mdlbear | Done Since 2021-12-05 (Reply)

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