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mdlbearSome good things this week, though under my usual definition of "a good week is one where nobody went to the ER" it wasn't a good week -- V's son was the one this time. Too much exercise on too little water.
But the good things -- Sunday L got out of the hospital -- she'd been in with pneumonia. Tuesday, C got out of the hospital. By now she's only a little weaker than when she went in last Friday. And Wednesday my new (to me) laptop arrived. After going through quite a few different possible names (it's a Thinkpad, so the common theme is "black things") I settled on Sable. Sable is not only the tincture (color) black in heraldry, it's an animal with black fur in the weasel family.
Much of the rest of the week was spent on configuring Sable; it's not quite ready to replace Cygnus but it's close. Compared to Cygnus it has twice as much RAM, twice as much SSD storage, nearly twice the battery life, and about ten times the speed. It's a little bigger, and weighs almost exactly the same. (I'm still not entirely convinced that I'm better off with Sable, a Thinkpad X230, than I would have been with an X1 Carbon. Really, it's a bit of a toss-up -- both have their advantages.)
Yesterday I went to (neighbor)Dean's annual birthday party -- alone, since nobody else in the house was up for it. Met a few people. Not as much fun as it was two years ago when I went with C, N and the kids. But...
0908Su
* up 6ish; W=200.0, S=6:18; shower
/ echo A: `gg '[0-9])A'|wc -l`, D: `gg '[0-9])D'|wc -l` -> A: 19, D: 18
which is correct, because she hasn't been discharged yet.
: L going home this afternoon with an O2 tank.
~ bring charger for L -> not needed, so I'm recharging the battery with it.
/ C thinks that she may be going home tomorrow.
/ It occurrs to me that part of our communication problems may be that C's poor hearing
leads her to distrust what people tell her, even when she's heard it correctly, if it
isn't what she expected to hear. Which it usually isn't.
% Very little motivation recently.
: the hospital's firewall appears to be blocking ssh. Grump. I doubt that it's the
first time I noticed.
& picked up some "tuna jerky" at Payless on the way to Coupeville (along with two
crullers, which I ate on the way up). Yesterday's lunch at the caffeteria was
sufficiently disappointing to make me not want to want a repeat. The tuna is pretty
good; spicy rather than sweet.
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: apparently I arrived in the lobby just minutes after L's ride showed up (two hours
late). Beat her home b/c she'd stopped for meds. She's now on oxygen; hopefully not
for too long.
* first cut at nova's new disk. Missing the bootable flag.
% stood up too long, so I'm sitting down for a break.
* second try. Worked -- interrupted the boot early the first time because I hadn't
realized that it needed to fsck. -> works fine.
There still seems to be an issue with GRUB -- just sat there in the menu rather than
booting -- but other than that it's okay. Or seems to be.
0909Mo
& Awake 1:30-4am
* up 7:30ish; S=6:22;
% Left QL this time
* CPAP supplies are supposed to be IN Clinton for pickup on the 9th
-> delivery ticket generated (that's what counts); will be picked up by Earl tomorrow
* (0909) CPAP supplies (month 0 mod 3, 3 mod 6) disp filters, cushion, mask, tubing
# in general, change CPAP filter around the 1st and 15th; nosepiece around the 15th
% good talk on 7c -- sounds like embarrassment is a trigger. Obvious when I think of it'
* left for Coupeville a little before noon
/ aiming for discharge tomorrow. We'll see.
/ dietician: her vitimin D level is on the low end of normal; kidneys convert it to
active form; may need to take the active form.
? poll for laptop name? Probably not, but maybe
/ two bugs: E. coli and ?pseudomonas - both sensitive to cipro (again), so she'll be on
that for 10-14 days. Kidney function improving.
$ HSX comp of CC+S to (nursing assistant)Desiree; she'd expressed an interest to C
* put a CD or two back in Plink's case
% 8pm back problems seem to be mostly gone at this point
0910Tu litter boxen
* Up 5:10; W=199.4, S=6:38;
% nova is having trouble booting after upgrade. It eventually came up, though, but with
sda1 read-only -> screwed-up fstab in the entry for /; apparently happened when I
replaced the UUID
* deposit check from YD's 529 fund. (Tried last night but server was down. WTF?)
/ visiting C no longer requires gown and gloves. Yay!
/ (0910)Discharge instructions:
* pick up C's cipro
* cut digoxin in half (250 -> 125; requires cutting the tablets) -> updated list
: L' called in sick, so it's my turn to make the garbage run
* 5pm take out garbage. Involved emptying back bathroom and kitchen, changing litter
still only one can.
& made account on clyp.it for sharing music without contact info: clyp.it/user/jful3jic
# I don't like it -- there's no place for lyrics, and getting stuff up is tedious
* list "things I avoid" and "things I feel confident about and _don't_ avoid"
-> look for patterns
c.f. the list of "things that feed steve" that N suggested I make (back in April)
% between the list and putting some songs up on clyp.it and into a post on 7c, I ended
up going to bed somewhere after midnight.
0911We
* up 8ish; W=199.4, S=7:47;
: Oh. right. 9/11
: V came by briefly - her son is in the hospital (Providence) Eeek!
/ 10am home health (Thel) coming for (re)intake.
* fried matzoh for breakfast
: the new laptop is out for delivery! Now I really do need a name
panther / crow / onyx / anthracite / blackthorn / sable -> sable
also (not particularly good) coal, jet, ebony,
2-word names like black{snake, oak, rhino, cat, bear,...} (no space or hyphen)
# hyphen is permissible, but doesn't feel right because it suggests a pause
% updated and organized list of things I avoid
: 3:20 the X230 arrived, with ultrabase and mini-DP-to-HDMI dongle
A little bigger than I expected, but a perfect fit for the keyboard, and 1oz heavier
-> so that's a little disappointing, but the screen is a lot bigger and it's faster
7 seconds from GRUB to login screen.
* SL: english muffins, jiffy creamy PB, earth balance, mushrooms, eggs, almond milk
green beans, carrots, potatoes, turnip
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: I'll need a full-sized DP-to-HDMI dongle for the ultrabase; might have to leave that
alone for a while. The mini-dock might work better as a temporary measure. It can
also support Sherman, while the ultrabase can't.
0912Th
* up 7:15; ;
* fetch mini-dock, laundry soap from garage.
: 10:30ish L'
* fix up Mathilda/.bootstrap.sh -- there were still some residual problems.
: sable has the same size screen as cygnus, which is kind of unfortunate but not fatal.
* 2pm L psych appointment in Coupeville - leave 1:15
left in a bit of a rush, so brought cygnus instead of sable. Not a problem.
: what _was_ a problem was having the outlet-extended pulled out, and wondering why the
monitor wasn't working. And Sable somehow got the external monitor assigned as
primary, which is hard as heck to recover from.
* picked up a prescription for L. Naturally my CPAP supplies were'nt there.
: rain, and occasional thunder
% ... and now I'm procrastinating working on Sable, because I'm at a tedious point
% ... and 10 stacked-up alerts from mondly
* pay for Molly (due 9/22)
* pay AX (Due 9/18) also paid from household account - high balance.
: Running xmonad under gnome on sable windows come up under Nautilus. Fixed it once but
don't remember how.
: worst cleanup ever % I can't even
0913Fr
* up 7ish; W=199.2, S=6:34; cleanup, shower
* pick up CPAP supplies in Clinton (should be there by now) -> got call
-> so of course they didn't have anything but the nosepiece and filters.
: sable does weird things with the displays -- plug in the second monitor, and it gets
re-labeled display#1. So there's actually nothing wrong with either xmonad or gnome.
It's still a pain in the arse, and might be fixable with xrandr. Or -> a VGA plug.
? but I thought it worked okay with metacity. Must re-check
? active vs passive adapter?
-> it varies, and even when they're correctly labeled they're not used as separate
monitors by xmonad, so it's lack of xinerama someplace.
-> works okay with Viewsonic monitor on VGA :P
-> can be made to work with the large monitor on VGA; required control panel fiddling
: sable also has impressive battery life. It's also impressively fast.
* connect new kindle paperwhite to $A account
* load C's meds, since V wasn't here to do it Weds.
* put sable into DHCP with correct address
0914Sa
% cuddles with Ticia and C
* Up 4:50ish; ;
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* nearly an hour of French on mondly
~ get C's make-up case out of closet -> not the box I thought it was. White hard case?
* 1:30ish went over to Dean's party. Good magic show. Met some people, including the
other Steve. A lot of people were here for the second year; I skipped last year.
* more benchmarks -- blackroot, starlight. MAC addresses, for DHCP.
Blackroot is actually a pretty fast machine -- beats both cygnus and nova.
Raven, Sable, and Starlight are basically comparable, and all are faster than
Snowflake, which was the previous leader.
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Date: 2019-09-23 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-24 01:11 am (UTC)Huh. Hadn't heard of rejection dysphoria; I think my case might be closer to social anxiety, but it isn't really that either. But I haven't found anything that fits particularly well.
Men with rejection sensitivity generally tend to be very controlling of their intimate relationships. Men with rejection sensitivity may get more or easily jealous of situations that may compromise their relationship with their partner.... um... no. Must be something else.
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