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mdlbearAny plans I may have had for the week were knocked into a cocked hat by j coming down with a mild case of COVID-19 on Sunday. We shuffled the living space around: me back up to Whidbey, G to the studio -- he's the one with the worst immune system these days -- and c to the box room. I don't mind, really -- more time with my kitties and more time (which I haven't made very good use of, but...) to sort stuff in the house and do a little work in the yard. Which is still pretty much a disaster area.)
I have been practicing more consistently (6 days out of 7), and exercising a little more. (4 days out of 7 -- that's still more than half, right?) Still having trouble with Bm and Bsus2, but I've been hitting it more consistently than before. I still need to walk more.
I have been having fun with craiyon.com, an AI image-creation site formerly known as DALL-E mini. I got a halfway-decent version of Chance, the GoingSideways.blog's mascot, with "photorealistic orange dungeness crab wearing blue sunglasses". On the other hand, it totally failed with "a dove displayed upon a billet chequy or and gules" [from The Herald's Complaint], so it's safe to say that it has no understanding of heraldry.
There have been some rough spots, especially on Thursday when sending an email to myself instead of the intended recipient (because I used "reply" rather than "reply all"), followed by quite a bit of fumbling to get it actually sent correctly, got me pretty close to a meltdown. Or into a meltdown; I don't have a good sense for what that's supposed to feel like, because alexithymia. In any case things get tangled up with grieving for Colleen, grieving for Ame (which was last week, but delayed reactions are nothing new for me), and anticipatory grieving for the Whidbey house, which I'm trying to move out of and sell. And for what used to be American democracy.
I have a medical appointment coming up Wednesday.
Notes & links: 0807Su * up 5:30ish; S=6:17; exercises @ Skin exposure to UVB light induces a skin-brain-gonad axis and sexual behavior " Ultraviolet (UV) light affects endocrinological and behavioral aspects of sexuality via an unknown mechanism. Here we discover that ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure enhances the levels of sex-steroid hormones and sexual behavior, which are mediated by the skin. " bizarre * arrived at RS ~1:15; : j tested positive and has (mild) symptoms. G has a hotel booked for tonight; then he'll move into the studio and I'll go back up to RE. c will probably move into the box room. % meloxicam 0808Mo & awake 3:50ish; ... awake 5:30ish; * up 7am (alarm); S=7:30, BP=112/75, P=60; * grab backpack and food, then head north. Mask while in house. -* make sure to grab the unfinished mail from behind sable : Grabbed a mocha on the way up. * 11:25 on-island. c moved over to box room. @ :( my cup broke ... so I decided to study 10,000 years of Pottery History @ How Creators With Disabilities Use TikTok To Tell Their Stories @ Why Did I Bring a Teenager to Venice? See also... @ The Green Hills of Earth : Robert A. Heinlein : Internet Archive listed as PD ?? " Slow beats the time-worn heart of Mars beneath this icy sky; The thin air whispers voicelessly that all who live must die-- Yet still the lacy Spires of Truth sing Beauty's madrigal And she herself will ever dwell along the Grand Canal! " @ Pretty Good Phone Privacy Masks Your Android Device ID, Mobile Data | WIRED @ Crypto and the US Government Are Headed for a Decisive Showdown | WIRED " You might conclude, ... that an industry that can’t exist if it must obey laws meant to protect investors is not an industry worth saving. " @ Angel with a Sword — Leslie Fish | Prometheus Music download purchased Leslie Fish interviews and music from Finding the Future (2003) - YouTube * guitar: Lock Keeper. not entirely consistent yet. : c made broccoli beef for dinner. Looks like another two servings' worth left, plus enough rice for a bit of fried rice for my breakfast. % meloxicam with pm drugs (8:45) * singing: Riverheart. Really needs to be printed -- Raven's screen isn't big enough : mint on Sherman is flaky -- firefox repeatedly crashes the system. So does closing the lid. Ubuntu 20 works okay, though. Using Sherman in bedroom because thinklight. It's also smaller, leaving more room on the table for, e.g., a cup of coffee. % meloxicam with pm drugs * SL: (for RE, so next trip up) laundry detergent, x naproxen, 0809Tu & awake 4:15; S=5:04; politics. Can't find blue blocking glasses. * up 7am (alarm); S=5:39; exercises, shower (would probably have slept if alarm not set; was just drifting off when it rang) * 10am Healing Center Memory Keepers grief support group. -> zoom-bombed by Desti. @ post: United Breaks Passengers - GoingSideways.blog -> Whole process took ~2 hours * signal boost GS on * DW * FB * TW; also o signal boost GS on LJ @ Tourbillon - Wikipedia (dialecticdreamer: Fiction: In Consequence of Meeting) What is a Tourbillon? Here are 5 Hypnotic Types of Tourbillons Rabbit hole warninng! * garbage can to street. Managed to stuff in one of the yard trash bags. * singing: Riverheart, Lock Keeper. Got tangled up on some of the Bm's, due to overthinking. Works fine if I don't think too much about it. 0810We * litter boxen * up 6:50; S=7:22, W=205.4; : just got a COVID exposure notification on my phone app -- the dates (8/6-7) match when I was at RS with j. : two replies to the links to GS and DW I emailed to the support group. May have gained a reader or two : 10:40ish: thunder. Hopefully rain soon -> 11am rain @ Konmari Method: Decluttering My Fabric Stash - Morgan Donner - YouTube * call UW re: annual wellness visit: dedicated line 206-520-2215 -> scheduled for the 18th with Emily A Hilderman at the Northgate clinic -> that works & went shopping, in (frankly, it's a truck)Frank. Low battery. Couldn't call AAA because the cell tower was hit by lightning this morning. (See above, 10:40ish) Got jump from somebody at Payless. * increased cat litter order to 6/4wks * singing: Riverheart, Eyes Like the Morning, Lock Keeper, For Amy, Fingers and voice handled it pretty well; some trouble seeing the page in low light. Should do this earlier in the day. Print songs in (approximate) track order. % meloxicam 0811Th * up 7am; S=4:54; exercises * test for COVID - 5 days following exposure on the 6th -> negative @ It’s 2022 and Two Books Are on Trial for ‘Obscenity’ | ACLU @ Gender-Neutral Terms For Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, & Nephews | Dictionary.com 6 Best Gender-Neutral Terms for Aunt or Uncle piblings & fresh reinstall of Mint on Sherman -- Firefx still hanging when opening private window. So something weird is going on. And the previous install was an upgrade, IIRC, so the problem isn't a corrupted USB stick. @ CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for COVID | AP News C.D.C. Eases Covid Guidelines, Noting Virus is ‘Here To Stay’ - NYT CDC loosens coronavirus guidance, signaling strategic shift - The Washington Post % 5ish pm stupidly sending an email to myself because I used reply instead of reply all, combined with frustrations in gmail, triggered a near melt-down. Or something. @ Queensland researchers find overlap in pathology of long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome - ABC News defective calcium channels : Apparently craiyon.com (DALL-E mini) has not been trained on heraldic data -- (cf The Herald's Complaint) -- although prefixing the first line of the chorus with "coat of arms:" at least got something resembling a dove displayed in one of its efforts. : Firefox on Mint 21 on Sherman: opening a new window (doesn't have to be private) freezes and requires a hard reboot. -> disable hardware acceleration -> link /vv -> /yy/home/steve/vv - no point in duplicating it. * singing: The River, Lock Keeper (with work on the chords. Not much progress.) & https://www.craiyon.com/: photorealistic orange dungeness crab wearing blue sunglasses 0812Fr * up 5:45; S=5:42; exercises @ Copyright infringement in artificial intelligence art – TechnoLlama @ Whidbey worker shortage closes Clinton bagel business | South Whidbey Record @ Ferula drudeana best candidate yet for the apparently-extinct Silphium plant The Herbs That Got Away: Rediscovering Silphium and Other Missing Historical Plants – Herbal Academy * chord out Stolen Child (the first parts of the verses) -> try transposed to Dm to eliminate the capo (or Em with drop E). Uses Gm and would require quite a lot of work @ People Exposed to Coronavirus May Need to Take as Many as Three At-Home Tests, F.D.A. Says - The New York Times At-Home COVID-19 Antigen Tests-Take Steps to Reduce Your Risk of False Negative: FDA Safety Communication | FDA " If you do not have COVID-19 symptoms and believe you have been exposed to COVID-19, test again 48 hours after the first negative test, then 48 hours after the second negative test, for a total of at least three tests. " * installing Mathilda and Honu on sherman:Mint. Would have gone a lot faster if I hadn't gotten confused about which machine I was talking to (ssh'ed from sable). Honu and Mathilda are idempotent for a reason. 0810Sa & awake 1:30ish, briefly * up 6:30ish; S=7:30; cat cuddle x N up to island this weekend for practice and trip planning @ Twitter is becoming a lost city • Buttondown (ysabetwordsmith) @ ysabetwordsmith | What Dreamwidth Does Well bluedreaming | a very scattered list of some things that I think Dreamwidth does well @ Josie Giles on Twitter: "It's time to tell you a story about the origin of the name "Fiona". A good old Scottish name, you might think. And it is, in a way, a name very representative of Scottish culture and literature. But not in the way you might think..." / Twitter & Bayview Farmer's Market (c's suggestion) : Fortunately, Frank's battery seems to be behaving today @ The internet as we know it is doomed • Buttondown * been looking (since Thursday) in my wallets and desk area for my current AAA card. -> in Molly's door well. Don't know where the keychain card is, but it doesn't matter because I have several old ones and the number hasn't changed * Singing: Lock Keeper, Riverheart, Cap and Bells * 15min: re-arrange stuff in the bathroom to clear off the Elfa shelves -- I want those in the studio.
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Date: 2022-08-15 04:43 am (UTC)Yeah -- it's an intriguing idea, but even if the author is right about the neolithic collapse, generalizing that to user behavior on the internet is a huge stretch.
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Date: 2022-08-15 08:36 am (UTC)Been basting in the grip of a heatwave here in the UK, which has limited my ability to stay at the computer for long periods. Actually, that's probably a good thing; even with an ergonomic chair, I feel the circulation slowing in my legs after a while. Anything that causes the iMac to vent lots of heat — primarily Second Life — also has to be done in short burst so as not to turn my room into a sauna.
Speaking of Second Life, I relocated my homestead last Sunday, and went back to renting after a year of land ownership. While I loved the extra freedom I had to mold the land to my needs, I wasn't loving the limit on how much stuff I could rez, nor the extra land tier fee on top of my Premium membership (basic accounts can't own land). I have roughly the same size plot but nearly double the land allowance, for slightly more than what I was paying for Premium membership alone, meaning I'm saving money in the long run. Go me. If only I could do this in Real Life... sigh
Another good change has been moving back to iA Writer for my daily journalling. The app I've been using for my personal journal, Diarly, has some nice features but was overkill for my needs. Irony, using a writing app again has caused me to write loads more, which is good for decluttering my brain.