mdlbear | Done Since 2022-05-29 (Reply)

It didn't feel like a particularly productive week, but it seems that we had a (somewhat shortened) band practice, I did a little guitar practicing, and I did my back exercises once.

Thursday went with N and the kids to j's school for their performance of "Little Shop of Horrors". Fun. The best singers were the two Audreys -- the girl and the plant.

I clumsily spilled some gin on Sable's keyboard; it came back the next day, but not before I'd ordered a replacement. So we'll have a spare.

I only have two weeks before c leaves for Colorado. I'm going to have trouble getting ready to move the cats. The whole idea of moving scares the heck out of me. I've had nearly a year to do this and I still haven't done much. The amount of downsizing I still have to do...

Meanwhile the US is no longer a functional democracy. It's only a matter of time -- two to four years, eight at the outside -- before the Repugnants sieze full control and roll back every bit of social progress that's been made in the last 50 years.

I haven't been sleeping well.

Notes & links:
0529Su * litter boxen (LR)
& Awake 2:30;
% politics. Will have trouble getting back to sleep Down 4:30ish
both cats tried to comfort me with purrs and cuddles; first Desti (I think -- it was
dark and I almost lay down on her), then Tica, then Desti again.
* up ~5:30; S=5:13; ; ... shower, laundry
% back doesn't seem to hurt right now. Or not much. worry?
* SL: canned chili, carrots, stuff for dinners, ...
* c and I unpacked and partly set up the tent/pavillion/sunshade that I'd ordered
several years ago and didn't arrive in time to get used when we redid the garage.
Filthy, bt apparently sound. Fit's Bilbo's definition of an adventure perfectly:
" Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner. "
& very congested. I'll go water my nose _again_ before I splat.

O530Mo Memorial Day * litter boxen (BR)
& Awake 3:14 (pi o'clock?); down 4:40 (A o'clock); cat cuddles
% oddly, thinking mainly about making an AO3 account and what tags I would use,
particularly for the Melody/Rose stuff.
% wearing my blue-blocker glasses; took me a while to figure out that the directories
with names that looked like a sequence of spaces were in fact perfectly ordinary
subdirectories with ls's default font coloring. -> the glasses work, FWTW
* up 7am; S=6:41; cat cuddles
* check ferry. As of 9:30 it's not full, and running every half-hour according to WSF
* print another copy of the KF songbook for m
* pack: * intro guitar books * music stands * water jug for AC in app't.
x maybe the other Applause (in closet), some artwork
* put walls on tent. No evidence of the bottom I thought I'd ordered. Apparently there
wasn't one, so foo.
* take c to freeland to get bike
% 4pm still feeling exhausted; apparently a combination of dehydration (because ferry)
and the amount of standing, reaching, and bending involved in working on tent with c
: More excitement than I needed: I seem to have croggled Sable's keyboard (perhaps by
joggling my glass of gin -- must be more careful about where I put it). Most keys are
back now; maybe more later but for now I'm using a hardwired one. I also was having
trouble booting -- the arrow keys were borked (right arrow still is). It also turned
out that Mint had moved in the boot menu, so spent some time on LMDE until I figured
out what was going on. I may want to go back to LMDE now that I have Honu/Mathilda
(the Turtles?) installed. But I still want my arrow keys.
* replacement keyboard ordered. The fact that everything appears to work except the
left and right arrows helps -- I can actually use the laptop's keyboard (carefully)
% naproxen, docusate with pm drgs

0531Tu
& Awake 1-somethine, 3-something
* up 6am; S=7:05, BP=128/73,P=65, W=205.4; naproxen, docusate
: Sable's keyboard still borked. The super key is wonky, too. So...
@ On Your Back? Side? Face-Down? Mice Show How We Sleep May Trigger Or Protect Our
Brain From Diseases Like ALS | IFLScience tl;dr: side
The Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transport - PubMed
The Glymphatic System – A Beginner's Guide - PMC
@ Drinking Coffee Daily May Stave Off Early Death, Study Suggests
Association of Sugar-Sweetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Coffee
Consumption With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Large Prospective Cohort
Study: Annals of Internal Medicine
@ DeLorean offers first look at its Alpha5 four seater EV - Engadget
From the Back to the Future department...
@ Terra’s Crypto Meltdown Was Inevitable | WIRED
" With terra, we are witnessing the crumbling of a project predicated on the notion
that you can create money—and assign it a specific value—if people are willing to go
along with the pretense that money has the value that crypto companies assign it,
akin to role-playing in a video game. "
: ~5pm it looks like Sable's keyboard is entirely functional again. So the replacement
I ordered will become a spare.
@ Code execution 0-day in Windows has been under active exploit for 7 weeks | Ars
@ Clonezilla | SourceForge.net

0601We
* up 5:50ish; S=6:26; BP=121/74, P=62, W=205.4; took about 1/2 hour to actually get up
% docusate (3). p~=2, so no NSAID
* add Clonezilla Live to the Ventoy stick.
: N picked me a yellow rose on her way back from her second booster shot.
@ Read the Charter Issue of PC Magazine From 1982 | PCMag -> PC Mag - Google Books
* band practice. Guitar practice. Found a metronome app.
-> I'm going to have to re-learn just about everything about singing and guitar
@ Sliders suck and should be banned from your website • Yoast

0602Th
* up 5:40; S=8:46, W=204.0;
* guitar: Band Played etc., Wildwood Flower(poorly)
* walk: W to end of block, as usual. Should start extending that.
% I seem to have forgotten to water my nose. Later, I guess. -> 9:40am
@ Proton Adds Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, and Proton VPN Encrypted Features|WIRED
: 2:15pm FB conversation with L. low key, non-negative
* leave by 6:30 for...
* 7pm Little Shop of Horrors Ingraham Auditorium -> Tickets in email from Ludus
@ Little Shop of Horrors (musical) - Wikipedia
-> Loads of fun. The reprise of "Somewhere That's Green" at the end is brilliant.
Audrey and the Plant were the best singers

0603Fr
* up 5:25; S=6:24;
@ Unpaywall: An open database of 20 million free scholarly articles neat!
* 9am E' (leaving noon)
* add links to GS in LinkedIn profile; job title: WordPress wrangler and writer
% 2:25 noticed that I seem to be rather out of it -- no brain today. Glurg. Sleepy?
& ordered 2 purple guitar straps -- we're short
% 6pm starting to get some right hand RSI, probably from clicking.
* grabbed an opening in the conversation to pass Colleen's phone off to j -- we'll set
it up next week. Swapped cases, because the one with flowers was Colleen's.
% 8:50ish back pain from standing too long - loading drugs and making ramen, mostly
* 15min: made ramen in the studio -- first time I've (sort of)cooked there

0604Sa
* up 6am; S=7:54; exercises
% possibly my good sleep was due to the ramen before bedtime; should also try herbal
tea and honey/ginger.
* guitar: Millennium's Dawn intro, Bad Guys
* 14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture
The Fake Artists Problem Is Much Worse Than You Realize
Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.
: G and N going down to Portland to bring back (c's truck)Frank
% somehow managed to forget to bring my meds again; since I do have the smaller sets
(10 days' worth) with me it's not a problem.