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mdlbearI don't like where this AU is going. Can I please get back to the real universe? You know, the one where the US is a democracy, women and trans people have rights, and anyone can marry whomever they love. I miss it.
My code word for the way things are going now is "politics", in case you're wondering why I often use it in 3am entries where I fail get back to sleep.
Notes & links: 0508Su Mothers Day - litter boxen & awake 4:30; S=6:04; @ Seeking an abortion leaves a digital trail, igniting privacy concerns - WaPo A guide to every privacy setting you should change now - Washington Post -> turn off Google location history. Maybe turn on for trips. % 8:50ish twinges from R. hip. : stupid damned BT headset got turned on in my pants pocket, and made a call! I am now _really_ reconsidering whether to keep the exposure notification app. @ Michael Mina on Twitter: "Thread: Rebound after Paxlovid is definitely happening This is NOT bc Paxlovid isn't working w the variants & subvariants This does NOT mean the drug isn't saving lives - it is! But this didn't show up in trials So what's going on? It's not too complicated. I'll explain 1/" / Twitter " This may call for a 8 or 10 day course of treatment rather than 5 days " : ... and two of c's coworkers have COVID, and one came to work today sick. -> stayed just long enough to pick up my box of meds, and came home. -> Molly: 80%/199mi when I left Whidbey; now 68%/179mi % meant to take a bath but instead fell into a rabbit hole starting with "lattice" @ How to Protect Your Digital Privacy if 'Roe v. Wade' Falls | WIRED 0509Mo * up 6:30; S=7:20, BP=116/70, S=66; load drugs. % naproxen. Assorted dried fruit * guitar: Millennium'se Dawn. Fingers starting to hurt. :P @ Archive - Dracula Daily Dracula: May 3 - by DraculaDaily - Dracula Daily Dracula Part 2: paprika hendl recipe | Parbake & Prose Hendl: Enjoy the roasted chicken paprika recipe this festive season Paprika Hendl - Orangistae - Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897) [AO3] & brought in the milk. Managed to knock over the open glass of Blue Goo in the process of finding room for it. It will take a while for my legs to recover. I need to take a bath and run laundry anyway. & 10:30ish am bath. 11ish laundry. As usual, a lot of unclaimed laundry to move first @ Piano For Adult Beginners - Free Lessons and Tips - Piano Blog % 3ish still feeling somewhat drained. 0510Tu & awake 4something. That damnable thing with an eyelid (R this time) * up 5:50; S=4:42; (didn't actually sleep) * out of bed 7am; naproxen, docusate, ... fiber cookies, prunes * guitar: Talking Blues, Wildwood Flower, Band Played... * GS: post Putting It Together - GoingSideways.blog # I note that I'm not consistent about tags ('*' vs '@') or verbiage ([Pp]ost(ed)?) * 10am Healing Center Memory Keepers group ~ 3pm Accent Dental teeth cleaning (resch. from 5/17) (re-resch. to 6/13) @ The USA is not a functioning democracy (andrewducker) @ The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion * install Molly's tabs % may not have mentioned the weird thing I've been having with my breathing, where I suddenly take a deep breath, as if I'd been holding it without noticing. Possibly related to my sleep apnea? Also, abdominal muscles tensing. * finished bottle of Bols genever % 7:30pm kind of drifting. Possibly my lack of sleep has something to do with it? * answer email from Mom's executor. I don't know whether I've been missing emails or whether things really are as haphazard as they seem. Given that I don't have anything from (brother)Al, it may very well be the latter. * fill out UW urgent care survey. I doubt they'll regard my answers as particularly favorable. * 9:49 caught up w/ Dracula Daily % 10:30 - should go to sleep % naproxen with PM drugs 0511We * Up 5:15; S=6:15; docusate ~5:45 % sat in bed for half an hour trying to decide whether to get up or try to sleep more * walk: just to the up-hill end of the block, but walk * respond to probably spam offer to provide content. Used s@s, which is not used as a contact address on any of my active blogs or websites. (It's on theStarport.org; my initial search missed the fact that I used to capitalize the S) @ Total Lunar Eclipse on May 15–16, 2022 – Where and When to See totality runs from 8:30 - 9:53; moonrise/sunset is actually after 8:30 here Total Lunar Eclipse May 2022 - Moon: NASA Science Blood Moon total lunar eclipse 2022: Everything you need to know | Space " The total phase of the eclipse, when the moon is at its deepest red, will begin on May 15 at 11:29 p.m. EDT, and it will last until 12:54 a.m. on May 16 " * singing: (m leading) scales, bouncing scales, intervals piano: (just me) RH scales: C, G, D, A, E; F (rather than B, if I'd stuck to the circle of fifths). At least I was using the right fingering -> rabbit hole from circle of 5ths to chords, and the neutral third (1/4tone) interval * GS: experimented with the revert to classic widgets plugin; I prefer the new (Gutenberg) way, which does instant previews. % naproxen with pm drugs 0512Th & awake 3:45ish * up 4:45; S=6:03; @ The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light - The New York Times Event Horizon Telescope captures image of supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way - The Washington Post Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster - BBC News First image of black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy captured | AP News Focus on First Sgr A* Results from the Event Horizon Telescope - The Astrophysical Journal Letters - IOPscience ... with 10 linked papers @ James Webb: A $10bn machine in search of the end of darkness - BBC News @ Opinion | The hidden agendas behind the Alito draft abortion ruling - WaPo * 9am N will wake k, for... * leave ~10:15 for... -> debated taking my backpack and Sable. Kind of regretted it at first, but had enough to read with Hackaday. * 11am k doctor's appointment at Ravenna : for social crossposting, blog2social looks good. posting to Medium, Gutenberg compatibility, recently updated. FS-Poster also looks good, and the premium version is $45 one time rather than subscription, but likely less well supported % 2pm ... and my brain wanders off into the weeds while trying to write today's post % got to bed ~10:30. Naproxen 0513Fr * up 5:30ish; S=5:20, BP=127/79, P=60; @ What is Microsoft's Azure Space, and who is it for? | TechRepublic (@sbisson) @ Eric Geller on Twitter: "We see you, Sagittarius A* Twitter (@sbisson) The Milky Way’s Black Hole Comes to Light - The New York Times @ with this reply: Being There on Twitter: "@ericgeller @ehtelescope Fact or elaborate marketing campaign? The truth is out there: () * (attempted to) drain AC (E'), nothing came out, but the error went away when it was plugged back in so maybe it just needed a reset, or maybe the water evaporated. @ New EV vs. old beater: Which is better for the environment? | Ars Technica (PSE) % very out of breath after some random exertion, so checked SpO2 level - 98%. After a little while it went down to 97. It's normally in the 96-97 range. So... ~ checked Sigma Xi membership -- expiration date is 2023-06-30, so it's on auto-renew & 6ish drive up with c (who's been down truck-shopping with N and without success) : GS: found where the post header is generated; (or one of several places it might be) it's looking up a gravatar. -> Should show author's name instead. : Molly didn't detect my key last time I started her, so maybe replace battery. * */15 pay AX cards (UB), Molly(BE checking) ~ before leaving RS collect: *drugs*, CPAP (leave humidifier tub); Sable; x Drum * after arrival: * water orchids * sort mail * make a payment or do other paperwork 0514Sa * litter boxen & awake 2am; down 3:15 * up 5ish"; S=5:42; : the litter boxen seemed badly in need of a change, and a partly-full box of litter had been knocked on its side in the bedroom -> 2 naproxen, heat * c starts work at 9am : Molly's key worked fine today, and ISTR changing the battery recently. Probably just shielded by my wallet, but if it happens again I'll put a new battery in. $ AX $233 med Pay Norco for mask, headgear that turned out not to be covered by Medicare Previously they only called me if I was entitled to something. Have to watch that. @ Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Protection Against Omicron Fades Just Weeks After Second And Third Doses, Study Finds (via email from N) % US (mostly) politics has (have?) been causing me a *lot* of stress