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mdlbearHmm. File corruption on (laptop)Sable, political corruption (a given these days), some interesting debugging on (temporary replacement laptop) Raven, singing, no walking to speak of, Colleen doing her exercises, Colleen's usual medical problems and some less usual ones, deli sandwiches by curbside pickup, killer hurricane, killer cops,... FSCK (literally as well as indirectly figuratively).
Oh yeah, almost forgot -- C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing (via siderea | How Can You Tell the CDC is Lying? Their Lips Are Moving.)
The usual mixed week, here at this end of the Rainbow Caravan.
0823Su * Up 5:40; / 5:45 major cleanup % back pain, still about the same. @ How starving public health fueled a COVID fire in Florida @ 'Hoax' book reveals extent of internal unease at Fox " This story is about a rot at the core of our politics [...] It’s about an ongoing attack on the very idea of a free and fair press. It’s about the difference between news and propaganda. It’s about the difference between state media and the fourth estate. " @ AP EXCLUSIVE: US faces back-to-school laptop shortage : power indicator seems to have vanished from gnome-panel. Hopefully back on restart -> restart not only didn't help, gnome won't come up at all. Ubuntu does... * Walk: to Skybird. So not a bad start for the week. : sable is having disk problems. It's an SSD, too. Weird. Now on Raven, which hopefully will hold up for a while. I was able to check in and push everything under vv, so (thanks be to git) I have almost all my state. The dual monitor setup on Raven is extremely weird, though. : next step is back up everything in ~ on sable except for caches and vv, and go from there. fsck from an external drive, and if that doesn't work replace it. Raven doesn't have bluetooth :P. Probably not 802-11a either. * call Mom 7:15ish. She's really having memory problems : best guess as to what went wrong with Sable's disk is not mounting it with noatime. lazyatime and relatime maybe. Of course, I got it used... % meloxicam 10:30 0824Mo % dream fragments. Some kind of event that involved sessions in an auditorium. N was there. Ended with a buffet banquet that I missed most of because I was with N, but there were leftovers -- roasted chicken (Rock Cornish hens?) and make-it-yourself nigiri. Mostly squid and nori left. * Up 5:45; S=6:31; @ Arkham Board of Health Feedback On Miskatonic University’s Draft Plan for a Safe Campus Reopening : Weird. charm isn't charming. And I can't post from Sable, either. Got a "too many failed logins" error before I pulled .charmrc (with API key) from sable, but it still doesn't work. Maybe I need a new key? -> that doesn't work either. -> test post via charm on raven worked. So??? -> not, apparently, a problem with direct posting, so maybe a bug in charm or the API ->> subject too long. Then it retrys, and never reports the error :P * Singing: World Inside the Crystal * Home Health - Diane. Will get a urine sample. (should have been done in the ER, should have been done when the catheter was last changed, ...) -> catheter change (0824) * 1:40 C Dr. Rochier video @ A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future : NPR also a tale of two business models " Spotify's royalty rates are so low that to earn a living wage of $15 an hour, a musician needs 657,895 streams per month " " Bandcamp may not just be the anti-Spotify; it may be operating in an entirely different world. I asked Diamond what digital businesses he feels a kinship with now, the way he did with blogging services when he started the company. He didn't name a music platform. 'I would say Etsy. [...] it's a marketplace, right. They connect buyers and sellers, but they're not trying to create competing goods.' " @ Five Minutes a Day for Fresh-Baked Bread | MOTHER EARTH NEWS @ UNLEASH THE ARCHERS - Northwest Passage (Official Video) | Napalm Records % Decision paralysis. Want to write, but... OK, I should go sing something instead * Singing: Ship of Stone, Bigger On the Inside @ Disproportionate Effects of COVID-19 Within Research - American Scientist / C's catheter is leaking. even after being changed % meloxicam / C nausea, vomiting. one dose of ondansetron seems to have fixed it, but still. 0825Tu * litter boxen changed. * up 5ish; S=5:47; shower (usually Sunday but Stuff Was Happening) % back still hurting -> heat. meloxicam doesn't seem to be doing much. tizanidine? @ radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance | CSS-Tricks : attempt to tar up Sable thwarted by the fact that FAT32 files are limited to 4G. There really isn't that much of significance, but that's almost all of it anyway nova du -s /vv/backups/steve@sable/ -> 17601880 /vv/backups/steve@sable * 1pm HH PT (Colleen) - talk with C about goals <- walk to/from car with walker -* I advised her to take an ativan before her PT session; she gets very scared even thinking about going past the end of the ramp. -> not sure it helped all that much -* need to get a chair pad -> need to get that concrete work done at the foot of the ramp : _something_ has been putting tiny holes in the bottom of the bedroom litter box liner * rsync -a --exclude vv --exclude ?cache --exclude ?golang . \ nova:/vv/backups/steve\@sable * e2fsck -cfp -C 0 /dev/sda5 # check bad blocks, force, preen, show progress -> run from usb drive boot; I don't see a completion bar - maybe runs badblocks first? -> that appears to be the case. Started a little after 8pm -> done 9ish; multiply-claimed blocks, mostly in /swapfile -> started another run 10ish. A few dozen corrupted files -- surprising anything worked at all. Not clear how one recovers from that. Clean re-install, probably, and I wonder whether I can trust the drive. Finished ~10:30; no problems (but no telling which files are borked.) * meloxicam 0826We & up 4ish; S=6:33; woken by C / major cleanup. Went back to bed 5ish but probably didn't sleep @ Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane * 9:30 S Freeland Clinic -> took over an hour. Mostly for paperwork, according to S. * looked at smartctl -a for sable's drive. raw errors and unused reserve NAND block both shown as pre-fail; everything else old-age. 630 days of powered-up time, and 985 power cycles. So... yeah. Raven's drive is has more uptime, and 4 items in pre-fail state. * apt-get install --reinstall $(dpkg -S $(debsums -c) | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u) reinstall all packages with bad checksums. fixed Sable. % back does not appear to be getting better. (skipped exercises this morning) -> heat / C's catheter is completely blocked * cd Downloads; for f in *.zip; do echo -n $f:\ ; unzip -tqq $f; echo; done -> Art_of_the_Poster_1880-1918.zip is the only one with bad checksums, and it's one of a huge number of things I never look at anyway. But easy to find again. Art of the Poster | Lawrence University ... and copied to Sable and backup @ siderea | How Can You Tell the CDC is Lying? Their Lips Are Moving. C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing 0827Th & up 3:40; S=4:27; % back still hurts (L QL) ibuprofen, heat dosage (1 tab. 1 every 4-6 hours, <= 6/day; 2 if not responding) % anxiety over C's lack of passport & some scrambling after discovering that "odyssey" had been posted yesterday while testing a buggy post: recipe. Blarg. So much for getting back to sleep @ aebrain_feed | State of Play : Covid-19 (minoanmiss) very informative article on what we've learned about treating COVID-19. : Excite Credit Union (formerly Alliance) has unsubscribed me from their "funds transfer service" based on my response to an incomprehensible phone call. I wasn't using it. * tried running gsmartcontrol on sable; got weird results. So things are still weird. * 11am C HH nurse (Diane) : G suggests getting the terrabyte drive, -> so Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB $ $140 AX Recording Media -> ordered -- it'll be here tomorrow. * 1:30ish HH PT (Colleen) * Pickles - Friday After Thanksgiving, Hot Italian, 2 garlic pickles & debugging triggered by `make thanks` (of course). Think I've finally got it. * Singing: Bells of Norwich 0828Fr * up 7ish; S=7:57; * Singing: For Amy; ...; * ordered WiFi agbn/BT adapter for Raven / C did her leg lifts and standing-up exercises : ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED RAW_VALUE 202 Percent_Lifetime_Used 0x0030 097 097 001 Old_age Offline 3 ......................................^ 97% Yikes! But the threshold is 1, so most likely the 97 is %remaining, and the raw value is something like 3% used. See @ S.M.A.R.T. - Wikipedia (via this comment) Note that Cygnus's drive doesn't have anything resembling this attribute. It does have Total_LBAs_Written with a normalized value of 99, which is probably %remaining & backed up sable:~/vv/users/record to nova:vv/backups/... @ Ana Martínez para Neo2 | Olimpo y sus nuevos Dioses (via firecat | Photography: Olympian Gods) Gorgeous images. 0829Sa * Awake 2am; S= 3.4; % 2:15 ibuprofen, heat. Blue-blocker glasses may help getting back to sleep -> back to bed 3:45 * up 7:30ish; S=6:59; @ Hygiene Hustle Buy Hand Sanitizer From This Black, Queer-Owned Business to Support Sex Workers : Raven is a nice machine for my desktop; the problem is that the lid is flexible enough that Desti can push buttons and possibly the space bar just by sitting on it. Closed. * RiteAid run for S's antibiotics : Path measurements: left: ~30"x10' right: 30"x8' some sections could go to 36" -> notes. plastic gravel grids look plausible for right (facing down ramp) * Singing - Bells of Norwich (rq from C)... [decision paralysis] ... Mary Ellen Carter / C vomiting. Pasta sauce?? She says that was what she'd had the last time; unclear.
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Date: 2020-08-31 01:35 am (UTC)The CDC is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump Reelection-at-any-cost Campaign, so, yeah.
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Date: 2020-09-01 09:26 am (UTC)Here in the UK more lockdown restrictions are being eased, including reopening schools, despite public unease over that move. My sister was still trying to figure out how she's supposed to teach her class of kids safely, and protect herself as well. I have a horrible feeling that there'll be a second wave of Covid-19 infections soon, just as the government here pulls away what little support it was offering to those most impacted by the pandemic. And then we'll be out of the European Union at end of the year, most likely without any new trade deals in place. Ugh!