mdlbear | Done Since 2022-10-30 (Reply)

Today was almost entirely devoted to the Kaleidofolk zoom concert at Or-E-con2. That will be the subject of at least two subsequent posts, so I won't say much except that we appear to have pulled it off. Not perfect, but not a disaster either. As usual, I think most of the mistakes were mine.

But a lot of work, which involved significantly re-arranging the living room twice (setup and teardown), and juggling a lot of barely-tested tech. We did get a decent set of recordings -- one from the mix, and one from the mixer's four microphone channels. I was worried.

In other news, Elon Musk is busy destroying Twitter, and I did an unusually large (for me) but still insufficient amount of Stuff That Needed Doing.

Notes & links:
1030Su * litter boxen
& awake 2:30ish; S=4.1;
% I should have gone up to Whidbey yesterday to empty the mailbox
~ try to cancel subscription to paper version of Science. Doesn't seem possible online
Also, the site is horribly slow and seems to be badly broken in Firefox
% pain now in right hip
* up 8:22; S=7:55;
% pain in left hip; p=3.5
* thaw chicken for tomorrow's tikka
@ Europe prepares to rewrite the rules of the Internet | Ars Technica
* track down info about financial advisor at Raymond James (successor to John Simpson)
-> turned up in the "FWD" packet. Dated May 3, 2021 (!!). Letter said "Matt will be
reaching out to you in the near future..." I don't remember, but 2021
* tuna for dinner
* laundry

1031Mo
* up 6:55; S=7:14; exercises, heat
* walk: 2 blocks W. to park and back
@ No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating. | by Dave Troy
" If democracy-minded people don’t seize control of the information environment,
powerful sociopathic autocrats will do so instead. We leave a power vacuum open at
our peril, and at the moment, Musk and Putin are the ones with the most will to fill
it. " Twitter. Also, “longtermism”
* call Paly High about Colleen -> order digital copy of book. Fairly expensive. 2023
* cancel paper version of Science, -> required call, apparently I was just getting print
-> switched it to digital.
* cancel Colleen's Woman Within catalogs
: 5 Guys for dinner -> ordered
@ Android leaks some traffic even when 'Always-on VPN' is enabled
@ Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
overlay wireguard network with NAT traversal
@ We’re launching Proton Drive, the encrypted cloud storage for everyone | Proton
: The phone I'd sent R and A turned up -- it had been delivered to the wrong apartment
: 7pm and so far we have had no trick-or-treaters
: 7:40 still nobody. N has gone off in Molly to fetch G from the airport
% meloxicam with pm drugs

1101Tu
& awake 3ish?
* up 6:50; S=7:18; exercises
* walk: to park and back. .2mi each way according to GMaps
@ Framework | Introducing the new and upgraded Framework Laptop
This Is the Anti-MacBook, and I Love It | CodeX
* SL: (TJ) Brie, blue, cold cuts, low-acid French roast, orange slices
* Whidbey
* Back on Whidbey: let N know that I'm home.
@ Twitter Exodus
* after arrival: * water orchids * sort mail ~ make a payment or do other paperwork
* pack: * plastic storage bins, * metal file for m, * printer paper, * hooks for wire
shelves, * swirly-gig cup holders
x mic stand drink tray (thought I had two of the good kind. I don't)
* AX Pay insurance premium for Molly -- apparently that policy is NOT auto-renewed
. add account numbers to family-info -- Safeco
* 2n+1/1 CPAP RE: change nosepiece -> every other month while bilocated
* 15min: sort through a couple of boxes from MBR closet. Ditched the one full of used
sweat-pants; not clear what to do with the memory T-shirts and sarongs.
% there's a black tote bag on the floor to my right just out of my peripheral vision.
Every time I turn my head and get a glimpse of it I briefly mistake it for Desti.
* guitar: working mostly on Lock Keeper; some Rosie

1102We
* up 6:15ish; S=6:11, W=197.6, BP=102/72, P=65; exercises, shower
* make/pack sandwiches for lunch
~ */1 bio-one in drains: * shower
* 10ish or before -- drive back to Seattle
@ The Ventura problem - Raspberry Pi
@ The Line Length Misconception | Viget 95-100 is good onscreen
: Had to postpone the rehearsal to tomorrow because I couldn't get the tech to work.
After fiddling with it for an hour I tried rebooting. It works now. Apparently Linux
only notices some things -- including the UA25 audio interface -- at boot time. :P
-> kernel module loading, probably

1103Th * litter boxen
& awake 12:30ish
* up ~5:55; S=5:36, BP=125/69, P=63, W=196.6; exercises
% looks like my weight is continuing to decrease, ver slowly. Not complaining
: Can't both record from the mixer and run zoom off the U-25 without using Jack. Or a
separate computer, I suppose. Can record the mix, though.
& pick up N's meds at Bartell. Took 3 tries to get the whole batch, but okay.
* KF rehearsal -- full. Problems with Zoom's limit -- will upgrade
Only recorded Ship of Stone. Heavy clipping -- j heard it;
-> confirmed later by viewing the waveform in Audacity. Work on it tomorrow.
$ $165.26 on AX Upgrade zoom to pro
* start putting the small (2' wide) shelving unit together. Flimsier construction than
the big ones, but one extra tier and the shelves have lips.

1104Fr
* up 5:25; S=4:31; cat cuddle; limited exercise: 1 set of bridges. More later hopefully
typing with Desti holding down my right arm is difficult
@ CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain
CDC opioid guidelines 2022: Dosage thresholds dropped for pain pills
" reverses a 2016 version used to sharply curtail opioid prescriptions, ultimately
leading to devastating results for some pain patients. "
* 15min: installed the new (12"x24") shelves; the short wooden set that they replaced
fits perfectly next to my bookcase and behind the shoe shelves.
@ John Bull on Twitter: "One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by
companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and
subs/readers dropped like a stone. So, with everything going on at Twitter rn, time
for a thread about the Trust Thermocline /1" "
& talk with N about planning. Trip to Netherlands in spring (she and G are planning)
-> brought up my discomfort with the organizer -- I'll need to find a new one.
-* send email. (appointment was 11/21)
-> I need to get the yard work scheduled: pioneertree@frontier.com 360-675-1371
-> N wants us to keep the musk ox. -> replace base with a box big enough to hold him.
-> N also wants the two little wall-mounted curio cabinets -> pack for safe storage
* Worked out better fingerings for the chords in Lock Keeper -- just the three stopped
strings (2, 3, 4) for Bm, and variously D or A for the Bm/A. All of which work
because I'm finger-picking and don't _have_ to use the other strings.
@ Where Will This Political Violence Lead? Look to the 1850s. - POLITICO
@ Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way | WIRED
" “Exit to community” is an emerging movement that advocates for startups to become
owned and controlled by those who value and depend on them. "
Exit to Community
Open Collective " is a legal and financial
toolbox for grassroots groups. It’s a fundraising + legal status + money management
platform for your community. "
& made a rather trivial link post. Did _not_ finish the email to the landscaper. In
fact, as of 9:20pm, I haven't started it, and probably won't until tomorrow.

1105Sa
& awake 3:30ish, sitting up, no mask
* up 6:45; S=4:03; read with mask on for 20m, exercises (3 bridges, 1 set of the others)
% R shoulder (trapezeus, presumably) feels like I pulled something. -> heat
@ Decentralized social network Mastodon grows to 655K users in wake of Elon Musk’s
Twitter takeover | TechCrunch (andrewducker)
" 230,000 people have joined Mastodon in the last week alone. "
@ Summer Stolarcyk on Twitter: "The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner
died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years
ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each
other. They stand for hours together watching the lights." (andrewducker)
. clear dead food off kitchen island
* finished Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. Had fun identifying landmarks around
Carleton. Many names were changed, but some weren't.
* Adjust levels. Realized that we don't need our audio in the monitors
* 3pm kf rehearsal. Laptop froze in the middle of converting the meeting, but
apparently Zoom can recover from that. j reports no clipping.
-> Zoom's audio recording was 32KHz mono! WTF?
% 6:45 feeling drained.
% also, naproxen. Mainly because my left hip is hurting.

1104Fr-6Su Or-E-Con 2