Done Since 2021-01-10

[mdlbear]

Meanwhile, the turds in DC are doing their best to sabotage as much as they can before Tuesday. I'm still expecting 45 to pardon many, if not all, of the insurrectionists.

I didn't get much of anything done all week. Can't tell whether it's clinical depression, chronic stress, burnout, some combination of those, or something else.

I sang one song at the GAFilk dead dog. That's it. Did not go to the LAFA filk sing last night. According to Riley, four of my songs were covered between the two of them.

I made new vaccine appointments at WhidbeyHealth -- their site let me schedule both shots in the series. (An hour or three later, the state went back to Phase 1, but (unlike Island Drug) WhidbeyHealth said they will honor any appointments already booked. One of the rare cases where I didn't procrastinate, and it made a difference. Will that make it easier not to procrastinate next time? Probably not.

We had a major wind storm Tuesday night, and spent all of Wednesday and half of Thursday without power. Seriously considering getting a proper backup generator; installation would be expensive but it might be worth it. Next year? I ran down Molly's 12v battery charging laptops. You might think that an electric car with 50-odd kilowatt-hours in its main battery bank would run down charging two laptops. You'd be wrong. Everything except the motor runs off that 12v battery, and it doesn't charge when the propulsion system is powered down.

Thursday morning I called roadside assistance and got a jump. I'm going to order a lithium-ion jump starter -- they're not too expensive and apparently work better than most of the lead-acid ones. Which was somewhat surprising.

Notes & links:

0110Su
  " rileyfire Today at 12:39 AM:  just so's you know, Mark Horning did a beautiful
    rendition of Bound for Hacker's Heaven using your chords but on a 12-string. It
    sounded gorgeous. (And Dierdre did a World Inside the Crystal rendition with a guitar
    playing it in a different key than Kathy Mar's version.) "
  * up 6:15ish; S=7:05, BP=123/74, P=65, W=195.6; exercise, shower
  @ WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually | WIRED
  / 300ml in bag; leaking; flush with little effect - nothing leaked but nothing in tube
  * GAFilk - got there just as the dead dog was starting.  Was pretty late before I got up
    the nerve to sing.    Singing:  21st Century Breakup Song
    left around 10:25
  % 2 naproxen 10:36pm
  / 1600ml in bag.  Some leakage, but not too much.

0111Mo
  * up 6ish; BP=119/71, P=62;
  * naproxen 10am
  / 1600ml in bag; clear
  : WhidbeyHealth just opened up appointment bookings for the medical center in Coupeville
    (this morning -- V told me) so I snagged appointments for a little over two weeks from
    now.  They're using the Pfizer vaccine, and their software also lets you schedule the
    second dose (which Island Drug's didn't).
  @ Thread by @SethAbramson on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
  @ US allies say Trump attempted coup with help from federal law enforcement - BI
  @ 6 Steps to Come Up with Creative Blog Categories • The Inner Dolphin
  @ Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian Institution
    " where you can explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s
      collections (2.8 million at February 2020 launch). We have released these images and
      data into the public domain as Creative Commons Zero (CC0)... "
    Open Access Developer Tools | Smithsonian Institution
    Smithsonian/OpenAccess: Smithsonian Open Access Data Repository
  % naproxen 10:26
  / 1200ml in bag; no cleanup needed
  % another day lost to the doomscroll and youtube

0112Tu
  * Up 7ish; S=4:54; .
  % 2 naproxen 8:40am
  @ https://www.islandcountywa.gov/Health/COVIDDOCS/PR_ICPH_1.11.21_VaccinePhase1Update.pdf
  : according to email from Island County, vaccination appointments are being pushed out 2
    weeks because not enough people in 1A have been vaccinated.  Have not heard from
    WhidbeyHealth, though I _have_ heard the same from IslandDrug. ->
  @ Community Update 1.11.2021: (UPDATED @ 3:00pm) WhidbeyHealth HOLDS on Administering
    COVID-19 Vaccine to Tier B1 Population – WhidbeyHealth -> 
    " WhidbeyHealth will honor anyone from the Phase 1 Tier B1 group who has made a vaccine
      appointment with us before this notice is issued "
  @ FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no sign of
    looming violence 
  * had the last of the Strait gin (0112); I don't appear to have recorded starting it.
    The previous bottle, 1.75l of Gordon's, was started 11-18.  So I've had 2.5l in a
    little short of 2 months.
  * kf/Lyrics Singer annotations for When I Go;  singer revisions for Lord of the Buffalo.
  / 1600ml in bag (not emptied am; it was maybe 200ml at most); minor cleanup; pasty
  % naproxen

0113We
  : power failure ~12:40am according to Colleen
  & awake 2:30ish
  * up 7:10ish; ;
  % naproxen and drugs 8:30ish: should have loaded them last night.  :P
  : We don't appear to have any already-ground coffee.  :P  (There's instant...)
    -> instant "mocha"s, I guess.  -> ugh.  tea.
  : no internet via landline, so I may actually have to _write_
    -> as of ~9:20, no internet via cell phone either.  No signal.
    -> landline still up (or at least has dialtone) but no power for the modem.
  : Power pack for Colleen's recliner is not working.  Changed batteries; no action.
  / 5:15 semi-major cleanup; not much leakage but not much in bag either
  : 6pm there's enough cell signal for Molly to connect.  S sat in the car charging
    Cygnus; now I'm doing the same with Sable.  Power still down, but Payless has a
    generator, and L' did the shopping.
  : FUCK - Molly turned itself off and won't restart.  Probably ran down the 12v battery.
  % 8ish I've been shivering since I came in. -> honey-ginger tea
  % 2 naproxen somewhere between 8 and 10
  * guitar: a little noodling
  % went to bed 10ish; slept badly
  @ Windstorm wreaks havoc across island | South Whidbey Record (published Friday)

0114Th
  & awake 4ish
  * up 8ish; ; 2 naproxen
  : cell service and presumably internet is back, 3 bars.
  * */15   pay   ~ AX card -> site flaky,  * Molly
    -> Molly from RE savings; xfer 500 UB chk -> RE chk (overdrawn)
    -> AX will require a distribution from Schwab  $1800 -> UB checking
  : PSE is estimating Saturday at 6pm :P  -> actually came back ~11am today
  / >2000ml in bag
  * call Chevy roadside assistance for jump -> successful.  Drove to town and back to give
    the battery time to recharge.
  % 11:55a methocarbamol for back pain; p=4.5-5
  " QOTD: "Why is this day different from all other days?
          "Other days we do not even impeach once; today, we've impeached twice."
          -- JenSeniorNY (2021-01-13 via eftychia)

  : Molly's "service me ASAP" light came on after reboot.
  : 7:37 power looks a little unstable - a couple of sags. 
  * order: * Vit. C, * gloves,  * phone charger battery, * car power T, * C batteries,
  % naproxen 10:45pm

0115Fr
  * up 7:30ish; S=8:23;
  @ Inslee announces plan to reopen Washington state restaurants, other businesses based
    on COVID-19, hospitalization rates in regions | The Seattle Times
    Here’s what you can and can’t do under Inslee’s COVID-19 ‘Healthy Washington’ plan to
    reopen the state | The Seattle Times
  % haven't gotten a damned thing done all day.
  * */15   CPAP:  change paper filter, wash tub                  */{1,15}

0116Sa
  & Awake 3:30ish; back to bed 4:30ish
  * up 8ish; S=6:31
  @ Do These 5 Emotionally Intelligent Things Within 5 Minutes Of Meeting
    1. Show Genuine Enthusiasm For Meeting
    2. Offer A Compliment
    3. Ask At Least Two Open-Ended Questions
    4. Find Something You Share
    5. Say Their Name Before You Leave, And Commit Key Facts To Memory
  @ 
    ysabetwordsmith | How to Draw for Beginners with Dexterity Issues
  @ Evolution of Star Trek Series Music Theme (1966-2020) | VioDance - YouTube
    VioDance DJ & violinist
    Wood Violins | Viper
  @ WI Drive helping to get the elderly, disabled where they need to go | South Whidbey
    Record f(WI DRIVE)
    -> whidbeyislanddrive.com/ (useless)
    # I find it ironic that their website is completely lacking in accessibility features
  @ Capitol Police intelligence report warned three days before attack that ‘Congress
    itself’ could be targeted - The Washington Post
    " “Supporters of the current president see January 6, 2021, as the last opportunity to
      overturn the results of the presidential election,” according to the memo, portions
      of which were obtained by The Washington Post. “This sense of desperation and
      disappointment may lead to more of an incentive to become violent. Unlike previous
      post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily
      the counter-protesters as they were previously, but rather Congress itself is the
      target on the 6th.” "
ETA: (12:46 to fix missing pull)
  : apparently I never did set up a Songs directory for TGl or TGq.  *shrug*
  : Phone charger battery arrived -- a shade smaller and lighter than the older model
  * I've been reading reviews of lithium jump-start batteries. Audew, Imazing, and Sanrock
    came out on top and about the same; Sanrock has a slightly higher mAh rating.
  @ posted Songs for Saturday: Star Trek Themes Through the Years
  / 1400ml in bag, major cleanup

Comments

[spiffyvoxel]

FWIW, I'm nervous over here in the UK, partly about what might happen in the run-up to Inauguration Day, and partly about what sh*t the UK Government might pull while people's attention is diverted.

Had light snow here yesterday morning, but it was gone by lunchtime. Someone did manage to build a small snowman on a nearby green, which was still standing when I went for a walk in the afternoon.

[kengr]

I'm pretty sure he can't pardon someone in advance. And he'll be out before they're tried.

Plus, even most of the Republicans in Congress would get upset as hell if he tried.

[mdlbear]

Apparently he can pardon someone in advance. Ford did it for Nixon in 1974. See Pardon of Richard Nixon - Wikipedia

[jenk]

Power outages can be hard to deal with. We replaced our gas stove recently, and I didn't push hard to switch to induction partly to avoid having to get an electrician in during the pandemic and partly because a gas stove (and kitchen matches) means we can use the stovetop during electrical outages.

We do have UPSes for the CPAPs and some battery chargers for phones. John has a gas-powered generator, but we don't usually use it unless the power's out for most of a day.

Also John speaks well of the lithium-ion jump starter he got a while ago. Does need to be charged, of course.... ;)

[mdlbear]

The jump-starter I wound up with (it was 30% off this morning) also works as a phone charger and as a power source for phones and anything that runs off the cigarette-lighter socket.

[fractalwolf]

Hi there! LinkedIn recommended a job at a place you apparently once worked, and it made me realize how long it had been since I visited one of your blogs. I'm super glad that you & Colleen still seem to be doing okay. It didn't occur to me that filk cons might have switched to online format -- I should look into that.

Fortunately, it looks like 45 did NOT pardon anyone who was part of the mob -- https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/01/20/capitol-rioters-hope-trump-pardon-didnt-get/ was published on 1/20, and explicitly says "Trump waited until the early morning hours of Inauguration Day to issue a flurry of pardons that didn’t include any of the mob."

[mdlbear]

Yeah -- very glad that didn't happen. It could have been worse.