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mdlbearThere were only two days last week when I got more than six hours of sleep. And several where trying to get back to sleep got me nothing more than an hour's worth of despair, worry, and anxiety attacks.
We had our first major power failure of the season -- about 14 hours -- Friday afternoon into too early Saturday (and what woke me up is a mystery, since power came back about 10 minutes after I woke up). As power failures go it wasn't too bad. It could have been bad if we'd needed to make a phone call -- I lost cell service sometime in the late afternoon. The UPS kept our net connection up for three hours, which is pretty decent. The only equipment failure was the power brick on the server; it was on the UPS, which supposedly functions as a surge protector, so wtf??
My concert Saturday afternoon came off fairly well; as usual I was somewhat under-prepared. At least the power was back so I didn't have to try zooming it from my phone.
Opinion | Confronting the Damage of Trumpism - The New York Times is discouraging, but well worth a read:
A shortlist of our broken institutions can seem painful and overwhelming: the presidency; the Senate; the Supreme Court; government agencies that run everything from law enforcement to criminal justice to the environment to public health; the election system, including the Electoral College; the news media; our global partnerships like NATO; and finally, our public schools and universities — places that are supposed to reimagine lives.
Fueling this decline and distrust are not only warring ideologies about the purpose of government, but also hostility to the very idea that facts and truth, as well as respect for scientific and humanistic knowledge, are the basis of a functioning democracy.
I don't think the damage is going to be repaired in my lifetime. On the other hand, Cartoons: The descent of Trump in The Washington Post is brilliant.
1108Su * litter boxen
& awake 2am;
% dream included a tornado
% itching. applied powder; watered nose because I'd forgotten to.
% anxiety about supreme court and lame duck congress.
/ 1900ml in bag. asked what's wrong, went back to sleep when told I'm okay
: sherman hung when opened; got into console window (C-M-F2) and shut down
& up 4:52; S=4.4; couldn't get back to sleep
5:30 perhaps try again to sleep?
* up 8am; W=194.0, S=6:37; shower
@ Cartoons: The descent of Trump - The Washington Post brilliant!
@ Message of Election 2020: Trump lost, but Trumpism did not
& getting ready to revert sherman to Ubuntu 18.04, where suspend worked.
hmm. maybe try mint first?
& 15min: about an hour in the garage. Didn't get _much_ done, but not nothing either.
shelf for under the mirror upstairs (and the end rail that had broken off)
shelved a cubical book box. (flagged 15min because clutter)
@ Opinion | Confronting the Damage of Trumpism - The New York Times
" A shortlist of our broken institutions can seem painful and overwhelming: the
presidency; the Senate; the Supreme Court; government agencies that run everything
from law enforcement to criminal justice to the environment to public health; the
election system, including the Electoral College; the news media; our global
partnerships like NATO; and finally, our public schools and universities — places
that are supposed to reimagine lives.
Fueling this decline and distrust are not only warring ideologies about the
purpose of government, but also hostility to the very idea that facts and truth, as
well as respect for scientific and humanistic knowledge, are the basis of a
functioning democracy. "
@ How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart? - The New York Times
" Earlier this year, Logan, Utah, where Tainter lives, briefly became the nation’s
No. 1 Covid hot spot. " Al lives there too.
@ Opinion | Republicans and Democrats Agree: End the War on Drugs - NYT
* Practice: Stuff that Dreams are Made Of, October Country, Millennnium's Dawn, Weird
Load, QV, Toolmakers, Where the Heart Is, Windward, Rambling Silver Rose
1109Mo
* up 5am; S=6:05; exercises for the first time in a while
@ hudebnik | What hurts about this election (cellio)
" even if the Forces of Basic Decency and Competence win, is in a sense worse than
what hurt about the 2016 election: I'm so deeply disappointed in the American people
and their commitment to what I thought were American ideals. Why is this even close?
We needed Trump and his closest enablers to be not just beaten, but thoroughly
repudiated, so the Republican Party (and the Democratic Party, as a warning shot)
would learn to Never Do This Again. " <== THIS
@ Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is looking 90% effective
@ Forbidden Planet, Forgotten History: The Story Behind a Sci-Fi Classic's Premiere in
Charlotte - Charlotte Magazine (via DM)
* 15min: garage: box surplus eggs and elephants, pick up SATA power splitter.
* verified that 18.04 suspends correctly on Sherman. Install.
* Practice: bells-of-norwich, stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of, toolmakers,
middle-sized-bear, weird-load, middle-aged-bear, windward, october-country, river,
riverheart, we-ll-go-no-more-a-roving, rambling-silver-rose, millennium-s-dawn.
-> slightly over an hour.
/ 1000ml in bag
* re-install Ubuntu 18.02 on Sherman because suspend works
1110Tu Veterans Day
* Up 5am; S=5:40;
* set up Sherman. Simplified by having backed up $HOME
/ 1400ml in bag
% some pain in R. knee. -> brace
/ 1400ml in bag
* respond to email from Ted K.
@ Stress Management in the Shittiest of Times
* singing: October Country, Ship of Stone. Decided to drop QV from concert
% some pain in R. knee.
1111We * litter boxen
/ 3am major cleanup
* up 7ish; S=5:51; (awake in bed for maybe as much as an hour)
@ Why Six Hours Of Sleep Is As Bad As None At All not exactly:
" Subjects in a lab-based sleep study who were allowed to get only six hours of sleep
a night for two weeks straight functioned as poorly as those who were forced to stay
awake for two days straight[, but] thought they were doing just fine. "
/ major cleanup (according to V)
* move meds list to Private
* singing: bells-of-norwich stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of toolmakers middle-sized-bear
weird-load middle-aged-bear windward october-country river riverheart
we-ll-go-no-more-a-roving millennium-s-dawn mary-ellen-carter ship-of-stone
inherit-the-earth -> went really badly, esp. on songs that weren't fully chorded
-> about 70min. Drop Weird Load, maybe middle-sized bear
/ 1200ml in bag
* ibuprofen
1112Th
* up 6:30ish; S=7:29;
@ BOM and CSIRO State of the Climate 2020 shows Australia is experiencing climate
change now - ABC News
* fixes in lgf:middle-sized-bear, lgf:qv (steve:qv already fixed)
~ get C up 10:30ish (she was just getting up as I came in)
@ New Mask Design with Vertical Pleats and NO Nose Wire Required! - YouTube
* buy/print ferry tickets
* leave by noon at the latest.
* 1:30 C dentist. 2 hours; Dr. Perez isn't working that day, so I get to sit it out
* copy fully-chorded lyrics in ms-bear to steve/Lyrics
* chord out lgf:middle-aged-bear
% 9pm sleepy
1113Fr
& Awake 1:04; presumably what woke me up was...
/ vomiting. Probably something we ate from Ivar's--she thinks too much fat, but
possibly the chowder?
% back to bed ~4am
% dream that ended with R having been murdered. Decided not to try going back to bed
* up 5:50ish; S=4:22;
% off balance or slight vertigo. Didn't fall, but had to hold something
% 9ish same but less intense, getting up from toilet
% 9:09 pretty severe headache, left temple.
-> 9:22 naproxen
@ COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool (Los Angeles Times)
" The risk level is the estimated chance (0-100%) that at least 1 COVID-19 positive
individual will be present at an event in a county, given the size of the event. "
@ What is being done and what can be done to head off another COVID-19 surge in WA?
@ WA, CA, OR urge interstate travelers to quarantine for 14 days - Seattle Times
" The advisories urge people to avoid non-essential out-of-state travel, ask people to
self-quarantine for 14 days after arriving from another state or country on
non-essential travel, and encourage residents to stay local "
@ GM recalling nearly 69K Bolt electric cars due to fire risk
: 11:30 power failure. ~1h left on the UPS; the usual 2h default time to fix, meaning
they have no idea, but it's big -- covers most of Island County. Nova apparently shut
itself off fairly promptly. The USB ports are still powered, though, so ??
% 1pm sleepy
: cygnus won't boot; is making a clicking noise and blinking the power light. My guess
is hopefully either a battery problem or a fan problem. If it's a disk problem...
: 2:30ish the UPS on the modem finally went down
* practice -- got through most of the setlist with plenty of interruptions.
% 5ish meloxicam
: 6:30 and no power -- estimate says 11:34, but still under investigation? We'll see
& tried sable's old 6-cell battery; still has a couple of hours' charge in it.
* headed for bed ~10:40; hauled the old electric blanket out of the closet for warmth
1114Sa
& Awake 1am;
: power came back just a few minutes after 1am
-> wasted a lot of time looking for starshine's charger
-> nova appears to be broken. Or has a loose power cable. Didn't boot, anyway
~ need to reinstall Discord and Signal on Sherman
* up 7:15ish; ;
: the problem with Cygnus was just a flat battery. Whew!
: the fact that S can't open a thumb drive on Raven is just weird.
: the problem with Nova was the power supply. Which is pretty weird, but...
my supply of 12v power bricks has greatly diminished -- could only find one over 3A
* put set lyrics up on the screen:
for f in `grep -v \# or-econ.songs|tac`; do xreader -i 2 $f.pdf & sleep 2; done
# xmonad makes windows starting at the right, so use tac to reverse
# -i 2 starts on page 2
/ semi-major cleanup; 2000ml in bag
* 3pm 55-min concert (virtually) at Orycon.
OryCon 42 – Oregon's Premier Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
program at https://facebook.com/events/1527126884341970
ship-of-stone
stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of
middle-sized-bear
middle-aged-bear
windward
we-ll-go-no-more-a-roving
river
riverheart
october-country -* griffin needs to be updated in lgfxs
toolmakers
millennium-s-dawn
bells-of-norwich
mary-ellen-carter
-> pretty awful, actually, especially wrong chords. I think the singing was better,
though I got lost occasionally. But the final set order was right, and people
seemed to like it.
get_title () { head -1 $1.flk | sed -E 's/^.*[{]([^}]*)[}]$/\1/'; }
for f in `cat set.list`; do \
echo ' <li> <a href="https://lookingglassfolk.com/Songs/'"$f/"'"' ;\
echo ' >'`get_title $f`'</a></li>'; done
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