mdlbear | Done Since 2019-11-10 (Reply)

I'd call it a quiet week -- which I guess is not unusual. I put up a set of shelves for C's cookbooks (which are still in boxes), and spent too much time on 7cups (see this post) trying unsuccessfully to find or figure out what's been going on.

I also spent some time going back over old posts, mostly river and s4s posts, in the process of researching a significant mood shift that happened in 2009. That led to Monday's, Friday's, and yesterday's posts, and makes me wonder why the River has been neglected since then. Weird. That may be something to work on this week.

Notes & links:

1110Su
& awake 4:50; S=5:55;
* up 9ish; S=8:41;
@ The Smartphone Psychiatrist - The Atlantic
/ C was discharged from her last hospital stay on 0910, exactly 2 months/61 days ago.
That resets the timer for nursing home care. Whew!
@ 7 Cups of Tea Review | Online Therapy Reviews | E-counseling.com
" the licensed therapists working within the platform are required to stay HIPAA
compliant. " -- but apparently not the listeners (would be difficult anyway) and
not the service itself.
* SL: orzo, spumoni, sour cream, eggs, yogurt, dental tape, bacon, honey, summer
sausage, (for stir fry) bok choy + ginger - lipton ice tea/lemon, peanut oil(?),
L and I apparently missed one another in Payless.
* started post: Data-mining the Dog -- following up on this post and How to.do it, plus gg,
grep-find, and search.
@ About Children's Grief Awareness Day Thursday before Thanksgiving.
Children's Grief Awareness Day: 64 Six-Word Stories - What's Your Grief
National Alliance for Grieving Children
November is Children's Grief Awareness Month
November is Children's Grief Awareness Month - Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan

1111Mo Veterans Day
# V coming a different day this week.
* awake 4am, or was it 3. S=4.0;
* Up 5:30; W=197.2, S=4:27 ;
* move Dog/search to Honu/bin/dgrep with alias dg
* locking doorknob for S - use the one from L's closet? -> ordered one from $A
# 7c changes may have been _being_ planned, but they were rushed out without adequate
preparation. Why? feed might have been server crash or a failed security upgrade,
but a crash wouldn't have forced the room mods. Upgrade might (this is PHP we're
talking about); so might something external: key developer giving notice, threatened
legal action, investor demand, ?? Still weird.
@ Chord Assist — The MagPi magazine
@ posted Data-mining the Dog
: Mom called while I was at Nancy's -- called back. Send itinerary.
% 10:20pm cold
* mail itierary to Mom

1112Tu
* up 7:15; S=7:49;
@ Russia internet: Law introducing new controls comes into force - BBC News (madfilkentist)
* home health blood draw
: lab hours 7am-4pm not needed (assuming Thel can get a good stick)
Should hydrate before any blood draw - oops
* started working on shelf rail. Really a 2-person, 2-ladder job. Managed to screw up
leveling the short piece when I drilled the second hole. :P
... worked! Had to use the kickstool on the end next to the fireplace.
Got the second screw from the left into a stud, which was an unexpected bonus.
Came out closer to level than I expected. -> shelves 54-60" long, 1x8 or 1x10
C amused herself by watching "bear TV"; Desti of course took over my desk chair.
! accomplished. Also, posted about it.
# Probably the best reason for not trying to be a listener on 7c is that I would be
unable to resist the temptation to give advice.

1113We
* Up 7ish; W=198.4; S=7:08;
@ The economics of driving seven Teslas for 2.5 million miles — Quartz
* am Surety Pest Control -> treatment in back bathroom
* Sigma Xi member directory verification; ordered directory to be delivered Oct 2020
Hopefully I'll still be here a year from now. Conf#1429453 $412.99
* pay AMEX, car (pay AX 2750 from BECU; will have to transfer some from checking)
-> paid for car out of BECU personal checking acct; transferred 1000 to household
~ 2:20 C Dr. Rochier (V)
<- need referrals for GI and urology
* order armrest pad for C's scooter - $A was more than monster, but free shipping.
% ouch! What appears to be a large splinter, only white, in my right thumb. Painful.
fragment of a shattered corelle plate??
% wish there was a good way to sit cross-legged with a cat on my lap and not hurt. At
least I managed to move around enough to stop the foot-falling-asleep numbness
: a bit of a stuffalanche to the right of the desk. Sorted onto the card table; it'll
do for the moment.

1114Th
* up 6:20; W=198.8, S=6:50;
* 12:30 make sure L is up
* went up to Home Despot for shelving -- they didn't have the nice select cedar I'd used
on the other shelves; had to get #2 common. Came to a little over $70. Ouch!
left the boards in Molly -- I'll deal with them tomorrow.
# counted river posts # where alias gf=grep-find, working directory $LJA
for f in 2008 2009; do echo -n `gf Tag.*river|grep $f| wc -l` " "; done => 190 225
for f in 201*; do (gf Tag.*river|grep $f); done | wc -l => 170
* started River post for tomorrow; ../2019/11/14--meta.html => ../2019/11/15--meta.html
/ crap got under statlock pad; put on a dressing and a new statlock in a different place
% back hurting - naproxen and heat.

1115Fr
* up 7ish; W=198.0, S=7:35;
: Thel seemed a little surprised (and pleased) that I recognized her voice. Helped that
I was expecting the call. OTOH should put her into C's contacts.
. * trim * sand * (1116) install new shelves -- 4'6" seems like the right size.
-> some came out 3" longer - 57". :P Weird. one of the two 1x10s, and 3 of the 1x8s
downpour started just as I was finishing the last shelf and getting it into the shed
with the others. Sanding will have to wait.
-> took a long time to find the circular saw, so...
~ 2pm The SW at Home Board of Directors invites our members and volunteers to a Meet and
Greet with our new Program Coordinator, Anna Singh Deo. We will gather in the office
1635 Main Street, Suite A1, Freeland (across from Freeland Cafe) on Friday, November
15 from 2:00 to 3:30. Refreshments will be served.
* (1115) change CPAP disposable filter
* started draft for Saturday's s4s post.
* make vet appointment for Desti
* update and post River/.draft -> ../2019/11/15--meta.html

1116Sa
& Awake 4ish; back down ~5
* up 6:30; S=6:28;
~ reboot nova. Might have been sleeping; uptime was 24 days.
@ Marie Curie, Marie Meloney, and the Significance of a Gram of Radium |
Science History Institute possibly worth a blog post
@ experiment design: Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics
@ Wild Rose’s Mary Steenburgen Wrote the Best Movie Song of the Year | IndieWire
s4s? ?Songs of home, incl. "Emerald Green", "Bigger on the Inside", ?"Ship of Stone"
* SL: shredded cheddar, juices, ginger ale, ritz crackers, olive oil, garlic heads,
fresh ginger, oat-nut bread, English, {roll, stick} butter, sour cream, cream cheese,
chicken/veg for stir-fry, ground beef for chili - Lipton lemon in packets;
* bag in paper
* s4s: The River Link
* install shelves. All 57" except for the top 1x8. Leaves me with a 54" 1x10 which
might go next to my desk, except that it would take a lot of rejiggering
* flktran: don't insert "Some Rights Reserved" in .txt files
might go next to my desk, except that it would take a lot of rejiggering.
& entry.make: make pre-post link .draft, make post removes .draft, links .post
net effect is that .draft is always defined after pre-post; it's not removed until the
post command succeeds.

NaBloPoMo stats:
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