mdlbear | Done Since 2019-04-07 (Reply)

Worried about Colleen. She seems to be getting worse, not better. I'm don't know what I should do. No idea what I can do. She's declining, and I'm scared. No idea what the fuck is going to happen when I go off to my 50th reunion in June.

I had a great time Monday doing a back-yard archaeology dig with N and (her younger kid) j. We actually found a few things, which made it a lot more exciting.

I finally managed to get the little yellow GL-iNet router configured as a wifi-to-ethernet bridge for the printer. That turns out to be tricky if you want both ends to be part of the same network. It's even pretty tricky if you don't. I am, however, finding my way around OpenWrt, the more versatile (and more up-to-date) of the two aftermarket Linux distributions for routers. I'm now working on the somewhat more ambitious project of setting up a bridge to the Box Room, using the Linksys WNDR4300 I ordered from eBay on Monday. That seems to be going a little more smoothly.

I ran the numbers on next year's taxes. Turns out I can reduce my withholding by over $1K/month. That will help a lot.

Pretty much done incorporating the editor's suggestions into $GIG; now I have to get the rest of it -- about the last third -- finished.

I really just want to crawl into a hole and hide until things get better. But I know that if I do that, they never will.

Notes & links:

0407Su
& awake 4ish; cuddle
* Up4:30ish; ;
: looked at thinkpads. The x220 is the last with a clicky keyboard; the230 has
chicklets. Not clear whetherthe 230 has a thinklight -> yes.
: `git log --graph` draws the tree
& ordered another WNDR4300 from eBay. Doesn't do OpenWrt well because broadcom, but it
works well enough in DD-Wrt, so I'll have one for the printer and one as a box room
range extender. Should probably have waited and maybe flashed the router back to its
factory configuration, which had been working until the power supply got flaky. But
the 4300 was cheap and familiar.
: Hmm. Looks like the 4300 is just fine with OpenWrt (stock firmware is based on it).
See OpenWrt Project: Netgear WNDR4300 Perils of old documentation: I remember
reading that there are problems with v2, but apparently not. Or else it was DD-Wrt
-> it's DD-Wrt that doesn't support v2. But I'd been planning to install DD.
OpenWrt Project: Wifi Extender or Repeater or Bridge Configuration
* go down to N's. Backyard archaeology on Monday. Left after lunch with C

0408Mo
* up 5ish; ;
* order a couple of vanilla beans 10 for ~35
* backyard archaeology with j leave ~4:40
% even more fun than I expected.
% Apparently managed to hurt somebody with an ill-thought-out comment
* replace ORCA card on the way back id: 30206245 -> $3 replacement fee. Put $22 on it
because it will be five days before the balance transfers from the old care.
Community Transit RideStore 20110 46th Avenue W, Lynnwood - M-F 7-6
: C in pretty bad shape. Very swolen; I'm not sure her kidneys are working at all.

0409Tu
* up 5am; S=5:53; shower
: I'm pretty sure we need to get C to an ER; only question is which one.
* gave lp a static ip address (same as before, just doesn't need dhcp. There are Issues
using DHCP across wireless bridges because of MAC addresses.)
* using the GL router as a bridge to the printer. Damned if I know which set of things
to do to reproduce it. But it works.
* C in to Freeland for labs. Start leaving ~2. -> arrived ~2:45, which is pretty good
% C is not in good shape. Very swollen. Retaining water.
* take up garbage cans
~ reinflate Molly's tires - didn't seem to need
% 5pm sleepy
* whidbeytel credit card needs update
* TAXES DONE! eFiled and accepted.
& playing with WAP3 now that it's not needed as the printer bridge.

0410We
& awake 12:30ish, woken by Ticia; managed to get back to sleep
* up 6:50ish; W=198, S=7:57
@ FOSS Means Kids Can Have a Big Impact | Linux Journal
: wap3 doesn't seem to have an internet connection, probably because it doesn't know the
gateway. -> in the common config for LAN
: It's possible -- even likely -- that the problems people were having in the box room
were due to the fact that WiFi doesn't bridge MAC addresses properly.
-> thing to do is bridge wap3 (North) over 2.4GHz and use the new one in the box room
with its own DHCP and NAT. Routing instead of NAT if possible.
* out for cat litter
: Tax planning for 2019 -- my refund actually increases if I take out the cashed-out
401K. That sort of makes sense, because the standard deduction is a larger fraction
of my income. But... sheesh! -> reduce withholding to 9-10% from 20 (25?).
* cat boxes and * water bowl

0411Th
* Up 6:30ish; S=7:32;
@ First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black
Hole - IOPscience (via APOD:
2019 April 11 - First Horizon Scale Image of a Black Hole)
Event Horizon Telescope - Wikipedia
Very-long-baseline interferometry - Wikipedia Closure phase
: clinic called - C's INR is back in range, so she should go back to 1.5mg warfarin
* spent most of the morning making suggested changes in $GIG
* start to leave ~1:45
* 2:45pm C Dr. Rochier
-> kidney function back up -- Creatinine ~2.5(?) -> GFR ~17;
-> if she has a fistula it would be to the small intestine; otherwise she'd be septic
: well, crap. Back to square one on the printer bridge. Lost the upstream connection.
almost certainly need the relayd hack. Somehow managed to get the WiFi client up,
though, and was able to install packages. Now it's broken again. I can _only_ get to
it by WiFi.

0412Fr
* up 5:30; S=6:36
@ Choosing A Monospace Font | Wisdom and Wonder Hack. Runner-up, Deja Vu Sans Mono
Hack | A typeface designed for source code (github apt install fonts-hack
DejaVu Fonts
@ New package: emacs-jupyter : emacs
* moved wpa3 back to the desk for the printer -- just effing worked.
-> I'll see if I can get one of the mesh systems working.
@ Gitalytics Metrics: Black Hole Image
& replaced another of C's crappy charging cables. She's hard on them
-> back sore from bending. ibuprofen.
o can pay car loan on or after this date

0413Sa
* up 5:30ish; S=6:03;
: something on my phone is putting up full-screen ads - today it was "start your day
with God". May have to do a purge. Not clear that will help.
@ Monkey the Cat Hunts for Dinner RFID whiffle balls; food vending machine
@ Cordwainer Smith | Search: fadedpage.com from magazines < 1969, PD in Canada
The Ballad of Lost C'mell
Tor Project because Canada
* FINALLY got the little GL router to bridge WiFi to the printer. That means I can free
up the new WNDR4300 for the box room. It can't hit anything outside the local
network, but for this application it dosn't have to.
* paid car loan, AMEX