Done Since 2019-02-17

[mdlbear]

I don't think I did very much of interest this week, except for posting a third FAWM song (also posted as an S4S, here that I've been working on for over a week, and finishing a curmudgeon post (Git: The other blockchain) that's been sitting around in draft form since early December.

Colleen's health has been pretty bad all week. She now has a prescription for a wheelchair, so we're going to look at some the next time we're in Everett for an appointment. Which will be Wednesday. What would be awesome is a combination walker (rollator, actually) and wheelchair, but those don't seem to exist. I spent most of Monday and Tuesday researching.) There are several rollator/transport chair combinations, and one of those might well be worthwhile. It doesn't help that several appointments that might have helped got snowed out.

My collection of websites is a shambles (or possibly "is shambling" -- there are definitely some zombies in there). It doesn't help that anything that reminds me of one or the other of the houses we used to own is likely to throw me into a tailspin. May be worth a river post soon.

This week's top link is Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Chronic Illness. A certain subset of those may also be interested in Girls With Guts (see Friday for a descriptive quote).

Top video link is this episode of "What in the World?", a TV series that I remember with some fondness from my early days. It will appeal to fans of archaeology and/or Vincent Price. There's a (regrettably short) YouTube playlist here -- the show was on before home videotaping was a thing; most of the episodes have probably been lost.

Notes & links:

1217Su
  * Up 6ish; S=6:36;
  * finish (I hope) outline of git tutorial; get a good start on github
  * finished? github, started advanced.

1218Mo
  * up 6:50; W=196.8, S=7:31;
  @ algorithm - Convert diff to markdown with strikeout? - Stack Overflow
    markdown-diff
  @ elf | Reblog: Pagan terminology for nonPagan writers
  * sent tutorial outlines to editor
    % Very weird feeling.  anxious, maybe? tense? unable to concentrate.
  * 3:20 C Dr. Rochier
    -> C has a prescription for a (manual) wheelchair.  Unclear what Medicare will pay for
    -> spent several hours researching
  & grocery shopping with S, from a shopping list concocted by C, S, and V while I wasn't
    paying attention.
  % 6:20 seriously low on spoons, even after a glass of juice and a peanut butter on bread
  % sharp pain right hip when walking.  Naproxen

1220Tu
  * Up 6:50ish; W=198.2, S=7:49;
  % pain still there, maybe a little better.  Naproxen
  * spent most of the morning researching wheelchairs.
    There are some walker/transport combos (Drive Duet, Drive Nitro Duet; 300lbs),
    Drive Duet is cheap enough to simply buy outright but no back support
    one manual/transport (Drive Poly; 250lbs) but pointless
    Several lightweight chairs that fold compactly; Karman in particular (250lbs)
    -> total waste of time.  C needs to see and try things.
  * put in drug order with Express Scripts

0220We
  * Up 5:55; W=198.6, S=6:47;
  * took last garbage can up to the street; apparently in time.
  * 15min: started getting the garage back in order.  Should probably stack the boxes
    rather than leaving them on the back of the workbench.
  * 2:30 C MACC clinic
    : C's weight is way down -- 230.  A bit worrisome.
  @ The Ethics of Web Performance - TimKadlec.com 
    Page Weight Matters YouTube load times increased because third-world people on
    bad connections saw their load times go from 20min to 2min, so they _could_ watch
  " Ooooh! I like these.  I'm going to send them to $client and see what he thinks.
  " -- $editor.  This is getting serious.
    % Not nearly as ?anxious as I was Monday

1221Th
  * Up 6ish; W=198.6, S=6:23;
    CPAP app was upgraded 3 days ago -- needed to be restarted.
  & Rainbow's End Massage website still had a "make appointment" form.  Careless of me.
    -> took down form, map, address, etc...  put up "we regret..."
    % in addition to feeling stupid, it hurts any time I even think about Rainbow's End.
  * removed hosting for grand-central-starport.org, which no longer exists.
  * redirect thestarport.{net,com} to thestarport.org.  Cert problems, but it allows http
  @ Best Practices for Scientific Computing really, for all s/w development
  : Had Desti on my lap for a _long_ time.
  * posted mdlbear | Git: The other blockchain

0222Fr
  * car loan due (paid 0130)
  * Up 3:55; S=4:23;
  @ Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Chronic Illness
  @ Girls With Guts
    " The mission of Girls With Guts is to support and empower women with inflammatory
      bowel disease (Crohn’s disease & ulcerative colitis) and/or ostomies through the
      building of sisterhood and self-esteem. "
  : Brief power glitch.  Wind is supposedly 25mph, which doesn't rate a warning.
  : C got a call from the doctor's office.  2 different UTIs; IV antibiotics needed.
    We're up in Coupeville ATM. -> mailed Things 1 & 2 (R & E), S, and L.  Don't want to
    worry N unnecessarily.
    -> Dr. R was apparently expecting her to go to Everett
    -> her urologist said that as long as the catheter isn't blocked and she doesn't have
       a fever, she doesn't need antibiotics and may as well go home.  So we did.
  * quite a lot of work on vv/sync and pull-all.
  : kerfuffle over dinner planning.  S and C get carried away.

0223Sa
  * awake 3:30; dozed for a couple of hours
  * up 6ish; W=198.6, S=6:20;
  @ Supreme Court unanimously rules against policing for profit. (ff)
  @ To sleep well, let yourself be rocked! (ff) includes video of rocking bed
  : call from Neil atPSSL, the people who sold me my
    MXL 2008 mic on eBay.  Said if
    I call in he can beat the price of any of their web storefronts (eBay, $A, pssl.com). 
    By an odd coincidence, Desti was playing with the box at the time.    
  @ Vincent Price Rare TV Show - "What in the World" - YouTube (episode)
    What In The World?® - YouTube (playlist)
    What in the World? (game show) - Wikipedia - haven't seen it in ages
  * Finished, I think, the post on markup languages, text editors, and formatters.  Will
    probably post it on Monday or Tuesday.
    -> oh, that's right.  I was going to put in footnotes for all the software.  Oops.
  @ fuzzyred | Naa Vodo (cf. Ursine)
  * working on FAWM song.  Might even finish it tonight.
  @ Finished lyrics.  Posted:  FAWM: We'll Go No More A-Roving, s4s no demo

Comments

Unsolicited advice

[jesse_the_k]

...from decades of dinking around with rollators, transport chairs, manual chairs, power chairs.

- don't buy anything new/with insurance for the first one because it's always wrong.

- sounds like Colleen is large enough that a stock chair will be uncomfortable (at best)

- happy to talk on this topic at great length if you're interested.

---

Very sorry to hear that Colleen's health is an issue. "Colonization" is a thing when you cath, worth discussion with urologist/nephrologist. (I've been intermittent caching for decades as well.)

Re: Unsolicited advice

[mdlbear]

Good advice; we've only been doing this for a little over a decade. Colonization is very much a thing; she's already in discussions with her urologist and nephrologist. So far she's had a couple of mobility scooters, a power chair (bought used, and which is currently in need of some repair), a couple of rollators, several 2-wheel walkers, and two or three canes. She definitely needs a new scooter, but insurance doesn't pay for those.

[lilysea]

I have experience using rollators and power wheelchairs since 2010, feel free to ask me stuff if that would be useful! ^_^

[mdlbear]

Thanks! Feel free to ask me about scooters -- Colleen got her first one in 2009.