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mdlbearPretty decent week; no real disasters, a couple of stress/overload events and a few worries, but on the whole... I'm setting my mood to an unqualified "okay", which is a bit unusual. It's the second time I've used it this month, but the time before that was over a year ago. (There have been a couple of "happy"s in weeks when Colleen was discharged from whatever she was in.)
The last time she was hospitalized was a month and a half ago. She had her first visit by a Home Health occupational therapist this week.
Technical aside: I also spent some time yesterday making C's hospital and rehab admissions, transfers, and discharges easy to find with
grep. The relevant command is
git grep -n '[0-9])[ADT]'
I ordered a couple of 2TB hard drives to replace the drives on the server -- the main one is pretty old, and the backup is too small. They have gotten insanely cheap. I also looked at laptops again. Some more? As usual? I'm still waffling.
I think I've been spending too much time on 7Cups. The original idea was just to get therapy, but I've gotten sucked into the forums. I'm not getting all that much therapy, either; that probably warrants some discussion. Also, their UX sucks. Web forums usually suck, actually.
this is somewhat encouraging. More links under the notes for Thursday.
0721Su
* Up 6:30;
/ C's knee still giving her trouble. That's scary.
-> It was even more scary because she insisted _again_ on trying it herself without
telling me to follow her. Stubborn cat! (Oh. Right. Cat.)
% 2:25 feeling a little ?light-headed; hearing my pulse. Have not had lunch.
-> had a bowl of cereal, which was about all that felt appealing.
* more Thinkpad comparisons -- info mostly from Wikipedia and thinkwiki
230: compact, all the I/O (needs mini-DP to HDMI cable)
X1: big 16x9 screen, lighter, needs ethernet dongle, some have no SD slot
4G seems to be the last one with no problems
@ Installing and configuring Arch Linux on Thinkpad X1 Carbon
: hard drives and SSDs have gotten insanely cheap. $100 will get you a 500GB SSD.
# I don't have a real _need_ for any more laptops or storage, except for redundancy.
& wikipedia dives into muscle relaxants and juniper
/ C had to be wheeled into the bedroom and from there to the bathroom.
-> She's been injuring her knee by twisting it when she turns instead of picking her
feet up, and she does that because she insists on not letting me tell her when she
doesn't have enough room.
# looking at hard drives again. Get a 2TB 3.5" drive for Nova (keep current drive as
hot spare or RAID 0) and a 2TB 2.5" drive for mirror (where speed doesn't matter but
power consumption does. (It's more expensive)). -> ordered.
0722Mo Pi approximation day (22/7)
& Awake 3am; trying to get back to bed ~4:15
* 9am expect (power chair technician) Tom
-> either remote (joystick) or controller. Mid-hundreds.
% 12ish postural hypotension (or something that felt like that) that went on much longer
than it usually does. Drinking some water may have helped.
@ FreeDOS turns 25 years old | Opensource.com
* Ordered a pair of Seagate 2TB drives -- one 3.5" to replace Nova's main drive, and one
2.5" to replace the mirror drive. Not clear just how to deal with the old drive.
-> Also rice, and some knitting-needle gauges for S.
@ The Running Conversation in Your Head - The Atlantic - Pocket
0723Tu
& awake 4:25ish
* Up 5am; S=6:08; shower
% TMJ not hurting today. Don't want to push my luck, though.
@ merge/skulls: pre-built coreboot images and documentation on how to flash them for the
Thinkpad X230 -> so that's a good hint about which laptop to buy.
(Libreboot only supports X200; available from Laptops - Technoethical pre-flashed
@ Geriatric Depression Scale (via this comment by @jesse_the_k on "Done Since 2019-07-14") score 23/30 = severe
@ Category:X1 Carbon - ThinkWiki
Category:X230 - ThinkWiki
* 11am C Amy (home PT)
* 2:25 C Freeland Hearing -> should have charged first. Same yesterday for the chair
-> come in around October.
* SL: new swiffer mop, almonds, English, cat food, mushrooms, ketchup, {pig, turkey}
bacon, {,un}salted stick butter, tortillas
-> +eggs, pretzel bites, cottage cheese; - turkey bacon
* take trash cans up to street
0724We
* up 6:10; S=6:43; 0724 litterboxen
% crap: now it's the _left_ TMJ that's starting to hurt.
* 11ish C (home health nurse) Mary
* pm: Libby
-> needs to vacuum L's floor and take out garbage. Don't wash L's glasses/cups.
@ About /e/ – /e/
An /e/ Summer update: smartphones for sale, applications, PWAs & next steps - Gaël
Duval (blog, mandrake, /e/ my data is my data...)
Get Support – /e/
: the new hard drives arrived today; I probably should work out a plan.
Might be a good time to switch Nova over to Debian, or -> Ubuntu 18.04 server.
Can't use Debian without a replacement for ecryptfs-utils for ~ssavitzky/Secret.
% left eye itchy, but in a slightly different way today. Maybe sleep or a bit of grit.
Also starting to get a headache on that side; probably related.
0725Th
& awake 4ish; C having a nightmare -> cuddle
* Up 5am; S=3.9; C still having nightmare, so about another hour of cuddle
@ Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months - BBC News
@ I'm striking from school to protest inaction on climate change – you should too |
Greta Thunberg | Opinion | The Guardian
The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis | Science
Greta Thunberg - Wikipedia
* posted Laptop Lust
* post Laptop Lust on curmudgeon site. Really need to write that script.
* 2:40 C Dr. Juaire (Snohomish Kidney Institute) * Get labs done before.
2707 Colby Ave Suite #718, Everett, WA 98201
* SL: PM niacin (500mg), C has prescriptions to pick up, 1Ga ziplok bags
@ The $60 Gadget That’s Changing Electronic Music - The New York Times
% 7:56 unexpectedly ???sad? Or are my eyes watering a little because I'm tired.
% wheeled C into the bedroom and pretty much fell over.
0726Fr
* up 6ish; S=7:14; shower
% unusually poor mask fit -- 41%. Sleeping more heavily than usual?
% discovered that I'd left Thankful Thursday unposted.
* C 10am OT Marcella -> kind of side-tracky; had to keep re-focussing the session,
because C. Worked mainly on sewing (the main side-track) and wheelchair (Yay!)
* took mis-delivered package up to the mailboxes
* walk - most of the way to Middle and back
@ Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse - New York Times
/ 2ish C is at her sewing machine.
* (0726) ordered CPAP supplies (filters, nosepieces)
* did a little cleanup in Nova -- pulled a couple of web directories that weren't there
ground truth for that batch is mostly Cygnus.
0727Sa
* up 6:15ish; S=6:35;
& posted (poem) "Not a Bridge" on 7c in response to a request. There are poems that
aren't collected in Lit/Poems, and should be.
* Flagged Colleen's admissions and discharges, for easy grepping. Look for A or D after
the right paren. Should use T for transfers, really.
* my 7c monthly charge for therapy renewed 0713. Am I getting $150/m worth out of it?
Or is it just another addictive social site, with not-quite-therapy on the side?
% also wondering whether mondly is really a good match for my language-learning style.
That is, if I have one. And if it works.
* walk: to Skybird
& Went through .ljarchive looking for posts tagged "poem". There are 20, including a
couple not by me and 11 tagged "prose poem". There is one haiku, in a curmudgeon
post titled "Git for poets", that is not tagged "poem".
% I have been spending way too much time and mental -- and emotional(!) effort reading
stuff on the web, and occasionally replying. I think my replies on 7cups are useful,
but I don't think I'm getting my spoons' worth out of writing them.
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Date: 2019-07-28 08:41 pm (UTC)