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It was a week. On the plus side, a little walking and quite a lot of bug fixing in flktran. An s4s post last Sunday (but none yesterday). On the minus side, I took Colleen to the ER Thursday night after she'd been throwing up all day (but she didn't need to stay overnight -- she appeared to be doing pretty well yesterday -- and her PT is definitely making her stronger). Mo singing. On the out side, the US's ongoing political disaster, which will make me throw up if I think about it. So... a week.

I went out walking three times last week. Since that's the same number of walks as the entire preceeding month (and two of those were last week), I'm not going to complain even though the total distance was less than what I would do in a single lunch hour back in San Jose. (I'm also walking more slowly -- about 2.5mph, down from at least 3.)

I did a lot of fixing in MakeStuff, so hopefully it now correctly processes the file format I documented last week. And at long last went through all of the translated HTML with HTML Tidy to make sure the results were, if perhaps not always correct, at least not broken. (The program is almost 20 years old, and the format dates back to 1987, so "at long last" may be something of an understatement.)

Meanwhile, Trump admits he's blocking postal cash to stop mail-in votes, and Public Transit Cuts Felt Deepest in Low-Income Areas. Here at the North End we lost access to Paratransit last month, when Island Transit cut the bus route that serves the Goss Lake area. So... yeah. A week.

Notes & links:

0809Su
  * Up 4am; W=193, S=5:19; shower
  ~ posted Songs for (Sunday): Cranes Over Hiroshima a day late and not what I'd originally
    planned, but it will do.
  * Walk: to Skybird and back.  Should have worn a hat -- it was bright.
  ~ surprisingly little done today.  Maybe it's just that I'm coming down after a week
    full of distressing links.  And two posts may count for _something_.
    % but right now all I seem to be good for is passive consumption of media :P
  @ 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers - The New York Times 
  % 9:10pm very sleepy

0810Mo  * litter boxen scooped
  * up 5:45; S=6:18;
  * call Express Scripts:  quote for budesonide 3mg tablets 3/day (866) 529-4917
    $225 local retail, $230 mail-order.  The estimate I got on GoodRX was ~$2K.  So...
  / 10:30ish HH nurse (Diane)
    Got Colleen to do some bed exercises while waiting
  * V has an off-island appointment early but should be back in time
  * (V) 1:20 C Dr. Rochier
  * 11ish: meloxicam

0811Tu
  & awake ~2ish.  +- an hour; don't really remember
  * up 7:45; S=7:39;
  / 8ish major cleanup
  @ Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during
    speech | Science Advances (COVID-19 Updates - August 10, 2020)
    Which Face Masks are Most/Least Effective? - Core77
    Face mask study: Researchers determined which masks are the least effective - CNN
  @ MUCH ADO ABOUT MASKS | Blue & White fashion
  * Lots of bug fixes in flktran; fix tests, fix related bugs in */Lyrics/*; push
    rm */lyrics.*; make in  */Songs
  @ How To Make Easy Kimchi at Home
  @ Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients | medRxiv
  @ Why do remote meetings suck so much? – Chelsea Troy caucus score

0812We
  / C awake 5ish (no cleanup, but she needed the pad changed and help with her feet)
  * Up 5:15; S=6:20;
  @ 17 Learning Tools For Your Next Outdoor Excursion - The New York Times
  * found the missing stick of cube magnets -- under the deskside shelves.  Realized,
    after the rest of them fell and skittered under the rolling files, that they could
    have gotten farther than I expected.
  * 10:30 C Etta (HH PT filling in for C')
  / C and V made apple crumble and chocolate chip cookies.
  * repair tray table stand (wood glue and deck screws) -> interestingly, all the tables
    fit now, even the ones that seemed to be too narrow.
  * work in MakeStuff/test.  And figured a few things out about paths.  Sharing something
    like Songs that needs to look at ../sites (e.g. for templates and definitions) would
    be pretty much impossible. 
  / 10:30ish C nauseous, vomiting

0813Th
  / 1:30 woke to the sound of C vomiting
  & awake 1:30.  Attempting to get back to sleep 2:45
  * up ~6:55; W=193, S=6:27;
  @ The Joy of Tech comic... A PSA from Sputnik
  @ GitHub-like Markdown preview with Emacs - Bits and Bobs
  @ Projects/Sustainability/Museum - The Museum of Fossilized Internet - MozillaWiki
    Virtual Tours of the Museum of the Fossilized Internet - The Mozilla Blog 
  * more chasing html bugs with tidy; site/footer on s.s.net was failing tidy.
    Also, MakeStuff/blogging/check-html now takes multiple files and puts out error
    messages that emacs can parse.
  / 4:15 and C still hasn't been able to keep anything down, despite ondansetron (Zofran)
  / C's budesonide needs pre-auth :P  They gave her 56 capsules.
  * Walk: just to Middle and back.
  @ Prolonged Adaptive Stress Syndrome (PASS) (ysabetwordsmith)
  @ Trump admits he's blocking postal cash to stop mail-in votes
  / 7:50 C scared enough to want to go in to the ER.  hasn't been able to keep anything
    down all day. Suggested trying gatorade first
  / 8ish took C to (0813)ER
  / 11:30 on IV;
  % should have watered my nose before we left
  : sable's battery lasted until just before we left.  For some reason I didn't have a
    power cord, though I had the brick.  Growf.
  / okay to go home 2:30ish; home ~3am; 2 scrips to fill;
  / clear liquids today

0814Fr  S's birthday
  * up 7ish; S=3:44; 
  % right knee hurts.  WTF?
  * pay AX, Molly
  * 8ish drop off prescriptions at RiteAid - should be ready ~9am
  * 9:30 12-12:30ish C HH PT (Etta)
  * 10ish pick up scrips.  Got a couple of dark chocolate bars for S's birthday pres.
  * 1:40ish C HH Diane
  * subscribed to Lamplighters, Chelsey Troy via Patreon plus PayPal (painless)
  % feeling rather washed out, slightly headachy.  Don't know whether it's lack of sleep,
    or low blood sugar
  % 5:22 definitely somewhat sleepy

0815Sa  * litter boxen  * LR changed,  * BR scooped
  * up 6:30ish; S=8:21;
  @ Home care for patients with
    suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and management of their contacts: interim guidance, 12
    August 2020 [PDF]
  * I think I've finally gotten most of Desti's fur-tangles out.  Pulling hairs out of the
    tangles from the side wth fingernails seems to work best.  She reciprocates by washing
    my arm.
  @ Public
    Transit Cuts Felt Deepest in Low-Income Areas - The New York Times
    -> We've already lost access to paratransit here due to transit route cuts.
  * Walk: to Skybird and back.  Walking doesn't feel as easy as it used to.
  % 9ish a long period of just vegetating.  Not sure what's going on there.

Date: 2020-08-17 02:19 am (UTC)
kellan_the_tabby: My face, reflected in a round mirror I'm holding up; the rest of the image is the side of my head, hair shorn short. (Default)
From: [personal profile] kellan_the_tabby
You mentioning walks inspired me to actually go for a walk, so thank you for that!

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