Done Since 2021-02-21

[mdlbear]

A week that includes pictures from Mars and getting Colleen scheduled for a COVID shot next week can't be all that bad, can it? Well, there's the fact that R and his partner are, as usual, flat broke -- I paid the bills on their storage unit and phone, and I'm getting their cell phone put (back) on my plan. And Fry's Electronics went bust. Apart from all that, the week was pretty nondescript. Very little got done.

Getting Colleen's vaccination has been a roller-coaster. I first had her scheduled for January 22nd, the Friday before I got mine on the 23rd. But that was one of the week's worth of early appointments that cancelled because they didn't actually have the vaccine in hand -- it apparently arrived over the weekend. Meanwhile I got her an appointment at Island Drug, but they kept rescheduling it and by last week it had been moved out to April 15th. Finally this last Friday I found an earlier slot at Island Drug, presumably due to a cancellation. So... five more days.

The week's reading included Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming, a pretty decent introduction that uses JavaScript rather than something like Haskell. I was a little surprised to see that JS actually seems better for functional programming than it is for OO. I also spent some time on the PrivacyTools site, which I keep running across and forgetting to mention.

Finally, a couple of meta items. The first is that I apparently neglected to actually post Done Since 2020-12-27 on January 3rd. I could claim that we were out carousing on our 45th anniversary, but in fact we spent it rather quietly at home. (Also, my posting software doesn't support back-dating very well, so I did that part by hand.)

The second is that I figured out how to make the to.do block (under the cut) word-wrap at the ends of lines. That's style="white-space: pre-wrap;", for the curious. So folks who use narrow screens or large fonts should have a better UX. Let me know how that works out. Everybody, let me know your preferences for font size in code/pre regions; I don't really like the fact that most browsers make it smaller than regular body text, but that seems to be the almost-universal default, and it probably works better on smaller screens.

Notes & links:

0221Su  * litter boxen
  & Awake 3:20; S=4:25; back to bed 5
  * up 8am; S=7:24, BP=108/71, P=64, W=193.8; shower
  / 1600ml in bag, cloudy; 
  % I did some interesting reading, but very little else today.
    Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
  % doing the litter boxen last thing before bed on Sunday has gotten to be a bad habit
  / 1600ml in bag (? didn't log it at the time).  Possibly constipated.

0222Mo
  & awake 3:35ish;
  % dream: last dream I remember involved bits from "The Game of Rat and Dragon"
  & semi-awake from 6:30ish
  * up 8ish; S=5:53, BP=116/70, P=67, W=193.8;
  / W=170.8; 1000ml in bag
  @ See Mars Like Never Before! NASA's Perseverance Rover Sends New Video and Images of
    the Red Planet - YouTube
    Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover - NASA Mars
    Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA
    Instruments
    For Scientists - NASA Mars
    " The Mars 2020 "For Scientists" page is a part of the larger Mars 2020 web site at
      JPL. Here a technical audience can find more detailed scientific and technical
      descriptions about the science objectives and instruments of the mission. "
    Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
  : A few days ago I put one of the kibble bags in the laundry room.  Today V found that
    _someone_ had ripped a hole in it...  I don't think there's any doubt whodunit.
  % 8:15pm headache -> meloxicam
  % 9:30 sleepy
  / actual turd; 1200ml in bag

0223Tu
  * up 7:00ish; S=7:55, BP=113/71, P=61;
    % headache -> acetaminophen 7:27
  @ Opinion | Why Was SolarWinds So Vulnerable to a Hack? - The New York Times
    " There are two problems to solve. The first is information asymmetry: Buyers can’t
      adequately judge the security of software products or company practices. The second
      is a perverse incentive structure: The market encourages companies to make decisions
      in their private interest, even if that imperils the broader interests of
      society. Together these two problems result in companies that save money by taking
      on greater risk and then pass off that risk to the rest of us, as individuals and as
      a nation. "
  $ $1000 UB cash reserve -> checking to prevent overdraft after text alert
  * 9am-6pm water system flush
  @ Celebrate Your Name Day. It’s Like a Birthday, but Better. - The New York Times
    -> Mine turns out to be Dec. 26.
       R's is today, according to American Nameday Calendar of First Names
  / 1100ml in bag
  * 11:00 (HH)Shirley for Cavilon wand/wound care
  * 5ish take trash up to street
  @ Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
  @ Carleton Covid-19 Archive
  / feeling nausiated
  / crying.  Ate hardly anything (+ 2 ensure).  Tired of chicken.
  & put in an Elfa order -- $88.26 on AX.  no actual shelves, just accessories.
  / major cleanup, liquid, low volume, very dark or black.  Don't like that.
  / ... but iron can cause it.
  / 600ml in bag.  what came out after she stood up is _very_ dark.
  * create or retrieve Benefits Express (Ricoh) account
    $ appears to be ~5.5K left over in my 401K.  Can't find a 1099R so probably not paying
      me; would be small in any case.  Should roll over.
  % meloxicam 10:50

0224We
  & awake 3:15ish; (out of bed 4am)
  / major cleanup, liquid, black.
  * Up 7am; S=7:18;
  @ Funky electronics chain Fry's is no more
    -> RIP Fry's Electronics -- the end of an era (curmudgeon, memoir)
  @ Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories
    Renaming a branch - GitHub Docs Can now be done entirely from the web.
  : R and A are broke (email fron A this am)  Not sure what to do at this point.
    -> Colleen called R after I mentioned this, which really didn't help.
    -* N suggests taking over their phone(s?), at least
  ~ 1pm (4EST) 'What is Early Music Anyway?' - Alice Robbins - zoom link in email
  @ Getting solid at Git rebase vs. merge | by Christophe Porteneuve | Medium 
  % meloxicam 9pm
  / major cleanup; crying; 

0225Th
  * up 7am; S=7:56, BP=117/70, P=60, W=193.2;
  @ Dangerzone convert docs to safe PDFs
  / 1000ml in bag
  : apparently I didn't post my "done since" post on 0103 (I posted s4s-forty-five-years,
    but not done-since-1227)  Not clear what to do about that.
    - post manually and back-date it to 0103, with a reference post for the curious
    -> post with private access, backdate and make public.  Make a reference post later
       (it's here)
  @ 1Password has none, KeyPass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in
    the LastPass Android app? • The Register because proprietary
  * check AT+T bill - should be around $128 - $9 less than last month.
  * call AT+T to see whether I can add Chaos to our phone bill
    -> No, but _he_ can do it at an AT+T store. He's still an authorized user on my acct
  : Trumpentaschen : made with apricots
  @ PrivacyTools - Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance
    (I keep rediscovering this.  Links in 2016/11, 2018/03, 2018/04)
  / 1600ml in bag, minimal cleanup

0226Fr
  & Awake 3am; back to bed ~5am 
  * up 8ish; S=4:55; woke around 7 but didn't get out of bed until (alarm)8
  & Snagged a vax appointment for Colleen on 3/5
  * 11:30 (HH)Shirley
  : S made hamantaschen this morning.  (Actually half of them were trumpentaschen.  The
    other half were mincemeat --mince pie filling -- because we had a jar of it sitting on
    the shelf that didn't get used on Thanksgiving.  Those came out _really_ well.)
  @ #accessiBe Will Get You Sued | Adrian Roselli
    (via Do Automated Solutions like #AccessiBe Make the Web More Accessible? - Holly
    Scott-Gardner (via jesse_the_k)
    -> I really need to audit my sites.
    also, accessiBe - Wikipedia
    -> see footnotes for more links
    The WebAIM Million - An annual
    accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages
    WebAIM: Resources
  @ This CPAC ‘golden calf’ Trump statue is spurring backlash of biblical proportions 
  : 7:50pm thunderstorm;  8:04 add hail;  pretty much over by 9

0227Sa
  & awake 2:50; back down 4:20ish.  90min seems to be my usual up time
  * up 8am; S=7:44, BP=121/75, P=66; exercises (BP measured after exercises)
  : There's some hail on the ground.
  : S is reporting sore throat and headache.  Worrisome.  Can't call to schedule testing
    until Monday.  Not sure what to do.  She's wearing a mask ATM.
  : call from R.  Among other things, logistics for transferring phone back to my plan
  @ Four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their solutions | Stanford News
  @ Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal | WIRED
    -> Indice de réparabilité Ordinateur portable - Indice de Réparabilité
  @ Has the COVID-19 pandemic forever altered human behavior? | The Seattle Times
    " “I wrote [about] diseases that destroyed civilization as we know it,” McGuire
      said. “But in the lead-up to that destruction, people [in the books] actually acted
      like their neighbors mattered. They actually listened when told, ‘OK, if you do this
      thing, it will go away.’”
        Instead, we acted like we did (and continue to do so). "
  * Hummus for dinner (made by me:  chick peas, tahini, EVOO, lemon juice, garlic)
  - clicked on an obviously scammy ad -- strange; came via search.  5-billionth search
    -> hopefully they didn't get much beyond maybe my email address. Cleared cookies.
  / 1200ml in bag.  Crying

Comments

One of us!

[ng_moonmoth]

Love that the Seattle Times article you linked to Saturday recognized how spot-on it would be to talk with Seanan!

Re: One of us!

[mdlbear]

Yeah, that was fun. (Probably should have mentioned that under reading, too.) (Probably ought to subscribe, but I have too many newspapers and so on subscribed already.)

[spiffyvoxel]

I was using LastPass, but switched over to 1Password yesterday as this revelation, plus the nature of how they're restricting their free tier, put me off sticking with LastPass.

[mdlbear]

I'm still using a flat file in an encrypted directory, but will probably end up switching to KeePassXC at some point. Partly because it's open source, and partly because it's the (only) one that Amazon was recommending when I worked there a few years ago.

Re: One of us!

[ng_moonmoth]

I'd be interested in what's on your subscription list. Paper SJ Murky News subscription now goes off at a 50% premium to daily newsstand cost, which seems Just Plain Wrong. Household is starting to consider other options.

[archangelbeth]

Fingers crossed that the vaccination appointment goes off without a hitch!!

[mdlbear]

It did. I'm not impressed by Island Drug's setup, but it worked in our favor when I mentioned that Colleen uses a scooter. So because there really wasn't room in the store for a scooter (and no 6' distancing, either!?), they sent a pharmacist out to the car to do it.

[archangelbeth]

Oh, excellent turning of their bad setup to your advantage! Hooray for a shot!

(My spouse and his 90-mumble year old uncle are getting their first Moderna shots tomorrow. I'm so excited!!!!)