home page over to an "about" page, and replace it with something that looks like a blog. Yes, I could use one of the existing static site generators, but it's more fun and more practice to do it myself and try to learn something doing it. Maybe? It's going more slowly than I'd like.

I did some other website and project cleanup. Not enough. My time management is getting worse, not better. Two phone screens, one of which was followed an hour later by a rejection by email. I'm getting a few more leads by signing up with FlexJobs.com, and put in one application through them and one through jobspresso.com. Not enough.

Four blog posts. I'd like to work up to at least one per day. Is it time to start asking for tips? Probably. Would I get anything out of that? Probably not.

Notes & links:

0817Su Father's Day
  * Up 6:24; S=7.3, W=201.8 ; shower
    % managed to re-injure the thumb, by stretching it in my sleep.  Not clear whether the
      brace is actually helping.
  : happy father's day text from (former coworker) JK
  : Happy Father's Day call from the Wolfling
  * 15min: got out the blinds; put up the set in j's room.  I'll let T' do the rest.
  & updated nova:/vv/users/record from cygnus and raven
    moved Practice.make and Concert.make to /vv/users/record from MakeStuff.
    Hopefully they're not useful anymore; just making sure.
    removed MakeStuff/{HEADER.html,README.html,include/}; Concert.make and Practice.make
    were the only places where the old template stuff was used.
  : looks like 2017/04/28--amazon (retirement concert) didn't get recorded; if it did,
    it's not on cygnus or raven.
  % feeling slightly odd in a way I can't identify.  Detached?  Dissociated?  Distant?
  * Walk: to Goss Lake.  Followed by some mostly futile looking around in the garage.
    Thinking mostly about the website overhaul, and the current financial outlook.
  * headers and footers in rainbows-end.net/Bridge/
  * converted MakeStuff/music/HEADER.html to README.md (pandoc makes it easy:
    `pandoc -o README.md HEADER.html`)
  : Happy Father's Day call from the YD.
  % having a glass of the Blue Label, because damnit it's _my_ day and I'm supposed to
    deserve something good even if it doesn't feel like it.
  % starting to get a little worried about C.  She's sleeping an awful lot during the
    daytime.  -> she says she's been having nightmares because of the book she's reading.
  : Water out of the tap on the freezer door smells distinctly like H2S.  No problem with
    the ice, or regular tap water, as far as I can tell.
  : 8ish Happy Father's Day call from Mom
  @ had a good idea about using water to detect vibration (siderea) 

0618Mo
  * up 5:50; W=201.8, S=7:03 ;
  * finished the work I started yesterday on the MakeStuff/music README.
  @ Introducing PyInstaller | Linux Journal
  @ Sybil Ludington's Ride ([The Mad Filkentist])
    c.f. Ludington's Ride | Cat Faber and   Sybil Ludington - Wikipedia
  * Did some tests:  mustache partials can contain any pathname (i.e. site/footer.inc).
    keywords: [list,...] can get substituted properly into "{{keywords}}" 
    -> write program in Python to convert index.html into yml+content.
       Need additional utilities for nav bars and blog entries.
  * 2:30 call from Jannae @ Zonar
    -> she'll talk to some of the hiring managers.  Meanwhile she'll send me their
       physical address, which is nowhere close to where I thought it was -- it's in the
       Pioneer Square area of downtown.
  * started working on scripts/page-to-template-data for template makeovers.
  : nearly lost Ticia! When I came out of the bedroom I saw that the front door
    was open -- either left open or, more likely, wasn't closed securely when V left.
    Desti was with me in the bedroom, but Ticia was nowhere in sight.  Went out and called
    to her, and saw her at the bottom of the ramp.  I tried to get close enough to catch
    her but she went alongside the ramp and under the porch.  Then she came up on the
    other side of the porch (while I was still looking under it) and headed toward the
    door.  Obviously she'd had enough of the outdoors.  I picked her up and boosted her
    in; might not have been necessary, but when I came in after her I saw Desti watching
    from on top of the dryer, so maybe it was.  She avoided me for a while; I think she
    was embarrassed.  We have excellent cats.
    
0619Tu
  * Up 5:45; W=200.8, S=5:45;
  @ commenting on broken links in this post
    " it looks like some "helpful" piece of software automatically substituted
      curly quotes for regular double quotes.  That doesn't work, but you can also
      simply leave off the quotes altogether.  They're not needed in HTML unless the thing
      being quoted contains spaces, and URLs don't. " -> html for poets
  * set Tandi to clearing space for the bed boxes
  * finished page-to-template-data, needed for converting websites from whole pages to
    templates and fragments.
  @ 3 Cryptocurrencies To Earn You Money While You Sleep — Part 3
  @ A Few Lessons Learned While Mining Crypto – Jason Robinson – Medium
    massive machines, no payout.
  * Boxes moved.  Missing things still missing.
  @ Medium’s Paywall Is Not a Stable Income – FutureSin – Medium 
  @ Amazon may Battle Facebook with Own Cryptocurrency – FutureSin – Medium
  * posted mdlbear | HTML for Poets: Some simple magic
  * 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm PDT Interview with CircleCI
    Justin Cowperthwaite will call you at 408-896-6133
    -> (actually about 5:05) interesting.  They do a lot of pair programming, and it's a
       dev-ops place like $A.  Next step is a technical challenge, then a design
       challenge, then phone interviews.  So we'll see.
    -> he asked what I was doing recently and I was able to talk about having just
       completed MakeStuff/page-to-template-data at master · ssavitzky/MakeStuff
    -> " While your experience is impressive, it's unfortunately not quite the fit we need
         nbon the team right now. "
  @ The Mouse and His Child - Wikipedia A Toy's Life and a Boy's Life - NYT
    Probably indirectly from Mise en abyme - Wikipedia
  % just spent a couple of hour going down various slack- and DW-related rabbit holes.
  " me on S(L), about journalling:  Nice thing about using a text editor rather than a
    word processor -- or paper -- is that it lets you concentrate on what you're saying
    rather than on what it looks like.  The only thing that comes close is ball-point pen
    scribbled on the back of an envelope. "

0620We
  * Up 5:25; W=201.4, S=6:25 ;
  @ Psychologist John Gartner on Trump’s behavior: “It’s a coup that’s not moving slowly
    anymore” | Salon.com (amaebi | Sorrow and horror)
  @ blood donation: no good deed goes unpunished Red Cross sells out to Facebook
  @ Protect Your Privacy with Keepsafe's Phone Security Apps | Keepsafe (LJ)
    Way too much javascript -- full-screen pictures and hardly any text.  Lynx, maybe?
    Yeah; mostly readable in Lynx.
    Keepsafe Blog
  @ Open Hardware: Good for Your Brand, Good for Your Bottom Line | Linux Journal
  @ Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists
    " Open hardware comes with source code and a screwdriver. "
  * join FlexJobs (?  $50/year) (looks ok; see mdlbear | Done Since 2018-06-10)
    -> signed up for a year.  Filled in profile.  Looked at a fair number of dev jobs;
       mostly the usual requirements but a different mix of companies.  We'll see.
  % headache.  I wonder how long that's been going on.  Forehead, so maybe sinuses.
  * music:  a little work on 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.  Wondering whether I can play
    it in C.  It's a bit high for me; but puts "ride" at a good place for me.
  @ Del McCoury Band "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" - YouTube he's playing it in C
  : V is very worried about C, and so am I.  Low energy, dizziness, pain, ...,
  * music lesson 1952 Vincent, played in C.  When I'm warmed up, it's easy to sing
    -> still a little fuzzy about the melody on the last 2 lines;
  * changes in {songs,lyrics}.make to accommodate 1952-vincent*
  @ Songwriters Circle (Series 1 Episode 1) - Richard Thompson/Suzanne Vega/Loudon
    Wainwright - YouTube The whole show that contains the performance of 1952 Vincent
    Black Lightning that I linked to a couple of weeks ago.

0621Th Summer Solstice
  * up 5:15; S=6.5, W=201.4;
  * paid auto loan from RE checking, which is flush after SS deposits.
  * paid AX balance - not actually due until early July, but as long as I was checking...
  @ 13 Time-Management Apps to Keep You On Track - FlexJobs
  * applied at Algorithmia (Google subsidiary -- almost perfect match)
  * 3:45 C at Freeland Clinic.  Go in with her and take the green note cards.
    -> changing her antidepressant (sertraline); followup (longer) Monday; She's
       deyhdrated, her BP is low, she needs to go off her BP meds (which she already has);
       barrier cream for her butt; he basically threw up his hands on the rest of the list
    -> Colleen had a lot of trouble walking; asked for the scooter for going up the ramp.
       she's also been sleeping a lot.  I'm still worried.
  * grocery shopping + picking up C's scrip
  % 18:30 depleted and distressed.
  @ 31 Tips On How to Write a Cover Letter | The Muse
  % why does it feel like Friday?
  : 8:30 and it's still light out.

0622Fr
  * up 6:10; W=201.4, S=8:03;
  @ Has the quest for top-down unification of physics stalled? | Aeon Essays (thnidu) 
  @ Ringing the chords of the Universe: how music influenced science | Aeon Essays
  * job app: SuSE
  @ Pyramid Scheme. #hautalk - Allegra (siderea | [soc, anthro, anthro_meta, tech] The Affordance of Tyranny)
    " a discussion of how the software system HAU was using shaped interpersonal
      interactions in ways which facilitated a malignant actor in a position of authority
      getting away with abusing his power. "
    The Problem with Assholes – Public Anthropologist
    Public Statement on Hau and Open Access Publishing
  & watch FlexJobs how-to webinar video
  & 3:00 C MAC clinic for plumbing swap on short notice
  * working on templatizing S.S.net - first one.
  : Desti loves to jump up on things and ask to be picked up and cuddled.
  % 18:30 my left arm hurts and I'm exhausted
    ! I think I'm unhappy, or something like that.  I keep wanting to lie down and curl up
  -> in the end, I went back into our bedroom, put on my fuzzy red bathrobe, and curled up
     in the brown chair with the labyrinth book, which I finished around 8:30.
  % I have no idea whether the thumb brace is helping at this point.

0623Sa
  * up 5am; W=201.4, S=5:30;
    % meloxicam for pain in the left hand.  My tiger balm should be here tomorrow
  @ Fear and Loathing of the English Passive (archangelbeth)
  @ nibling - Wiktionary
    " (uncommon) The child of one's sibling or of one's sibling-in-law "
    i.e. exactly what I need when referring to m, or to m and j collectively.
  @ Deliverance – Never Unmindful Poem re: today's concentration camps. cf. QV
  @ ack documentation gf done right
    apt-get install ack-grep
  % occasional back and leg twinges.
  * walk down to Skybird and back.  Ankles started to hurt -- I'll want to wear
    boots tomorrow.
  % 3:45 and still no s4s.  Found out that I already did a Father's Day post with the
    obvious, and in any case that was last week.
    for f in `gf -l s4s | sort `; do echo $f `grep Subj $f`; done | grep -v Done
    (misses at least one:  Done Since 2018-02-04 with bonus Song for S[unday])
  @ posted mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Something different (Get Up and Go)
  @ siderea | [curr ev, Ω] The Jacket is a Dog Whistle
  * Laundry
  @ katster | A well-placed word can change the world
  @ Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Nanette’ Is Must-Watch Stand-Up Comedy
    Hannah Gadsby on Her Netflix Stand-Up Special Nanette
    but the show itself doesn't appear to be accessible to non-subscribers.
  @ Mother I Climbed - YouTube
    Not the first time I've linked this
  % serious anxiety?? panic?? attack after going to bed.  The usual tight
    abdominal muscles.  

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I'm sorry you're frightened & worried.

Two walks is better than no walks.

Thanks for the link to your brilliant water-vibration-meter!

I'm writing so much more now that I'm using a MD-enabled writing app (IA Writer).

I hope you can get more clarity about C's health.

[mdlbear]

Thanks for the good wishes. I remember hearing about IA Writer somewhere -- interesting concept. Sort of a stripped-down version of a programmer's text editor. I especially like writing with monospaced fonts -- they make it so much easier.

[redsixwing]

Python is pretty cool stuff. (Its typing gets me every time, but.)

Nibling or niebling is commonly in use in this house, but I haven't seen it much elsewhere. I'd like to see that one become common.