Done Since 2022-09-11

[mdlbear]

Well, the cats have been with me in Seattle since last Sunday. A full week. They seem to have settled in pretty well. I'm shifting my days to be on Whidbey from the weekend to Monday and Tuesday, to give more time to practice for Orycon with N. It's not all that convenient, but they seem to be safe and contented, and that's what's important.

Safe only because I figured out how to bodge together a cat-lock using book-cases and a sliding cardboard gate. The gate being opaque seems important because they would probably try to jump over it if they could see what was on the other side.

It's been an unexpectedly expensive month. We took the three cats from the main house -- Bronx, Brooklyn, and Cricket -- to a long-delayed vet appointment on Wednesday. And I had a dentist visit Thursday, which is also going to be expensive after replacing the three crowns and two fillings that need it. Ticia and Desti are also scheduled for a vet visit, but that's next month.

We've been rehearsing for a concert slot at Or-E-con2, first weekend in November. I seem to be a lot rustier than I expected to be. And along with guitar practice I've also been neglecting yard-work and moving prep on Whidbey. So the rest of the year is going to be rather busy. And after a year of doing nothing, and four more years doing nothing besides caring for Colleen, I'm defintely out of practice.

I should probably get some food soon.

Notes & links:
0911Su
  * up 6:15ish; S=8.1, W=200.2, BP=115/80, P=61;
    : Dreammapper wouldn't sync with old!CPAP even though the phone appeared to pair
    : no idea where my Apollo buzzer is.  Suitcase?  -> yes, under underwear and socks
  @ The death of Queen Elizabeth II marks the final break with imperial Britain
    % what struck me was the reference to the first Elizabethan Age.
  * gather up cats and go.  N did the driving while I stayed in back between the cats.
  * arrived 11ish.  Things not quite set up, eg jerry-rigged food dishes, but we're here.
    What I thought was a kibble dispenser turned out to be another water dispenser, with a
    _purely decorative_ "lid" on top.  I'll have to get a real one.  A lot's still in Molly
  : But the DS2 synced up with the phone, so there's that.
  : Desti has got onto the bed and sat in my lap for a while, then went behind the cat
    gate and pushed it over so she could get back in.
  % 4ish sleepy.  Doesn't help that the bed is the only comfortable place to sit
  : The long shelf standards are _too_ long -- they overlap the moulding by ~an inch
    Will have to either shorten them, get shorter standards, or try to get away with it.
  : the cardboard cat-gate isn't working  -> heavy objects at each end?
    -> canned catfood and litter for now
  & 8pm out to studio.  G and N had retreated to their bedroom.  Cats for company.  Yay!
  % meloxicam 9pm.  headache

0912Mo
  * up 6:05; S=7:37;
  @ Statement on Stable Diffusion 
  @ d/l trial version of AnthemScore
    -> crashes when selecting File>Open, which makes it useless.  Might work in Ubuntu
    -> would probably work in W$ or Mac, so maybe try on Whitewood or Mom's iMac.  G?
       or re-boot Sable, of course.  Might work under KDE
    -> maybe not.  Tried UbuntuStudio, which was a waste of time and messed with EFI boot
    -> wasted the rest of the day fixing the boot order.
  @ Here’s the Sweet Connection Between Paddington Bear and Queen Elizabeth
  * */15   pay AX cards, Molly
  : My improvement to the cat-gate worked perfectly.  (AFAICT)
  % meloxicam with pm drugs

0913Tu  * litter boxen
  & awake 2ish for a few minutes
  & awake 4:40; S=4:36; phone app can't connect.  It worked yesterday.  Growf.
  % quite a lot of pain from changing the litter boxes.
    *- Also we're going to need a bigger garbage can
  * 10am Healing Center Memory Keepers grief support group.
    *- told about Curio, among other things.  I'm prbably starting to repeat myself
  @ The Love We Only Find In Loss - Whats your Grief
  @ Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution | The Guardian
  % I'm accumulating Kindle books faster than I'm reading them.  Case in point:
    @ Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, A Memoir : Smith, Carol
      (Via my grief support group; hooked after reading the sample.)  Intense.
      % mixed memories of Amethyst, Curio, and Colleen
  : got Or-E-Con filk schedule from Cecilia; 2:30 Sunday
  % I seem to be eating a little less these days, and have actually lost (a little) weight.
  : oddly, the phone app connected with the CPAP.
  % meloxicam with pm drugs
  : Amazingly, the DreamMapper app supports up to two devices.  p. 16 of the manual
  : 10:15 splat

0914We
  * up 6:50ish; S=8:30; exercises
  : first-day-of-school-related stuff for j and k; morning to early afternoon
    -> k had a lot of trouble with the walking; I'll need to bring down a scooter.
  : The soy sauce container that I keep (kept) on my desk had tipped over, some time ago
    & major cleanup; what ended up under the monitor stand will have to wait
    % soy sauce bottle, open holes, cats.  What was I thinking?
  : call from UW to make PT appointment -> 9/30 Fr
  * 15min: dishes
  % reading:  Crossing the River (started yesterday)
    many of the stories are heart-wrenching, but also hopeful
    " The thing about scars is they tell a story. "
  % animal oracle:  Turtle (on top, because I'd put it there), Wolf.
  * request urology appointment
  * 15min:  bring in from Molly:  a box of litter, the kibble bin, the DS-1.
    % spent a little time with the cats, mostly Desti, who wanted some lap time.
  * 3pm Cricket, Bronx, Brooklyn  9/14 3pm - Fremont Animal Hospital - 3601 Fremont Ave N, Unit 204 Seattle, WA 98103
    -> nose-drops for Cricket; topical multivalent pest repellent for all; shots;
    -> appoitments for teeth cleaning and follow-up appointments for the shots
    -> paid by UB debit card
  @ post Traveling With a Guitar - GoingSideways.blog
  * finished Crossing the River
  % meloxicam with pm drugs

0915Th
  & awake 4:20; S=5:05;
  * Up 5:40ish; S=5:21; exercises
  @ The AI revolution is now open source – TechnoLlama
    beta.DreamStudio.ai
    Basics of Prompt Engineering
  * 10:15 leave for...
  * 11am Accent Dental teeth cleaning
  * on the way back, pick up prescription for j at Bartells on 85th
  @ Feedback informed treatment (via What Your Therapist Doesn’t Know - The Atlantic)
    Feedback-Informed Treatment: Empowering Clients to Use Their Voices
  % 5ish a bit of a blood sugar crash
  & k (who has a guitar class in HS) is now using the Applause guitar I've had behind my
    desk, and the blue Roadrunner backpack gig bag I bought at MF and never actually used.
  * upgrade Sable to Mint 21.
    bad apt repos:  packagecloud-shiftky-desktop.list (GitHub Desktop),
    home:ungoogled_chromium.list (should install from 
    The upgrade tool insists on making a Timeshift snapshot, which seems kind of pointless
    -> turns out that most or all of its checks can be turned off in preferences.
  * 15min: dishes
  % meloxicam with pm drugs; load drugs

0916Fr  * litter boxen (E')
  * up 7ish; S=6:39; exercises
  * will need to upgrade discord
  ~ will probably have to take kids to school -- N's likely to sleep in
  * update Chewy (litter) autoship address:= RS, frequency:= 6/2wks (3/wk) = 47.50/wk
      Might want to adjust the frequency.  Could be 2/week based on having only 2 cats
  -> move Whidbey days to Monday-Tuesday to allow for weekend practice
  
0917Sa
  * up 5:45ish; S=5:21;
  % lots of kitty-cuddle.  Both, but mostly Ticia.
  * Practice (with N) Inherit the Earth, Rambling Silver Rose, Lock Keeper, Rosie (again)
    Was using the Backpacker, and it was giving me trouble.  Bring out Plink tomorrow.
  * contact realtor (Suzanne) about what needs to be done and if she has any pointers.
  * add things-we-did-not-choose.flk to kf/Lyrics
    Apparently having a *.songs file in kf/Lyrics made `make` recurse infinitely. blarg.
  % meloxicam with pm drugs

Comments

[spiffyvoxel]

I got my winter flu vaccination on Saturday, I was hoping to get a Covid-19 booster shot too but it turned out I need to wait a few more weeks, they've booked me an appointment for the beginning of October.

In other news, I sold my first batch of old books last week, one step closer to decluttering my room. The water leakage in the loft has now dried out sufficiently that all the lights work except one. And the back bedroom got repainted at the weekend, so my mum could move back in yesterday and sleep better. Things are gradually getting back to relative normal here. I've avoided watching or reading about the Queen and will be glad when today is over.

[mdlbear]

I'm getting my flu and covid shots a week from tomorrow.