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mdlbearIt's been a week. It didn't help that it started with a bad case of vertigo; I'm not sure I've had that before. It had more-or-less cleared up by late Sunday afternoon, but in the interim I ended up using first Colleen's walker, and then my cane. I decided not to drive anywhere.
I've been sleeping pretty badly all week, in part because Colleen has been having a particularly rough time of it (for medical TMI see: here and here; for deaths see here and here). The ongoing environmental (see Sunday's links) and political (see Tuesday) disasters are not helping either.
I also wrote two curmudgeon posts, about current and potential security problems.
As usual, not a whole lot of music apart from my weekly singing lesson, but I did get a fair amount of work done on the songbook software. Never did get PDF internal hyperlinks working, though, because of the tricks I'm trying to play with the table of contents. It might be worth taking another stab at it this week.
There are a lot of good free posters in Saturday's links.
0105Su
* up 5:30; S=6:25; % vertigo. Not at all pleasant.
% I sat up perhaps too abruptly or in the wrong direction (sideways), and everything
looked like it was still spinning. 5 or so minutes later it doesn't, but I'm still
having trouble keeping my balance while walking or even moving my head. Which makes
sense. 6:10 no problems if I sit still, but trouble walking.
! very worried/scared.
% used C's walker to go to the bathroom and take meds + diphenhydramine (one suggested
med. The others were dramamine and bonine, neither of which I have where I can find
them, though I'm pretty sure we have one of those someplace. Then went into the
kitchen and got a cup of honey ginger tea, and stopped off in the laundry room to grab
my cane. -> good move.
& up 10:55; S=9:01; The extra sleep helped. Can walk with the cane if I'm careful.
* steve..zongbook - print from 111-125
% 1:20 mostly ok except for a headache, mostly on the right side
@ The long, harsh Fimbul winter is not a myth (thnidu)
" Probably half of Norway and Sweden’s population died. Researchers now know more and
more about the catastrophic year of 536. "
% 3:40 vertigo pretty much gone; can get about without the cane. But I'm being careful
and trying not to move quickly.
@ "We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these
bushfires" | Joëlle Gergis | Opinion | The Guardian
" As a climate scientist, the thing that really terrifies me is that weather
conditions considered extreme by today’s standards will seem sedate in the
future. What’s unfolding right now is really just a taste of the new normal. "
@ Climate Change, Helen Cleugh, Mark Stafford Smith, Michael Battaglia, Paul Graham
" Drawing on peer-reviewed literature contributed to by thousands of researchers,
Climate Change: Science and Solutions for Australia provides the latest scientific
knowledge on a series of climate change topics relevant to Australia and the
world. "
book information page Media Release
@ Surveillance Self-Defense: Year in Review 2019 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
* s4s PDF songbook linked from s.s.net -- {lgf,kf}.com probably not a good idea
% 4:20 sleepy
* reposition zongbook page numbers. Make sure there's enough space; numbers should be
on outside edge. Fix kf book, too. -> use zingers to override default footers for
song pages, then override them again in zongbook.tex. Posted about it.
% 8:45pm - still not back to normal. Quite a bit of headache pain around the right
temple, and just a little bit of something I can't pin down.
0106Mo
* up 5:05ish; S=6:10; feeling better. less headache, but not all gone. caffeine?
@ Smashwords – 7 Cups for the Searching Soul – a book by The 7 Cups Community
@ 2019 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation
/ the wound on C's leg has healed to the point where it doesn't need a dressing.
Actually it's been at that point for a week or so, but I was being cautious.
* some work improving the MakeStuff documentation.
* 4pm Singing lesson -> The River
0107Tu
* up 7:30ish; S=4:43+2-3 without mask; laundry
& More work on songbook formatting. Wasted a lot of time trying to make PDF hyperlinks
work. There's probably a way, but I have no idea what.
@ "I want people outside Australia to know" [AU, climate crisis, curr ev] grim.
@ Iran attack: US airbases in Iraq hit by ballistic missiles - BBC News
i.e. Trump got the war he needed.
Soleimani attack: What does international law say? - BBC News
* put up the rest of the cup rack bars. Need more hooks, but they're an odd size.
$ I $25.10 from CDBaby
0108We
* up 4:35; S=4:55, W=199; back to bed to warm up; drifted but probably didn't sleep
~ looking for more S-hooks for the cup rack. Not finding the right size.
* posted SHA-1 is a SHA-mbles
% 1:13 why do my feet feel cold? -> fleece slippers
@ SHA-1 is a Shambles
* SL: diphenoxylate/atropine, multivitamin, mushrooms, anchovies, crystal light lemon
tea, rolled oats, oat-nut bread, x S-hooks, looseleaf dividers, nose pads for glasses
-> the scrip will be ready tomorrow. They initially said an hour; turned into three.
* ordered the second batch of S-hooks from $A, since they didn't have anything suitable
at Ace. Not that I expected them to.
@ Our 15 Most Popular Indian Recipes | Allrecipes (ysabetwordsmith)
$ HX $60 from $PP balance for V's membership in Conflikt. Apparently the 10th is the
deadline for prereg.
0109Th
* Up 4:30ish; S=5:57;
@ A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (LWN)
very perverse, and not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. High hack value.
" This forty-five-byte file is less than one-eighth the size of the smallest ELF
executable we could create using the standard tools, and is less than one-fiftieth
the size of the smallest file we could create using pure C code. We have stripped
everything out of the file that we could, and put to dual purpose most of what we
couldn't.
Of course, half of the values in this file violate some part of the ELF standard,
and it's a wonder that Linux will even consent to sneeze on it, much less give it a
process ID. This is not the sort of program to which one would normally be willing
to confess authorship.
On the other hand, every single byte in this executable file can be accounted for
and justified. How many executables have you created lately that you can say that
about? "
@ How I tamed my Emacs (Emacs news)
How I build my own spacemacs · Samuel Barreto
Some good info on loading packages
* go to RiteAid to pick up C's scrip.
! noticed that I was smiling after almost every interaction with another person.
Including just giving pedestrians the right-of-way in the parking lot. Hmm.
/ C did about 15 sit-to-stands -- Good.
/ C cleanup on the way to bed
/ F pasta, classico alfredo sauce, cranberry juice/ginger ale,
0110Fr
& awake 2:40ish; S=3:56; / cleanup, shower; tried to get back to sleep, gave up for now
at 3:20 I thought there'd been a power failure, but apparently not -- the kitchen
clocks are still on time, nova didn't go down, etc. My phone and CPAP were dead,
though; apparently what happened was that a surge made the UPS's breaker trip.
* Up 7ish; S=5:45; / cleanup
@ How to Write and Deliver a Eulogy (ysabetwordsmith)
What Can I Say That's Actually Helpful in Times of Grief?
: high wind warning 1am-1pm
* 8am wake L
@ 20 Science-Backed Ways to Fall Asleep Naturally & Quickly (ysabetwordsmith)
@ Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 72.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.4.1 — Mozilla
Mozilla Patches Critical Vulnerability | CISA
Stop everything. Update Firefox now
-> posted mdlbear | Update Firefox NOW
/ 11ish major cleanup; another shower. Started laundry.
: Riley Ortega died. E called Colleen this morning
Lynn Gold - I just learned that long-time Consonance con suite...
" I just learned that long-time Consonance con suite runner and friend Riley Ortega
lost her battle with depression this morning. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to her
husband, Robert Ortega, and to their kids and extended family. "
% 12:03 not quite wiped, but fragile
: 12:30 technically the high wind warning is still up for another 1/2hour, but we seem
to be past it. OTOH there's likely to be snow.
/ noonish C Thel - catheter change. Followed immediately by a cleanup
* called Island Drug, got answering machine. Try again Monday.
% anxious, depressed, and/or stressed. Can't tell which, but I seem to have hit a bit
of a wall today. -> low blood sugar?
* noonish C Thel - catheter change
/ 8ish another major cleanup with shower. 5th in the last 24 hours
% very hard on back -- just collapsed into the bedroom recliner for 20 minutes.
/ F food diary for C (from memory, pm): cherry pie, almonds, pretzels
/ F food diary for C (from memory): egg rolls, korean dumplings, buttered rice, spumoni
0111Sa
& awake 3ish?? drifted for several hours without the mask
* up 7:30ish; S=4:11; naproxen, heat.
% Back not hurting _too_ much, but don't want to give it ideas
@ TRAPPIST-1 via
Inspirational Posters of Women Innovators are Free to Download (ysabetwordsmith)
@ Exoplanet Travel Bureau | Explore Planets Beyond our Solar System
@ Vintage Posters From La Belle Epoque Available as Free Posters
All 222 of them can be zipped & downloaded from Flikr:
Art of the Poster 1880-1918 | Flickr
@ How Music Copyright Lawsuits Are Scaring Away New Hits - Rolling Stone
* some xmonad hacking -- up/down move between screens; scroll wheel in dzen goes left
and right through workspaces. The reason for that is to make it easier to select
workspaces without using the keyboard (e.g. when there's a cat in my lap.)
# Start keeping a food diary for C to track diet's effect on guts. See below:
/ F am: food diary for C. lipton's lemon instant, cranberry juice/ginger ale,
/ F pm: cherry pie, pasta w\ Jade sauce, egg rolls, Green Giant green beans & potatoes
@ The Early History of Usenet (cellio)
/ minor cleanup before bed. Sticky
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