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Rather a sparse Christmas celebration this year -- only the four Whidbey residents. We roasted a beast. Actually, I roasted a beast, and it came out just about perfect. I also made mashed potatoes, and S made stuffing.
Sometime between Sunday and Tuesday Dreamwidth's crossposting broke. It
looks like it might take a while to fix, so I kludged together a temporary
hack involving a second config file for ljcharm and some
minor shell scripting. Tested by retroactively cross-posting Thankful Thursday.
It needs a fair amount of cleanup; right now it's not at all general.
Because kludge. And of course it still needs a decent command-line
client rather than continuing to abuse ljcharm.
I've also been working on my circum-new-year posts. I probably ought to write a decade-in-review post as well; we'll see whether I get around to it. I didn't do one in 2009, so it's not as though I have a tradition to uphold.
1222Su litter boxen (LR only scooped)
* Up 6:30; W=188.4, S=6:19;
* brunch with C at Charmers (we'd originally thought of the Chinese place in Clinton,
but C wasn't up to it. She probably never will be, I suspect.)
@ CryFS: Comparison of encrypted cloud storage solutions CryFS looks like a good
way to safely encrypt a ~/Secret directory -- could use instead of encrypting a whole
home directory with (deprecated)ecryptfs
@ The 2010s: A Decade in Review - CNET
& installed nov.el (implements nov-mode, but anyway it's an epub reader mode for emacs)
: the left button on my trackball appears to be broken. Gaaak! Well, I have options.
-> fixed the easy way - a blast of canned "air".
1223Mo
* up 5:51; S=6:30; mask fit only 48%, which sucks. or rather, blows
* started with Mondly, including some from early July which is probably before I started
% my left elbow hurts; I should probably go back to using mondly on the phone.
@ La Vie en Rose Lyrics & English Translation - Edith Piaf
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - Edith Piaf / French Lyrics & English Translation
@ Books: English and Scottish Ballads (sorted alphabetically) - Project Gutenberg
(via Gary McGath's Yesterday's Songs Transformed (e-book; out of print,
which I don't remember getting a copy of but obviously I did)
* bevel and finish ends of coatrack strips
* bring up the chunk of olivewood -- C wants it where she can see it. Don't blame her.
* Set up C's tablet -> was already set up; only had to set up her banking app
: no singing lesson - lessons resume on the 30th.
* SL: aveeno intensive care lotion, pantsu; ros\'e wine for C, gin, shallots, dish soap,
hand soap, cat food + eggs, roastable beast (they didn't have geese)
-> Got everything on the (short) list despite not having transferred it to my phone
* 7ish call Mom
* C's Christmas list: * ros\'e wine, * tablet,
* bamboo crochet hooks and yarn bag (from $A wish list) -> ordered 1218.
: She's getting me coffee -- imported. -> arrived
1224Tu
& awake 3:30; C swallowed a gel capsule the wrong way; her coughing woke me up.
-> got her settled in her recliner. She can breathe and talk; will be okay
@ Horoheki (Kami Soul Trilogy Book 1)
* up 8:05; S=7:32;
@ Why Tech’s Favorite Color is Making Us All Miserable the case against blue
* pick up bagels and lox for tomorrow. Go early. -> went ~10:30; they had plenty
~ if Thel calls remind her that she's only coming once this week (on Fri)
: L returning sometime tonight
@ How I Finally Learned to Sleep
@ alt.interoperability.adversarial | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to
Slay Today's Monopolies | Electronic Frontier Foundation
" Pages could open and save most Word files; Numbers could open and save most Excel
files; and Keynote could open and save most PowerPoint presentations. Apple did not
attain this compatibility through Microsoft's cooperation: it attained it despite
Microsoft's noncooperation. Apple didn't just make an "interoperable" product that
worked with an existing product in the market: they made an adversarially
interoperable product whose compatibility was wrested from the incumbent, through
diligent reverse-engineering and reimplementation "
" Data portability is important, but it is no substitute for the ability to have
ongoing access to a service that you're in the process of migrating away from. "
e.g. Dreamwidth vs. LJ
@ The Woodnotes Emacs Cheat Sheet for Writers (not Coders)
@ Lonely? Short of Friends? Try Looking at It Differently observability bias: you
only see your friends when they're socializing.
@ Sabine Hossenfelder
* Heifer -> Mom, N
1225We Christmas, Newton's Birthday
& Awake 4am; W=200.2, S=3:33;
* up 8am; S=5:32; put laundry in dryer
* Set up C's pills for the week
: G and the kids returning
: gift exchanges
% put on a knee brace. The Futuro, which I got several years ago and lost track of.
-> reasonably comfortable
: lots of cat time throughout the day
: The Rymora grip socks seem to be working out well. snug but comfy.
* tracked down the box of yarn, which proved to be almost entirely needlepoint yarn.
There may have been another, but not clear; X may have got most or all of that.
* roast in ~3:30; 350F; timer set for 90min. We'll check at that point.
-> rub for roast: salt, pepper, powdered garlic, crushed rosemary
-> came out very well indeed; so did the mashed potatoes (only used about half of what
we had, of course). L made green beans with shallots and almonds; also very good.
Served the Portuguese ros\'e. I'd say dinner was a complete success. But we
didn't get to the mince pie, and didn't make or open any cranberry sauce.
% 7:35 feeling apathetic and slightly out of it. Probably all that meat.
@ A holiday carol for coders - Stack Overflow Blog
* coat rack for Rest Stop: 4' wall 6 triple hooks ~ 9" spacing; 33" short wall for hats
9" spacing gives 45"; 8.5" gives 42x5 -> use 8.5, use letter-sized paper for layout.
Dots mark left edge of hook base. Maybe 5 hooks on ~8" centers for the short one.
* coat rack: attached hooks. The shorter one has 5 hooks, so it was easy to lay out by
attaching a hook at each end and bisecting. Spacing worked out to 7.75"
1226Th Boxing Day, Babbage's Birthday
* Up 5:55; S=6:39;
# wondering whether to make an end-of-decade post. Probably not.
# while researching, discovered that very few of my posts before 2018 are in Journals/*
* SL: rolls, 3-color cole slaw mix, swiffer pads, capers, cherry pie filling, Hall's
coughdrops any flavor but cherry, + cottage cheese, roll butter
% 9:20 sleepy
/ C having a very hard time standing. We'll have a huge problem if she can't transfer.
She hasn't been exercising; been in the chair since 5am.
-> heating pad seems to be helping with the leg cramps.
-> at L's suggestion she's going to sleep in the chair. dicey; if she has to get up,
but I don't see any other way when she's this tired, sore, and scared.
1227Fr
& awake 3:30ish; nose-watering (I think I forgot last night)
checked on C -- the heating pad had gotten disconnected, so no need to worry.
* up 7ish; S=4:43, W=201.8;
/ managed to transfer from the chair to the wheelchair. Meds, juice.
<- Request #41006 submitted to DW support re:crossposting
Crosspost of Thankful Thursday to mdlbear@LiveJournal action failed.
Failed to crosspost entry to mdlbear@LiveJournal: Client error: Your IP address is
temporarily banned for exceeding the login failure rate.
-> I closed it -- duplicate. See
https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/help?sort=date&state=&cat=crossposter
* noonish C Thel
* deposited checks from E's college fund and Mom.
% 5:44 kind of out of it.
1228Sa
* up 7am; S=7:47; mondly
@ Sutton Movement Writing (ysabetwordsmith | Alternative Writing and Communication)
SignWriting
signbank.org/iswa/
& posted PSA on LiveJournal about crossposting fail.
-> working on crossposting; complicated by the facts that ljcharm doesn't print error
messages in quick mode, and that I didn't remember that I changed my password
Banned until 9:15 or so
-> charm-wrapper mostly works now. Can't get post URL because adults-only, but okay
* call Mom! (actual birthday)
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I had a quiet Christmas, family meal on the day but otherwise taking it easy. I did some maintenance on the Mac the last few days, sorting out an issue that was causing one system service to keep gobbling memory up. (Yes, turkey pun. You're welcome. :D)
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