mdlbear | Done Since 2020-06-28 (Reply)

Where did the week go? It's been a somewhat rough one, and as usual I've gotten very little done. Mostly not as as stressed as last week.

A little more than usual, since I've spent some of that time reading dead trees, trying to shorten my stacks of unread magazines. I think the magazines are ahead at this point. Between discords, signal, virtual conferences, and doomscrolling...

A few small things did get done. I tried out the blue-blocker glasses I ordered last week, and I think they help with getting back to sleep. A little. A tiny amount of singing practice. A computer curmudgeon post. A minuscule amount of programming, writing a Make recipe for adding GitHub and GitLab remotes to Git repositories. (Not really all that useful, I don't think, but it got me into a flow state for a couple of hours. Will probably be more useful with a couple of days' more work.)

Notes & links:

0628Su
* Up 4:30ish; S=5:35; shower,... laundry
& the blue-blocker clip-ons appear to be helping. Though whether I _want_ to go back to
bed now (6:45) is an open question
@ Gilead's remdesivir set to become Europe's first COVID-19 therapy - Reuters
" ...European price is not yet known. In the United States, a research group suggests
remdesivir can be priced at up to $5,080 per course, while Indian generic drugmakers
will sell the treatment for 5,000 rupees to 6,000 rupees ($66.13-$79.35). "
* made French toast for breakfast
@ Ripple20 - JSOF #security
" a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in a widely used low-level TCP/IP software
library developed by Treck, Inc. The 19 vulnerabilities, given the name Ripple20,
affect hundreds of millions of devices (or more) and include multiple remote code
execution vulnerabilities. "
" The interesting thing about Ripple20 is the incredible extent of its impact,
magnified by the supply chain factor. The wide-spread dissemination of the software
library (and its internal vulnerabilities) was a natural consequence of the supply
chain “ripple-effect”. A single vulnerable component, though it may be relatively
small in and of itself, can ripple outward to impact a wide range of industries,
applications, companies, and people. "
" I never meant to become an evil landlord, and I'm all out of mustache wax. "
% nice long Desti lap-catting. Somewhere between half an hour and 45 minutes
@ What to Do When You Need to Use a Public Bathroom During a Pandemic - NYT
How to Deal With Public Bathrooms During Coronavirus - The New York Times
& noodling on guitar while reading a couple of random articles out of Pocket. Weird?
% after dinner, more Desti time. She's gotten very good at jumping up onto my chair
(or a counter, or...) just before I get there.

0629Mo
* up 5:30; S=6:02;
% earworm (for the last several days) Buffy Sainte Marie - "The Incest Song". WTF?
@ The Incest Song (Raggedy Ann & Andy) - Buffy Sainte-Marie (LYRICS) - YouTube
it's been alternating with "Velvet"
@ 1st WHO Infodemiology Conference
" In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the phenomenon of an ‘infodemic’ has
escalated to a level that requires a coordinated response. An infodemic is an
overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – occurring during an
epidemic. "
$ SJ $75 AX Renew Sigma Xi membership. keep getting paper copies; I should cut back on
digital, not add to it
* talk with N about V etc.; need to get consensus between me, Colleen, and S about risk
-> V mid-July (the 15th is a Wednesday). V no longer seeing Agnes. How much risk is
_she_ up for?

0630Tu
* Up 4:15ish; S=5:24;
* make dentist appointment -* 2pm Tues. -* buy ferry tickets online (PDF)
* order keurig cup coffee for R
$ C $150 to Carleton on AX
: looks like Colleen is going to be getting daily injections in Coupeville for 14 days
(for non-healing ulcer) - that's going to require some rescheduling.
& spent a lot of the afternoon reading dead trees (Science and American Scientist) as an
alternative to doomscrolling (love that word)

0701We * litter boxen
& Awake 2:30; bad dream involving L only all in a large house and including fostering
several large animals from a zoo. House vaguely reminiscent of R" and T"'s
% right now I do not like myself. It sucks.
No way I'm getting back to sleep soon. Ever, maybe.
-> wearing the new blue-blocking glasses so maybe I will eventually
-> they did, in fact, seem to help; I was able to get back to sleep
* up 7:45ish; S=5:06;
* load Colleen's drugs
* order loperamide. couldn't find anything but blister packs, max 24 to a package.
" The FDA responded to these warnings by calling on drug manufacturers to voluntarily
limit the availability of loperamide for public-safety reasons " (Wikipedia)
@ 21 Plot Shapes and the Pros and Cons of Each - by Mette Ivie Harrison (ysabetwordsmith)
* CPAP monthly: * paper filter * wash tub * change nosepiece (0701)
* CPAP 0 mod 3 (delayed) * mask ~ tubing changed 0503, so hold until Sept.
. reschedule dentist after determining what C's appointment schedule is
-> seven days starting Monday (or maybe Tuesday) to skip the July 4th weekend
* call to cancel Tuesday's appt
* reschedule -> 0714Tu
* C's tablet should be arriving. Newer model than previous -- it's USB-C
-> set up. Worked with her on what apps to install.

0702Th-0705Su Westercon -> moved to 2021 0701Th-0704Su

0702Th
& awake somewhere near midnight; the glasses made it easier to get back to sleep
* up 6:30ish; S=6:49;
@ 1st WHO Infodemiology Conference
Pre-conference: 1st WHO Infodemiology Conference
@ “Wear The Mask” poster now available as free download. (Sizer Design + Illustration)
* deposit patronage check from Skagit Farmers Supply (to RE checking)
* 9:30am call from Lawyer
* 11am L' for shopping
: N recommends The Monday Voices (about a vocational social worker and his clients,
based on her husband's career) and Of Such Small Differences (about a deaf-blind man,
based on her work with the deaf), both by Joanne Greenberg
@ Somerville recognizes polyamorous domestic partnerships - Somerville Journal
A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships - NYT
Somerville, MA Recognizes Polyamorous Domestic Partnerships [MA]
* singing: Bells of Norwich. The guitar part came off quite well this time.
% have felt cold most of the day

0703Fr
& Awake 2:10; no cats - felt weird (they came in later, of course)
* up 7:55; S=7:05;
* curbside pickup for Colleen's scrip. Open question why it got sent there and not ES
: TIL websites/apps where you can get keyboard shortcut help by typing "?"
gmail, github, gitlab (better than gh),
@ GitHub vs. GitLab infographic | GitLab
GitHub vs. GitLab | GitLab detailed comparison
GitLab vs GitHub | Detailed Overview with Key Differences
@ CommonMark Spec GFM
* bring TV up from garage. Now have both TV and shelf in the LR.
! feeling a little better about the situation with L based on new input from m via N

0704Sa Independence Day
* up 5:55; S=6:41;
* at NEWhere at least a little bit. Missed all the morning programming.
* make recipes for git*.com repositories and remotes.
% was in a flow state for most of several hours.
: there is banana bread. And gigantic banana muffins. This could be a problem.
@ 456 | depression comix about being the only one wearing a mask in a crowd.
" Why isn't anyone protecting _me_? "
% With three discord servers and a zoom conference, I think I'm at my bandwidth limit
* installed VSee app on my phone; for C's appointment Wed. if needed.
: China City no longer delivers :P
% my right eye has been slightly hurting most of the day.
% 19:57 sleepy? eyes tired; glasses help a little