Done Since 2023-06-25

[mdlbear]

Not a great week. Between hearing aids still not fitting, and what appears to be an infected cornea that I initially took for an ordinary "something in my eye", I have not been comfortable. Not to mention the Supreme Court, dangerous weather, and other disasters. The eye infection is the most immediately worrying, especially since it's hard enough finding an opthalmologist on a weekend, let along a holiday weekend.

I did get some singing in yesterday, swapping songs with Cathy and Jason (the folks buying the house). And ran into emotional landmines all over the place. (The songs were Where the Heart Is, Windward, and Lock Keeper. Only minor problems with Bigger on the Inside and Lock Keeper.) I don't think I can blame the tears on my eye infection. I need to practice more.

There's plenty of bad news in the links, so to compensate... Ethernet is 50 years old. Squids can fly. Animals don't get product reviews, but if they did...

Notes & links:
0625Su  ~ litter boxen (E')
  & awake 3am;
  * up 7am; S=8:23, W=196.4; exercises (+21), Dutch
  % 9am hearing aids:  may have been a matter of getting the R one in deep enough
    doesn't stay.  Large dome on R may work a little better.  -> doesn't -> medium
    (comfort tip doesn't work on R either) -> small? -> uncomfortable with headphones
  @ Elevated Access (thisfinecrew
    " Our volunteer pilots transport passengers at no cost to access the healthcare they
      need. "  Quick exit bar at the top leads to weather.com -- good idea, unfortunately
  @ LastPass users furious after being locked out due to MFA resets
  @ UN chief says fossil fuels are "incompatible with human survival" as world breaks
    temperature records | TechSpot
  @ WetBulb Globe Temperature | weather.gov
  @ NY Gov. Hochul signs bill to protect abortion pill providers
  : birdsite says I created my account 14 years ago.
  * 15min: 1:45ish weed-whacker septic tank covers.  Why doesn't that damn thing lock? 
    % kind of wiped after that, which is not surprising.
    -> Apollo "recover" followed by cool shower (first such in years, IIRC)
  * 15min:  garage -- empty the shredder-chip box.  Don Simpson stuff mostly, a few broken
    A couple of Mexican bowls, one badly chipped -> tossed.  Bombsight cover
  @ What to Do If Your House is Overflowing with Books ‹ Literary Hub
    " It can be a fun and freeing exercise to let go of any books that are not integral
      parts of the story you want to tell yourself about yourself in your space. "
  * 15min:  7ish laundry; mop kitchen floor

0626Mo
  & awake 2:25ish;
  * up 6ish; S=6:30; exercises (+21) 1 set, 
  : gmail shows images in ads even when I have them turned off.  Time to move.
  * 10am hearing aid appt with Jackie Cooper
    <- currently L=large, R=med.  (changed from m, s because they weren't staying in)
    -> to get a size in between l and m, snip a thin sector out of the l dome.
    -> pm: R=l for more secure fit.  Should try ^ soon -> some chirping under headphones
    % first time I've gotten them to stay in and feel secure.  At least l.  r is iffy.
  @ Stack Overflow embraces generative AI as developers voice concerns | CIO Dive
  @ cellio | three weeks into the Stack Overflow strike
  @ RC deWinter: "A grammar book walks into a bar…" - Indieweb.Social
  @ How to Get Work Done While You're Commuting [or] on a Business Trip
  * 15min:  empty dishwasher
  % 5:30 theright-hand hearing aid was becoming painful, esp. under Bose headphones.
    that ear still hurts after taking the hearing aids and the headphones off

0627Tu 
  & awake 3ish
  * up 6:30; S=7:34, W=96.8; exercises (+16), Dutch
  % 8:45 hearing aids: tried the "snip a sector out" on R, or rather just cut a slit.--
    may have helped. 
  * 10:00 - 11:30 Memory Keepers grief support group
    % had to take off the hearing aids because they kept chirping.
    % tried to find the entry where I cried over a song -- it was 0604Su; the song was
      Staying Home Tonight (N, 0602Fr) and something on my FB support group
  @ Britain’s Imploding… And Nobody Cares | by umair haque | Jun, 2023
  @ Terrifying New Study Finds That Ocean Currents Will Soon Collapse | Will Lockett
  @ You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
  % 5:14 hearing aids: took out.  Uncomfortable and never managed to put them in right
  * rip CDs for j.  Having trouble with Into the Woods -- IO errors on last track.  It
    seems to be making progress, but not clear how good the result will be.  Might be
    a CD-Extra, since icedax has trouble opening it with generic_scsi.  musicbrainz
    didn't recognize Rags, so no track names.  Children of Eden - disk 1 missing.  There
    may be a copy at RE.  (later) Into the Woods stalled at the exact same place.
  * walk: around block, with m (see 0602Fr)
  @ Growing researching shows singing with others is good for your health - WaPo
  : out to lair ~9:30.  Desti wants to sit on counters, bathrm sink, etc. more than usual
  * 15min: load drugs

0628We  * litter boxen
  & awake 4am
    % nightmare - nazis
  * up 5ish; S=6:42; exercises, Dutch
  * hearing aids:  started ~8:15.  Neither stays in well.  R chirps.
    8:40ish somewhat better  -> 3:50 removed.  R hurting under headphones
  @ Review: CodeWhisperer, Bard, and Copilot X | InfoWorld
  @ Happy 50th Birthday Ethernet
  : many of my laptop chargers have vanished.  Most likely given to kids, et.al.
  @ A Grid Collapse Would Make a Heat Wave Far Deadlier | WIRED
  & wikipedia dive (starting with error-correcting codes) that, as often happens, ended up
    with E8, the Leech lattice, etc.

0629Th
  * up 5:05; S=6:20, W=197.6; exercises, Dutch
  : call from Josh at Surety -- he also does yard work on Sundays and thinks clearing ~30'
    from around the house could be done in a day's work.  We'll set something up.
  @ Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a squid Japanese flying squid
  @ Our galaxy seen through a new lens: neutrinos detected by IceCube – IceCube
    Drexel Physicists Produce New Images of Milky Way Galaxy
  @ How They Fool Ya (live) | Math parody of Hallelujah - YouTube
  % 1pm taking the hearing aids off when using headphones doesn't make a huge difference
    and is much more comfortable.
  * 3pm sleep clinic - video.  Presumably they'll provide a link later.  or call.
    ascend (transcend??) travel cpap - resmed airsense 11.  DS Go on waitlist at 1800cpap
  @ Zoo Gives Their Animals Ratings And It Is The Best Thing You’ll see This Week
  % 5:30 trying again with hearing aids.  Still have not managed to get them positioned.
    And why do I get feedback from the R and not the L?  Different adjustments, I guess,
    but I have no way to find out.
  % 7ish? got something in my right eye -> artificial tears.  probably still there

0630Fr
  &  awake 3am;
     % 4am acetaminophen 500mg.  next dose betw. 8 and 10am.  Visine.
  & awake 7am with alarm; dozed for another hour and a half (without mask)
  * up 8:30ish with cats; S=5:57; ... Dutch
    % eye seems somewhat better -- enough so that the object is probably out and I'm just
      feeling the scratch, which should resolve soon if that's all.
  % 9ish hearing aids in ... 9:26 out because R. was hurting with headphones
  @ AI Policy and the Uncanny Valley Freakout - Public Knowledge
  * 10ish drive up to RE with N
  * SL: RE:  ~fiber cookies (brought from house), swiffer mop fluid, onions
  * SL: RS:  Ferry Line Blues coffee (requested by G)
  @ Eradicating Ableist Language Yields More-Accurate and More-Humane Journalism
  @ US SOUTH: ALERT: Extreme Wet-Bulb Temps Fri 6/30 [meteo, US] | siderea
  *- last treatment for similar eye problem -- left eye, 1/29/2023 at UW
  & WidbeyHealth urgent care Clinton.  Prescription for antibiotic eyedrops.  Does not
    appear to be a foreign object or scratch, but there's _something_ there and it looks
    like my cornea is inflamed.  (keratitis)
  * SL: RE: eyedrops, prescription eyedrops (moxifloxacin)
    -> eyedrops: hourly for 12h, then every 8h until seen by a specialist.
    -> 8pm, 9pm, (asleep in chair) midnight (6 drops wasted)
    -> 8pm acetaminophen

0701Sa
  * up 5:35; S=5:15, BP=136/84, P=65; 
    -> antibiotic eyedrops: 5:40, 6:20, 7ish, 8:20, 9:15, 5pm, 11:30
       plain eyedroos:                                  4pm, 7:30, 9:15
    -> 6am eye feeling somewhat better.  Adjusting antibiotic schedule
  @ Libya takes hard line on .ly link shortening domains - BBC News
  @ Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets | Reuters
    Charlie Stross: "So Twitter turned off anonymous reading…" - Indieweb.Social
  @ The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the
    Supreme Court | The New Republic
    " In filings in the 303 Creative v. Elenis case is a supposed request for a gay
      wedding website—but the man named in the request says he never filed it. "
  * 10am call Island Eye Care -- not open on weekends
  * G will be coming up; meet Cathy et.al. for house tour
  @ What’s the best font? See how you and others perceive different types - WaPo 
  * 11-12 -- expect Cathy and Jason
  * singing:  Bigger on the Inside, Lock-Keeper, The Travelers, The October Country
    & had to go in and print out Windward and October Country
    % emotional trouble with basically all of those
  * 15min:  laundry
  * ripping.  Needs export CDROM=/dev/sr1   Can't find my sheet of dots.
    Children of Eden -- disk 1, Stan Rogers/One Warm Line, Julia Eclar/Horsetamer

Comments

[cornerofmadness]

ugh to all the health issues. Hope things get bette

[spiffyvoxel]

My week was mostly Second Life's 20th birthday and the 13th birthday of Gorean Whip Radio (where I broadcast and do advert production.) That distracted me from most of the stuff going on in meatspace.

I'm bracing for more price rises here in Britain. We're fortunately in having fairly low outgoings, for now, but as that article you linked to notes, it's just get worse and worse unless something radically changes. Getting the Tories out of office would be a start, but the brain-worms have infested too many, too deeply for that to be more than a starting point. Sigh.

I started today by doing an OS reinstall and data migration to a new SSD, as the one I've been using for my system disk looks to be near the end of its working life. That should tide me over for several more years while I consider what will eventually replace my 2017 iMac. Coincidentally, that drops off the supported system list for the next version of macOS, so that's a few more years of limited support from Apple then however many it takes for third-party developers to stop support. I might install Linux on it if it's still running at that point. Oh, and I found that Advanced Data Protection prevents you from signing into iCloud on a new installation, so it's unclear how or who that's actually protecting.