Done Since 2022-02-27

[mdlbear]

Damned if I know where the week went. Nothing really noteworthy in my life; meanwhile Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health, the U.N. climate change report warns of ‘dangerous and widespread disruption’, and I've spent most of the week in one rabbit hole or another.

Among the links, Nobody is normal | Childline is a lovely little short video about being different. And speaking of different, this tweet by an actual Republican congressman is... hard to describe. You can't make this stuff up.

Notes & links:
0227Su
  & awake 4am; never really got back to sleep
  * up 5am; S=6.0,BP=121/76, P=76;  % congestion, headache, -> sleepy down 6am; try again
    % Scared.  Several ?anxiety attacks.  Lack of self-confidence.  Boredom.  Tired
    % using the neti pot before going back to sleep helped a lot
  * up (finally) 9:30ish; S=9:17;  G texted to see if I was ok.  Which... sort of.
  @ I'm common as muck and spent £150 in a Michelin star restaurant to see if it was
    worth it - Birmingham Live Makes me want to go back to The Herb Farm
  @ How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia's invasion of Ukraine - MIT TR 
  # c's 21st birthday
  @ How to talk to conspiracy theorists—and still be kind | MIT Technology Review 
  @ Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health | WIRED
  @ Read an Excerpt from Meghan O’Rourke’s 'The Invisible Kingdom' invisible illness
  * whiskey and mead tasting with G and c (for c's 21st bday)
    all three of the Heaven's Door whiskeys; the "double barrel" is the best of them

0228Mo
  & Awake 4:30; S=5:34; down 5:50
  @ U.N. climate change report warns of ‘dangerous and widespread disruption’ - WaPo
    " Humanity has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to avoid a hotter, deadly future "
    Climate pledges built on flawed emissions data, Post investigation finds 
  * back to Whidbey with c and his boxes
  * stop at REI Alderwood, so c can get a reflective vest
  @ How to pronounce and spell ‘Kyiv’, and why it matters | Ukraine | The Guardian
    " Ukrainians call their capital “Kyiv” (kee-yiv), the spelling, a transliteration of
      the Ukrainian Київ. The Russian version is “Kiev” (kee-yev).  [...] There are
      several letters of the alphabet unique to Ukrainian, for example the ї in Київ "
  @ Nobody is normal | Childline (via andrewducker animated short
    " No matter how you feel inside you are not alone "
  @ Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability | Climate Change 2022:
    Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability [Full report: PDF]
    UN climate report: 'Atlas of human suffering' worse, bigger | AP News 
  : Looks like there won't be a RainbowCon this year.
  & apparently got distracted just after starting to write the alt texts for tomorrow's
    post.  Finished the rest of them this evening.
  @ How to support a struggling friend | Psyche Guides

0301Tu
  & awake 4:30; S=5.46
  * up 8am; S=9:20
  * c starts work at 10
  * post  Trip Diary: Breaking the First Rule - GoingSideways.blog
  * post signal boosts on  * FB  * TW  * DW
  * charge Apollo
  * */1    CPAP:  change nosepiece, change paper filter, wash tub; change foam filter
  @ Vidding: A History by Francesca Coppa (@fcoppa) ( via jesse_the_k)
  * cancel C's bogus subscription to US Magazine 
  * 6ish start beef/barley stew  bay leaf, beef bouillon in fridge, onions, garlic,
    carrots, celery
  * guitar:  Wheelin' (earlier in the day); Eyes Like the Morning

0302We
  & awake 4am; down 5ish; didn't get to sleep
  * up 6:15;  S=6:01;
  : can't find C's login info for Union Bank.  Or her tablet, unless it's the Asus.
    OTOH it's not entirely clear that she ever set one up.
  @ Em Beihold - Numb Little Bug (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube (via c) depression
  ~ connect to C's bank account, etc. - get password from chrome on her tablet
    Turns out she also has an IRA.  Not worth much, but it complicates things
  * Bring Colleen down
  @ Oathkeeper Joshua James pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Capitol riot 
  @ Protesting Ukraine invasion, bars rename Moscow Mules and pour out Russian vodka 
  @ Show your true colors with Firefox & Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red WTAF? (emceeaich)
    -> Disney Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ finds a friend in Firefox 
  % 6ish: sleepy.  Not surprising.  On the way down earlier yawning got mixed with what
    might have been an anxiety attack.  Or _some_ emotional attack.  Hard to tell.
  % meloxicam with pm drugs.  p=4.5 left hip (QL?) -> heat

0303Th
  * up 6:45; S=7:46;
  @ A True Story, the 2nd century space opera you'll likely never read (dm from C')
    A True Story - Wikipedia
    True History Decrypted [The Lucian of Samosata Project]

0304Fr
  & awake 5:30; S=5:55
  & up 6:15; S=6:18, BP=119/79, P=64; some back exercises
  * post GS: For a Woman.  gs, fb, tw, dw
  ~ on kid duty, so probably won't get to bank.  Should check for beneficiary anyway.
  & way too many rabbit holes, mostly by way of Vidding: A History 
  @ Want to Retain Information Better? Try This Popular, 70-Year-Old Note-Taking
    Method : Cornell Note-taking System  [PDF]
  @ 24 conversation starters to build more interesting relationships with anyone 

0305Sa
  * up 6:30ish; S=6:51, BP=124/77, P=70; exercises, take bp
  @ Homebrew Computer Club - Wikipedia first met March 5, 1975.
  @ radiantfracture | A poetry engine (formal writing prompt)
  @ BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror - BBC News
    https://www.bbcweb3hytmzhn5d532owbu6oqadra5z3ar726vq5kgwwn6aucdccrad.onion
  @ comment left on a friend's LJ post:  should become boilerplate
    " Hi — you should consider moving over to Dreamwidth. LJ has become a waste land
      between breaking crossposting and now the U------e invasion. (No idea whether
      spelling it out would get me banned, but LJ is owned by a Russian company.)
      I understand that importing your LJ posts to DW still works, intermittently, but
      there's no telling how that will last. "
  @ Jay Kuo on FB
    " Top 10 FB links from a few weeks ago versus today. Funny what happens when Russia
      starts a war and gets locked out of international financing and social media. Also
      on Twitter, anecdotally speaking, trolls have all but disappeared. Huh. " (via G)
  * before leaving RS collect:  drugs, CPAP (leave humidifier tub); Sable, backpack
  * on the way up, check S's mailbox
  * Back on Whidbey:  let N know that I'm home.
  : There's a buzz in the audio output on Sable.  Odd.  Seems somewhat correlated with USB
    activity.  -> moving the AKG mic to an open USB port fixes it.  Annoying.  Weird.
  @ Clay Higgins: Deciphering a cryptic tweet by House Republican on Russia -
    CNN WTAF??? (via c) -- the
    tweet in question is:  " You millennial leftists who never lived one
    day under nuclear threat can now reflect upon your woke sky. You made
    quite a non-binary fuss to save the world from intercontinental ballistic
    tweets. "
  * after arrival:  * water orchids  * sort mail  o make a payment or do other paperwork

Comments

[liralen]

Whooooieee... that Republican bit of... whatever is... yeah. Can't make that up.

Good to know you're okayish too!!