Done Since 2021-01-24

[mdlbear]

I'm not getting any easier thinking while listening to music with lyrics. Not to mention typing. However... I have no idea what kind of week it's been. Tuesday and Wednesday mostly disappeared into vaccine side-effect fog. (Which probably doesn't explain why I managed to smash my finger in the front door on the way out to the drug store.) Then Thursday was the 35th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, and Friday was the GameStop short squeeze. Saturday was a year since the WHO declared COVID-19 a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”, which apparently is bureaucratese for "pandemic".

Not to mention taking care of Colleen and sleeping very poorly.

Link of the week probably has to be Saturday's Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado (Queers, alpacas and guns) subtitle: "How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West".

Notes & links:

0124Su  * litter boxen
  % dream, including a (non-existent) book by Cordwainer Smith: "The Smell of New York"
    that I was threatening to buy.  WTF?  There was a lot more I don't remember.
  * up 6ish; S=6:32, p=4.5 (back), BP=111/61, P=61; shower
  % back pain -> naproxen ~8am; heat
  : something is chirping.  Either a fire detector or a UPS.
  @ The Pandemic Year Marked a Turning Point in Climate Change
  / 1100ml in bag  11ish
  * 15min: banking -- hey, it counts.
    $ IRA payment arrived from Schwab -- $315 more than last year:  minimum dist. increase
    $ transfer $1k from UB checking -> cash reserve (fixes 0115 shortfall)
  * (short) walk: door to garage (dehumidifier full) to mailbox to turnaround to door.
    not clear whether it should really be called a walk, although at my current state of
    (de)conditioning it might be.  RH=80+%
  @ Autumn COVID-19 surge dates in Europe correlated to latitudes, not to
    temperature-humidity, pointing to vitamin D as contributing factor
    8 Signs and Symptoms of Vitamin D Deficiency -> recommends 1000 - 4000IU
  * 15min: went over AT+T bill.  increase of $23 includes $9 pro-rated for first month;
    should go down to $10 next month.
  % back pain -> naproxen 11pm

0125Mo
  & awake 3:40; back 4:15
  * Up 6:30; S=6:31, p=4, BP=122/76, P=63;
    % back pain p=4 -> heat.  Naproxen later.
  & spent some time reading executive orders and press releases on the whitehouse.gov Briefing Room pages
  * 15min:  emptied dehumidifier -- RH=66% (was 80-something yesterday), bagged trash
  * Colleen needs lomotil - call for refill
  / 1400ml in bag; major+ cleanup
  / (HH)Diane - applied Cavilon wand -- no Desitin until Thursday
  * 5:30 leave for Coupeville
  * 6:10pm (me) COVID vaccine dose 1 Coupeville
    covid.vacc@whidbeyhealth.org questions
    Main Campus Vaccine Clinic https://book.appointment-plus.com/cn2vqgd8/
    https://whidbeyhealth.org/community-update-1-18-2021/
    " Our Vaccine Clinic is located in our Health Education Center (HEC). If you follow
      the street signage from Main Street, you will be directed to specific parking in our
      parking lot. You will then continue to follow the signs directing you to enter the
      building in the correct area. "
    -> Moderna rather than Pfizer, so second dose moved out.  Only 2 days because of the
       +-4 day window.  Seems wrong, though... 1 day short? -> no, fencepost error.
  / 1100ml in bag
  % naproxen 11:17

0126Tu
  * up 5:20; BP=119/73, P=63, S=5:37;
  % 8am no side-effects so far
  % 11am slight pain (p=2?)at injection site
  * order dehumidifier drain hose
  % 2 acetaminophen 2:15 after catching a finger in the front door.  p=6 (localized)
    stuck it in a glass of ice water.  acetaminophen dose 2 every 6 hours
  * pick up Colleen's lomotil at Rite Aid
  / major++ cleanup...major+ cleanup.  S handled some mopping while I was out
  / put desitin on her ass regardless -- looked pretty bad, bleeding.  probably mistake
  % 4pm finger p=4.5; swolen.  Numb.  I can actually type; the joint and the last 5mm or
    so are undamaged.  palmar side
  ! depressed or something.  just out of it?  Can't do much of anything.  ugh.
  % 6pm 2 naproxen
  % 6:50ish maybe some side effects -- feeling a little unsteady
  / 8:30 major+ cleanup (at chair) very liquid.  1100ml in bag, cloudy and gray.
    She's gone to bed.
  ~ acetaminophen okay at 8:15.
  @ [Folio] These Precious Days, By Ann Patchett | Harper's Magazine archived (jesse-the-k)
  % 9:30 starting to feel chilled. The shot, or maybe the ice water. N suggests take temp
  / another cleanup
  % 10pm now I'm getting the muscle aches.  Legs, mostly.  And shivering.  loaded drugs.
  % 10:30 T=97.1  a thoroughly miserable night.

0127We 
  * up 9:45am; BP=121/77, P=92, S=1:28??;  apparently mask came off at some point
  ~ 6am naproxen okay -> 10:50.  2 caplets
  % decided to just wear my white bathrobe today.  Pants are too much trouble
  / 1:30 Colleen CAT scan - hospital (V) -> results in a few days
  % mashed finger feeling better -- little or no pain. should still wait before guitar
  % 7:30ish sleepy, a bit chilled
  % 8:45 feeling downright cold.  Maybe fluffy bathrobe will help -> some
  % fell asleep in the bedroom recliner

0128Th Challenger 1986
  * up 7:45;  S=4:44;  apparently mask came off at some point
  % feeling pretty normal now
  / 1100ml in bag, gray; some leakage
  @ Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
    Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity - NYT
    The "Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction" launches | Boing Boing
  * 1:30 (HH)Diane for catheter change and wound care
  @ Double-Masking: Why Two Masks Are the New Masks - The New York Times
    Does Double-Masking Help Slow the Spread of Covid? - The New York Times 
  * Book appointments for Colleen and S at Island Drug -- 3/25 and 4/24 :P
  / Colleen has been referred for a kidney ultrasound; terrified of going on dialysis.
  / diarrhea; liquid but no cleanup needed - all landed in toilet for once.
  % naproxen 10:10pm

0129Fr
  & awake 2ish; S=2.8; mask hurting; couldn't get it to feel right
    back to bed 4ish; Desti snuggled between me and Colleen; then Ticia lay down on the
    other side for a while.  Couldn't get back to sleep; gave up 4:27
  & awake 4:27;  finished The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington> (NYT review)
  * up 8am;
  / 1100ml in bag, grey; no cleanup but very liquid diarrhea; 
  : V attending a funeral, so won't be here
  <- C call diagnostic imaging skagit valley hosp. 360-814-8208
  * paragraph after lyrics pointing at the alternative formats
    * s.s.net,  * lgf (the only ones with complete Songs directories at the moment)
  @ GameStop soars again; Wall Street bends under the pressure
    GameStop's Gargantuan Gamma Squeeze | The Motley Fool
    GameStop, Robinhood, Reddit, and Populism: With Stock and Squalor - Rolling Stone 
    2021 Prediction #3: Get ready for more GameStops as hedge funds are no longer the
    only bullies in town | I, Cringely
    " The hedges screwed themselves, but the risk they took usually works out. Only this
      time they are faced with an unorganized collective mindset that’s not just a
      non-professional group of traders but ANTI-professional traders who frankly don’t
      give a damn about some hedge fund’s survival. 
        And so they twist the knife.  "
  : TIL delta is the derivative of a derivative, and gamma is the second derivative of a
    derivative.  Economics 101 is sort of like calculus with the serial numbers filed off
  * 15min: guitar - noodled for a few minutes, stopped when the mashed finger told me to
  / 1100ml in bag, yellowish-gray; some vomiting -- I suspect gas


0129Fr-0121Su Online Conflikt 1

0130Sa
  & awake 3:58; S=4:46 (after failing to go to sleep after waking up at ~2:30)
  * up 8am; S=6:48;
  @ Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado (Queers, alpacas and guns)
    — High Country News 
  @ Managing windows on macOS with Amethyst default bindings xmonad-like
    Amethyst  ianyh/Amethyst: Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
    Amethyst Windows | A tiling window manager for Windows 10 more limited
    glsorre/amethystwindows: A tiling window manager for Windows 10
  @ A Year Ago Today, the WHO Called COVID a “Public Health Emergency of International
    Concern” – Mother Jones
  @ Goldman Sachs Now Has a Font - The New York Times
  : Latest from WhidbeyHealth is that they're only going to have their scheduling tool
    open when they have doses (which makes sense) and "please check in with our
    scheduling tool often as additional vaccination appointment spaces may have opened
    up." which is despicable.
    % infuriated, despairing, depressed, stressed
  / 600ml in bag; minor cleanup; liquid.

Comments

[spiffyvoxel]

I had my vaccination on Monday (the Oxford/AstraZeneca one), and spent most of the week dealing with the side-effects. Thankfully, I was mostly cleared up by Sunday. I had a few sleepless nights as well, but I seem to be back on track, which is good because I do not work well on less than five hours sleep!

Sending warm fuzzies to you and Colleen.

[mdlbear]

Thanks! Side effects seem to be extremely variable.