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mdlbearApparently it's been a fairly busy week. Last Sunday I finished $writing-gig-4, though I didn't really get started on -5 until Thursday. ("Fairly busy" seems to be considerably short of "busy". Or perhaps doesn't include "productive"?)
The closest I can come to a mood is "fascinated" (or maybe "captivated") -- I have been watching videos about paleontology on YouTube. See, for example, Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs? It's part of the Eons series on PBS. The whole thing is a horrendous time-sink, of course. See also Your Inner Fish on PBS, inspired by the book, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin, and of course the music video, Tiktaalik (Your Inner Fish).
I threw Colleen's wheelchair into Molly's back seat to take back to Norco, where we'd gotten it. They told me it had been paid off. Ended up taking it to the MSHH Donor Closet in Edmonds, WA. That's also a good place to go for low-priced medical equipment, if you're in the Seattle area.
I'll have to think whether there's anything else I want to take down there this week.
It's starting to look like I may be moving the cats down to Rest Stop sooner than I'd anticipated; I put together N's spare "kitty comfort station" -- a combination litter box cover and night stand. It's a distinct improvement on the little night stand that was in the studio already; I'm likely to keep both because that way I can use one for my phone and CPAP, and the other (the old one) for my laptop.
Notes & links:
1107Su Time change ~ (Friday) litter boxen
: 2am set clocks back!
% Awake 3:15 PST; S=4:36;
: found S awake; she went to bed at 4:08 and so should I
* up 7:10; S=6:42, BP=124/75, P=70, W=202.2; naproxen, shower
% remembered bits from the dream channel: I was looking down at a little rectangular
artificial pond, sunken into the middle of a rectangular terrace. It was in very bad
shape after some kind of storm or other event. It either needed to be drained, or
washed out and refilled --don't remember which -- and I remembered from a previous
part of the dream that I had been a tunnel and run across a wheel that I suddenly
realized controled the valve on the pond's drain. Clearly I needed to go back down
there and change its state (in whatever direction).
% stupidly left the Apollo on during my shower. Hopefully it's sufficiently water-
resistant to be okay. At least the USB jack is on the inside, so against my skin.
: the nytimes password in my file is the old one. Check FF on Sable for current one
right password, just the wrong email addr. use s@s, not s@t
: 9:20 Desti got off my lap, so I can get breakfast and a second cup of coffee
* _finally_ nailed the missing (un)setting on Sherman: in Mate,
[Mod4]/[Super-L] opens the main menu and is configured in the main menu's properties.
Unlike Gnome, Mate's key bindings aren't all in the same place.
Mate-tweak is basically useless for my configuration
@ The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow review – inequality is not
the price of civilisation | History books | The Guardian
* 15min: stack sorting; found Norco wheelchair paperwork.
* make a payment or do other paperwork
: c made pita, and I made hummus. poked the point of the small ceramic knife into the
pad of my right-hand ring finger, at about 2:15. Is now 2:45. hurts like hell.
% 2:47 acetaminophen. 2 gelcaps. Next allowable dose 10:50 (6 caps/24h = 8 hours)
-> also ice pack (with water, in a baggie)
@ How To Make A Travertine Side Table (Out of Pavers!) | Collective Gen
% 4:45 finger feeling much better. Able to type.
@ Lady Mondegreen Repertoire--The Filkers Who Don't Sing Anything--Batya Wittenberg
: My heavy wool cape came up in conversation, but it's not in the closet -- must have
given it to one of the kids
* Guitar: Wheelin', Bad Guys. (after bringing Plink in from the box room)
@ Nora McInerny: How Can We Face Life's Rough Edges? : NPR podcast with transcript
* laundry 8:30ish
1107Mo
& Awake 4:15; S=5:32; down 5:30
@ ‘I Could Never Abandon Them’: Neopets Users Play On - The New York Times
: 6:49am received "finished charging" text. Molly finished yesterday morning. WTF?
* up 7ish; S=6:50;
% dream: I was driving onto the ferry, and I was the first car in line; suddenly I
realized that only foot passengers were getting on, and the car deck ended in a step
up to something that looked like maybe the top deck of a tugboat. At that point I
wasn't sure whether I was in a car or a scooter, and woke up.
* before leaving RE collect: night guard, drugs, CPAP (leave humidifier tub)
* take string cheese and brie out of fridge
x Oak Harbor maybe. Check with c
* Bagels: 4 salt, 2 everything, 1 cinnamon raisin. 6 plain 2 tubs plain cream cheese
& grocery run. returned 11:10, and bagels are scheduled to closer to 1pm, so ok.
~ wheelchair in car for return to norco.
-> the missing footrest turned up... attached to the wheelchair :P
-> turns out (when I got it to Norco) that we've owned it for a year and a half.
* mail for N in backpack
@ How to Enable Windows 11's 'God Mode' (also Windows 7, 8, and 10)
-> rename a new folder GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} (the extension
is all that matters; basename can be Admin or anything else.)
-> direct access to >260 obscure settings
* submitted $writing-gig-4
1109Tu
& awake 5:05; S=5:05;
* up 7ish; S=6:19;
* 15min: unbox catbox nightstand. Can work on it in increments.
@ Eons | PBS (va N)
* 10am - 11:30 Memory Keepers support group (different URL than last tine)
@ Bullseye - the new version of Raspberry Pi OS - Raspberry Pi
@ Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs? - YouTube
Eons: Season 1 Episodes | PBS D E E P rabbit hole
: Delta seems to be having trouble connecting to WiFi despite being practically on top
of the AP. Ethernet works, though, so it's not a DHCP problem
: of course, there isn't anything I need it _for_, so it doesn't matter much
% naproxen with pm drugs ~9:50
* 15min: finish unboxing catbox/nightstand, sort parts
1110We first day of #theFBlogout
* up 6ish; S=7:15; naproxen
* 15min: assemble most of the catbox/nightstand. Only need to attach the top; want to
get it on the floor before doing that. I did the rest of the assembly on the bed
@ About — The Facebook Logout
@ TSA and airlines make air travel a challenge for people with disabilities : NPR
& drive j to school - late for the buus
* 15min: back from the above, finished assembling the catbox/endtable (except for the
interior screw caps and hole plugs; these may require more light or someone with
better close-up vision than mine)
@ Picturing Our Future - Climate Central Sea level rise and coastal flood risk maps
(siderea)
* 15min: dishes -- need bowls for dinner
@ Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer
(via this comment from @andyheninger
% When I complained that I didn't seem to be getting anything done, N contradicted me.
Maybe it's just that there are too many things that need doing. Decision paralysis.
% naproxen with pm drugs. Sitting in bed hurts my left lower back. Piriformis?
1111Th Veterans Day / Armistice Day
* up 7ish; S=7:52; naproxen
* 15min: tidying; move dresser to make room for nightstand
@ The secret court case 50 years ago that has robbed transgender people of their rights
ever since (andrewducker
@ (2) foone on Twitter: "How to scam people with NTFS and how the IRS is going to ruin
it: a beginners guide" / Twitter (NTFS = SE pessimization for Non-Tungable-Fokens)
@ BEV, EREV, PHEV, HEV – What Do They Mean? Here's Your Electric Vehicle Dictionary
* (housekeeper) Ellie today rather than tomorrow
* start working on $writing-gig-5
@ How Glial Cells Are Quietly Revolutionizing Chronic Pain Study and Care - NYT
" people find it a huge affirmation to learn there’s a distinct biology underlying
their pain. It confirms what they’ve long known but often see doubted by doctors and
friends: That their pain is as real as any other. "
@ The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did (Foreign Policy, published May 29, 2013)
% I've been getting twinges that feel a little like a torn muscle in my left calf. But
only sometimes; haven't figured what's going on yet. There _is_ what feels like a
lump. Or felt -- rubbing it seemed to help
* $writing-gig-4 accepted by $editor, so go ahead and invoice for it.
@ Best Paleo Music Video Ever: Tap Your Toes to Tiktaalik | Smithsonian Magazine
Tiktaalik (Your Inner Fish)
% 8:42pm and everyone else has gone to their bedrooms (not necessarily to sleep yet)
unfortunately sitting in bed is very uncomfortable for me, and the one chair out there
isn't any better. So... still in the LR on Sable. Stay out here until 9:30 or so?
-> in the end, more like 10:45 after a long conversation with G
: chilly and wet -- in retrospect wearing the leather jacket this week was a good move
% naproxen 10:40ish with drugs
* 15min: pushed catbox/endtable (officially a "kitty comfort room") into position.
1112Fr four months
& awake 4:20; S=4:48;
* up 7:30(alarm); S=6:20; naproxen
@ Stonekettle Station: How The Heroes Die, Veterans Day 2021
: git log --grep='undone' | egrep '(undone|Date)' | sed '/Date/ {N;s/\n//}' | head
Finds log entries with an "undone:" report, and joins the date with the line itself
-> apparently I don't use `make push` very often, so there are gaps, but since the
count doesn't vary much, that's okay.
: Choi's Kimchi. Not quite as good texture as Firefly, but tasty, and a bit hotter
& out with N to keep her company while she ran errands
% suddenly all my bed linen is the wrong size
% naproxen 10ish with pm drugs
* 15min: re-arrangements of nightstands.
1113Sa last day of #theFBlogout
& awake 5am; S=6:13;
@ Why People Hate Web3 - DEV Community
* load/run dishwasher
* before leaving RS collect: night guard, drugs, CPAP (leave humidifier tub)
* on the way up, check S's mailbox
* Edmonds. The Donor's Closet 409 Howell Way -> donate wheelchair
MSHH Donor Closet
* order batteries
? trickle charger
* after arrival: ~ water orchids * sort mail
* naproxen