Done Since 2022-09-25

[mdlbear]

Very mixed week. See below.

Had a good session with (organizer)Kara on Tuesday, then left in time to get to a vaccination appointment in Shoreline. Which left me pretty out of it on Wednesday -- that's my usual reaction to the Moderna vaccine. The organizing session mostly focused on books in the house, getting the TBR shelf, the "must keep" books, and the music-related books boxed up. We should probably work on pulling out the things that might be worth trying to sell individually, and leaving the rest on the shelves for the eventual "estate" sale.

The organizer session also freed up some Elfa shelving components for me to add to the ones already down in Seattle. There are eight feet of wire shelf already up, and more waiting for me to figure out the best layout.

We had a couple of good band practice sessions (for my up-coming concert at Or-E-Con 2 on November 6), and I did some solo practicing as well. That seems to be going okay. I seem to have gotten somewhat shy about practicing where other people can hear me, which is weird, but I'm working on it.

Friday I had a PT appointment where I got some new exercises. This morning I decided to cut the third set short when my right knee started hurting. Fortunately I keep a knee brace in my backpack; I'll add a folding cane before I go up to Whidbey later today. I am not happy with my knees right now. (My back is complaining less than usual, so there's that.)

Notes & links:
0925Su  * litter boxen
  * Up 5:30ish; S=5:49; cat cuddle, exercises
  & coffee in Studio -- could use a bigger mug
    % I'd get up and get the rest of my coffee, except cats.
  @ How ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed
  * m coming over for singing and schoolwork
  * print ship of stone descant
  * work on TWDNC
  * Band rehearsal - once through all the songs.  Skip TWDNC -- nowhere near done.
    Use Eyes Like the Morning if we need an encore to fill in the half-hour.
  * 15min: dishes
  % meloxicam, heat

0926Mo
  * awake 3:50; mostly cat cuddle instead of getting back to sleep
  * up 4:40ish; S=5:34;
  * the cats will need water today.  Check kibble levels,
  : email from Kara confirming reschedule to tomorrow noon, so don't have to text
  * drive up to Whidbey in the morning
  * SL:  kind bars, coffee (breakfast blend), nose salt, 
  @ NASA DART mission successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroid - WAPO
  @ Okocat Cat Litter Review 2022: Recalls, Pros & Cons - Excited Cats
    " The wood fibers used for this litter are environmentally safe, biodegradable, and
      even safe to be flushed down the toilet. "  other reviews also mention this
  % WEIRD! I can't find my wallet!  Even looked in the washer; I'll look again while
    loading the dryer, but this is disturbing.  I had it at the desk looking at a CVV.
    Fortunately everything in it is plastic except the vax card, which is replacable
    -> the mystery deepens -- it does not appear to be in the wash.  Went through the
       deskside recycling, the kitchen trash because the underdesk wastebasket had been
       emptied there, the freezer, the mailbox, the shopping totes, the dried laundry, my
       backpack, around the bedroom recliner,
  % meloxicam with pm drugs;  shower
  * pack to bring down to RS:  * calendar whiteboard, * water bottle (keep in
    mini-fridge),

0927Tu
  * up 7am + ~10m; S=6:33, W=200.2;
  * the DS1 talks to my phone! -- all I had to do was scan the serial#.  It even
    remembered the pairing from before, and the server merged the histories.  WIN.
  % ... and the wallet turned up on the second shelf up by the desk, half-hidden under the
    little yellow travel router.  WIN.  Found while looking for the package of fiber
    cookies that I'd taken out of the backpack while looking for the wallet.  :P
  * 10am Healing Center Memory Keepers grief support group.
  * noon: (organizer)Kara  3h @ 20/h = $60
    -> mostly sorting and boxing books in the house -- leaving the garage for another day
    -> took down one shelf hanger strip in the bedroom.  Piled the stuffies in a box.
    * singing: Bigger on the Inside.  _could not_ get a CD -- _any_ CD -- to play either
      on the console, the DVD player (played but no sound on the TV), or Raven.  WTF?
  * 4pm leave for 6pm vax appointment:
  * 6pm VAX Rite Aid Pharmacy 2330 Ballinger Way, Shoreline, Moderna bivalent booster, flu
  % 7pm (RS)home.  exhausted.
  @ Britain Just Hit the Next Level of Self-Destruction—And the Pain Will Be Immense 
  % 8:30 enough hip pain that putting away dishes was a bit of a challenge, and uncertain
    enough of my balance that putting away a cup on the top shelf was out of the question.
    -> heat.  Also lots of ice water because dehydrated, apparently

0928We
  * up 7am;
    % a bit of a headache and _maybe_ slight muscle aches.  Not bad.  Sleepy.
    ~ 10am dentist (2 crowns, 2:30) -> 1011Tu
  % quite a lot of cat cuddle this morning.  They know when I need it, usually before I do
  % 8am tylenol.  Some muscle aches.
    Wore fuzzy jacket out to the house; still wearing it at 9:30
  % 11ish muscle aches, slight headache, and brain fog.  Growf.
  % 2:30ish lots of muscle tension across chest.  SpO2=98%, though.
  & 3:30ish noodling, mostly around and finally ending on "Eyes Like the Morning".  Took a
    while to get into it, so a good thing to have done.
  * send $20 to Or-E-Con
           
0929Th  * litter boxen
  * up 8ish; S=3.?; apparently didn't put my mask back on after getting up for bathroom
  @ Conventional Commits
  : Apparently something in Firefox's anti-tracking breaks UB wire transfers.  Weird.
    Worked in Chromium.
  * out to studio to put up the other shelf hanger strip and do the litter boxes
  @ Postcard from Florence, July 2022 - GoingSideways.blog posted

0930Fr
  * awake 4:50ish, S=5ish; exercises, cat cuddle
  * walk:  W. end of block
  * chord out Inherit the Earth
  * 7:45am leave for...
  * 8:15 PT UW NW outpatient 10330 Meridian Av N suite 110 (ground floor) Cody Misuraca
    wasn't where I thought it was.  Fortunately I'd sent directions to my phone
    -> four new exercises -- all 15 reps/set, 3 sets, except wall squat set is 30s hold
       supine double knee to chest, long lever hs bridge, sit-2-stand from bed, wall squat
    -> nothing actually wrong, just need strength
  * proofread Inherit the Earth; adjust pagination and columns as required
  @ An X11 Apologist Tries Wayland  sway - i3 clone for wayland.
  @ Welcome to Linux command line for you and me! — Linux command line for you and me 0.1
    documentation -- Fedora-specific and no mention of emacs, but much good info
  * practice:  Riverheart, Ship of Stone
  * main house litter boxes
  * Meloxicam;  heat; load drugs.

1001Sa
  & up 4am; S=4? no mask; exercises
    * up 4:45 - can't get back to sleep -- hopelessness around politics
    % doing some of the exercises in bed will be difficult.
      long lever bridge: 15reps * 3sets; hip rotation: 30; piriformis stretch: 30s
      supine double knee to chest: 30s + 2 sets of 15
      sit to stand: 3 sets of 15 - may have to raise the bed a little
      wall squat:  did one, in the Studio bathroom.  30s.  Another, much later:  15s
  ~ posted Rabbit^3 -- had to install python2 for charm.  The necessary edit was done 2
    years ago; it just had to be reloaded.  Which I found out after I'd patched it.
  : `make save` appears to be broken.  Weird.  -> was looking at one too many words in the
    commit message -- the question is how in heck did it work before?
    Answer:  the date used to end with the year.  Now it doesn't -- it's `date`.
    ->b4a965baa Saved on sable Fri Sep 16 12:28:10 PM PDT 2022 [2022-09-16]
      a34e780c3 Saved on Panther Thu 15 Sep 2022 10:49:32 PM PDT [2022-09-15]
      cf154f989 Saved on sable Thu 15 Sep 2022 09:49:54 PM PDT [2022-09-15]
    -> but the way make/defines.make sets COMMIT_MSG hasn't changed. so `date` must have!
    -> so "fix" it by defining LONG_DATE which is the same except for using 24-hour time
       The day of the month is still space-padded.
    -> see MakeStuf@adecf45eb028ca724a83fef60a1aee4a89638296 for details.
  @ Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer | University of Utah Health p53
  $ RE $254.41 on HSX for delivery to RS. Order number: MFW3327294947
    -> est. delivery 3-5 business days, i.e. next week.
    -> MF site broken in Firefox - can't add to cart.  Possibly popup or other security
  @ AI-generated images, like DALL-E, spark rival brands and controversy - WaPo 
  % meloxicam with pm drugs; heat

Comments

[kjn]

You can get Elfa shelves in the USA too? Our new house had a prior owner in love with their shelves and slide doors. I just spent a rather large amount of money to add some more shelves where there was spare space on the various brackets.

[mdlbear]

Yes, from the Container Store. Several years ago they bought either the company or the US distributor, so you can't get them anywhere else like you once could.

I've spent a ridiculous amount on the stuff.

[kjn]

The Elfa-shelf (or console shelf) man is one of the subvariants of a do-it-yourselfer here. (In some cases, like my father, they don't stop with putting Elfa shelves in their own homes; they invade the homes of those around them to install the damn things.)

[spiffyvoxel]

I had my Covid-19 booster on Saturday and felt rough for most of the weekend.

I finally paid by WeBuyBooks for all the books I've sent them, which pleases me. Unfortunately, the following — and possibly final, for now, unless WBB decides they're willing to buy my other books — box is still in the hallway, as Evri failed to collect it on Thursday. I've scheduled a new collection for today (Monday) and I'm waiting now to see if they get it sorted this time.

I've sold two high-value books on eBay, and another two are currently listed. I've also got several electronic peripherals that can be sold off as I no longer need them. One of those is my old iPad Mini 4, which is starting to show its age and has reached the end of the road in terms of iPadOS updates. I can now do most of the tasks I performed on that device using my iPhone SE, which has the advantage of not being a doorstop in the event of an internet outage. It'll mean an end to twelve years of iPad ownership, which I'm feeling melancholic about, but the truth is that the extra cash will help right now plus it's one less device to manage.