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mdlbearNot a bad week. Got a few things done. Not enough, though. It's never enough, and I seem to have an aversion to finishing things. WTF, brain? Health-wise I've sometimes been feeling vaguely "off", especially in the evening; don't know what's up with that.
I'm back to a qualified "okay" for mood, because of persistant worries. But I had a good hour or so with both cats in bed this morning, and a lot of good cat cuddle other times this week, and I'm not complaining. And I went for a walk five days this week. (Not nearly so good about my normal morning exercises. Bronx has a little to do with that — I always used to do the standing exercises in the bathroom, but Bronx + bathroom = havoc.)
I had a good talk with Jonathan, my oncology social worker, on Wednesday, mostly about music and emotions. Apparently even though I'm not very good at verbalizing my emotions when asked (cf. alexithymia), they sometimes come out in songs. Maybe that's because in songs I don't have to actually name them. Also maybe because I don't write songs very often. The songs in question deserve a full-on post — I'd planned on posting an s4s but got sidetracked. Maybe next week, although as I have often mentioned, I have the memory of a mayfly on crack. So maybe not.
According to LJ I've been writing this blog for 22 years as of Saturday. Of course all the posts, and the posting, have moved over here to DW, and LJ broke cross-posting. That's their problem.
And, Public Service Announcement: don’t install any version of Windows 11 that can run copilot/recall (via @solarbird; more links under Tuesday). Don't believe Microsoft when they say they've fixed it, or that it won't run on your down-rev PC. There's never been a better excuse to switch to Linux.
Notes & links:
0602Su
& awake 4ish, 6:30. Two-cat cuddle, both times. I am blessed. Also loved.
% didn't go back to sleep at 6:30, just enjoyed the cats. Bronx by R. shoulder
* up 7:30; S=7:39; ... 18:21... kegels, Dutch
* abiraterone 07:35, rest of am drugs 08:58, 21:23 pm drugs, docusate, senna
* H2O: 8ish, 09:03, 10ish:c, ??, 17:57, 21:04, 22:01
@ The Daylight Tablet Returns Computing to Its Hippie Ideals | WIRED $700 though
@ Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check | Quanta Magazine
@ A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics | Quanta Magazine
With A New Shape, Mathematicians Link Geometry and Numbers | Quanta Magazine
‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem | Quanta Magazine
* SA: Create Journals/Collab for draft emails, notes, etc. mainly (at least for now)
having to do with the move to NL. (Journals/ is still appropriate for the location
because the archive is organized chronologically.)
* email to Fora Travel
* 2min: set alarm for tomorrow's zoom call
% somehow failed to read my morning tab set this morning. Doing it 18:20
@ Sally Buzbee steps down as executive editor of The Washington Post bad news
. start email to airtrade
0603Mo * litter boxen
& awake 00ish
* up 05:30; S=6:38, W=192.0, BP=127/78, P=69; kegels, Dutch
* abiraterone 05:38, rest of am drugs 06:38
* H2O: 06:28, ~07:25, 09:10:c, 09:23, 12:35, ??, 21:28:8oz?
@ "Let It Go" in ASL (Amber Zion & Jason Listman) - YouTube
% tweaked my back changing the litterbox, so skipped back exercises and coffee so I
could get to the house, where I have a heating pad.
@ The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning | WIRED
* email to NW Apostille - need scans of finished docs to put on Ellis's portal
* 10am telemedicine visit with (dietician)Amanda S Li
-> ground flax seeds
-> senna + miralax
* make (i.e. warm up) a bowl of chicken noodle soup for N
* finish email to airtrade, other. I think we maybe confused airtrade with something
else because she mentions contact #s for "I {am/want to be} a travel agent".
-> that one may be travelplannersinternational and despite the name it's US only
-> wrong email address. N will try whatsap to the phone #
* walk: MonkeyGrind: 15:41 (not open!) w=0.8mi, s=2819, 9hp, 20min,
% some probable RSI aching base of L thumb
* finish "slouching toward awareness"
My next visit with Elizabeth G. is the 18th; this is probably too long for her to want
to read it, but I'll pass her a link anyway. (Of course I'll have to _post_ it,
first!) I'll let it marinate for a few days.
* 15min: dishes. Dishwasher was empty, so just load and go.
% spent some quality time with heating pad and banjo music
% apparently I took my pm meds by mistake this morning, so 12h out of phase. no biggie
@ Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance ‹ Literary Hub
0604Tu
& awake
* up 06:30
* abiraterone 06:31, rest of am drugs 07:42, miralax+senna 18:31-19:04,
* H2O: 07:42, 9ish:c, 12:33, 1500ish, 20:05, 21:12,
: Heard from PNW Apostille, Airtrade, and Centrav. Not exactly encouraging.
@ Can Electric Woks Make Better Stir Fry Than Typical Gas Stoves? - Eater maybe??
@ Overseasy | Designed with Expats in Mind
@ Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now
possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. (melchar)
solarbird | Don’t install any version of Windows 11 that can run copilot/recall
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned
What to Know About Copilot+ Recall on Windows 11
Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall • The Register
@ Research-Backed 3-in-1 Move that's BETTER than Kegels! - YouTube worth a look
* order ROCKPro64 SBC from Pine
* 2min: set alarms ahead of tomorrow's appointments
@ A Short History of Throwing Food at Fascists
* walk: 15:55 around park; w~=0.8mi, s=1616, hp=13, 16min, 23mm;
% legs very tired; worked up a sweat
* 15min: load/run dishwasher
* 15min: take out recycling (except for what's on the counter)
% am I getting more clumsy lately? Feels like it, which is worrying
0605We * litter boxen
& awake 1ish, 3ish;
* up 6:30; S=7:44, W=193.8;
* abiraterone 6:55, rest of am drugs 08:05, PEG3350+senna 18:30,
* H2O: 08:25, 12:51, 13:30:c, 18:40ish,
@ Public Domain Fonts: Free-to-Use typefaces at Typodermic Fonts
maybe useful for someone; too many for me to look through
* leave 9:35 to arrive 10:25 for 10:40 eye app't Harborview Eye Institute 9th and Jeff
-> next time (which probably won't happen...) take Lyft. Parking was difficult.
* pick up N's semaglutide at Bart's if up for it and there's time -> not cheap
$ C $25 to Internet Archive via PayPal
* 1pm telehealth with Jonathan - should be back in time.
-* for next (== this) time: think of 3 songs - happy, grieving, angry
*- happy: Sugar Magnolia, Gracias a La Vida (Baez), Gentle Arms of Eden,
The River Where She Sleeps?
*- grieving: For Amy, The Stolen Child (my setting). Rainbow's Edge.
sang last verse of For Amy
*- angry: Masters of War, Ohio, but not the pretty choral version.
Keep the Dream Alive? (could also be grieving)
x- (solace: Bells of Norwich, When I Go, Ripple, Death Danced at My Party)
x- (sense of awe/wonder - Ship of Stone, Lord of the Buffalo, Gentle Arms of Eden)
*- pointed him at The Rainbow Bridge
Ame's and Colleen's pages in particular.
-* will send resources including a cancer center outside Amsterdam
probably Cancer Center Amsterdam
-> halcyon - BLÜ EYES
BLÜ EYES - getting older
% so apparently I express emotions very well through my songs, even if I don't have
short verbal descriptions for them.
* fix broken (web) link from Bridge/index.html to .../for-amy/ -- maybe some weird
Apache config problem, since I have no idea why it was failing otherwisd.
* walk: around park 17:18 w~=0.8mi, s=1432, 13min, 12hp,
@ BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 days
: If we call our business Utopia BV, that would translate to Utopia Limited
% I appear to have left my phone in the house again. :P
Don't know where the fsck I put my pants, either. Connection? -> yes. Pants were in
the hamper, _shirt_ was over the _side_ of the hamper (where I usually put my pants),
and my phone was in the hamper where it had fallen out of the shirt pocket. So...
0606Th
& awake 9ush, 3ish, 5:ish; cat cuddle
* up 05:44; S=6:55; Dutch
* abiraterone 05:44, rest of am 07:07, 19:05 PEG3350+senna
* H2O: 07:07, 07:50, 8ish:c, 13:33, 15:58, 18:30,
: fscking toilet overflowed because the flapper wouldn't go down after trying to flush.
~ 9am zoom meeting with (another) NL realtor -> N will reschedule because exhausted
@ Social Quitting. How social media barons squandered their lock-in and made themselves
obsolete. | by Cory Doctorow | Medium Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting – Locus Online
" Once things got just a little worse, advertisers and users started to quit, and the
long-delayed MySpacing of [Book of Faces] and Beboizing of [Birdsite] began. "
@ What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
@ Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease found genetic. Too late for Colleen
* leave 9:55am for 10:15 drop off Molly at Bill's
@ Boeing’s astronaut capsule arrives at the space station after thruster trouble
% feeling slightly out of it.
* get Ticia and Cricket scheduled for their Solensia shots before we leave -> tomorrow
* how much is Molly worth on direct sale -> prices average $14k; range from ~12-17k
* 17:33 tried snake -- stupid thing doesn't get past the bend. Did not really feel like
going out to HD and spending $60 on a good one
-> G pointed me at the BIG plunger in the back bathroom. -> worked!
% I don't think I should be this exhausted though
* 15min: dishes. laundry (the towels I used this morning)
@ Are LGBTQ+ rights at risk in the EU election? | Context
0607Fr * litter boxen D-Day
@ Normandy landings
& awake 3??, 5??; no mask for a couple of hours
* up 06:05; S=4:32+, W=193.2, BP=128/74, P=64; kegels, Dutch
* abiraterone 06:07, rest of am 07:08, 18:55 PEG3350, pm meds 20:50
* H2O: 07:09, 07:35, 08:28, 09:06:c, ??, 16:55, 19:34,
* singing: Desolation Row (intro+1 verse)
@ What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
CEO James Daunt calls Barnes and Noble Bookstores "Crucifyingly Boring"
@ The TabStrip, reinvented for the Modern Web | by Marc van Neerven
@ VMware wants to charge me how much??? | by Alistair Grew
@ New test promises to predict dementia nine years before diagnosis
@ A Single Mutation Gave These Fish a Sense of Curiosity And Opened Up Their World
" The human version of this gene mutation has been linked to schizophrenia and bipolar
disorders, the researchers note. "
@ Maps show how "Tornado Alley" has shifted in the U.S. - CBS News
@ For over a century, telepathy has been just around the corner | Aeon Essays
@ To capture grief in poetry is to describe the ineffable. Here’s why Tennyson did it
best | Aeon Videos
@ f(Crossing the Owl's Bridge)
@ COVID lulls
aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths
Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose
several centuries of progress.
* 2min: set alarm for 4pm vet appointment
@ Why be dragons? How massive, reptilian beasts entered our collective imagination
* call to cancel Surety -> picking up bait stations fri 6/14 8-10
* 3:25 gather cats for 4 pm Fremont Animal Hospital for Cricket ad Ticia's Solensia shots
-> got info on international travel with cats.
: My copy of Bea Wolf arrived. The first page has a kid holding up their
hand and shouting "HEY, WAIT!" Best. Translation. Ever. ROFL
# I'm tempted to write / a guide to git revision / control in haiku
* back to the Lair earlier than usual (~20:45) because Bronx was clearly ready for it,
and since I had to scoop him off my desk anyway...
% feeling a little flaky. headache.
-> prune(s?) and kind bar, which have both fiber and calories -> not helping much
0608Sa 22 year blogaversary
& awake 01:16 dry mouth, 3:30ish no mask, 5:30ish with Ticia
* up 07:10; S=7:10+;
* abiraterone 07:20; rest of am drugs 08:35; pm drugs 20:30ish
* H2O: 07:25(short), 08:34, 10:30:c, ??, 19:28
* guitar: Desolation Row, QV 1 verse each
@ Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash | WIRED
* walk: 9:22 to park: w=0.4mi, s=1070, 4hp, 15min,
% short sleeves, no coat -- plenty warm enough. Summer?
@ Microsoft’s Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought | WIRED
Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election
@ Using multiple accounts on Mastodon and the Fediverse
* 15min: dishes - load. ~half of recycling and garbage from next to sink. run
@ The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever
@ Transporting Ashes: TSA Regulations for Planes, Mail, & Shipping
Can I take the urn or ash container of a deceased person to the Netherlands?
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Travelling with Ashes Rules 2023
@ Scientists map one of Earth’s top hazards in the Pacific Northwest | Seattle Times
* 2min: order 5 lbs of the kind of dried apricots N has been getting
* b_finally_ reconfigure the Link Text/Location Copier browser extension to leave off the
quotes around the URL. Yeah, I've been thinking about it for almost as long as I've
been using, and yeah, it only saves 2 characters. BUT it's changed (on Sable)
* 15min: sort papers - left of desk trestle
@ 10 Tourist Mistakes Americans Need to Avoid In Europe | by Anthony J. Yeung
* walk: around park, back via taqueria 16:57: w ~=1mi, s=2063, 12hp
& fish tacos, as usual. gin and lime, because extra lime, also as usual.
: Weirdness: I gave a concert in 2015 at Sasquan, and _recorded it_, but it's not
linked from s.s.net and in fact hasn't had the recording split into songs. WTF?
Wouldn't even have noticed if I hadn't found the Sasquan program book CD and used
locate to see if I had it already ripped. I don't.
@ Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders killed in WA plane crash | The Seattle Times
@ Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge
" Successful long-lived open systems owe their success to building decades-long
micro-communities around extensions/plugins " examples: emacs, java, android,...
* 20:19 heading out to Lair
% 21:53 feeling flaky. low blood sugar?? dehydrated?? wtf?? -> prunes, kind bar
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Date: 2024-06-10 08:47 pm (UTC)