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mdlbearToday is my 75th birthday. I'm expecting a video call with my kids this evening. Somehow I appear to have gotten old without noticing. My youngest turns 30 in a couple of weeks, which is even more mind-boggling. (They say that if you haven't grown up by the time you get to 60 you don't have to.)
Among the links, from Friday, here's a video of Ukrainian farmers hauling away Russian tanks to the tune of a Russian children's song called "The Blue Tractor". (With a tip of the hat to siderea.) Lots of good links this week. The second one on Tuesday is heavy going.
Notes & links: 0306Su * litter boxen & woke up at some point and didn't put mask back on * up 5:30ish; ; shower; laundry @ The space race forged immortal rock and roll guitars (Stratocaster, mostly) @ Extremely wild planet hosts metal clouds and raining gems cf On the Gem Planet by Cordwainer Smith, from Project Gutenberg Canada @ Transgender kids, gender dysphoria and puberty blockers: Your questions, answered - The Washington Post : having dependency problems with an apt-get upgrade. Weird. @ https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=360373 --> sudo dpkg --force depends -P libglib2.0-0:i386 * pack: ~ back scratcher; * mic clips and adapters -> there's a telescoping back-scratcher, but I can't find it. Found a bamboo one * order drug refills. Buspirone will run out after the weekend, so hope order comes -> set up automatic refills on buspirone, bupropion, and simvastatin 0307Mo * up 7am; S=8:43; @ comicskingdom.com/rhymes-with-orange/ Doctor: "I'd like to prescribe something new for your blood pressure." There is a small cat sitting on his desk. @ Made from Truth and Lies: Is The Tolkien Estate crazy? @ Nick Kapur on Twitter: "The Sessho-seki, a famous rock in Nasu, Japan that was said to have imprisoned the evil nine-tailed fox demoness Tamamo-no-Mae, was found broken in half. After nearly 1,000 years, the demon vixen is presumably once again on the loose." Sessho-seki - Wikipedia * left ~10:10, which was a little too late; it's now 11:25 and I'm 4th car from the light with theholding area full sign lit. -> one of the last 2 on board at 114:30 * down to Seattle in time for dinner -> arrived ~1:30 @ 22 Amazing Math Tools That Everyone Should Know But Only Very Few Know : the videos in Vidding: A History seems to be broken, at least in the online appendix. Weird, because they were working at RE, which has less bandwidth. Comcast?? 0308Tu & awake 5ish; didn't get back to sleep * up 5:56; S=6:24; * post GS #gorillas #ImpenetrableForest #Africa #Uganda * 10am Healing Center Memory Keepers support group @ The Tyranny of Europe's Noble Grapes - Gastro Obscura - wine from American grapes * singing: Bells of Norwich (with N -- her suggestion) @ How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America | History | Smithsonian Hear, O Israel, Save Us | History | Smithsonian Magazine (minoanmiss) (still reading on Sa -- I take things with this level of intensity slowly) * dishes * RS litter boxen % 23:15 sleepy 0309We & awake 3:40; S=4:13; despair about politics, unlikely to get back to sleep soon ->5:30 & awake 6ish -> ignore alarm; semi-lucid dreaming about WordPress of all things * up 8am; @ Russia, Blocked From the Global Internet, Plunges Into Digital Isolation - NYT @ Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic - BBC News Endurance: 'Finest wooden shipwreck I've ever seen' - BBC News @ "When St Paddy's Falls on Purim" - song for Purim and St. Patrick's Day - YouTube @ Does Anyone Remember Animusic? - YouTube links Animusic HD (60fps/5.1) - YouTube Animusic (2001) (60fps, bonus videos included) : Wayne Lytle : Internet Archive Animusic 1 & 2 (All Songs) - YouTube Down the rabbit hole again 0310Th * up 5:30; S=5:23; exercises % slight headache; 6ish felt like I wanted to go back to sleep, but knew I wouldn't. so did exercises instead, and a little singing. * singing: Bells of Norwich; guitar: Millennium's Dawn intro ! started trying to work on EOL documentation; feeling very ??stressed / ?scared? & Kaleidofolk set workshopping with N and m (the other two members of the trio). singing: The Cap and Bells; plus a few that N and m played on their phones. % 8:20 feeling cold. Drinking ice water probably doesn't help. % meloxicam 10:15 with pm drugs 0311Fr * up 6:45; S=7:12; exercises; & drug-running and other driving x KF rehearsals Fridays -> see Th @ Ukrainian Farmer Song - YouTube (via r/FarmersStealingTanks by way of sidere) video of Ukrainian farmers stealing Russian tanks, TTTO a Russian children's song, "The Blue Tractor". : In other news, Ukraine has declared that "spoils of war" are exempt from taxes. @ The Serious Eats Guide to Genever @ posted Cut and Run - GoingSideways.blog N wants to take category out of page title. -> if we do this on earlier pages what happens to the permalink? % I'm probably depressed. Or something in that direction. Languishing? * added a link to The Ultimate Guide To Internet Safety in Interesting.Places.to/Browse for Parents (via email) % meloxicam 10ish with pm drugs % 10:30ish sleepy 0311Sa * up 5:50ish; S=7:11, BP=116/77, P=67; * CHECK DISCORD to see whether it's ok to wake N for a hug. (no msg = ok) -> not ok : today is the 18th blogaversary of mandelbear.livejournal.com/ * if I don't have coffee or breakfast this morning I'll be able to get labs done Note: first save on delta last night was Fri 11 Mar 2022 10:14:58 PM PST @ Gutenberg Block Editor Toolkit – EditorsKit – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org @ siderea | Deal with Your LiveJournal(s) [LJ, DW] how to save images [my] Photostream & charge Molly at Northgate. stop at 50% maybe? -> 46: 82mi & bagel factory out of what i wanted so got a spicy italian from Pickles @ We Who Grieve Aren't Strong, We're Trying To Survive (via fb) " The mistake people make when they look at you after you become one of the bereaved, after you become a survivor—is that they see you appearing to function and ascribe some lofty virtue to your efforts, not realizing that you are marshaling every available resource to simply appear normal while in their presence. " * still reading Smithsonian's excerpts from Renia Spiegel's diary too intense for one sitting, and I may not read the full version.
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Date: 2022-03-13 07:51 pm (UTC)Older daughter Nadia just turned 40. Who knows where the time goes.
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Date: 2022-03-13 08:49 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2022-03-13 09:52 pm (UTC)Birthday Wishes
Date: 2022-03-13 10:00 pm (UTC)Re: Birthday Wishes
Date: 2022-03-13 11:53 pm (UTC)It's not too bad, actually, apart from the shock of incrementing the high-order digit of my age. I expect Colleen's birthday, on the 16th, to be worse.
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Date: 2022-03-14 08:36 pm (UTC)incrementing the high-order digit...
I must be getting senile -- maybe I could claim to have been thinking in base 5 -- or maybe 25?
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Date: 2022-03-14 08:39 pm (UTC)You're not the first one to have told me I don't look my age. Some have claimed that I don't act my age, and they're probably right.
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Date: 2022-03-14 04:00 am (UTC)Hippo, Birdie, Two Ewes! :)
Date: 2022-03-14 11:28 am (UTC)Those Animusic animations are still really good for something that's over two decades old! I recognised the 'Resonant Chamber' one from years ago on Facebook, hadn't realised there were more.
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