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mdlbearNot a bad week? Maybe even a good week. A fair amount of interaction with my 7cups therapist, a family dinner (with bonus Harold Feld) on Tuesday, and new glasses. C's health started out pretty bad but improved over the week. Lunch at Charmer's, and a nice drive. Ticia got her shots and had her toenails trimmed. We ended the week with aurora-viewing (not a very good view; it was cloudy and all we could see was colored light behind the clouds) from the front deck. Friday I actually noticed that it was a nice day and that I was happy -- that's rare. I made some progress on clearing off my desk.
On the down side my blepharitis has been acting up, I'm still in the "occasional headaches" stage of getting used to new glasses, my desk isn't anywhere near cleaned off, and just because C is a little better, that doesn't mean that she's at all well.
0825Su & awake 5ish; dozed and cat-cuddled * Up 6ish; S=5:37; % left QL this time -- heat @ ‘It is an act of insanity to stay in the U.S.:’ Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched Massachusetts to retire in the highlands of Panama - MarketWatch @ xmonad layouts for netbooks replay from 2017 * Lunch at Charmer's, followed by a drive up through Oak Harbor's historic waterfront district (i.e., not turning left to stay on Rt. 20) We eventually curled around and ended up rejoining 20 at Goldie St. @ The great university con: how the British degree lost its value tl;dr: government stupidity creating perverse incentives. Sounds familiar. @ These are the 5 Best Eyelid Wipes and Scrub - Blepharitis Wiki -> put OCuSOFT plus on my $A subscription @ Depersonalization / Derealization Disorder Symptoms : apparently you can put linebreaks just about anywhere inside a url -- but not spaces that includes spaces used for indentation, which is not surprising. @ Experiencing and Expressing Emotion | University of Illinois Counseling Center / 9pm C vomiting. I don't think she's had anything since the lobster benedict this am Iced tea and vanilla gelato at lunch, tea at home and maybe nothing else. % my housemates, L and S, are doing a lot more outside the house than I am. L just got back from a play. S volunteers. I mostly just sit around. I don't think that's healthy. It was usually C, and later N, who got me off my ass doing things. -> I _am_ spending a lot of worry, energy, and time on C. So there's that. 0826Mo & awake midnight, maybe another time: C having continuing stomach problems * up 7:25; W=200.6, S=5:41; * (0826) order new CPAP disp. filters, cushion. 360-679-4171 (direct # from handout) -> they get delivered on Tuesdays and Fridays * glasses ready - pick up any time -> extra $35 for the 35mm bifocal spots -> as expected, they don't work well with the rear-view camera; mirror works fine -> both pairs will take some getting used to. -> naproxen -> computer glasses don't work as well as nothing for distance; bifocal reading segment works okay on laptop, way better for phone. -> getting re-used to juggling them is likely to take time. So is getting used to what the new frames look like in a mirror Frames: Scott Harris SH-646 - Europa Eyewear * pick up vet records for Cricket, Bronx, Brooklyn; make appt for Ticia * SL bananas, coffee, lunch meat, black cherry yogurt in small tubs + bathroom cleaner (not actually needed), catfood (pate) % 2015 Conflikt brunch CD; very restless and I think something else; can't tell if it's the music, the glasses (and associated headache), too little lunch, something about tomorrow's guest (strict kosher; I bailed), or the fact that I almost certainly need to find another therapist on 7c (been 2.5mo, maybe once or twice/wk) % ... and I feel as though I ought to go play guitar, but something is holding me back. Probably the feeling that I need to deal with other, less pleasant things first. : (7c therapist)A has been in the hospital for the last week. So maybe that's something I won't have to do. 0827Tu & awake 2:30ish; itching; 4am go back to bed * up 7:25; S=6:47; : call from Island Drug - apparently Medicare goes by the date stuff is delivered, so my next batch of supplies will arrive September 9th. It will, however, be a 3-month batch because July was skipped. * SL: lettuce, neufchatel cheese for C's bagel, 1# Earth Balance, plastic flatware, -bread- (paring and two serrated steak) knife, tub of desitin / (0827) 1ish C home health (Thel) catheter change * L' * copied (my) FAWM songs to {me,lgf}/Lyrics git log --pretty=email --reverse --full-index --binary -- besties.flk \ twenty-first-century-breakup.flk we-ll-go-no-more-a-roving.flk weird-load.flk \ > fawm.log it doesn't matter if pdfs or txt files get into the list, because they're gitignored * Dinner with Harold Feld - see chat with N for details. -> bagels and lox; salad; 9 people total; G aiming for the 5:40 ferry -> CJ snagged the "they them" pronoun button I brought back from Carleton. (suggests that that's what they're using now) -> lots of leftovers (though a somewhat unbalanced set) * improved quick and dirty kramdown-to-html one-liner for putting stuff up fast: (echo ' '; kramdown -i GFM --no-hard-wrap -o html \ FILE.md ) | | ssh savitzky.net sh -c 'cat > steve.savitzky.net/DEST.html' % biggest insight from today's exercise in identifying stressors and strategies for dealing with them: move "playing guitar" from "something I should find time for" to "what I should try first for self-care after anything stressful". 0828We * Up 7:47; S=8:00; ~ tried to capture Ticia for her 10am appointment. Clawed me in her struggles, then went into hiding -> behind L's chair. Moved appt to 5pm; we'll see. * V called in sick. Loaded C's meds myself. Should just plan on doing it along with mine Tuesday evening. Out of lomotil * ordered C's meds: spironolactone, balsalazide (which was expensive, and only a 30 day supply) -> it's the high dose that she maybe had trouble with. Watch carefully for kidney problems. * set up my eyeglass stand on the desk. Required moving a lot of stuff around, but worthwhile. & 3pm put the kibble in a cat carrier. Ticia seems curious but suspicious. Might not work; should have been doing it for the last month * 5pm Ticia SWAC - start collecting her around 4:15 -> L enticed her with treats and carried her to the carrier. She meowed all the way to the vet, hid under a table, and didn't make a sound going home. Let me cuddle her, with her face nuzzled into my elbow, while she was on the table getting her exam and her shots. Got her toenails clipped. -> weighs 14 lbs; could use having her teeth cleaned. & a little guitar noodling, but I don't remember at what point in the day 0829Th * Up 5:55; W=199.2, S=5:53; * 9:30ish guitar: Bad Man Medley * SL stamps; roll butter, paper towels, mushrooms, english muffins, stoned wheat thins, sorbet, +choc. ice cream, blue cheese dressing (we already had sorbet and blue cheese dressing; I hadn't checked) -Louisiana horseradish hot sauce, minced garlic (not christopher's (which they had)), angel hair (fine shredded green) cabbage, etc. @ rabbit-hole starting at Optional HTML: Everything You Need to Know · Jens Oliver Meiert and going through Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) by way of WHATWG Standards Think of it as the shadow W3C HTML Standard (multipage) -> CSS Books: Building Books with CSS3 – A List Apart A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development · Jens Oliver Meiert / 4pm C PT (Etta) -> halfway down the ramp and back up * 15min: pay IRS - needs a check for $414 (due 0919) 0830Fr * Up 7:30ish; W=199.4, S=8:18; % right QL hurting -> naproxen, heating pad. Possibly because of the weighted blanket : Erroneous past due notice email from AMT Warranty Corp. (Administrator for the Chevrolet-Buick-GMC and Cadillac Protection Plans) amyntagroup.com (888) 256-0076 email says that the due date is 8/28, but withdrawals have happened on the 29th: 6/29, 7/29, 8/29. All successful. First call dropped while agent was looking into it (for the second time). Apparently there was a system upgrade last night? % broke my 60-something-day-streak on 7c, so this may be a good time to dial it down " me: It's kind of sad that I can consider depositing two checks and paying a tax bill to be something of an accomplishment, but I'll take what I can get. " on 7c ! It's a lovely day - warm, sunny, and I noticed that at the time Happy!? that's the first mood word that popped into my head, and I'm inclined to trust those. % now back down to something like content (hard to grep for - lots of false positives) % mindfulness: washing dishes is very calming; I rarely think about anything else. It's an odd sort of meditation practice, but it works for me. % computer glasses seem to work better at my typical reading distance than bifocals They're worse than nothing at distance, however. * 15min: filed the cats' vet records and the tax bill; read an issue of Science while waiting for Desti to get off my chair. I know there's a stapler somewhere % 3pm blood sugar - salami/pepperoni sandwich. May need peanut butter as well. % memory-triggered stress response? -> breathing and soothing self-talk helped * 15min: mail sorting, including the pile N left on the ottoman. * music: a little guitar work, trying to find the right key for "Go No More A-Roving" currently in C, but might work better in D (since I would probably capo it anyway) % headache. Possibly associated with glasses. Wrong ones for a task? @ CABINETS — via The Wave Cabinet Opens Like a Paper Fan | Colossal and An Early 20th Century Guide to Wave Designs for Japanese Craftsmen is Now Available Online | Colossal (on the Internet Archive) via Sculptural Metal Jewelry by Ewa Nowak Helps Wearers Avoid Being Tracked by Facial Recognition Technology | Colossal via this post by @lilysea @ Twenty Instruments Reconstructed to Play Through the Keys of a Vintage Piano | Colossal -> Brunettes Shoot Blondes - Houston (LIVE) - YouTube Making of "Houston" @ cf Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) - YouTube and of course "Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com - YouTube and... a live cover! Atom-powered Intel Industrial Controller in Concert playing Pipe Dream - YouTube! 0831Sa * up 5:50ish; W=199.4, S=6:54; @ How Woodstock 50 Turned Into a Disaster – Rolling Stone @ Earworms: Why we get them and how to shake them off - ABC News @ Safe Spaces: A Post That is In No Way About Whiny College Students and Is About Home Decorating – Aut of Spoons explains a little about how my corners are organized, and how they could be _better_ @ Hacking Your Executive Function Masterpost – Aut of Spoons looks useful $ another $400 to E for expensive textbooks. * check requested from TD ! 1:30pm stress and/or anxiety. Don't know why, but have been looking through caregiving information, so that's one possibility. Needing to go out shopping is another. / stuff C can eat: (fruit-flavored, plain) yogurt, cottage cheese, eggs (hard boiled, deviled, on english muffins (cheese optional)), 2oz cheese, lunch meat 1lb?/wk (pastrami, corned beef, salami, turkey, cucumbers?) .25(?)lb/sandwich, baked potato (plain yogurt instead of sour cream), cooked zuccini?, baked apples, stir fry (not curry), -> inlined here; then copied to (new)food.do # Created food.do for food and restaurant notes * 15min: some weed-cutting on the north end of the house before going shopping. Took out the hemlock that had was visible from the master bathroom * 0831 SL: pantsu; pickle relish, capers, gin, ginger ale + potato chips, {rye, wheat} bread, x cat litter (n.b. due from $A tomorrow), wheat thins -> they'll have the spironolactone tomorrow * a little bit of guitar; don't remember exactly. * add WHATWG standards to h.home @ wrote Songs for Saturday: Pipe Dreams, which counts as self-care music too. # verified that pointing .draft at a draft post instead of a draft entry still works. : There's supposed to be a spectacular aurora tonight between 11 and 12. N came up for the show. Apparently G reads someone's space weather report -> there were clouds in the way, but one could see them being lit up from behind. * C went splat ~10:30, got scared being by herself, then came out to watch with us on the front deck. The show was more east than north at that point.
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