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mdlbearIt's been a bad couple of weeks. I did get out three posts last week and this week (counting the Sunday summaries); that's a bit more than usual. Though I appear to have forgotten the Thankful Thursday posts both weeks. Blerg.
The plumber came out Friday, diagnosed the problem (or rather agreed with my diagnosis, which is a leak -- more like a broken pipe -- in the supply line, just outside the house), and headed up to Oak Harbor to get an excavator. Despite assurances that he'd be back that afternoon, he hasn't been seen since. He did say that it was okay to turn the water back on for brief intervals, so I did dishes and laundry yesterday, and will re-fill jugs and do dishes again today. Maybe laundry too.
Colleen's diarrhea was back this week; I suspect it may have something to do with tomatoes. Growf. Or it could be the catheter getting blocked again. There are too many variables to be sure.
I'm trying to cut back on the amount of news I'm consuming. It's hard. The main alternatives are writing, doing random chores, and reading. Reading is the only one I can do with a cat on my lap. That and staring into space and drifting in and out of sleep. I can do that too.
1011Su * litter boxen * up 6:55; S=6:06, W=194.4; shower / 800ml in bag @ Fareed Zakaria: Lessons for a post-pandemic world and how to choose our future * write check (Safeco), check request (Bill Pierre Chev.) @ Does an Intellectual History of the Trump Era Exist? It Does Now - NYT What Were We Thinking eBook by Carlos Lozada | Simon & Schuster * Wrote most of the memoir about Erdos # 7 / 1200ml in bag 1012Mo Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day & Awake 2ish; % C asked what I was writing. said she wanted to read it (my DW). We'll see. * up 7:55; S=6:47; @ Logitech Unifying Receiver Update – Logitech Support + Download * 2:00 C appointment Dr. Dixon (replacing or subbing for Rochier) - in person (V) * Looked up "https://www.jstor.org/stable/2317715?origin=crossref" on JSTOR -- turns out that Carleton gives free access to alumni. Unfortunately, the article in question is just a half-page note giving corrections to Carmichael's table (up to 1000) and saying that the the remaining 978 solutions can be obtained by writing to the Carleton math department. I've actually seen that online, too. It doesn't give the algorithm. :P Probably in my files at saildart.org, but it's not searchable. I know I saw them once... * memoir: how I got my Erdős number (7) @ csauthors.net: Stephen Savitzky Dijkstra number of five. Erdős number of four. From Stephen Savitzky to Edsger W. Dijkstra Dijkstra number of five. From Stephen Savitzky to Paul Erdős Erdős number of four. / 800ml in bag 1013Tu Ada Lovelace Day & Awake 2am; % my weighted blanket was stealing the covers. Also, it's hard to get out of bed when there's a cat in the way. * up 7:30ish; S=7:38; actually got out of bed around 8am % the Barrett / Supreme Court hearings are hitting all my "don't wanna know" triggers it's really remarkable how similar it is to the sort of scene that makes me put down a book or walk out of a movie. Perhaps I shouldn't be reading about T\'urin now. / 1500ml in bag (11am) / 3ish HH nurse Diane. -> switching to Desitin from Cavilon wand. @ What’s your Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number? | Times Higher Education (THE) @ Just figured out that one of my former coworkers, David Stork, has a Bacon number of 3 by way of Arthur C. Clarke (Bacon number 2) and the documentary 2001: HAL's Legacy (TV Movie 2001)). His Erdos number is 4. @ Filk Music: Odd Voices for a Digital Generation: me singing Rocket Rider's Prayer @ Volunteers Come In All Sizes, Shapes and Oh Yes Ages - Galloway Ridge Mom % 9pm headache. probably from jaw-clenching. -> meloxicam At least my eyelids haven't been itching too much today / 800ml in bag 1014We & Awake 00:30; * up 7:30ish; / 900ml in bag @ (yesterday) Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths : apnews.com is totally broken. Seems to have been network trouble. Also had trouble installing ungoogled-chromium, but things started working after I killed tabs belonging to NYT and WaPo. -> apnews still broken in firefox -> and in chromium. Loads (with broken or missing CSS), but fails with bad redirect on reload -> still partly broken in chromium on ubuntu, but doesn't error. * (V) C labs for Dr. Juaire . track down everything Colleen needs for ID and passport birth certificate might not be sufficient; -if we can't renew her passport by mail we could be screwed- We _can_ (-probably-) renew her state ID, but it's not an EID : R needs professional wound care and antibiotics, but is basically okay * pay AX, Molly -> both paid out of RE * Update C's address with DOL getting C her new WA state ID will require a visit to the office in Oak Harbor / 1400ml in bag % meloxicam / cleanup 1015Th & awake 3am; S=3.9?; % was dreaming that C was all better; her skin all healed. Figures / major cleanup % back pain-> heat. Should get up and get some water. % back to bed 4am; 4:45 gave up trying to get back to sleep; back to bed 6ish * up 8:50; S=5:56 / cleanup; 1400ml in bag * reorder catfood, coffee * */1,15 CPAP: change paper filter, wash tub */{1,15} * 2:20 C Dr. Juaire portal.mendfamily.com (browser-based, connect in advance) s@s trying to remember which device I connected with -- probably C's tablet % I had a login on C's tablet, but I'd used chrome not firefox. Connected on sable but could not get audio input to work despite having bars on the built-in mic; eventually they called her phone with video on sable, but it was really a disaster. % super-stressed. Lost it several times, starting with it taking 5 minutes for C to figure out how to exit her stupid game, so we ended up 5min late for the appointment -> apparently I'm that close to the edge -> C's kidney function is up to 25% (from 18% last time) (still stage 4) : and now the water has been turned off because of our leak -> Apollo drain and rooter -> coming by in the morning. Andy. Too late to expect anyone today. Shit. It would happen just before closing. ~> Bob's Northwest Plumbing & Mechanical (360) 279-8319 left msg; they may get someone out sooner, though probably not : Ballots arrived in the mail @ Project: Hug (ellenmillion) % getting nothing at all done 1016Fr & awake 12:30, 3ish - no cleanups needed on my part * up 6:15; S=7:10; / 1100ml in bag : Figured out a way to jury-rig the water: if I can eitherconnect a hose on the house side of the meter(-> nope), or block off the leaky section on the house side of the hydrant, we can run a hose around the back of the house and turn off the inside cut-off. Want to do that anyway to blast the dirt out of the pipe. : and now internet -- and phone -- is out. -> called Whidbey Telecom 8:45am. Will get back to me. -> (didn't, but it works) -> it's in their equipment -- tech on the way to wherever it is. (not at my end) need to either reboot something or re-seat a card. Switch, probably. -> S suggested that maybe it's the zombie apocalypse. Wouldn't be surprised. -> 9:32 fixed. For about 30 seconds. -> 9:41 maybe? Seems ok FTM : 10ish Andy from Apollo Drain and Rooter came out, sized up the job, and went up to Oak Harbor for an excavator. Advised turning the water back on for 20 minutes to fill up the tub, water jugs, and toilet tanks. Made coffee and refilled the pot. / 400 ml in bag * 11:30 (HH nurse)Orlanda * C and V out to get C's state ID renewed. -> got passport pic, but DOL only open by appointment on Saturdays. So we'll see. % 3:30 just sitting with eyes closed. almost tears? second or third time today : no sign of either (plumber)Andy or C and V & finished the 1.75l bottle of Gordon's gin (1016) @ Azimuth John Baez (Joan's uncle) math and physics / 8:10pm major cleanup. will be challenging with no water. % Very tense. ?? 8:40 not as bad as I'd feared; she's going to stay in bed though % meloxicam, I think 1017Sa * litter boxen & awake 00:30ish / major cleanup & awake 3:00; S=4.3; / major cleanup... what were we saying? % back pain -> heat / she's crying, which is perfectly understandable, but it hurts to hear * up 7:53; S=8:18; * 9:50ish turn water on for laundry and dishes... (11:15, so about 90min) -> turn off after laundry second rinse / 1100ml in bag @ The Obesity Era & made a mug of Yorkshire Gold for my second dose of caffeine; that may become a Thing @ How to Hug During a Pandemic - The New York Times % mostly okay while doing stuff (laundry, dishes, breakfast...) Not so much in between. & long W-dive involving general relativity, self-adjoint operators, and elliptic curves @ Cory Doctorow on the danger of cynical science fiction. % meloxicam along with my evening drugs, 6ish. % 9pm applying heat to back after litter change / major cleanup. ??900ml in bag -- fogot to note at the time. could have been 700 % stressed, despairing, depressed
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Date: 2020-10-18 10:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-19 01:12 am (UTC)As for the rest of it... :/
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Date: 2020-10-18 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-19 01:25 am (UTC)ETA: have I ever mentioned how much I love that icon?
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Date: 2020-10-19 01:47 am (UTC)You have sounded pretty overwhelmed lately, so remembering to be somewhere, even virtually, probably isn't easy. But you'd be welcome at more of them! And you can set up to listen while you do other stuff, though it's wonderful to hear you singing.
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Date: 2020-10-24 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-24 07:23 pm (UTC)David Berebe's Obesity Era article from Aeon was fascinating. There's so much moral panic clogging people's brains, insisting "it's simple calorie in = calorie out"
That's why Peter Wilson's 2019 article The Death of the Calorie makes a nice bookend.
Sending you warm thoughts.