Done Since 2020-07-26

[mdlbear]

High order bits, from yesterday:

• How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair
• " Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert. "
• solarbird | Today's News (2020/8/1): I don't know why I'm doing this anymore (includes much of the above article)
• siderea | The Darkest Timeline [Coronavirus2020, pols, US, p/a/s, Patreon]
• " There are a lot of Americans who really do think that there's a whole lot of their fellow Americans who really do deserve to die, or, at least, they wish would die and like to imagine would make the world, or at least America, a better place if they would just die already. "

Not surprised. Go read it. I'll wait. Then see mood.

There were a few good things this week. Got the TV installed; watched Pirates of Penzance with Colleen; did some programming. I don't think it matters.

Notes & links:

0726Su
  & Awake 3:40; exercises, heat
  * finally got rid of the fluff in the phone port using a sewing pin
  / minor cleanup
  % woke up briefly 7ish but went back to sleep (without mask)
  * up 8ish; W=190.0;
  @ Failure Modes in Machine Learning - Security documentation | Microsoft Docs (siderea)
  @ Fires and Pepper Spray in Seattle as Police Protests Widen Across U.S. - NYT
    Huge Portland protest crowds, standoff with feds go on
    Police, protesters clash as US cities endure violent weekend
    Police declare riot at Seattle protests, make arrests
  @ Virtual Conventions 2020-2021 - Google Docs 
  @ What’s Going on Inside the Fearsome Thunderstorms of Córdoba Province? - NYT
    " Raised off the ground on hydraulic feet, the trucks are able to scan in winds that
      might otherwise peel asphalt off a road. " ->
    c.f. On the Storm Planet
      " Heavy ground cars make it possible to travel on the surface. When a tornado
        approaches, they use mechanical screw-like devices to bolt the vehicle to the
        ground. "
    c.f. Mother of Storms
  @ International Self-Care Day - ISF
    The Seven Pillars of Self-Care - ISF
    International Self-Care Day: 24th July 
  @ bn_songbook | Your [Your Topic's Name Here]'s Name Here
  @ A Maker’s Guide to Grief – THIS GIRL MAKES [pdf]

0727Mo
  * up 5:30ish; S=3:20+; appear to have fallen asleep without the mask, possibly after
    waking up close to midnight.
  @ The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World: Stewart Johnson, Sarah
    Coming of Age on Mars - The New York Times
    'The Sirens of Mars' tells of the search for life on Mars | Space
  * 11:30 HH nurse Diane.  next visit (Th or Fr) will include catheter change
  x 2pm lawyer - McPherson & McPherson
  @ OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin Natural Language output
    There are some inaccuracies in the article, because most of it was generated by GPT-3
  * Walk: to Middle and back.  Probably the right place to have turned around; the
    last time I walked that far appears to have back in April.  :P
    see Pillar 3 Physical Activity - ISF
  * Singing: For Amy, Wings; ... Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
  % being drifty and unproductive.  Partly decision paralysis, partly boredom caused by <-
  % 9:30ish after singing Lily et. al. my fingers hurt a little. Need to practice more.

0728Tu
  * Up 5ish; W=190, S=6:15;
  / 6ish major cleanup
    % some back pain -> ibuprofen, heat
  @ a chair for breastfeeding women Dr. Lynn Jones
    (via Feeling Her Way: Harriet Speed, Furniture Designer & Maker - Lost Art Press)
  % quite a lot of neck pain (right side -- trapezius?)  What's up with that?
  @ WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 27 July
    2020 6 months since the declaration of the global health emergency
    " Keep your distance from others, clean your hands, avoid crowded and enclosed areas,
      and wear a mask where recommended.
      Where these measures are followed, cases go down. Where they’re not, cases go up. "
  @ Mayors want US agents blocked from Portland, 5 major cities
  * 9:30 wake Colleen for OT appointment
  * 10am HH PT - Colleen - bedside
  * call Bellevue Healthcare re: bed trapeze
    $25/month; Medicare pays 80%; 250 to buy (Invacare.  $114 on $A)  For $5/month, it's
    worthwhile renting to see how it works.
  * 11am HH OT - Marcella
  * spoke to Colleen about Drive Medical Nitro Duet Dual Function Transport Wheelchair and Rollator
    she likes it (this time)
  * Singing: Gentle Arms of Eden, Ship of Stone,
    some work with different keys on Stolen Child.  Layout badly broken.  Wierd. -> fixed
  @ Welcome to Hubs · Hubs by Mozilla fascinating.  Where did the link come from??

0729We  * litter boxen
  & Up 4am; S=5:13; (about an hour of "sleep" wasn't)
  @ Opinion | Amazon Has Too Much Power. Take It Back. - The New York Times
  @ Symptoms of Covid-19: The list is getting longer, and some...are longer-term-Vox 
  * 3ish L' coming for grocery run -
    4ish I don't see the shopping list, so I _assume_ she picked it up.
  & started working on ChordPro branch of flktran.pl
  * 7pm On FilkCast this week! ..., Dave Clement, Steve Savitsky, ...
    Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be
    heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on KryptonRadio.com. 

0730Th
  * up 6ish; W=192.2, S=6:40; shower
  @ TeleTracking Technologies Awarded Coronavirus Data Contract in Irregular Process 
  x 2:00 C MAC Catheter change
  * flktran: .cpro basically working except for some of the metadata
  * 11ish HH nurse!Diane catheter change
  @ US agents in Portland set to pull back, but tensions endure
  * finished gin bottle; put new one in fridge.
  : songs.make isn't getting included; I broke something.  Possibly a while ago.
    I probably need to haul out git bisect for that.  (indeed)

0731Fr
  * up 5ish; W=191.6 S=6:40;
  / 7ish major cleanup.  Got sample
  * found the remaining but in MakeStuff -- turned out to be my clever idea of using
    `realpath` instead of a loop to find BASEREL.  git bisect FTW
  * order statlocks from $A
  * 11ish am HH PT!Colleen
  / 11:45 major cleanup (from bedroom, so no chair cleanup)  -> laundry
  : Bellevue Healthcare called back -- they can bill a bed, but not accessories.  :P
  ~ tried putting up the TV again.  Failed again.  Realized that the thing to do might be
    to put it on a short wooden base, and screw _that_ down.
  * with Colleen to the lab in Clinton to drop stool sample and get blood drawn
    -> got stuck in the gravel going out to the car; went the other (narrow) way
    -> fetched out a strip of plastic carpet runner for the gravel -- worked fine. 
  * _finally_ got the TV up and on the bolt, by tilting it up so that I could see both the
    bolt and the hole.  After that, of course, I realized that I hadn't attached a second
    video cable, nor an audio cable. Blarg. Spent the next several hours rather wiped out.
    I'll have to swap cables until I can obtain a switch.
    -> frees up a plastic bin - one of the large Sterilite ones with the blue lid
  * start new bottle of (Gordon's, again) gin (0731)
  : The TV does not appear to support bluetooth.  C will be unhappy about that, since she
    has a set of BT earbuds on order.
  : The missing DVD -- The Haunted Monastery -- turned up in the BluRay player. Of course.
  * Lamplighters Presents: The Pirates of Penzance (2018 full show) - YouTube
    -> in the future, $5/month via Patreon
  @ Washington eviction moratorium extended through fall
    " The moratorium on evictions now extends to October 15. "
  / major cleanup needed ~middle of Act 2; minor one after the end.
  % 10:52 back pain very tired.
  % 10:55 meloxicam.  Should have taken it half an hour ago

0801Sa
  * up 6:05; W=191.6, S=6:39; 
  / cleanup, but slept through the night until ~9:30.  Not going to be all that good for
    her skin, I'm afraid, and I have another pillow to wash.
  @ siderea | The Darkest Timeline [Coronavirus2020, pols, US, p/a/s, Patreon]
    Yes, they really want us (Black/old/disabled/queer/liberal/blue-collar people) dead.
    This is why just about the only thing I can feel now is despair.  Also,...
  @ Today's News (2020/8/1): I don't know why I'm doing this anymore - Solarbird
    How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair
  & strawberries and whipped cream for breakfast (after the bacon)
  @ I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible. - The New York Times
  # Oh, right.  Saturday. s4s
  % when I stop being busy, or reading fic on DW, everything seems pointless.  
  * vote -- election day 8/4.  Direct deposit; mail is problematic
    Marianne's Politiblog: 2020 primary, introduction and important notes