Done Since 2019-12-29

[mdlbear]

It's been a week.

I apparently got out of bed wrong this morning -- or something -- and had a bad case of vertigo. I don't recall this ever happening before; the closest I've come is a (decreasing, fortunately) number of instances of postural hypotension.

After a little research, I used Colleen's walker to get to the bathroom and take my meds and a couple of diphenhydramine (it apparently works similarly to dramamine (Dimenhydrinate) or bonine (Meclizine) -- I'm pretty sure we have one or the other of those, but I'm not sure where (you can probably tell I'm a LISP programmer (from the parentheses))), then to the kitchen and make a cup of ginger-honey tea. I picked up my cane from the entryway along the way. Good move. I then went back to bed and slept for another two and a half hours. I appear to be mostly over it, but I'm not going to do any driving today.

I actually did a little programming this week. Sunday, I threw together a quick hack to enable manual crossposting from DW to LJ. And Thursday and yesterday I worked on songbook formatting, because N had ordered three new songbook binders. The printer behaved itself -- at least when Desti wasn't sitting on it. I'm sure she's trying to be helpful. Or maybe just trying. Cat. We also had a couple of power glitches; I turned one of these into an excuse to check out WOL (Wake On LAN) on our server. It worked.

Thursday I called 911 because of a sharp pain that could have been either a muscle spasm in a left pectoral muscle, or a heart attack. (It had responded somewhat to self-massage, but not as quickly as I would have liked.) After a checkup that included an EKG, all of which looked perfectly good, the EMT techs and I agreed that it wasn't worth a trip to the ER (where they would have done exactly the same tests and come to the same conclusion, only hours later). Okay so far.

Friday was our 44th anniversary. Colleen had an appointment with her nephrologist, or so we thought -- we found out when we got there that it had been Thursday. (Usually when I see a date on my schedule that doesn't match the day of the week I assume that the date is the correct one. That's almost always true, but obviously not always.) But since it was our anniversary and we were planning to be on the mainland anyway, we arranged to have dinner with N, G, and their kids. So we scooped up the kids and went to Saffron, our favorite local Indian place. N and G, traveling separately, met us there.

So, yeah. A week. Welcome to the 2020s.

Notes & links:

1229Su litter boxen
  * Up 5:39; S=6:10; mondly
  : looks like crossposting from DW will take a while -- being worked on.  see comment on
    Request #41017
    -> added xpost: target to entry.make.  It's a crock, but it works well enough to get
       by for now.  You have to make post xpost to invoke it.
  : star fruit is even more of a CYP3A4 inhibitor than grapefruit.  It also contains
    other things that are bad for people with reduced kidney function.
  : 7:15 expect dishwasher to be finished.
  : N back in Seattle
  : tacos -- L and S did the buying; I cooked

1230Mo
  & awake 3ish Ticia being adorable and purring on my arm; back to bed 4ish
  * up 7:30; S=6:50; 
  * S needs to get to RiteAid
  * L' coming today instead of tomorrow
  * 5pm singing
  * SL:  kosher dills, ginger ale  + candied ginger, wound dressings, chocolate (dark dove
         bars, from RiteAid), Chinese (General Tso's from the deli, potstickers from the
         freezer, bok choi)  x Asti Spumonti or maybe sparkling cider,

1231Tu New Year's Eve
  & 5ish? major cleanup with shower
  * Up 6:50ish; S=6:36;
  @ The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination
    dreams, agree to develop common standards • The Register
  @ Codidact Wiki (cellio | community-driven Q&A)
    Functional Specification · codidact/docs Wiki
    The Tavern - TopAnswers
    Question2Answer - Free Open Source Q&A Software for PHP
  @ CommonMark
    CommonMark Spec
  : 10am Wind Advisory until 4am Wed.
  : 10:28 major power glitch; there have been a few minor ones earlier.
    We'll lose power soon, probably until tomorrow.
  : grump.  Hadn't plugged Molly in last night, and when or shortly after I plugged her in
    this morning the breaker on the outlet tripped.  11:30 now charging.  We'll see.
  / 11:30ish major cleanup.  note that it's the last Tuesday, so water is off this am.
  @ Termux Wiki open source
    " Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment application that works
      directly with no rooting or setup required. A minimal base system is installed
      automatically, additional packages are available using the APT package manager. "
    How to install Git on Android - TechRepublic
    Termux - Apps on Google Play
  * 1:15 leave for clinic
  * 2:10 C Dr. Rochier
  @ Public Domain Day 2020 | Duke University School of Law (Boing Boing)
  % right now I am absolutely wiped out, more emotionally I think than physically.
    Although neither C nor I actually had lunch (she had english muffins and bacon for
    breakfast; I had two strips of bacon). -> lox and cream cheese on a muffin
    % part of the problem may be that I'm (or my muscles are, anyway) _incredibly_ tense.
  @ posted: River: That Was the Year (2019) That Was
    Cross-posting seems to be working again, so it's just as well that there was a bug in
    the make xpost recipe (missing space between sed expression and filename).
  & ate some of the cheese board that V gave us.  Tasty.
    % it's possible that some of what I was feeling back there was not having eaten.
      I don't think that's all of it, though.  Rough day.
    ! 7:30 pm I feeling _sad_?  Or is it just my eyes being irritated by something?
  / 9ish C went to bed  % drifty  overwhelmed?
  % 10:30 I should probably go to bed. -> having a bit of the Blue Label first.