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mdlbearOn the whole not, I think, a particularly bad week, but filled with both small victories (taxes filed, see Monday), minor amusements (see this week's s4s), and both minor and major annoyances. I'm not sure whether the night sweats are major or minor. The unknown credit card charges were a major annoyance. Finding out that they were in fact not fraudulent but due to the fact that we'd set up N's Lyft account with my card because they wouldn't accept hers, and then forgotten about it. I'll also count the fact that Lyft doesn't have a customer service phone number that I could have called to straighten the whole thing out in five minutes as another major annoyance. Also finding that out after getting my card replaced; that's going to cause quite a lot of work over the next week or three.
I count the fact that this is Stress Awareness Month as a minor but ironic amusement.
Word of the week: Procrasticlutter. Non-event of the decade: LJ is 25. Link worth following: The Best Movies Based on Mythology and Folklore | Lifehacker.
Notes & links: 0414Su & awake 00:01; & awake 4ish; probably left my mask off; very dry mouth * up 6:40ish; S=5:34?+2, * 06:55 abiraterone, 07:55 rest * H2O: 07:58, 08:23, 10:05, ... left out a few I think ... 20:53 @ One man’s artistic wonderland, created secretly in rented apartment, given protected status | CNN Outsider art * go up to Whidbey. (Done Since will give me something to work on offline) -> charge Molly 12:25 122mi, ~70% * walk: partway around Northgate. 32min, 13hp, 32mm, s=2932 % hot -- took off coat going home. need to figure out.something for wallet+keys * put laundry in dryer. 19:51 take out and fold. * sign 1041, write check, stuff and address envelope % headache. Also brain fog? 20:37 also sleepy -> 20:51 acetaminophen 500mg nasal congestion / disordered breathing -- should bring some flonase out to the house @ Fatigue During Cancer Radiation Therapy " A lack of energy and excessive tiredness is common for cancer patients no matter their therapy, but those undergoing radiation therapy experience fatigue more frequently. It also worsens as treatment continues. " % A little hard to say how much of the fatigue is real and how much is a feedback loop with self-talk. But I suspect a lot of it is real. & skipping fiber cookies tonight in favor of prunes because dry mouth 0415Mo Stress Awareness Month * litter boxen & awake 5:30ish; bed was soaked with sweat; towel soaked through. put on a pad and took off the top blanket. Thing is, I didn;t feel hot. * up 7:25; S=7:50, W=192.6, BP=120/77, P=68; exercises, ... Dutch * abiraterone 07:27; rest 08:30 * H2O: 08:30, 10:14, 15:40c, 20:04 * bring some flonase out to house ~ 11am Memory Keepers realspace at Third Place Commons. Third Mondays; will miss this @ LJ is 25! not that I really care * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake (14/28) -> Half-way through the treatments * mail Form 1041 for Dad's trust * 15min: dishes * 15min: order tums, dry mouth lozenges from $A -- same-day delivery. " Luckily people, cats and ferrets are not negatively affected by xylitol. " @ Stress Awareness Month — Official Site (via Island County public health on NextDoor, in a post I can't find anymore. Foo..) April is Stress Awareness Month - The American Institute of Stress National Stress Awareness Month | NIH Office of Human Resources CDC: Coping with Stress * Walk: 17:24 Dayton+90th: w=0.9mi, s= 2049, 16hp, 20m; day: 20hp, s=3870, 43mm % diaphragmatic breathing really seemed to help. Go me! @ What's Your Grief Theory: Multidimensional Adaptive Grieving Dynamics A Grief Concept You Should Care About: Continuing Bonds - Whats your Grief " Holding onto items, daily habits, private rituals, conversations with your loved one, visiting places where you feel close to them, thinking about them... These are all ways people continue bonds with deceased loved ones. These are the behaviors often come naturally to grieving people, but which may have been seen as pathological by past grief models (and society as a whole). " @ The Best Movies Based on Mythology and Folklore | Lifehacker Several are available on YouTube. -> should download * */15 CPAP: change paper filter, wash tubs * trying Biotene xylitol lozenge before bed (actually will still be sucking on it after I lie down) 0416Tu & awake 4ish?? * up 6ish; S=7:00, W=192.6, BP=138/79, P=66; exercises, Dutch * H2O: 07:22, 08:27, 09:26, 10:06, 19:01, 22:32 * abiraterone 06:10; biotene lozenge, tums; @ Path of the Sacred Clown | Dreamflesh @ The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake @ Minuteman D-17b: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM - YouTube (Hackaday) @ A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS (Part 1) | dsp (Hackaday) original paper on SCCS by by Marc Rochkind : SHIT. Fraudulent transactions on my AMEX gold card claiming to be from "LYFT HQ". As far as I can tell Lyft can't be contacted. New card mailed and will arrive 4/24. Fortunately I have a list from the last time I changed my billing address. I also have a list of which passwords might have been compromised. Still a PITA @ Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia fascinating rabbit-hole Ray cat - Wikipedia Raycats and earworms: How scientists are using colour-changing cats and nursery rhymes to warn future generations of nuclear danger - CityAM % persistent itching on my bottom. possibly radiation burn * load drugs & docusate sodium 22:27 -- skip the senna. (may be a mistake; we'll see) 0417We o litter boxen & awake 3:30ish, never really got back to sleep & biotene lozenge -- may have helped % re-playing scenes from The Return of the King in my head. WTF? & awake 4:30ish; & awake 5ish * up 7:40; S=7:34; Dutch * abiraterone 07:43; 08:45 rest * H2O: 08:49, 13:22, 13:40ish:c, ???, 21:10, 22:00 @ Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns - Thomas Michael Semmler @ Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all on sale • The Register * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake * 11:45 on treatment visit - Dr. Liao *- fatigue x- dry mouth -- not clear why I didn't mention this *- radiation burn? where I sit, basically. What to put on it? -> Aquaphor -- easy & 12:00 Amanda Li (dietician) - taking iron every other day improves absorption! * 15min: re-fill Molly's antacid bottle * email Al and Greg with the form for Dad's trust. There appear to be lots of different ways to create a password-protected PDF, but the documentation is pretty scant. Ended up using Libreoffice, after a couple of abortive attempts. * finish the bottle of Loyaal oude genever that I got in the Netherlands last year * 15min: laundry; empty dishwasher; * 21:06 senna, fiber wafers; 21:42 docusate with pm drugs * took out every other iron glycinate capsule -- see above : 10:27pm N and m's flight arrives. G left to get them; I went out to Lair with Bronx : Lyrids 4/15-4/29, peak 4/21-22. Look Sa when I don't have Bronx : pretty sure there's some Aquaphor out in the Lair, but I don't know where it is 0418Th & awake 11:55 & awake 4ish * up 6ish; S=7:26, W=192.4; exercises... Dutch (trouble hearing, as well as spelling) * 06:12 abiraterone; 07:18 rest * H2O: 07:26, 07:42, 10:19, 8oz@uw, 13:28, 14:15c, 16:32, * call IRS to update address for Dad's trust. 800-829-0115 * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake % 12:23 slight headache, slightly out-of-it % 13:14 sleepy? Different somehow; probably some less familiar version of fatigue % 14:57 cold? : N brought me a very cute little guitar-shaped multi-tool % 20:45 depressed?? also cold. * take a box of fiber cookies out to Lair * docusate sodium and senna with pm drugs @ PDF Dutch: An Essential Grammar, 9th edition - Archive.org "Dutch: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Dutch as it is used by native speakers " oosterhoff_j_Basic_Dutch a_grammar_and_workbook.pdf 0419Fr * litter boxen & awake 3:30ish * up 6:38; S=7:44, dry mouth, W=193.6; * abiraterone 06:40; 07:38 rest * H2O: 8ish, 08:34, ??, 16:39, 19:21, 21:17 @ Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist | Ars * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake -> bladder _over_full -- probably have a blockage -> they use Spotify for background music and I've told them to use "filk" as a genre first thing that came on when I was getting onto the table was "Paper Pings" % kind of blown away. And I blew the techs away when I said "I wrote that" @ the biggest threat facing your team, whether you’re a game developer or a tech founder or a CEO, is not what you think | by Doc Burford | Mar, 2024 | Medium McNamara fallacy @ The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill | WIRED @ We Need To Rewild The Internet " “That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the ‘pathology of command and control.’” " " Ecologists have reoriented their field as a “crisis discipline,” a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. " * check AX for new card # -- apparently been there all along; it just looked too regular to be real. there's a temporary CCV (which AX confusingly calls a "CID") * walk: Dayton+90th. w=0.9mi, s=2520, 31m, 16hp; day s=4544, 46mm, 1.59mi, 19hp % a lot of hip pain, sweaty, very tired; occasionally doubted my ability to keep going & litter box on the way out since E' didn't have time this morning & we're sending Bronx out to the Lair around 5pm now because that's when he starts chewing on Brooklyn... but not this weekend because m and k will be at Lake City & gave a spare 128G thumb drive to k @ End-Of-Life For Z80 CPU And Peripherals Announced | Hackaday The legendary Zilog Z80 CPU is being discontinued after nearly 50 years @ Procrasticlutter - Dana K. White: A Slob Comes Clean (kaberett) * 21:32 Bronx back to house. Wouldn't get into his carrier until I'd scooped him up and given him a cuddle. 0420Sa & awake (??) 2:30, 5:30; 6:30; left mask off the last time * up 8:10; W=193.4, S=7:11++; * abiraterone 8:15, rest 09:34 * H2O: 08:34, 09:47c, 10:25, 11:21, ???, 21:10 * walk: 10:34 to park. w=0.4mi, s=1161, 16hp, 11min, 11mm, % bright, beautiful morning; very little hip pain this time : 15:04 Statler and Waldorff, the EvGo chargers behind QFC on Northgate, are permanently out of service -- the cables have been chopped off. WTF? @ Michael Okuda - We've just learned that John Trimble passed away... | Facebook * post mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Rabbit Holes and Ray Cats * 15min: decluttering - toss adjustable briefs that don't fit (in pile behind desk) * simethicone 21:10