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Done Since 2022-04-03
Seems to have been a short week. Of course, some of that was due to my having gotten my second COVID-19 (Moderna) booster Wednesday morning, with the result that I spent Wednesday evening and all day Thursday with chills and muscle aches, doing very little except being somewhat miserable. I expect that my reaction to the real virus would be considerably worse, so I'm not complaining.
Despite that, I actually got a few things done. The big one was writing and publishing a post on GoingSideways.blog, titled St/rolling, about life with Colleen and her scooter. So naturally I failed to signal boost it here Friday after I wrote it. This will have to do.
I sense a curmudgeon post approaching.
I also got one of my 1099R's entered yesterday. (Two more to go, then the other 1099s, the Schedule C, and the deductions. Blarg.) It's starting to look like 2021 might have been a bad year. I'll find out soon enough.
I've been learning about, and experimenting a little with, WordPress "block themes". Which are supposed to be a lot easier to customize, but complicate things in other ways, and don't come very close to solving my current problem, which is theme lock-in. Or if they do, I don't see how.
Notes & links:
0403Su
% Up 5:20; S=5:47;
* Change CPAP filter, nosepiece
* Woodland Park Zoo, with Naomi. She rode the scooter; I walked. Couple of miles;
we left at 12:25 (about a minute after Done Since was posted; got back ~3:15) modulo
driving time, that's about 2 hours on my feet.
-> next time remember to take a (battery)phone charger, and maybe a cane
* wash mask
% meloxicam with pm drugs
% 10ish very sleepy; down 11
0404Mo not found
* up 7ish; S=7:55;
: power outage on Whidbey -- I reported it after c texted. Map updates running late.
High wind warning until 8pm. Wind advisory in Seattle.
@ The future of money or a massive global scam? [Crypto] (Jacob Silverman
on Twitter)
@ 2022 Filk Hall of Fame – FilKONtario
2022 Filk Hall of Fame Inductees | File 770
@ Advances in Dental Crown Technology What Is the Latest Dental Crown Technology?
@ Why developers hate low-code | InfoWorld applies in spades to WP
@ Scale-free correlations in starling flocks (ysabetwordsmith -> MURMURATION)
@ Marinelife Mission (Gift from N)
" TRACK A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP You will receive with your purchase a personalized
identification card of the adopted animal along with a GPS tracker access so you can
follow the journey of your turtle. "
The Sea Turtle Neckalce
Sea Turtles - Asociación CREMA
Turtle Trax |
@ gocryptfs - ArchWiki
0405Tu
* up 6am; S=5:51;
@ post It’s for You! - GoingSideways.blog boost on FB, TW, DW
* 9am fiber cookie
@ FilKONtarioLIVE - YouTube FK-NO3 Saturday: Steve Savitsky (sic)
* Start taxes -- preliminaries, 1099-SSAs. Locate PDFs. Using the website again.
Pull up pdfs, which turn out to both be copies of Schwab's 1099-R. Print one.
@ WordPress.com Makes Major Unannounced Pricing Changes, Slashes Free Storage
Limits
& N suggests writing a scooter article for Friday's post.
0406We
* up 5:45; S=5:44;
* book vax booster appointment for 2:15 at Walgreens 145th&Aurora
didn't book flu -- last was 2021-10-21 so wait until closer to the season
https://www.walgreens.com/images/adaptive/pdf/b2b/general_var_Access_Fixed.pdf
* 15min: sign and mail withholding form to Northern Trust -- apparently I needed to
fill out the direct deposit authorization on the back side (which I'd skipped because
they were _already_ depositing to that account)
@ Stanford engineers invent a solar panel that generates electricity at night
Radiative cooling; Peltier effect. Maybe 1W/m^2, which isn't much, but...
@ Black American Jews Share Their Passover Traditions - The New York Times (osewalrus)
* GS: looked for photos. Not many I can use. The Hawaii trip seems to be gone, not
that it would have been usable in this case. Maybe Nova or Whitewood. Blackroot?
* leave 1:40 to arrive 15 minutes ahead of vax appt
* 02:15 pm COVID-19 Moderna vaccine booster Walgreens 14510 AURORA AVE N
* SL: stool softener, bite guard kit
* 15min: dishes
* work on scooter article. How it improved Colleen's life, and mine -- st/rolls etc.
Some things I've learned.
% went out fairly early -- 9ish. Considering how little sleep I've been getting...
0407Th
* up 5ish; stiff
% still flaky at 10:15.
% 11:15 I'm currently shuffling around like a penguin, almost certainly because I'm
feeling chilled following my booster shot yesterday. -> very achy and stiff
0408Fr
* up 8ish; spent a lot of extra time in bed.
% not doing nearly as bad as yesterday -- I'll take it.
% 2 docusate
* post St/rolling
* photo of me in scooter cape
* 15min: help c and N assemble bunk beds for m and k
* load up ssd for Raven (from Sable)
* wasted quite a lot of time trying to figure out how to configure WP. Failed.
% meloxicam, docusate
& awake sometime in there, briefly
0409Sa * litter boxen
* Up 6:30; S=7:45; exercises
* N and c going out truck shopping.
* take scooter battery out to Molly; new picture
* drive up to Whidbey with c
* Taxes: import Schwab data
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I saw a lot of chatter about the WordPress.com pricing changes, most of which thought that Automattic, the parent company, may have lost their minds, or just don't want the custom of those who just want to blog and not run a business on the platform.
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Happened with Livejournal, too. Fortunately the software itself (usually referred to as wordpress.org; don't know whether there's an actual nonprofit behind it) is open source.
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Wordpress Blocks
"if you're doing text with an inline illustration or two, they make things harder."
Not in my case, for my workflow. I compose offline or take text and a list of photos via email from N, paste the text into the editor (which handles a reasonable subset of Markdown), then download the photos, re-size and edit if necessary, and upload them individually. I center all the images, between paragraphs, because that translates directly into the optimal mobile layout. N prefers to read and compose on her phone.
I tried to use a WYSIWYG page builder exactly once; I couldn't get drag-and-drop to do anything sensible, and it didn't understand markdown so I had to go back and format the text by hand. I tried fancy layouts a few times, and stopped when N reported that photos alongside text made the blog unreadable.
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