Done Since 2024-04-28
2024-05-05 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearI think this has to be considered a pretty good week on the whole. When's the last time you saw that in a "Done Since" post? (There have been a good number of "mixed" and "not bad" weeks -- those don't count. 2024-01-07 was the last "pretty good" week.) Five posts. Only one (River: Final (treatment) Friday) wasn't a repeating post, but still, posts.
On the down side, a lot of evening fatigue, hot flashes and night sweats (but two nights without them), and increasingly obnoxious behavior from Bronx. But it's hard to fault Bronx -- he's doing it for cuddles and boops, and I learned a new keyboard shortcut when he stood on my keyboard last Sunday. Yes, I'm a soft touch. But I already knew that.
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Welcome to Mental Health Awareness Month (some links at Mental Health America, but they're buried -- I may try to isolate some later).
Notes & links: 0428Su & awake 3ish; Biotène. Night sweats. * up 06:52; S=7:48, W=193.4; * 06:52 abiaterone, Biotène; rest 8:30ish? somewhat out of it. * H2O: 6:52, 8:30ish, 09:32c, 17:24:h-g, 18:01, 21:46st, 21:47 * 15min: change mattress cover and bottom sheet (because night sweats) % 10:40 tums * 15min: dishes * 15min: laundry. 2 loads because towels and pads. a load of N's in the middle @ Firefox process manager about:processes or S-Esc. Thank you, Bronx! TIL The things you can learn when a cat walks across your keyboard. & garbage and recycling, with N, because it was out of hand % honey-ginger for throat, diclofenac for L hand. Both probably due to ^^ % actually, hand problem may be RSI from mouse % 17:31 I may have just hit a bit of a wall * back in lair ~8:45. Fiber cookies with pm meds. * 21:48 follow with senna and docusate (would probably work better _before_ meds etc) 0429Mo * litter boxen & awake 1ish, 4ish; biotene lozenge * up 7am; W=191.4, S=8:30; exercises, .... Dutch % pain in R lower leg -> aspirin (possibly a mistake) * abiraterone 7:10; rest 08:13 * H2O: 07:55, 08:53, 10:11, 11:57, 15:21, 18:53, * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake % 12:17 hot flash. One of several today * collect the rest of the laundry. try to remember the prunes too @ Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back | Ars Technica * 15min: dishes (I unloaded the dishwasher yesterday) x refill scrip at Express Scripts -> NO -- it's abiraterone, for over $4K. Foo. * get passport photo at Bartell, see if anything there for j, get N's meds started * go to Post Office and pick up priority mail envelope. Has to be mailed in person. I'm almost certain there used to be _prepaid_ containers, but apparently not now. % 7:30ish kegels. Because obviously I'm having severe problems with lack of control % 19:54 sudden-onset headache apparently from headphones. R side. @ Risk tolerance: why some countries prefer more complex UIs | by Bas Wallet % 21:58 in bed (probably too early, but...) hot flash. 0430Tu Beltane eve, Walpurgisnacht Walpurgis Night - Wikipedia & awake 00ish; 4ish?; 6ish? % Which means I slept through two alarms, and dozed half an hour after the third % dream included, at various points, mountain lions, E, and Molly. * up 7:53; S=8:37; * abiraterone 7:53, rest + aspirin 09:00; * H2O: 09:03, some at UW, 13:58, ~ 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake -> actually left ~10am because I wasn't paying attention. * renew passport -> mailed at 145th St PO (street addr same as mine, so easy to find) * charge Molly -> Freddy's on Lake City Way had plenty of free ports. Also bathrooms. * SL: fresh garlic % not exactly tired, but I note that I didn't have coffee today. % ran out of cope dealing with Bronx on my desk. OTOH he knew I needed cuddles. % 20:39 hit a wall; can't handle Bronx. -> went to do dishes, which I can do -> interesting. plenty of physical spoons left, but no mental ones. noted. * load drugs. iron today, so none tomorrow 05xx Mental Health Awareness Month - Wikipedia May is Mental Health Month 0501We Beltane * litter boxen @ Beltane - Wikipedia & awake 3:30ish; 5:30ish; % no night sweats, apparently * up 7:30; S=7:46, W=188.8; exercises, Dutch * abiraterone 7:30; 08:33 rest * H2O: 07:31, 08:33, 9:30ish, 13:24, ~14:30:c, @ At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down | Cybersecurity Dive * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake * 11:45 on treatment visit - Dr. Liao : My thinkpad wireless keyboard appears to have croaked. -> no, it was the dongle. :P @ The Truth About Hydration: Should You Drink Eight Glasses of Water a Day? no " a litre of beer was no less hydrating than a litre of water. Similarly, a litre of instant coffee, containing 212mg of caffeine, was as hydrating as water. Milk was even more hydrating, and [as] effective as a hydration solution... " -> however, coffee etc. may not be as effective against constipation. unclear. Scientists assess hydration potential of different drinks | Univ. of Stirling * 2ish walk: to MG with m; w=1.?mi, s=2769, 32min, 20hp; am 32min, 3hp -> _iced_ Mexican mocha. Glad I didn't take my jacket, even if it did mean I had to go back a block and a half for my mask. (I'd taken the OVFF sling for my wallet, but hadn't transferred anything _else_ out of my jacket.) * 5pm Cathy McManamon concert * respond to R's email -- it's good to hear from them and neither of us communicates often enough. @ How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery | Quanta Magazine Parker Solar Probe: The Mission @ Announcing the Open Home Foundation HomeAssistant et. al. " we’ve transferred over 240 projects, standards, drivers, and libraries—Home Assistant, ESPHome, Zigpy, Piper, Improv Wi-Fi, Wyoming, and so many more—to the Open Home Foundation. This is all about looking into the future. We’ve done this to create a bulwark against surveillance capitalism, the risk of buyout, and open-source projects becoming abandonware. " * 21:47 docusate, senna, simethicone 0502Th & awake 23:55, 3:?? * up 6:25; S=8:02, W=190.8, BP=128/78, P=69; * abiraterone 6:25, rest 07:37 * H2O: 07:39, 13:05, ~14:00c, ??, beer, ~8oz at bedtime * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 radiation therapy at montlake @ RISC OS Open 5.30 is here – with Pi Wi-Fi support • The Register @ Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining - Neowin @ The Evolution of Lisp[PDF] @ Why writing by hand is better for remembering things | Popular Science @ Host Agency Reviews * pm G's birthday party: Key Lime Pie and Pizza & long discord conversation with E about her latest scheme. We'll see. : Prevail L seem to be a little more comfortable than Depend L. * 22:24 docusate + senna. ~8oz water 0503Fr * litter boxen & awake 4ish * up 6:40; S=7:35, no night sweats!; Dutch * abiraterone 6:45, rest 07:47 * H2O: 6:45, 07:48, 09:20, 21:57, 10:30ish:st, 22:39st, 22:40 @ Giant Turtle Revealed in 'Remarkable' 57-Million-Year-Old Fossils @ Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it @ March 2024 Programming Language Ranking, the gap between Python and other languages has never been so big! | by Beck Moulton | Apr, 2024 | Medium Scratch in top 10, PHP drops down to 12 * 10:20 leave for 11:05 checkin for 11:20 LAST! radiation therapy at montlake. @ Pluralistic: Don’t Be Evil (22 Nov 2023) – Cory Doctorow * walk: Monkey Grind with m; w=0.8mi, 25min, s=2044, 11hp, Day: 15hp, 44mm $ C $425 to SigmaXi.org for 5 years (emeritus rate) * 21:56 200mg docusate sodium, senna, fiber cookies : do not take antioxidents during radiation treatments, or 1 week after. This is still subject to scientific debate, however. @ Nutrition during radiation therapy treatment: What patients should know @ National Widow's Day @ siderea | "airborne SARS-CoV-2 may transmit infection for nearly 5 hours" Evidence from whole genome sequencing of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 almost 5 hours after hospital room turnover - American Journal of Infection Control : USPO tracking says that my passport renewal packet has arrived. : noticed that at least two of my favorite shirts are badly worn on the left shoulder; presumably by friction with the left backpack strap 0504Sa May the Fourth be with you @ May the 4th Be With You: A Cultural History | StarWars.com Star Wars Day - Wikipedia @ Kent State shootings The Girl in the Kent State Photo "Ohio" as performed by the Kent State University Chorale - YouTube f(cat faber) (And I'd been wondering what to post as a Song for Saturday! Sometimes stuff just falls into my lap and I just have to try not to drop it.) & awake 3ish?; night sweat; * up 7am; S=6:46, W=193.4, ; exercises, Dutch * 7:15 abiraterone; 8:25ish rest of am drugs. coffee * H2O: 8:30ish, 08:51c, ??, 21:39 % damned if I know what's happened with my morning routine -- Bronx and brain fuzz, most likely. Time pressure from the therapy + prep also a factor, I suppose. % 08:44 bit of a hot flash probably triggered by hot coffee @ Crypto Is Anything But Strong Right Now - Bloomberg * 15min: do laundry in the morning * 15min: run dishwasher, which was mostly full from yesterday. wtf? @ The Time Traveler's Handbook: 18 Experiences from the Eruption of Vesuvius to Woodstock: Acton, Johnny, Goldblatt, David, Wyllie, James * send link to E * 3 pm PDT – Gail Bingham, Building Consensus in Our Polarized Times. Columbae talks @ After Roe, an 'underground' network helps others get abortions | AP News % Finally got tired of shooing Bronx off the desk -- he obviously thinks it's a game -- and spent a long time on the big chair, with Bronx curled up on top of his carrier, which squished down into a nice nest. Back to my desk at 19:35. I need dinner. * 20:49, and I'm having peanut butter and chutney on a rice cake... and a kind bar * 21:50 pm drugs. 22:38 250mg docusate sodium. skipping the senna tonight