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mdlbearA notable bit of self-talk from last Monday, in the parking lot after buying kibble and litter at the Country Store: "Hey! I'm actually feeling okay this morning! What's wrong?" As could easily be predicted, the feeling didn't last, although my mood does seem to be averaging a little better. Maybe? It's hard for me to tell.
With Colleen still getting IV antibiotics -- her last dose was Friday -- it's been a busy week, with almost nothing in the way of job search. So that sucks. (In fairness I did get another phone interview scheduled. I also got a rejection from SUSE.)
The phone interview was scheduled after an email exchange with a recruiter at Google. The email I received was:
Subject: System.out.println("You+Google, a poem"); We're going to keep this short and sweet You're definitely someone we'd like to meet We love your Java and your C++ We want your perspective, come build with us!
So of course I replied in kind:
Return {``` My cell number is 408 896-6133 Any time 'twixt 8 and half-past-10 is good for calling me. You've clearly read my profile, which is more than many do. I'm sure I'll have a very good time talking to you. ```}
He wrote back to say that I'd made his day. And scheduled a call...
I spent most of the last three days writing a web app as a way of learning
Javascript and React. Both of which are quirky and confusing for anyone
used to other programming languages and toolkits. But, after working on
it pretty continuously since Thursday, it's at least tolerably functional.
(Before Thursday all I had was the raw data and rather a lot of reading.)
It comes to about 350 lines of code (including blank lines and comments,
which one could argue is cheating), which I guess isn't too bad for three
and a half days' work. No tests yet except the one that came for free
from create-react-app, which just checks to see whether it
can render without crashing.
What it does is display and score the PHQ-9 and GAD-11 questionaires, which measure depression and anxiety respectively. I wonder why I picked those...
My left thumb is still hurting -- the problem appears to be trigger finger (for sufficiently thumb-like values of "finger"; it's also called "trigger thumb" but that just sounds wrong). A week of coddling it (including three days with my nephew j up here as an assistant, for which many thanks) has helped some. It's a little hard to tell, but I haven't been taking pain pills recently and it's not bad. I like having a little pain as a warning when I'm starting to do something stupid with it. At least my right wrist seems to have healed completely.
I have notified the Worldcon committee that I won't be coming. It hurts -- Colleen and I really wanted to see our old friends from the San Jose area -- but it just wasn't going to work. Not just the money, though that was part of it, but the fact that even with her caregiver coming along Colleen isn't up to travel by air, nor to spending all of several days sitting on her scooter and elsewhere with no way to put her feet up. It sucks.
I also blew off a local party last night -- I hadn't checked to see whether the house was accessible, but had a pretty good idea that it probably wasn't. And even if it was, I didn't want to have to wrangle Colleen's scooter with my bad hand. So that sucks too.
A lot of suckage this week. Not unusual these days.
0708Su
* Up 4:30ish; W=199.8, S=5:28;
% pleased with the weight. It's been up and down, but the trend seems to be down
there were 2 days under 200 in June; the last before that was in 2017-12
* on nova, fixed some repos that didn't have upstream set correctly:
mm/books, prj/{mandelbear,ncube,sri}
-> there are a few with no origin; the albums and steve/src/* in particular.
@ Creating an email archive with public-inbox [LWN.net]
* 11:30 get moving; 1pm C MAC (Medical Ambulatory Care) clinic
& drive - toward Langley on E. Harbor/Saratoga; back via Lone Lake. Home at 2:30
* some work on web template expansion. No good solution.
% the problem with my left thumb is almost certainly trigger thumb:
Trigger Finger - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - The Hand Society
" Trigger finger may start with discomfort felt at the base of the finger or thumb,
where the finger joins the palm. This area is often sensitive to pressure. You
might feel a lump there. Other symptoms may include:
* Pain * Popping * Catching feeling * Limited finger movement "
: thumb brace suggested, in particular at night to keep it extended.
* Ice pack suggested -- helps a little
7 Exercises to Help Treat Your Trigger Finger or Thumb
* installed create-react-native-app on Cygnus. or tried to.
You are currently running Node v4.2.6 but create-react-native-app requires >=6.
* installed create-react-app -- that worked.
0709Mo
* up 5:30; W=199; S=6:41;
* rejection email from SUSE
@ siderea | [music] "If you are afraid, come out. If you are awake, come out."
@ Cheshire Moon (filk | The CD is out!)
@ Wreck of the Old 97
M.T.A. (song)
* got nvm installed and the react/react-native apps initialized.
* 8:15 shopping - early in order to be back by 11 -> back around 9:15.
! self-talk: in parking lot after buying kibble and litter at the Country Store:
"Hey! I'm actually feeling okay this morning! What's wrong?"
@ One of the things I appreciate about git is that I _don’t_ have to be connected while
I’m working. -- response to Where do we go after Git? – Hacker Noon
@ Is a Git Repository a Blockchain? – Danno Ferrin – Medium
@ What Cracking Open a Sonos One Tells Us About the Sonos IPO
@ UserLAnd, a Turnkey Linux in Your Pocket | Linux Journal linux in a chroot on an
android phone -- need to get this.
UserLAnd | Main UserLAnd Repository
CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd: Main UserLAnd Repository
UserLAnd - Apps on Google Play (beta)
* initial commits in phq (react/react-native health questionaire page/app)
figured out how to import the questionaires, and other subtleties of JS syntax.
Which sucks.
: call from one of the contract agencies (Black Diamond) - she'd noticed my post on
LinkedIn and it reminded her to check in. So it's getting out there sort of.
& (V's grandson d asked about my guitar. So I asked C what she wanted me
to sing -- Lily et. al., of course. So I did. Spaced the second verse and restarted
a couple of verses, but basically worked. Capo 2.
: V wanted D to hear CC&S -- I can actually listen to parts of it now. I'm singing way
too fast on most of it, and the vocals are too quiet. The guitar is very bass-heavy.
@ Rands Information Practices – Rands in Repose
@ Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World? (thnidu)
" Here’s what I think. American never joined the modern world. It’s the modern world’s
first failed state. It became something like a weird, bizarre dystopia, replete with
falling life expectancy, hand-to-mouth living, relentless and legendary cruelty,
instead of a truly modern society. But why? "
" Americans never learned the greatest lesson history taught. That poverty causes
ruin. "
0710Tu
* up 5:30ish; W=199.4, S=6:31;
@ DIY RV Offsite Backup and Media Server | Linux Journal
@ Frequentlyaskedquestions · Wiki · cryptsetup / cryptsetup · GitLab
* 11:30 start leaving for C's 1pm appointment
: unexpected email from a recruiter at Google -- in rhyme. I replied in kind.
@ FreenetFreenet - Wikipedia
* expect N et. al. ~4:45 (4:00 ferry) closer to 5:30.
They pulled a stack of CDs out of my duplicates box.
* asparagus ginger beef.
" me: I think guitars are a lot like cats -- they know who belongs to them. "
: met Aurelia, the (south end of the) family's new car
* formally notified Worldcon programming that we have to cancel. Damn.
N agreed with our decision -- C just can't travel that far right now, and maybe not
ever again. (May depend on other medical things.) Even without the most recent
setbacks it was going to be iffy; both of us were rather scared.
The thing that really decided it was the fact that N didn't try to talk me into going
@ 5 Steps to Crowdfunding Success - PenUltimate Productions should do this.
1. Name your project and put your byline on it
2. Have a landing page
3. Create tags. Blog, twitter hashtags, etc.
4. Audience interaction.
5. Post a donation button.
0711We
* up 5:35; S=6:19, W=199; shower
@ As Cloud Computing Providers Post Record Profits, One Company Wants to Make Them
Obsolete | Linux Journal
@ Minimal Ubuntu, on public clouds and Docker Hub | Ubuntu blog for containers
* trying to wipe blackbird and install Bionic in hopes that I'll be able to reenable
secure boot and shut up the warning. Not going all that well -- hung on entering
username. Thrashing? -> still slow, but apparently downloading while installing was
what was slowing it to a crawl. Doesn't look like it ever made a swap partition.
-> it's claimed that a swapfile performs better. ooooook. -> forget it.
-> we'll have to go with xubuntu or something of the sort. -> lubuntu (LDXE)
-> download speeds are miserable. -> chrome is the problem: wget works fine.
~ Garbage cans -> I appear to have missed the truck. Damn.
& get rid of a lot of tabs in Chrome. Didn't find the ones eating bandwidth.
-> killing chrome got back a lot of network bandwidth. Just hiding it helped.
* installing lubuntu on blackbird. Fast. Memory (only have 2GB) was the problem.
May install it more places. Out of the box it's 5.6Gb
* Litter boxes (with j) -> I may have re-injured my thumb. Maybe just stretched it
~ 11am C Dr. Walters at UNW -> reschedule for next week or 4pm
~ no singing lesson this week
% I feel like my head is wrapped in cotton. Or fog. Tinnitus plus depression? Or
despair, perhaps.
: C sent j and d out to scatter some seeds.
: And Island Drug won't mail my CPAP supplies, and while they can deliver them, it would
require a signature. Sorry, not going to play tag. They can deliver them to Clinton
@ posted mdlbear | The modern world's first failed state
% distressed. unproductive.
* some work on PHQ app -- got state figured out; Questionaire and Question components
sketched out.
0712Th
* up 6ish; W=199.6, S=6:57;
% thumb better, but back hurting a lot, possibly from sitting up to answer texts.
on heating pad at the moment. Applying heat, took meloxicam
@ Browsh Browsh: A Modern, Text-Based Web Browser - Phoronix Interesting idea -- it's
basically screen-scraping Firefox (actually running it headless with a custom
extension). And it ignores a URL passed on the command line.
github.com/browsh-org/browsh
: some weirdness with my amazon account. changed password. set up phone. It
apparently wiped all of the downloaded kindle books.
* 1:45 C MAC clinic.
: C noticed that our handicap placards had expired in June. Grump.
: resumed chat with Amazon.
apparently my earlier attempt to log in to my associate account (to try to get contact
info for seller support) is what caused the initial email, password reset, and so on.
* bring a new package of pads out to the car.
@ Fragile States Index 2018: Issues of Fragility Touch the World’s Richest and Most
Developed Countries in 2018 | Fragile States Index
Fragile States Index and CAST Framework Methodology | Fragile States Index
List of countries by Fragile States Index - Wikipedia
0713Fr
* Up 6:15; W=199.2, S=6:53;
@ Guido van Rossum Stepping Down from Role as Python's Benevolent Dictator For Life
[python-committers] Transfer of power
@ FOSS Project Spotlight: ONLYOFFICE, an Online Office Suite | Linux Journal
% 9:50ish P=151/98, 142/91, standing 119/81 -- was feeling lightheaded and detached.
: 10am C up and seems to be doing better
~ 1:15 C MAC clinic
~ 4pm j has to make the 4:00 ferry -> V taking him
* phq is now able to display a complete questionaire. Making it active is the next
step. There are formatting glitches due to React/JMX brokenness.
* 3:30 leave for 4pm C Dr. Rochier
<- handicap form,
<- weakness, depression, increasing BP
<- labs. Referrals: nutritionist, gastroenterologist, nephrologist.
vinegar 1:20 on a washcloth in skin folds before applying nystatin
* order kleenex from $A
@ Jupyter: notebooks for education and collaboration [LWN.net]
A gallery of interesting Jupyter Notebooks · jupyter/jupyter Wiki
0714Sa
* Up 6:55; W=199.2, ;
@ The Guardian view on Donald Trump in Britain: this was the visit from hell f(TKF)
" But it was not just the rudeness that mattered – though rudeness does matter, a lot,
both in personal and in public things. It was the political impact and
consequence. That unmistakable consequence is that Mr Trump’s America can no longer
be regarded with certainty as a reliable ally for European nations committed to the
defence of liberal democracy. That is an epochal change for Britain and for Europe "
* spent the entire day (it is now 5:45) debugging phq. It now sets state correctly.
That took entirely too long. Missed the slot for picking up CPAP supplies.
skipping the party.
* 7:50 computing column totals.
* 10:00 showing part total, severity
* 11:55 selecting a questionaire turns out to be complicated.
~ party chez Richard Hughes. 2260 Calera Way. See email from Nancy
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Date: 2018-07-15 10:42 pm (UTC)I grew up with trigger finger (thumb?) in my right thumb and at least five of my toes (I lost count a few years ago). My left pointer finger did it for the first time this week. I will note that they make some thumb braces specifically for trigger problems, of which the basic oval-8 splint is pretty popular and easy to find.
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Date: 2018-07-15 11:07 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Another Oval-8 fan here
Date: 2018-07-18 08:01 pm (UTC)browsh was fascinating.
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Date: 2018-07-16 12:44 am (UTC)So, you may want to ask about that.
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Date: 2018-07-16 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-07-16 05:59 am (UTC)He's Class of '06. He does not know how to not be connected. Doesn't see the benefit. Linus did. Linus gets it. So do you.
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Date: 2018-07-17 12:31 am (UTC)I'll be in Portland in a few weeks, but that's not *quite* close enough.
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Date: 2018-07-21 04:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-07-21 03:30 am (UTC)It never fails, he always gets an interview.
Someone who writes poetry & music has an advantage, so I would suggest you find a way to do cover letters on prose.