Done Since 2023-01-08

[mdlbear]

Not a bad week; wasn't a great one for the cats, either. They (that's Ticia and Desti, not the other three) had their teeth cleaned on Thursday, which included pre-op bloodwork Tuesday. And it seems Desti's thyroid levels are elevated, so she's going to be on drugs for hyperthyroidism. Twice a day, which puts a kink in any travel plans I might have. Her teeth, however, are in good shape. Poor Ticia had to have four teeth extracted, which means she also gets pilled twice a day, but only for a couple of weeks. And soft food for a couple of weeks.

Fortunately, they both seem to love their pill-pocket treats -- I'm going to have to keep giving them to Ticia even after her antibiotic and pain pills are gone. Don't want her to get jealous.

I did a little cleanup in my to-do items, but not a lot of trimming. In fact I tracked down another 20 *.do files scattered over a similar number of project directories. (Scripts under Sunday, if you're interested. I love the find command.)

Lots of good links, as usual. Wizards of the Coast's changes to the "Open Gaming License" got a lot of linkage, including Paizo's announcement of a new system-neutral open rpg license. It's called the "Open RPG Creative License", and I suspect that the acronym, ORC, is not an accident. Meanwhile, Third-party Twitter clients stopped working, and nobody’s sure why. But we can guess.

Notes & links:
0108Su  ? litter boxen (G)
  & awake 2am; in chair, no mask;  gave up trying to sleep 3am
    % not clear what to do at this point.  Maybe adjust the bed for sitting, put the mask
      on, and read print magazines with a booklight?  Might work.  -> didn't
    % gave up on _that_ ~3:50.  Read maybe four pages; bed control and clip light both
      useless.  Not clear what to do now.  -> laptop.  down 4:40
  * up 8:15; S=4:48+~2, BP=124/83, P=65; exercises
  @ Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers - The Pragmatic Engineer
  @ How Many Clothes Do We Need, Exactly? | Vogue reducing fashion's carbon footprint
    Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable | Hot or Cool [PDF]
  * 15min:  sort (some loose) USB stuff; empty wire cart onto hallway shelves
  : find /vv -name \*.do -print | wc -  # -> 47 number of .do files total
    for f in *.do; do echo -n `grep '^  o ' $f | wc -l` "$(basename $f .do); "; done; echo
    -> 26 colleen; 5 eol; 6 mom; 45 must; 7 rest-stop; 147 to; 87 wibnif; 
    for f in $(find /vv -name \*.do); do echo -e `grep '^  o ' $f | wc -l` $f; done \
        | grep -v '^0' | grep -v /20 | wc -l  # -> 27 number of "meaningful" .do files
        # rejects files with no items and files in archive directories.
  * 15min:  some work on GS format
  * 15min:  disassemble kitchen wire-shelf cart; zip-tie for transport
  : wanted to drink something alcoholic; found 3 bottles of Perry Creek 2006 syrah
    -> the cork disintegrated and had to be scraped out in pieces.  Taste... ??  okay-ish?
    -> the second glass may have been overdoing it a little, but okay
  @ How the Army Corps of Engineers Made Us Love Their 2023 Calendar: They Added Giant
    Cats! (And it's Free) 2023 Cat calendar (download PDF from here)
  @ See predictions for 2023 from 1923 newspapers : NPR
    Experts from 1922 made prophecies about 2022
    Paul Fairie on Twitter: "A List of Predictions Made in 1923 About 2023" 

0109Mo
  & awake 3ish; S=4:15; gave up trying to get back to sleep at 4:04
  * up 7:30; S=6:08; exercises
  @ Crypto Tea on Twitter: "Someone asked AI to turn each country into a villain
  @ Is Our Pandemic the Ghost of the 1889 Russian Flu? | The Tyee (siderea)
  @ Catapult | Living With Wolves | Nikki Kolb
    " Working at a wolf sanctuary became part of my identity. Leaving the pack was harder
      than I expected. "
  : Arrive ~3pm.  Starshine plugged in but no joy -- yet.  Will give it a little while to
    come up from flatline, but no lights are on.  Growf.  after half an hour... still no.
    Did I plug the power connector in backwards?
  % I've been jaw-clenching more than usual, I think
  * 15min: run dishwasher (1hr cycle).  Interferes with hot water for N in the tub :P
  @ New certified USB Type-C cable power rating logos | ZDNET but 2021.  Slow uptake
  % pain, right side of neck. p~=3-4  -> heat

0110Tu  * litter boxen
  & Awake 3:15; S=4.4;  Ticia by my side and Desti on the pillow above my head.  Sweet
  * up 7:00; S=6:45; sat on by cats until 7:40; exercises
    % nightmares with a background of naziism, either WWII or near future.  hart to tell
  * 10am Healing Center Memory Keepers grief support group.
  @ Made from Truth and Lies: I bet octopuses think bones are horrific... (andrewducker) 
    " ...  I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints. "
    Thread contains a suitably Lovecraftian example
  @ » 2022 Word of the Year is “-ussy” American Dialect Society wtf? (andrewducker)
  * work on HackedHansen!GS (the GoingSideways site with theme=GS-Hacked-Hansen) footers.
    There doesn't seem to be any way to make a set of columns with responsive widths.
  * 4pm Ticia, Desti pre-op bloodwork -- fremont animal hospital: 206 593 2442
    -> a little singing in the car, because it makes Ticia happy
  * 15min:  move repeating items rest-stop.do -> repeating.done; rename rest-stop.done
    -> can be renamed back to ...do if more 1-shot items found
  * guitar:  intros of Millennium's Dawn and Ship of Stone

0111We
  & Awake 1:30am; S=2:13;
    along with the inevitable politics my dreamscape included a visit to Japan (or maybe
    Chicago).  There were two young women assigned as my guides (or something); one of
    them clearly intended to have sex with me.  She had, in fact, gotten into  bed with
    me, at which point (as usual) I woke up.
  * up 7am (alarm); S=7:17; out of bed ~8am; exercises
  @ U.S. agency examines secret pollution source in 40 million homes: Gas stoves-WaPo
    Michael Thomas on Twitter: "Researchers just found that gas stoves are responsible
    for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases. Recently I read dozens of studies about gas
    stoves and indoor air quality. I also installed monitors in our home and ran my own
    tests. Here's what I learned." / Twitter
  : the household range extenders seem to be having trouble after a breaker reset.  Weird.
  : phone all from Dr. Le at Fremont Animal Hospital.  Ticia's bloodwork is "picture
    perfect"; Desti is showing elevated thyroid levels, so they want to start her on meds.
    Both good to go for dental work tomorrow.
  * get back to UW with info from previous colonoscopy:  under Treatment Plan
  & get pill pockets and a pill popper for tonight's dose of anti-nausea meds
    -> missed a turn getting there, but pulled off and looked at a map and found it.
    -> Turn R on 15th ave which turns into Holman Rd.  I'd gone _across_ 15th.
    -> getting back involves continuing on Holman Rd and turning right on 105th.
  @ Beyond Git: The other version control systems developers use - Stack Overflow
  * cats:  anti-nausea pill, then no food after 10pm night before
    -> both of them were delighted with the pill pockets as treats.  Had to give them each
       a couple more.  Win.
  : can't get a WiFi connection in the Lair.  Lose.  (pulled via the phone hotspot)

0112Th
  * up 5:30am; S=7:33;
  * Text N when I get up (if she doesn't see it when she wakes up she'll phone me.)
  * N will get up ~6:30; wake her at 6am if I'll need her to drive
  * 6:45 N coming to help get the cats into carriers.  Glasses in jacket pocket.
  * leave ~7.  Take Stool samples.
  * 7:30am Ticia, Desti: teeth:  anti-nausea pill, then no food after 10pm night before
    -> they've been dropped off; they'll call me after x-rays to update me.  Pickup
       sometime in the afternoon.
    -> 8:45 Ticia's teeth are not as bad as Dr. Le expected, but she'll need 4 extracted
       shouldn't affect her long term, but she'll need soft food for a couple of weeks
    -> 10:55 Desti's teeth were perfect -- no issues.
  @ andrewducker | Interesting Links for 12-01-2023
    @ Made from Truth and Lies: Good riddance to the Open Gaming License 
    @ Early Tree Swing Cartoons – BusinessBalls.com
  @ These Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater | Smithsonian
  * 1:45 pick up the cats at FAH
    -> tonight: Ticia's pain med; 1 capsule every 12h; Desti's thyroid med, every 12h
    -> tomorrow:  Ticia's antibiotic, 1 tablet every 24h, give with food.
  % 3:30 drifty.  Staying out with the cats.  I'll go back to the house 4ish
  @ Wizards of the Coast Cancels Today's Announcement After Online Ire
    Paizo Announces Own OGL Due to Dungeons & Dragons Controversy
    Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License : Pathfinder_RPG
    " And so we invite gamers from around the world to join us as we begin the next great
      chapter of open gaming with the release of a new open, perpetual, and irrevocable
      Open RPG Creative License (ORC). " Note the acronym
  : 3:55pm split a can of wet food to feed the cats.  Will see how they tolerate it in
    half an hour.
  @ cohost! - "Three Iliads"
  % apathetic
  * finished latest bottle of gin:  BraVo - London Dry Gin - Woodinville. undistinguished
  * 8:40ish pilled the cats.  Would have been earlier except that somehow the package of
    pill pockets found its way under the bed.  I'm pretty sure it had help.

0113Fr
  * up 6:50ish; S=6.5?; no mask.  device didn't show the gap, but it lied
  : neither cat was on the bed when I woke up.  Not sure what's up with that.
  : 7ish both cats successfully pilled.  Set out two small cans of wet food.
  @ Keith Schnakenberg on Twitter: "Everyone is overlooking the real benefit of induction
    stoves which is that if they work today you can infer that they'll work tomorrow"
  : Call from someone who heard from Keith (see 0106Fr; note that I misremembered his
    name) that I might be selling the house on Whidbey.  So that's the second expression
    of interest.
  * Showed N where the cats' meds are.  I'll go up to Whidbey tomorrow

0114Sa
  & awake 3:50; S=5:06; (both device and app _now_ agree there was a gap yesterday)
    : WiFi unusable
  * up 6ish; S=5:46;
    : WiFi barely usable..
  @ How Much to Feed a Cat: Portions, Counting Calories & Beyond | BeChewy
    -> ~200cal/day each.
    -> The 3oz cans say 1 can/3-3.5lbs body weight/day - calories not listed, which sucks
       but maybe 3 cans each/day.
    -> try to find wet food with more info
  @ Third-party Twitter clients stopped working, and nobody’s sure why | Ars Technica
  ~ let N pill the cats -> I did it; she or G will do this evening and tomorrow morning
  * drive up to Whidbey -- back Sunday*
    % forgot the tie-dye bag, so no cable ties this trip.  :P
  * Back on Whidbey:  let N know that I'm home.
  * after arrival:  * water orchids  * sort mail
  * 15min:  triage/sort mostly USB bins, boxes, and shelf debris, including the bins that
    were in the file cabinet.
  @ Europe in 'collective denial' over the state of the COVID pandemic, former WHO
    official says
  * made Thai green curry chicken, using coconut milk (which was actually a solid at
    room temperature -- not clear that it's meant to be, but that's what was in the can).
  @ 5 Best Freelance Visas in Europe - International Living
  @ Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths - Absolutely Maybe
  * singing:  QV (intro,first verse;last verse, coda), Stolen Child.  Capo 5 may be a
    little high for me on the chorus, but probably perfect for m