mdlbear | Done Since 2021-06-06 (Reply)

How the fsck(8) did it get to be Sunday?

Colleen still isn't back home. Our current best guess is Wednesday.

I actually spent a good part of my time either working on software maintenance or reading books, in particular This Could be Important and Machines Who Think, both by Pamela McCorduck. McCorduck is a writer, not a historian or a computer scientist; these books offer a fascinating look at the human side of artificial intelligence. (The fact that I've personally met almost all of the people she writes about probably has a lot to do with why I found them fascinating.)

I spent some time on a small programmimg project (blogging/save.make, for quickly saving work in progress without cluttering the log with trivial commits), and a small organization project (with a little programming -- improving the directory structure created when I use Honu and related utilities to set up a new computer). I won't bore you with the details, though I may make a curmudgeon post out of it later.

Notes & links:
0606Su  * litter boxen
  & awake 2:50ish; down 4:14; gave up 5am
  * Up 5am; BP=133/81, P=61, S=4:38, W=198.2; shower
  @ Wildspeak – search the wild wisdom of over 340 animal teachers (moonvoice)
  @ How to Use Onions, Garlic, Shallots and More - The New York Times
  : one of my pairs of red socks seem to have gone missing.  Probably set down so I could
    do something while on my way to a place where I could sit down and put them on.
    % Bears are easily distracted.
  @ Graeffe's method for finding the roots of a polynomial by repeated squaring
    The first program I wrote professionally was a library for operations on huge numbers,
    expressed as f * 64^n where f is a floating-point number in the range [-64,64].
  @ Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think - BBC News
  @ How to Deal with Clutter When You Have ADHD - YouTube worksheet (to print or copy)
    Clutter in Motion vs Clutter in Stasis
  * 2–4pm Pacific Time: celebration of life for Deborah Ruppert      Wear purple
    see file:///home/steve/Downloads/Deborah_Celebration_of_Life.pdf
  % meloxicam 4:30
  * 15min: install the new batteries (which arrived earlier today) in the APC 1300 UPS.
    put it in the music room to charge.
  @ Password Managers.
    -> are inherently unsafe in the way they interact with web content, except for the one
       built into your browser.
  @ THE MANDELBROT MONK Udo of Aachen is a fictional monk,... April fools.  Nicely done, though

0607Mo
  & Awake 5:14ish; S=4:24; bed 4:14ish
  * Up 7:40; S=6:12;
  ~ get replacement lens ordered.  (Try to find scrip)
    can't find scrip, but they have the file.  Optician will call me tomorrow.
  % 12:49 suddenly having a lot of pain in my left hand.n -> diclofenac sodium
  / call from Colleen.  Missing me a lot.
  ~ make app't for Colleen with  UW dietician 206-598-6004
    -> left message; expect callback
  * make app't for Colleen with Dr. Hansen(GI at UW) -206-744-3240- 
    -> expect callback ~3pm -> GI Clinic:  206-744-3419 option 1
    -> expect callback tomorrow or more likely Wednesday
  * 15min: garage.  unbox some art; box up about half of the massage studio box that came
    apart -- I think most of the 3D art, and some CDs.
  * finished This Could be Important
  % 10:30 very sleepy

0608Tu
  * up 7:30; S=8:30; 
  x Jury Duty starts - excused
  * V arriving ~9:15
  * 10am visit with Colleen
  * callback from UW Nutrition Clinic; made appointment (video)
  * expect callback from optician about replacement lens
    -> callback from Whidbey Vision Care -- my glasses are under warranty
  * 15min: garage (more like an hour or so). walrus, potato masher, _The Art of Asking_
    surfaced ~4:25 when my knees started getting wobbly from standing.
  * 15min: unpack walrus, put on the shelf under the TV.
  @ A Guide to Understanding Gender Identity and Pronouns : NPR
    In case I need to point someone at it -- or _you_ do
    # (addressing my readers, which I do only very rarely in this format)
  % meloxicam (8ish with other drugs)

0609We
  * up 6ish; S=6:38
    % back pain (R) -> heat
  * order buspirone
  * change B12 subscription from 1000mg to 500mg,
  * order/subscribe vitamin C
  * order matzoh
  * get trust info from Al and Greg for mtg with Jerad next week -> email sent -> recvd
  * move save: target to blogging/save.make
  ~ LRF for the shelving arrived; package torn open, one of the pads missing, too small
    for the posts.  Might be able to shim, but I'd need another pad.  returnless refund.
  % 8ish feeling somewhat "out of it".  -> meloxicam 9:20
  @ Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute
    Iosevka font
    monolegible
  @ Dyslexia friendly Site Skin - Chapter 1 - ElectricAlice - Archive of Our Own
    (jesse_the_k | boost: Make AO3 Easier to Read)

0610Th
  & awake briefly  ?2ish?
  * up 6:30ish; S=7:13
  * 9:15 leave for...
  * 10am visit with Colleen (V not available)
    -> doesn't think she's ready to come home yet.  Doesn't think she'll go downhill over
       the weekend (intends to get exercise with staff).  Has definite wallking goal.
  * 15min: garage:  book box from pile to shelf; big box (2 prints and a canvas) cleared
  / 3pm call from Colleen - walked from her bed to the door, and transfered from the
    wheelchair to the bed this morning by herself.
  : My Sanrock jump-starter was not, in fact, able to jump-start L''s car
    she went and got Brad from across the street, who brought his truck over; worked
    fine. Used the jumper cables out of the shed, which are nice and long.
  * merge --squash'ed the save plugin in MakeStuff; safe because it hasn't been pushed to
    GH or GL for a while, so it only affected sable, delta, and savitzky.net.

0611Fr
  & Awake 3:10;  heat for back pain (L); back to bed 4:10; didn't sleep
  * up 5:05; S=5:11, BP=132/81, P=63; BP flagged as high
  * 9ish drive S to quilting workshop in the Langley Creative Space (old high school,
    behind the main building.   3rd driveway before the fairgrounds)
  / 3:25 Colleen called to say that she'd just walked 40'.  Target date Wed.
  @ Evaluation of Location Encoding Systems · google/open-location-code Wiki
    Technology - Plus Codes
    cf. GeoFi: US Patent #8,089,405:
    "Applications for geographically coded access points" (issued 20120103)
    -- not clear whether I have a copy of the website/code; doesn't look like it.
  % 7:30 sleepy
  @ New discovery could help take down drug-resistant bacteria | Live Science
  % meloxicam 9:30ish

0612Sa
  * Up 05:30; S=6:13, BP=121/73, P=63;
  * finished Machines Who Think
  * move Honu, Mathilda, and Myrtle to vv/prj where they belong.  Left symlinks in
    s.net:git/users/steve because it's not on all machines yet.  -> needs fixup script
  @ LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: Maintainers / Kernel Summit 2021 planning kick-off
    Linus chews out an anti-vaxer.  nicely done
  * guitar:  noodling bits from Talking Blues, Bad Guys, Lily et. al., and Desolation Row
  % meloxicam 10:45ish