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mdlbearAs of today it's been exactly two months since Colleen was discharged from her last hospital stay. (That's important because it starts a new "benefit period" for Medicare purposes.) So far the bladder and kidney infections have not come back. No telling how long that will last.
A lot of my mental bandwidth has been taken up by a couple of major kerfuffles on 7cups.com, discussed further in Tempest in a teacup. I'm paying for a licensed therapist, so my main reason for using the site has been unaffected, but I'm re-evaluating my use case for the rest of it.
While looking for a link for my cousin Alice, a professional viola da gamba player, I fell down a rabbit-hole (of course) and landed on Dave Conservatoire | The world's free music school. Lots of video lessons -- it's basically a YouTube channel. If you'd rather read, there are a lot of free articles on Musical U (although they steer you toward getting a $30/month membership).
What really attracted me about Dave's were the lessons on Sonic Pi and MuseScore; both open-source and cross-platform. Sonic Pi is particularly intriguing -- it's a code-based music creation and performance tool. Meaning you edit your "score" program and the music it's making changes in real-time. (There are several similar setups, at least one of which is based on Emacs.)
Anyway, kind of a weird week. I should get out more.
1103Su litter boxen * up 5am; S=6:16; laundry * both CPAP filters changed; probably Friday (1101) @ my cousin AR: violone viola da gamba description, history, Jose Vazquez, Orpheon Consort Why You're Not Making Progress On Your Instrument... and How To Fix It (VdGSA: Teaching Videos) @ Learn Musicality and Ear Training | Musical U must explore. Membership $30/m * brunch @ Charmer's; including S. -> drive afterward: Langley Loop (~25mi) * 3:45 reset kitchen clocks * 4:30ish practice - Ship of Stone, Bad Guys @ 8 Questions to Ask Someone Other Than “What Do You Do?” * work on ballot Progressive Voters Guide all makes sense but no info on local races. WIDC Whidbey Island Voter’s Election Guide 2019 – Whidbey Weekly candidate statements Marianne's Politiblog -> best guide I could find. See sidebar for local races @ What's Blockchain Actually Good for, Anyway? For Now, Not Much | WIRED @ 7 Cybersecurity Threats That Can Sneak Up on You | WIRED doctored USB sticks and charging cables, zombie accounts, untrusted browser extensions, online quizzes, photo metadata, IoT devices (mostly paraphrased) : I am, apparently, still in the ARIN database with handle SS39-ARIN; the org handle GCS-2 and my /24 is still assigned. Last update was in 2011; address out of date. fee should be $125/y for legacy resources... don't think I'm interested in keeping it But my email domain is listed as crc.ricoh.com. I'll probably be unable to update it / minor cleanup, two dressing changes; fresh bedpads, desitin; new statlok 1104Mo / 4:50am another minor cleanup. no dressing change; fresh bedpads, desitin * up 4:50am; S=4.6, W=196.6; whether I can get back to sleep is unclear -> no; shower / 9am cleanup. Threw pads in laundry. @ Dave Conservatoire | The world's free music school huge; free (via musical-u) " a free online music school, aiming to provide a world-class music education for everyone. " -> open source software Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool. youtube lessons Free music composition and notation software | MuseScore & called Home Health; determined that we're scheduled for Tu and Fr this week; they'll look into what happened last week. * Thel -- crossed wires? * 5pm singing lesson - drop ballot off at post office on the way Ship of Stone - pulled off my best performance (at N''s) so far. Riverheart - first time. Slow it down a little, take it down a fret. / 10ish cleanup, with remnants of an incomplete earlier one. 1105Tu * up 7:10; S=7:35; wash CPAP humidifier pot * get L up at 7:30 / minor cleanup -- for some reason she didn't want to be checked, but I insisted ~ voting day - drop box (Ken's Korner) closes at 8pm @ Guy Fawkes $ C AX $60 to American Cancer Society (pledged last month) * put hasp on booze cabinet @ Blog posting software planning for a post on either MakeStuff or scripting 1106We * Up 5:45ish; S=6:19; : L' moved the contents of the big box of unsorted bathroom stuff into a huggies box. the cats naturally had to investigate. x 8:15 C Dr. Rochier -> issue seems to have resolved itself @ The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right - POLITICO Magazine $ C AX $100 to Planned Parenthood. Updated address from Roosevelt Way to current @ yak shaving - Wiktionary Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. Don’t Shave That Yak! | Seth's Blog the full story: " “I want to wax the car today.” “Oops, the hose is still broken from the winter. I’ll need to buy a new one at Home Depot.” “But Home Depot is on the other side of the Tappan Zee bridge and getting there without my EZPass is miserable because of the tolls.” “But, wait! I could borrow my neighbor’s EZPass…” “Bob won’t lend me his EZPass until I return the mooshi pillow my son borrowed, though.” “And we haven’t returned it because some of the stuffing fell out and we need to get some yak hair to restuff it.” And the next thing you know, you’re at the zoo, shaving a yak... " (wrt collecting info for medicaid application) not to be confused with Bikeshed * 15min: decluttering (gradually; includes helping V clear off the card table) * SL: probiotic (Nature's Miracle? Bottle, not box), cat food, whole peeled garlic (lots, for roasting), mushrooms, salmon bits, cow milk, coffee, biokleen dish soap ? MedicaidPlanningAssistance.org is a free service provided by the American Council on Aging except that the "American Council on Aging" appears to be defunct. Sorry, they're not getting my contact info. @ History of National Council on Aging | NCOA maybe. @ How Can I Academia When My Brain Can't Even? " nobody is actually "lazy". bold claim: laziness does not exist.* *except in Haskell " @ Page 1 of 1: Some Descriptive Emotion Words - 7 Cups Forum *really* good list 1107Th * Up 5:015; S=6:07; % dangled my foot off the bed and got Ticia-nuzzles. sweet. & called PP because my donatation hadn't posted; apparently it can take up to 48 hours to process a phone donation. -> keep an eye on the account. @ What It Means to Evacuate How do you pack a go bag when you might be leaving everything behind for good? : updated Cygnus. There are a lot of unpushed commits in steve/Lyrics, but actual differences in only two files: QV and zongbook. Squash, maybe? or cherry-pick. Best guess is that on Cygnus, the FAWM songs came over with history, so what's on Sable amounts to a merge --squash % I keep accidentally biting my lip while eating. WTF? : there's a bit of an upheaval going on in 7c around dropping the feed and locking (somehow; the details aren't clear) all of the chat rooms. I'm really only there for therapy and spending too much time in the forums, so I'm not directly affected, but it's clear that following the discussion as closely as I am is not good for me. 1108Fr * up 7ish; W=196.4, S=6:25; @ Blogging in Org Mode - pwills.com ~ 10am. call home health if nobody has called by now -> Thel called ~8:30 : based on recent forum discussion, it appears that people who use a therapist rather than volunteer listeners are second-class citizens on 7cups. in particular, now you can only get into group chats if you talk to multiple listeners. Therapist doesn't count. Weird, because we're actually paying for the service. Similar thing with paid memberships and alternative growth paths - therapy doesn't count for that either. * 11ish C Thel catheter change -> recommends getting compression socks. 15mm Hg; preferably non-skid; 19" calves -> ordered 3 different flavors from $A -- we'll see which ones fit. If any. -> pressure sore developing -> stand up every 2-3 hours * 11-2 window for L' and her yard crew. @ 7 Cups of Tea Review | Online Therapy Reviews | E-counseling.com @ Is Therapy Working for You? How to Know Your Therapist is Helping | Talkspace How to Know if Therapy is Working | Beck Institute for CBT The 4 Ways You Can Tell a Therapist Is Competent | Psychology Today 7 Signs Your Therapist Is Good At Their Job (Because Some Of Us Are Weirdos) <- It seems that what I'm doing on 7c is using the forums to help people -- encouragement, sympathy, the occasional bit of wisdom,... Typical Middle-Sized Bear. @ finished @siliconshaman's 放浪癖 | hōrōheki -- nicely wrapped up and sequel-ready ! delighted. % elevated heart rate afterward -- excitement? something else? % more likely related to the kerfuffle over on 7c, in which case it would be something like a mild form of anger. Which is kind of weird, considering that it really doesn't affect _my_ use of the site at all. Or it could be heartburn. : BUG: word-count: line 172: 0 + 08: value too great for base (error token is "08") line 184: ((: != 0 : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "!= 0 ") -> another place where I forgot to use space-padded days. 1109Sa & Awake 2ish; went back to bed 5ish but couldn't get back to sleep. * up 5:30; S=5:12; shower, (my)laundry % a fun chat (about songs) and some good forum activity. The site seems to think I have 29 chats, but I don't see 'em. Wonder how/what they're counting. Weird. % not exactly sleepy, but not really awake either. * practice: noodling Stars and the Moon and Desolation Row; sang Riverheart and Millennium's Dawn. C didn't remember that I'd written the new verse; approved. Trouble is, Desolation Row (and QV) really want to be played in G, capoed up. That works (barely)nfor C, but not D. I'm not about to tune up two frets. Nope. Down 5? * posted s4s: Music for Cats (20180630) (from Music/to.do) Music for Cats Composer David Teie Creates Music Just for Cats - Catster Cats listen to 'Music for Cats' album and give their verdict % lots of nice Desti lap time. Makes it hard to type. % just (9:30ish) realized that the recliner in the bedroom is enough more comfortable than my desk chair that I should spend more time in it. It's also more isolated
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Hurrah!
Date: 2019-11-11 03:29 am (UTC)Re: Hurrah!
Date: 2019-11-11 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-11 06:05 am (UTC)I've been using MuseScore semi-regularly for some years now. Works for my own limited needs and far out-strips my own musical theory knowledge, and the UI is probably above average for complex open source software.
The 8 Qs instead of "What DO You Do" made my heart sing!
Date: 2019-11-13 12:45 am (UTC)Never imagined that online therapy would include community wank. Evidently a failure of my imagination!
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Date: 2019-11-13 04:33 pm (UTC)Also, I hate it when I keep biting my lip. I guess after the first bite the area swells and you're more likely to bite it... it's infuriating! Mouth, work better!