Done Since 2021-12-05

[mdlbear]

I guess I got a few things done this week. And I learned a name for a ??feeling: languishing. So that's something.

It probably says something -- I'm not sure what -- that I can claim that buying a pair of shoes and a box of N95 masks, sending off an invoice (for some writing I finished the week before), and making a contribution to a non-profit amounts to getting things done.

Notes & links:
1205Su
  & Awake 3:05; S=3.6;
  * up 7ish; S=6:01; naproxen
  @ Someone Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Servers on Tor Network
  * added help target to entry.make, and contrib: target to Dog/.config.make
    `make help` greps through .config.make looking for comments that document targets.
    It can be generalized very easily.
  * email to S with contact info, she's apparently having trouble getting email to me
  * 15min: laundry

1206Mo
  * upn 7am; S=7:00; naproxen
  * */1    CPAP:  change nosepiece, change paper filter, wash tub
  * before leaving RE collect:  night guard, drugs, CPAP (leave humidifier tub)
  @ Kingfisher & Wombat on Twitter: "So this weekend, armed with a couple of AI art
    programs, I started noodling around to see what I could do, and if I could put
    together one of my Weird Little Comic ideas using mostly retouched computer generated
    imagery. These nine pages were the result.
  ~ something to finish shelf with.  water-based varathane, maybe.  -> flax oil
  * make a payment or do other paperwork -- Amnesty Int'l 
  * Bagels: 2 salt, 1 everything, 1 cinnamon raisin. 4 plain (2/3 my usual order)
  * REI in Alderwood Mall - shoes
    -> Merrill slip-ons; size 44.  Pull loops at the heel, They also had the Olukai Moloas
       I was wearing, and Oulokai mesh shoes.  The mesh ones didn't really slip on, and I
       figured the others would probably stretch, though they fit okay.
  % a little shaky.  Between stairs (ferry, REI) and walking (Alderwood Mall)...
    Possibly related, I'm probably not eating enough protein (and not walking enough)
  : gift: 14oz Contigo insulated mug, plus a turtle sticker by Sue Coccia
  * 15min: (mostly) empty dishwasher   % back pain -> heat (9:50)  No writing.
  % naproxen with pm drugs.  10:30 In bed with heat; still need nose and teeth, but cold

1207Tu
  * up 7ish; S=6:52; naproxen
  % more TMJ pain; some crunching in the morning
  @ Maestral open source dropbox client
  @ Feeling Blah During the Pandemic? It's Called Languishing - The New York Times
    " It’s the void between depression and flourishing — the absence of well-being. "
    " It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel
      hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. It turns out there’s a name for
      that: languishing. 
       Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling
      through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield. And it might be
      the dominant emotion of 2021. "
    " it could give us a socially acceptable response to “How are you?” "
    " A concept called “flow” may be an antidote to languishing. "
    What Is Languishing, and What Can We Do About It?
    " The one intervention type that worked [...] across the board [was] mindfulness "
    The dual continuum of mental health and mental illness 2-dimensional diagram
    " showing that mental health and mental illness are separate and distinct concepts "
    What Does It Mean to Languish? | Psychology Today 
  @ What Is Math?
    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Wikipedia
    in Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 13, No. I (February 1960)
  * some work on $writing-gig-6
  ? double-check shirt size for E -> most don't have size tags!  17.5 or 18 IIRC
  * a little guitar: Millennium's Dawn
  % naproxen
  % I seem to have been going downhill more since sometime after Consonance 2020.  At some
    point I stopped going to virtual cons and song circles.

1208We
  & Awake 3am; nothing but a little back pain -> heat; down 4ish
  * up 7:30; ; naproxen
  : power outage on Whidbey.  repair estimates: -9am- -11- 5pm
  @ A Major Outage At AWS Has Caused Chaos At Amazon’s Own Operations, Highlighting Cloud
    Computing Risks
  : can't find the contribution I intended to mail, so probably still on desk
  * 15min: dishes -> unload 12:30ish -> load -> run 1:50
  % naproxen 10:15ish with pm drugs

1209Th
  * up 5:00; S=5:16; down 5:45; gave up 6:45
  * guitar:  intro and first verse of Millennium's Dawn
  * Walk:  to Linden (end of block) and back.  Socks seem to have a tendency to get pulled
    off into the shoes; may have to go back to the Thorlo crew socks.
  @ Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution
  @ Dr. William Horne on Twitter: "Last week, during our last session of my White
    Backlash graduate course, my students asked me if I thought the U.S. would descend
    into a civil war during the next decade. I replied that the current situation is much
    more bleak than that. Here's why:"  (andrewducker)
    Basically, we're screwed.
  : 10:35 robot call from Express Scripts saying that I needed to call my doctor and get a
    prescription renewed.  Website said nothing about _which_ prescription.  Called
    customer service; spent 10 minutes or so trying to get through to a human (apparently
    the magic word is "representative" rather than "agent").  The whole thing was
    unnecessary because they sent a new prescription rather than extending the old one.
    % An hour later (20m or so after ending the call) still feeling wrung out
  * pick up c's fabric and crafting boxes from storage.  & Bring N's package to UPS
    convenient: UPS is on the street where you make a U-turn for the storage unit
  @ Can depression worsen Covid-19 and other infections?  And can a virus make you
    depressed? - Vox
  @ 911 outage reported in Seattle area | king5.com -> they sent a loud alert on
    everyone's cell phone.  Meanwhile,...
    Google says bug with Teams and Android can cause 911 calls to fail - The Verge
    & uninstall Teams on phone
  @ 911 outage affected Seattle, some counties - The Columbian
    911 services restored after a number of Washington counties report outage
  % TMJ clicks while chewing on a Kind bar :(
  @ Jurassic Pork: What Could a Jewish Time Traveler Eat? | Evolution: Outreach 

1210Fr
  * up 6:30ish; S=7:34;
  * Walk: two blocks this time.  Brisk.
    % Legs a little weak during the last bit and after
  $ C $50 via AX to Amnesty International - Human Rights Day - 5x match.
  @ COVID-19 Travel Resource
    Page: Travel Safety and Where Can You Travel Right Now? – Uncornered Market
  & spending much of the day reading travel blogs (it is now 2:30)
  @ A Log4J Vulnerability Has Set the Internet 'On Fire' | WIRED
  @ BlueTeam CheatSheet * Log4Shell* | Last updated: 2021-12-11 1448 UTC
  * send invoice for $writing-gig-5
  * guitar:  a couple of verses of Desolation Row.  Rather sloppy.
  % forgot to put in bite guard second day in a row.  Damn.

1211Sa
  * up 6:30; S=7:32, BP=123/78, P=64;
  * before leaving RS collect:  night guard, drugs, CPAP (leave humidifier tub)
  * finish bathroom shelf with flax (raw linseed) oil
  @ web apps for drawing diagrams: Diagrams.net,
    Excalidraw,
    Whimsical,
    Canva
  @ Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. - NYT 
  * on the way up, check S's mailbox again -> item
  * SL: shabbat candles for c; scotch tape, distilled water for RS,  x basin wrench,
    3M Aura Particulate Respirator N95 Foldable (10-Pack)-9205P-10-DC - Home Depot
    (in stock at Bitterlake store, Aisle 10, Bay EC2)
    -> tried one.  Better fit than most; some tendency for lower flap to fold up
    % the candles were at Mukilteo Safeway (4th one I hit) -> should have tried Freddy's
  * Back on Whidbey:  let N know that I'm home.
  * get a shirt at the WAIF (Whidbey Animal Improvement Fund) thrift store in Freeland
  ? check desk for unsent mail.
    % Could swear that I had a contrib. to mail; OTOH can't find it in the checkbook
    -> that's because it was on AX -- Amnesty Int'l; on side table, slid to floor
  % stressed?? (tight around ?chest/upper abdomen)  -> also tired
  * after arrival: * water orchids  * sort mail
  % meloxicam with pm drugs, ~9pm