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mdlbearAnother deeply mixed week -- Colleen's health continues to be a concern, and at this point I can't really tell whether she's improving or declining. She was better Friday than Thursday, but that's not saying much: Thursday left me a total wreck between some very dicey transfers for her doctor's visit, and her fall getting into her chair when we got back. And I wasted quite a lot of time -- more than a day -- playing with my little travel router.
(On the other hand, the router was fun. Its flakiness turned out to have been the power supply; meanwhile I'd re-flashed it with OpenWrt, which I hadn't played with before. On the gripping hand I still haven't able to reconfigure it to bridge my laser printer, which had been the original idea. It's almost certainly possible, but I shouldn't be spending the time right now.)
On the plus side, I seem to be making pretty good progress on $GIG ($CLIENT seemed impressed with the introduction; we'll see how that goes), and I'm getting an unexpected, and unexpectedly large, tax refund thanks mainly to the greatly increased standard deduction. I think this may be my first time ever taking the standard deduction.
Between being able to reduce my withholding and our housemates' financial contributions, it looks like I won't be needing a full-time job after all, and can take on part-time work only if it's fun. ($GIG falls into that category.) And we won't need to try to turn our expansion space into a vacation rental, at least not this year.
Speaking of categories, have a look at the HTTP Status Cats and GIT PURR! Git Commands Explained with Cats!.
0331Su * Up 5:45; W=196.8, S=6:40; ... litter boxen @ BBC - Capital - The smart guide to procrastination * don't forget to set alarms for Monday: 6, 6:15, 6:30, 6:45, 7 @ HTTP Cats (Mad Filkentist) -> multiple rabbit holes -> .cat - Wikipedia Catalan -> Versió Català: HTTP Gats API (page text (not the text in the images) in Catalan) HTTP Status Cats Apache (htaccess) config munchicken/htaccess_creator: Creates ErrorDocument statements for Apache htaccess files FB: HTTP Cats - Home rogeriopvl/http.cat: HTTP Cats API @ The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker (minoanmiss) K-T boundary: " seismic waves would have arrived at Tanis six minutes, ten minutes, and thirteen minutes after the impact. (Different types of seismic waves travel at different speeds.) The brutal shaking would have been enough to trigger a large seiche, and the first blobs of glass would have started to rain down seconds or minutes afterward. They would have continued to fall as the seiche waves rolled in and out, depositing layer upon layer of sediment and each time sealing the tektites in place. The Tanis site, in short, did not span the first day of the impact: it probably recorded the first hour or so. " " It’s like finding the Holy Grail clutched in the bony fingers of Jimmy Hoffa, sitting on top of the Lost Ark. " ... hence the code name of the site. @ GIT PURR! Git Commands Explained with Cats! – GirlieMac! Blog * walk to Skybird and back. % started looking through art for stuff to hang in box room. Not much so far; tired % 6pm exhausted % scanned for MBTI: (cd ~/.ljarchive/; gf -o 'I[A-Z][A-Z]J') ./2019/03/31_1237:96:ISTJ ./2006/12/19_2005:11:ISTJ ./2009/03/13_0956:8:INFJ ./2017/05/21_1033:221:INFP ./2017/05/21_1033:221:ISFP " took an online M-B test and came out in the middle on two dimensions. So, I[NS]F[PJ]. Looking at the descriptions I'm definitely closer to P than J, probably borderline on the N/S (intuitive/sensing) dimention. So INFP or ISFP? I'm not sure I fit F rather than T. A lot of the choices were between things neither of which described me very well. And I'm not sure that F fits me, either. In touch with my feelings? Not so much. " ... so I seems fairly solid, the other three are ambiguous. I'd probably get more reliable info from a Ouija board. @ The reports of bitcoin environmental damage are garbage (via Consensys email) 0401Mo * up 5:45ish; S=7:52; * leave no later than 7am to arrive at clinic 15 min early * WAKE UP L BEFORE LEAVING * 7:20 Dr. Rochier -> slightly low GFR isn't a problem; the formula isn't valid over age 70. creatinine is fine. HDL slightly low as usual; PHQ-9 depression score 9. * SL: chutney, coffee, shrooms, distilled water x ice $ HX $60 for 2-year Linux Journal subscription - account number is: LJ874416 @ A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota and Supplementary Information for A SEISMICALLY INDUCED ONSHORE SURGE DEPOSIT AT THE KPG BOUNDARY, NORTH DAKOTA - the actual paper at PNAS, via National Geographic: Fossils may capture the day the dinosaurs died. Here's what you should know. Hell Creek Formation - Wikipedia footnotes point to the New Yorker article, plus Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs|NYT 66 million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor | Berkeley News ~ stop at PO about box from $A 1-800-222-1811 -> not open when I was there showed up this afternoon; this kind of bungled messaging has happened before. @ siderea | [p/a/s, econ, US, Patreon] Kondo and the Bibliophibians @ Preface - Object-oriented oblivion @ Objects Have Failed Richard Gabriel @ Git Magic - Preface @ https://adiaryofamom.com/faqs/ * music - a little noodling mostly on minor chords (capo 2) 0402Tu * awake 4ish; drifting, dozing, cat-cuddle * Up 6ish; S=3:22; @ The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, by David Dodd : for some reason the Samsung laser printer's manuals are at HP : ok, I know what's going on with lp -- it's not getting a DHCP lease. Appears to have a static IP, but also may have had a software "upgrade" that broke the web interface. There is also a problem with the bridge. It _was_ working... -> seems to be completely broken now. hard reset -> no dhcp -> wasted entire day The Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository debian repo. Oldish. * final inspection on the box room -> done. Took about a minute : a link to thinkwiki led me to the "thinklight", activated by Fn-PgUp. Useful in the bedroom. 03We * Up ~3:30; W=198, S=4:12, AHI=3.6; the high AHI is a bit worrisome, and may explain poor sleep. -> < 5 is normal, but with most other nights under 1, ... & wikipedia dive starting from the Deccan Traps and progressing through vug, tin, solder, and float glass. @ Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status Code Registry rogeriopvl/http.cat: HTTP Cats API HTTP Status Cats | Flickr * litterboxen * Taxes: most of the 1099s; missing BNY Mellon, Schedule C misc. expenses, deductions -> but so far we're getting money back. Mild panic before I realized that the Ricoh pension is Northern Trust, not BNY Mellon. Okay, never mind. : Cool! VNC to Whitewood works! problem? mac uses the Super key, and so does xmonad -> S-C and S-V work; they apparently get grabbed by VNC. So that's good. -> and the iOmega backup drive works, too. Don't know what was wrong, but it's "fixed" * set up the second Netgear router (wap3) -- talks to the printer just fine. leaves me wondering what to do for the box room, but... It's hard, though not impossible, to find the WNDR4300 v1; the v2 isn't supported % feeling vaguely queasy all afternoon; back's been hurting since yesterday -> ibuprofen % 6:50ish drifty after dinner. Brain fried by taxes. $ received and paid water bill 0404Th * up 6am; W=198, S=7:44; @ Reparations, systemic racism, and white Democrats’ new racial liberalism - Vox @ ‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords (MadFilkentist) Facebook Emails on Cambridge Analytica Scandal Could Be Trouble for Zuckerberg & helping C with her drugs is harrowing % failed to get dosage on ativan and warfarin. * 3:40pm C Dr. Rochier. -* HCTZ * call with medication dosages -> bring list tomorrow % I was a wreck by the time we got home, and that was before she didn't get the door closed and almost let Desti out, and then she fell getting into her chair. She's weaker than ever. I don't know what to do. % I'm dreading going in for labs tomorrow % 9:50pm very drifty, too warm; half-dozed a little. & MAJOR cleanup. Worried. 0405Fr * up 6:45; W=198.8, S=7:45; & played with laser printer setup a little. & played with mini-router a little. I seem to have managed to reset it. It doesn't look as though it can function as a bridge; it wants to be an access point. May be possible to do that from a command line. -> randomly turns itself off. basically useless -> (Sa) it was the power supply. * C in for labs -x drop off new med list % no real problems but I think I'm still rather traumatized from yesterday & went back for shopping and to -> drop off med list $ rough cut at deductions. would need another 12K for sales tax and contributions to top the standard deduction. (14699 vs 26600) Not happening. only thing left is the Schedule C & looked into the "Silver and Fit" exercise program. The parent company gets terrible reviews on Yelp; probably safest not to register on their website. : realized that what I've been seeing with C is consistent with a fistula btw. bladder and intestine. That would NOT be good if true. 0406Sa * Up 6ish; S=7:15; & read DW in the bedroom with Desti on my lap : the mini-router is definitely broken. Was able to get to LuCi (the standard OpenWRT UI) and set my ssh key; was browsing around and it simply stopped. -> tossed it rather than waste more time on it. -> then second thought: power supply problem? Testing. Yeah; that was the problem. -> LuCi doesn't seem able to connect with WPA encryption, but it's connected via the network set up by the GL software. Weird. -> flashing with dd-wrt 18.06.2 -> ok, that worked. -> still trying to get the wireless client to work. -> wasted entire day again @ The golden age of YouTube is over - The Verge * pull request for another set of changes to $GIG git subtree split -P $SUBTREE -b $BRANCH --rejoin cd ../$UPSTREAM git subtree pull -P $SUBTREE2 ssavitzky $BRANCH push origin $BRANCH @ Stay in Sync with Upstream via Git Subtree's - Kitware Blog
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