Done Since 2020-05-31

[mdlbear]

Another bad week. Worse than last week. Not looking forward to next week, either. I am not okay.

I'm not even linking to a fraction of it. See solarbird and marahmarie for more, and that's not even counting the impending climate catastrophe. Not to mention Colleen's health issues and a housemate hassle.

On the plus side, I finally got my taxes filed. So there's that.

Notes & links:

0531Su  * litter boxen - LR changed, BR scooped and topped off
  * up 5ish; W=195.2; shower
  @ solarbird | Today's News (2020/5/30): Not So Cold Now, Are You Civil War Scarecrow?
    edition this looks very bad
    " This is extremely bad. Particularly the arrests of and attacks on journalists by
      police. Police tend to be Trump supporters, and/or MAGAts. He's been calling
      journalists the "enemy of the people" for years now. It's had the desired effect. "
    Alt-right homophobes using 4chan to plan cyber attack during Pride month
    Two Crises Convulse a Nation: A Pandemic and Police Violence - The New York Times
  : 10:45 The Dragon crew is in the ISS; welcome ceremony in progress
    less than half of the people on the ground are wearing masks
  @ The Beginner’s Guide to Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors - Dwell
  : the "low toner" notification boxes that don't respond to clicks _do_ respond to CRs
  : Two mysteries:  why is L getting text messages, apparently from me, that aren't
    showing up in my account's activity logs, and why the heck is T-Mobile taking
    automatic payments out of N's account for some device that nobody remembers owning.  I
    _think_ we have established that these are two _separate_ mysteries, but both involve
    T-Mobile, so...
  % I really want to believe that things are going to be okay.  I can't, now.
  / 8:45pm major cleanup
  % 9:45 sleepy; drifting
  % being in an occupied country must feel a bit like this.

0601Mo
  * up 6:30; S=7:27;
  ~ 1:45 WhidbeyHealth Sleep Care -> rescheduled to teleconference on 0527
  @ A Short History of 'Retcon' | Merriam-Webster
  * call T-Mobile customer service 800-937-8997 and try to track down the Mystery Device,
    206-751-9164 acct# 959796099 ->   % I think this kind of used up my spoons for the day
  * replace CPAP disposable filter, nosepiece, (month 2 mod 6 -> rebase to 0 mod 6)
  / 13:43 major cleanup
  @ How to Recover From Covid-19 at Home - The New York Times 
  @ siderea | Race, Class, and COVID-19 [US, pub health, p/a/s, Patreon]
    "  90% of those who tested positive could not work from home. " i.e. blue collar
    " “What really comes out of these data is that low-wage essential workers are victims
      of this disease,” Havlir said. Many of those infected were working in food service,
      making deliveries, or cleaning offices despite shutdown orders. “These people were
      out working the entire time,” she said. "
  : one of the septic mound covers was run over with the mower.  looks like ~$50 to replace
  % mentally not in good shape
  * another session in the garage, getting almost nothing done   % decision paralysis
    Still not finding _The Pharos Gate_, so I'll probably end up buying a new copy
    % more not-exactly-triggering from seeing things
    % very tense abdominal muscles noted on returning to the house
  @ I have no idea how I managed to get to my current age without having run into the
    concept of a commonplace book, but I seem to have done so.
    " I've had several things that were sort of between that and journals; I think the
      closest I ever got to it were the writing journal I kept (originally on punch
      cards!) in the late 60s, and my file folders in the late 60s and early 70s. "
    My .done files are more journal-like, but these days I have grep, replacing indexing
    with search, for "organization".  Lazy, but it works.
  @ CNN Arrest of Omar Jimenez Is What Actual Censorship Looks Like - NYT
  / major cleanup
    -> forgot to finish cleaning in LR
  * start laundry - put in dryer in the morning

0602Tu
  * up 7:35; S=8:16; laundry
    % back hurting -> naproxen, heat.  Holding off on exercises a while
  % stressful IM and email work
  / cleanup  % more-or-less incoherent; not okay
  % noon: also _literally_ out of spoons, until dishwasher is done.
  / 13:48 major cleanup
  @ APOD: 2020 June 2 - Novel Coronavirus Attacks Humanity Brilliant
  / 16:30 major cleanup
  % ... in the process of which I've managed to bruise -- or something -- something on the
    bottom of my right foot, over the bone at the base of the big toe.  #1 metatarsal
    -> 17:00ish naproxen, ethanol
  @ Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months - The New York Times
    good set of analogies
  @ Solar power with a free side of drinking water | KAUST Discovery 
  / 6:30 major cleanup
  / 6:55 major cleanup.  _very_ liquid.  7th in the last 24h
  % 19:30 naproxen -- not hurting too much right now but it's been ~12 hours
    ... no, it hasn't -- I apparently took one around 4:30.  But only one, so this
    will be safe and I can have another in the morning.
    -> try to 1) use timestamps  2) use grep
  * install Molly's new tab, registration - remove and shred expired ones.
  / minor cleanup

0603We
  % Awake 00:20 couldn't get to sleep.  Probably mostly worry about L
    back to bed ~1:30
  * up 5:40; S=4:40; fed cats  / major cleanup
  % 6:25 couldn't get back to sleep;  naproxen - foot still hurts -> okay with slippers
  / 8:10 major cleanup
  * load C's drugs
  * Tax: enter deductions (probably useless), add Sch C expenses (mostly Conflikt)
  * call sleep center after lunchtime and select Norco (Everett) 
  * Tax: enter additional business income (Carleton Bookstore) and inventory change
  * Tax: eFile
  * had L' clear off the banquet table and move it upstairs.
    -> wiped down and moved into box room
  @ Hydroxychloroquine failed to prevent healthy people from getting covid-19 in trial -
    The Washington Post double-blind trial.  As opposed to...
    A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
    A health data firm making extraordinary claims about its data
  * order 2 smartkey entry sets (knob + deadbolt) 
  * trying pipe clamps on the chair post.  Not gripping, even with a little roughness.
    The pipe wrench has also been unsuccessful so far.  However, the width of a single
    pipe clamp seems to get it most of the way up to usability.
  / 8:30ish major cleanup
  % 20:41 naproxen, heat
  * started a load of laundry
  
0604Th
  * Up 5:15; S=4:15;
  % back hurting a little -> naproxen, heat.  Foot _not_ hurting, but should go easy on it
    (in fact, feels like I'm simply adjusting how I place my weight on it now)
  : actually, the pipe clamp I put on the chair is holding, about halfway up the post.
    The upper/inner section has been getting increasingly difficult to open, though.
  * Cooking:  Reuben casserole with Colleen kibitzing.
  * Pay WhidbeyHealth (for me), AARP (5 year membership)
  : Tax return filed and accepted.  Copy to Secret/Tax/2019 and sync
  % 18:48 my hands itch.  Weird.
  @ Protesting Tips: What to Bring, How to Act, How to Stay Safe | WIRED
    How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance | WIRED
    Protest Safety Guide | Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County
  % 9:45ish sleepy

0605Fr
  * up 8:00; S=8:49;
  $ HSX set autorenew card at networksolutions.com to HX.  Set it back to AX after
    receiving new card.
  @ People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features: SA
  / 10:30ish cleanup
  @ Mental health apps draw wave of users as experts call for oversight (7c)
    " Sharing data with third parties is ubiquitous across mental health apps. In 2019,
      when researchers examined data practices of 36 top-ranked apps for depression and
      smoking cessation, they found that more than 80 percent sent data to Facebook and
      Google — often without disclosing it in their privacy policies. "
  @ Cramer: The pandemic led to a great wealth transfer
    " The stock market is rising as big business rebounds from state-ordered stoppage of
      nonessential activity, while small businesses drop like flies, "
  @ I Can't Breathe | Golden Bough -> s4s
    I Can't Breathe - YouTube
  @ Top climate scientists say; Collapse of civilisation is most likely outcome. (siliconshaman)
    " Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory
      towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15
      known global climate tipping points that regulate the state of the planet have been
      activated. [...]
      Johan Rockström, the head of one of Europe’s leading research institutes, warned in
      2019 that in a 4°C-warmer world it would be “difficult to see how we could
      accommodate a billion people or even half of that … There will be a rich minority of
      people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent,
      conflict-ridden world”. " ugh.
  @ tozka | finding the old internet (jesse_the_k [...] through better search tools)
    Million Short - What haven't you found?
  * electric can opener (here);  * electric skillet,  * small microwave (box rm)
  : there's way too much piled-up mail.  Did a tiny amount of sorting.
  * more in garage.  Found another box of Christmas stuff, including Kliban cats
  @ solarbird|The end of the beginning, and maybe - maybe - the beginning of the end.
    " We've won a battle, and it was a big one. Celebrate that. They made their move, and
      got smacked down - hard - for it. In their overconfidence - in their short-sighted
      hubris - they've lost a lot. // I don't want to be too early with this, but we've
      just survived a major inflection point - maybe the major inflection point - so I'm
      pretty sure. // For now, at least, we've won. "
  @ Bridget Eileen on Twitter: "Do you or somebody you know think that #AbolishThePolice
    is unrealistic? It might be because you haven’t taken the time to understand what it
    means, the reasons for it, and why it actually makes a lot of sense. [Thread] (amaebi |
    Police, policing, social issues and #AbolishThePolice)
  * re-string Flame (in stages, because I really ought to have been doing it at a table)
    and because cats.  ball...on the end of a string... (They each took a swipe at it)
    Martin Lifespan SP phosphor bronze (.012" - .054")
  % 22:50 meloxicam

0606Sa
  & Awake 4am; ; cat cuddle  % heat  ; back to bed 5:45
  * up 7:30; S=6:38; no exercise
  / cleanup -> 2 undigested KCl pills, suggesting digestive tract transit time of ~24h
  % have not been washing my hands as consistently the last couple of days.
  * Music:  Windward; Bad Guys, Millennium's Dawn (inst)
  * order 2 more sets of shelves for garage
  * make another batch of "boursin" cream cheese and butter spread

Comments

[amaebi]

WTG!!!!

Man, so sorry for all the suckle.

[mdlbear]

Thanks! So far we're surviving, at least.

[ellenmillion]

Sending so much love.

[mdlbear]

Thanks!

[jesse_the_k]

I'm sorry it's so hard.

The APOD link was fabulous.

It's okay to look away from the news for a while.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. The APOD link is right up there with FEMA's zombie apocalypse emergency preparedness page.

[spiffyvoxel]

This past week in England, some lockdown restrictions were eased, although as usual the government are merely issuing guidance and everyone else has to figure how the heck to implement it without risking more lives. Primary schools were supposed to reopen for some pupils, but many schools can't do so safely, and many parents don't want to send their kids back.

Our government finger-wagged at all the people who joined in protests in support of Black Lives Matter here in the UK. Possibly because Britain has its own issues with racism, and they don't want that brought up along with all the other calls for change...

I've resumed daily walks, for the first time in three months, and that has helped clear my head somewhat. But the fact that we're governed by a bunch of incompetents whose primary goal now appears to be to stay in power at all costs, yeah that ain't helping.