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mdlbearMore proof, not that any is needed, that things can always be worse. So... Mom died Monday morning. Here's her obituary, posted Friday on the funeral home's website. I haven't made a household memorial web page yet; maybe this week.
On the up side, Colleen appears to have gotten her fiber dosage to the right level for stopping her diarrhea. Maybe. It's been about two weeks now.
On the gripping hand, we have headlines like these: Fratelli tutti (3 October 2020) | Pope Francis (it would be nice if...), How Hatred Came To Dominate American Politics | FiveThirtyEight ("There are two possible ways this ends. The first is the one we all fear — the unwinding of our democracy, because one or both sides hate each other so much that they are willing to support anti-democratic and authoritarian leadership in order to maintain power. [...] The other scenario is a major realignment and/or a collapse of one (or both) of the two major parties..."), The Republican and Democratic Parties Are Heading for Collapse (one can only hope), and Volunteer lawyers will advise military personnel who question the legality of orders during protests, election disputes - The Washington Post (one can hope not, but I'm pessimistic).
1004Su * litter boxen & Up 5:50; W=193.8, S=5.4; shower @ Reimagining Help " a really useful way to think about helping people (which is what so many people in health/care want to do) in an enabling and personalised behavioural way " * spent much of the afternoon researching my Erdős number(s) (7 math only; 4 w/ patents) and the rest of it tumbling down a number-theoretic rabbit-hole -> and ending up at Classification of finite simple groups because of course it does. @ Fratelli tutti (3 October 2020) | Francis Opinion | The pope’s unexpected election message - The Washington Post @ From Grooks of Piet Hein AN ETHICAL GROOK I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -- Piet Hein Grooks by Piet Hein / 600ml in bag 1005Mo * up 6:15; S=7:40; % Al called ~6:15 just as I was waking up; told me that Mom had died 15 minutes ago. Ticia came and purred in my ear. Got some cuddle from Colleen; lap-Desti later. -> told S, E; left msg with R's SO : (colon cancer. diagnosed mid-March; don't see it in the log) -> pinged T, who told N. E called back on her break. R texted back. / 1000ml in bag * Singing: Bells of Norwich. Looked at the second verse of QV and sort of fell apart % Both of the cats came over to check up on me. / Orlanda expected within the hour. catheter change * Signal video call with N, m, j, c; Colleen : R being admitted; apparently infections like this don't usually happen so late into the recovery : Pull request on MakeStuff! Din a4 by ArneBab · Pull Request #3 · ssavitzky/MakeStuff cool! / 1050ml in bag; no cleanup required! Fiber dosage seems correct now. 1006Tu & awake 3:40; S=4.2; % worrying about Supreme Court / 1300ml in bag : Ubuntu 20.04 - apps display their own title bar, and icons don't scale in panel! It's almost unusable on Sherman. -> show menubar is the setting for terminal * up 5:10; S=5.0; : now Sherman is just sitting there spinning after a reboot. WTF? It's up -- logging in with ssh works okay. @ Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? | Science | AAAS @ Luminist Archives (ysabetwordsmith) Hundreds of free books in PDF. Most appear to be scans; much of it is still under copyright. Tempted to set up a cron job... @ In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly. But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog. The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum. rows, actually. but WTF? (Simon Bisson : "And this is why you design critical infrastructure around enterprise-grade databases." / Twitter) @ How Hatred Came To Dominate American Politics | FiveThirtyEight " There are two possible ways this ends. The first is the one we all fear — the unwinding of our democracy, because one or both sides hate each other so much that they are willing to support anti-democratic and authoritarian leadership in order to maintain power. [...] The other scenario is a major realignment and/or a collapse of one (or both) of the two major parties, which could reorient American political coalitions and resurrect some of the overlaps of an earlier era. " would be nice. doubtful. @ The Republican and Democratic Parties Are Heading for Collapse " Thanks to his own flexibility, his lack of policy knowledge, his astounding cult of personality, and his singular ability to blame “radical Democrats,” Trump has held together a party so beset by internal disagreement that it publicly stands for pretty much nothing " : Sherman now working. I set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" and GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu; no idea why that fixed it; might just be coincidence, or the hard power-off. & spent much of the day in the bedroom recliner, waiting for E's laptop to show up via UPS (which it eventually did, around 5pm), and doing some light hacking in vv/prj. % I am programming more than "usual", undoubtedly because it takes my mind off subjects I would rather not think about. If it works,... : The bluetooth mouse works just fine on Sherman. (Ubuntu/gnome) growf. % 8:30 neck stiff and hurting; damned if I know what I did but I've also been falling asleep. Should go to bed. / 1800ml in bag % 9:30ish meloxicam -- seems to be helping. 1007We & Awake 3:10ish; % no idea why The Song of Wandering Aengus has been running through my head, but... & awake 7ish, dozing until 8:15 or so * up 8:30ish; S=6:54; @ How To Vote In The 2020 Election | FiveThirtyEight mail-in rules, by state mithriltabby | Hold Your Nose and Vote by Tuesday, November 3, 2020 Santa Clara County, CA Marianne's Politiblog Island County, WA & kids' contact info to Al * E and M' came up to collect her repaired laptop; nice conversation with them and Colleen out on the porch. * box to be sent to N -- Ruth and mail -> L' still a little under the weather; will come tomorrow ~noon @ Why you should really, really update your Logitech wireless dongle - The Verge -> downloaded mac and PC versions of the firmware update / 1200ml in bag 1008Th * up 4:55; S=6:05, W=190.8; : for some reason sherman isn't showing up in local dns. Other dhcp assignments, e.g. mfc, _are_ showing up, and it's known to gw, so this is quite weird. -> gave it a static lease; that fixed it. @ I Am the Fly That Landed in Mike Pence’s Hair. Here’s Why I’m Supporting Donald Trump. (minoanmiss | They're interviewing _Everybody!_) & added lyrics (in comments) to some of my songs on YT, following a comment by Leslie Fish saying that she hadn't gotten the lyrics. % fell half-asleep with Desti in my lap 1009Fr & awake 6ish; drifted for about an hour * up 7am; S=6:34; % quite a lot of Dest lap-time. / 12:30ish (HH nurse)Diane : Mom's picture and obit received from Al $ RE $50 (PP) ordered mini-itx CPU/MB from eBay -- comparable to Nova; will be used for recording using either the Delta 66 or the Delta 1010. Use Sable's old 500G SSD @ The Coronavirus Unveiled: Microscopic Images of SARS-CoV-2 - The New York Times @ Obituary for Evelyn Robbins Savitzky | Donaldson Funeral Home -> posted in FB and S(L) % 10:15 meloxicam / 1l in bag 1010Sa % last dreams/waking thoughts mostly about abortion and the Supreme Court. * Up 6am; S=6:56; % exercises for first time in a while. a week? / 1l in bag @ Volunteer lawyers will advise military personnel who question the legality of orders during protests, election disputes - The Washington Post (@rydra_wong posting in @thisfinecrew) % restless : Apparently yesterday's mail got left on our porch railing, where it got wet overnight as of 4pm _today's_ mail has not yet been delivered. -> arrived sometime after 5pm. % Colleen was delighted with the Cheshire Cat mask I got for her. I win. / 800ml in bag
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Date: 2020-10-11 09:32 pm (UTC)My condolences, I know what you're going through. hugs
I have a Logitech wireless keyboard (not currently being used), I should check and get the receiver updated, that way I can sell it with a clear conscience.
Here in the UK we have multi-party politics, but the two largest parties (Conservative, Labour) and most of the media still treat it as if it's a two-party system. Labour had their wake-up call last year, and I suspect the Conservatives are going to get theirs a lot sooner than they'd hope, thanks to their mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Date: 2020-10-12 04:22 am (UTC)Also, I didn't read too far in, but dang, is the ArchPatriarch actually advocating almost a bit of universalism?