Done Since 2024-01-28

[mdlbear]

We have been making great progress in packing up the contents of Rainbow's End North and putting it into storage, mainly thanks to N's presence both last weekend and this. This will hopefully finish next weekend (I'm going up with N on Wednesday); Habitat for Humanity are scheduled to send out a truck a week from tomorrow, and hopefully I will be able to hire a junk hauler for later that week.

Does that make it a good week? I'm not sure. Everything in the house brings back memories, which I think is why it's taken so long, and hurts so much. See Monday for the worst of it. On the gripping hand Ticia and Cricket, our two oldest cats, got their arthritis shots Friday, and are feeling much better. That stuff is worth at least half a life. Meanwhile, as I am writing this, Bronx is snoozing in his box on my desk.

Wednesday I had an appointment with a pelvic floor physical therapist, who assured me that I've been doing Kegel exercises correctly (and gave me some new ones), and with one of my urologists, who told me officially that I can stop using a catheter. Which I did a month ago, but now they know it too. And posted a rant, which made me feel mildly accomplished.

I've started tracking my walks more closely, using $G's app for steps and timing. (Their mileage is off because I won't let the app track me, but that's what trip planning maps are for.) I am still not up to 150 minutes/week, but getting there.

Good links: How a Complete Einstein Ring, Spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, Can Reveal Mysteries About Dark Matter and How Ancient Giant Galaxies Formed, and Soil-Powered Computing: The Engineer's Guide to Practical Soil Microbial Fuel Cell Design (see Saturday for a news article).

Notes & links:
0128Su  * litter boxen (E')
  * up 06:43; S=6:20, BP=127/70, P=59; exercises, shower, Dutch (finished unit 4)
  * abiraterone 06:47;  prednisone with am drugs, fiber 07:54 
  * walk: 08:30 -> goss lake -> 09:12 w=42m, 1.6mi, s=4050, 29hp
    -> slower pace than yesterday.  Some hip pain -> should skip tomorrow
  * 15min:  laundry (because sweaty)
  @ The underground network: Decoding the dynamics of plant-fungal symbiosis-SciDaily
  @ A Case For Hope: The Victories Trans People Won In 2023
  % back pain -> 2:22 200mg ibuprofen, heat.
  * shopping trip ~2:30 -> 4pm; 
    % total walking to 16:30:  w=2.87mi, s=8076, 109mm, 29hp
  @ OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New
    AI Projects | WIRED
  * ask Al about the chess set -> he wants it.  Also wants the Musk Ox -- we'll see
  * docusate probably a good idea -> 200mg with pm drugs 
  * rip DVDs.  Very slow.  Call of Cthulhu, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Barbarella,
    Donald in Mathmagic Land, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,
    Night on the Galactic Railroad, The Cat Returns, 

0129Mo  x litter boxen
  * awake 06:50
  * 06:53 abiraterone; 07:57 prednisone with am drugs
  * up 7:30; W=192.0, S=5:57;
  * more ripping:  Porco Rosso, Wizards, Animusic, Animusic 2, Edward Scissorhands,
    American in Paris, 2001, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
  @ Strikethrough and Boldthrough - Fanlore LJ history
  @ ​$1.1B deals signed at Worldcon's 1st industrial development summit - China.org.cn
  & found Amethyst's folder.  I didn't know where it was and was afraid it was lost. 
    Or more likely didn't want to think that I might have lost it.  I thought I remembered
    that there was a bit of her hair in there, too.  If there ever was, it's gone.
    I also went through the safe looking for her birth/death certificate.  Did not find.
    % I am probably going to be slightly wrecked this afternoon
    * singing:  For Amy.  Of course.  Off book; chords slightly off.  My fingers hurt.
  * disconnect Nova and bring down to Lair.  -> unpacking:  The power brick isn't in the
    duffel, hopefully it's in the small bag with the excess hard drives
  * 15:30ish home via Lake City house to drop off k
  @ How a Complete Einstein Ring, Spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, Can Reveal
    Mysteries About Dark Matter and How Ancient Giant Galaxies Formed
  * 21:55 out to the Lair.  %  Sleepy.  Also cold.
  % 22:24 Don't know why I'm so exhausted.  staggering.  I don't think that's supposed to
    happen.  Will fall over soon.  Hopefully on the bed.

0130Tu  * litter boxen
  & awake 4ish?
  * up 9:10; S=10:11, 
  * 09:14 apiraterone,
  @ Seattle bans throwing away batteries in garbage, citing fire risk | Sea. Times
  * spit sample for Invitae
  * fill out (dead tree) pelvic therapy intake form, due Th am
  * 2:30 leave for 3:15 checkin for 3:30 acupuncture - bldg 1
  * 5pm pick up abiraterone  bldg 1 5th fl.
    left card on file; call 2 wks before renewal and tell them to ship it
  : Still light out when I got home around 5pm
  @ It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew | Ars
    " The processor on Ingenuity is 100 times more powerful than everything JPL has sent
      into deep space, combined "
  * load drugs  -> but where the fuck is my prednisone??  I should have another month's
    supply, but the bottle has vanished.
    -> somehow got mixed into the bottle of bupropion 300mg.  33 of them.  The clue was
       that I got *one* out with my initial handful of bupropion.  If I hadn't seen that
       I'd still be looking for the damned bottle.
    -> meanwhile the empty prednisone bottle, and its green lid, are still missing.
  % back spasm, while looking for the missing bottle.  -> 200mg ibuprofen 23:07
  % muscle pain R pectoral above breast; not worried.  (was gone by morning as expected)

0131We
  & awake 5:11
    -> need to save on Sable.  ssh'ed over and stole the lock but failed to restore from
       the autosave (didn't understand the options).  So will go over later and save.
  * abiraterone 5:15; prednisone 06:27 with am drugs
  * up 6:15; S=6:35, BP=150/87 (YIKES!), P=66;  exercises, Dutch
    BP may be high because I wasn't exactly sitting still while taking it.  but still...
  * 10:30am Elisabeth Geschiere (rescheduled from 10)
    *- found Ame's folder while sorting.
    *- ref to Francis Weller -> rituals.  Interesting way of thinking.  I have quite a few
    *- relationship between grief fantasies and rubber duck debugging
    *- Knuth 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated
    -> she's from Minneapolis, so knew about Carleton
    -> drop back to 1/month rather than every other week.  I'm okay with that.
  * 12:45 leave for 1:45 checkin for 2pm New Patient App't with Matthew M Zhang;
    Harborview Medical Center 9th and Jefferson bldg. parking garage P2 entrance is on
    Terry Ave, between James St. and Jefferson St. Take the parking garage elevators to
    the main lobby. Then take the passenger elevators to the 7th floor.
    -> the problem is my oil glands are producing something the consistency of butter, not
       olive oil.  This congeals and dries out; it also feeds demodex mites.  Bletch.
    -> flax oil, tea tree oil shampoo, OcuSOFT hypochlorous acid spray
    -> put my AX Gold card in the wrong pocket, which gave me a little anxiety on the drive
       home.  Not too much, because I have lots of pockets and this has happened before
    -> Bartell's  didn't have the spray, and somehow the shampoo didn't make it into a bag
       (whether I paid for it is an open question; not going back to look)
    * nuts and chocolate for hazard pay.  Maybe should have gotten gin too.
    * order the rest on $A
  * retest BP this evening -> 17:15 BP=138/81, P=69; 17:17 BP=132/79, P=67
  * post Rant: Patient Portal as a (dis)Service
  
0201Th  Imbolc
  @ Imbolc - Wikipedia
  & awake 5:30
  * up 7:30; S=7:53, W=189.6, BP=122/75, P=77; exercises
  * abiraterone 7:46; prednisone and am drugs ~8:45
  * 9:20 leave for 9:45 checkin 10am pelvic floor PT - Northwest (McMurray bldg)
    Kristie Volmink  -> got confused and left at 9.  just as well between parking and fiber
    *- urge incontinence.
    ~- -Biofeedback- _hands-on_ to make sure I'm doing Kegels correctly -> I am!
    *- constipation  -> coffee is a diuretic, so it keeps water from getting to the gut.
    -> biofeedback next time
    : delightful person.  Cheerful.  Several more exercises.  Gave me a resistance band.
    : intro to pelvic floor muscles with model.
  % now the muscle pain is in the right shoulder -- rhomboid, according to N.  Stretched.
    Possibly related to the pectoral muscle pain -- an actual knot -- on the same side
  * order exercise ball -- soft, ~12" diameter.
  * send the unnecessary cardboard guitar case up to RE with N, to fling into dumpster
  * lv 2:15 for 3pm checkin for 3:15pm Urology Clinic - Montlake - surgery pavilion 1st fl.
    -> 70ml left in bladder after voiding.  Normal-ish curve.  ok to stop using catheter.
    -> which of course I already have.
  * contact Habitat about furniture/etc pickup  (360) 331-6272 -> Monday 1/12
  * walk:  16:52 -> 1blk past park -> 17:15 -> w=1.73mi, 37m, s=2349; 20hp, 55mm, s=4727

0202Fr  * litter boxen (E')
  & awake 4:45?
  * up 7:30; W=189.6, S=7:46, BP=119/73, P=72; exercises
  * 7:45 abiraterone; 08:53 prednisone with am meds
  * walk:  11:10 - Dayton+90th: 1blk past park - 11:40; w=22m, s=2150, 17hp
  * 12:45 gather up Cricket and Ticia
  * 1:30 Fremont Animal Hospital Cricket and Ticia for Solensia -- also pedicures
  @ Boeing’s issues don’t start at its door plugs - Vox
  * 20:01 400mg ibuprofen
  * pack chess set for shipping to Al
  * pack:  mic stand tablet holder, for SAD lamp;
  * walking totals - 2.26mi, 86mm, 18hp, s=6667
  % 23:49 very sleepy.  hot flash?  -> splat

0203Sa
  & awake 3ish?
  * up 7:17; S=7:08, ; 
  * 07:28 abiraterone; 8:40ish prednisone with am drugs
  * call to see if we can get the truck later; if not wake N sooner
  @ Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever
    Soil-Powered Computing: The Engineer's Guide to Practical Soil Microbial Fuel Cell
    Design: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous
    Technologies: Vol 7, No 4 
  * 10am -> 12:30 pick up uhaul (10' box van) All Island Storage Freeland (360) 222-6006 
    return Sunday -> Wednesday.  Call if I'm going to be later than noon
  * 18:01 truck's loaded; g" and k heading off to unload at unit.  -> 7:35 kicked out