Done Since 2024-07-07

[mdlbear]

It's been a surprisingly good, unsuprisingly short, and occasionally scary week; the second and last in my trip with N in The Netherlands. Quite a lot of back-and-forthing between Den Haag and Leiden. Yesterday I spent all afternoon helping j put flat-pack furniture together; we got a couple of pieces mostly finished, thwarted by the lack of a hammer for nailing on backs. (Cue obvious song.)

I marked the third anniversary of Colleen's death on Friday with a post and a cup of green tea. Also I miss my cats.

I've decided not to bother logging walking statistics for this trip, except to note that I went over 3,000 steps on five days in the last week, and actually got over 20 "heart points" on Wednesday. I might need to see whether $G Fit can export data in any useful format. Or switch apps. Or buy a ring or a watch?

Links this week include Daniel Simu And His Dancing Robot SURPRISE The Judges With Acrobotics! (with a tip of the hat to ysabetwordsmith), and Oxford University Mathematician REACTS to "Animation vs. Math" (the entire "Animation vs. {Math, Physics, Geometry} series is well worth watching, along with the corresponding reactions -- you can find them all by chasing links).

Notes & links:
0707Su
  & awake 1:01; S=3:27; ... up 1:45 politics   * down ~2?
    % some reading in Science, then thinking about my reply to AK's email
  * up 6:35; S=6:53;  Dutch
  * abiraterone 6:50; rest of am drugs 07:51; pm drugs 22:42;
  * H2O: 07:50, 08:19, 12:45ish:c, 13:28, 19:32, 21:52,
  * 9:30 leave for 10:30 house viewing -- mixup; missed today's; this one is next week
    & Also looked at the (outside of the) place we've reserved for October
  * go out and get something edible, e.g. at AH
    & learned the Dutch word for "turkey", "kalkoen", because the peppered turkey salami I
      bought this am at AH was also labeled in French.
  ~ SL (pharmacy) - hairbrush, disposable razor for N, antacids,  x distilled water, pen,

0708Mo
  & awake ??
  * up 8sh; S=7:22;
  * abiraterone 08:16; rest of am drugs 9:12; pm drugs 21:18
    * 8:30ish hydrocortisone ointment on itchy patches.  10:48 seems to have worked
  * H2O: 09:10:c, 09:12, 13:48, 
  @ The Call of Cthulhu...meets Dr Seuss - YouTube
    The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Call of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft.
  @ We promise that these photos of The Hague are the best you will see | DutchReview
  @ Moving to The Hague: the ultimate and complete guide | DutchReview
  & went out and got a few things at AH, including milk for N and sushi for me.  Should
    have looked for and gone to the next-nearest, which is likely to have a better
    selection and is only a 3-minute walk away according to $G.  next time.
  * Did some work on missing audio links, e.g. for twenty-first-century-breakup.  The
    Makefile seems to be broken, or else it's been so long that I'm missing stuff

0709Tu
  & awake 01:44;  gave up 2:45ish.  Dealt with email.  Back down 3:45 hopefully
  * up 07:45; S=7:13; ... Dutch
  * abiraterone 07:49; rest of am drugs 08:30ish; pm drugs 22:00-ish
    % running late so will have food and rest of am drugs 8:30 or so
  * H2O: 8ish, rest of the day not logged
  & so as to be out of the room while it was being cleaned, we went to the Rotterdam Zoo.
    It includes an aquarium, and both arctic (awks and puffins) and antarctic (penguins)
    exhibits.  Warm -- glad I didn't take my coat.
    % sweaty by the time we got back, esp. under the sweatpants.  Which makes sense.
  * 5:05 go up to get food - between 5:10 and 5:35
  @ Animation vs. Math - YouTube
  @ Oxford University Mathematician REACTS to "Animation vs. Math" - YouTube
  * 7pm CST = 10am PDT - 11:30 Memory Keepers grief support group
    % kept nodding off.  (don't think anyone noticed -- really brief.  But still.  must
      have been a really tiring day)
  @ A Thousand Primers, Not Just One – mssv + Have You Played actually about how
    the gamification in Zombies Run! works for running, but wouldn't work for other things
  ~ 6:30pm (3:30am CEST)-8:30 Evergreen Health support group -> nope

0710We
  & awake 1ish?
  * up 05:57; S=6:57; exercises, Dutch
  * abiraterone 05:57; rest of am drugs 06:53; pm drugs 21:43
  * H2O: 06:21, 07:35:c, 07:40, 08:54:c, ~500ml?? @j's
  @ ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "DOOM Box Thoughts" DOOM = "Didn't Organize, Only Moved"
    Taming the Doom Pile: Conquer Clutter Chaos
  % probably spending too much time down the YT/documentary/David Attenborough rabbit hole
  : as it turns out I had an entire bottle of Tums in my suitcase.
  * to j's for laptop shopping, dinner
    = Apple: https://www.amac.nl/winkels/leiden Haarlemmerstraat 197, 2312 DP, Leiden
    ~ will wait until Aug for the major student discount

0711Th
  & awake 1:30ish
  * up 06:50; S=7:55; exercises, ... Dutch
  * abiraterone 06:52; rest of am drugs 08:05; pm drugs 21:30
  * H2O: 08:17, 12:30:small cup, 13:01, 13:58, 22:01
  @ Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights: Great Art Explained - YT
  ? med list in gDocs or dropbox?  -x not needed because it's accessible via MyChart app
  * load drugs (gets back in sync with regular Wednesday load-up)
  @ Daniel Simu And His Dancing Robot SURPRISE The Judges With Acrobotics! (ysabetwordsmith)
  o wifi code changed to driven6823 ??
  
0712Fr  Colleen
  & awake 1:30, 3:30,
  * up 07:34; S=7:26;
  * abiraterone 07:35; rest of am drugs 08:45; pm drugs 19:20
  * H2O: 7:40ish:c, 08:45, 09:13, 11:12:c, 19:20, 19:58, 
  @ What’s the right way to wean off antidepressants? may take years.  no info about
    bupropion, though -- article only talked about ssri's and snri's.
  % sleepy 10:14
  * fried eggs on toast -> required figuring out how to use the AEG induction cooktop.
  $ Pay AMEX
  % 12:39 definitely awake now.
  @ good intro to mastodon
  * AH for shopping 18:04--N's meringues etc.; sushi in case she doesn't want to order out
    -> sushi.  Can't find my chopsticks; no wasabi, no soy sauce.  Decent anyway.
  @ AT&T says hackers stole records of nearly all cellular customers' calls and texts
  : Colleen died three years ago today.  I made myself a cup of green tea, and told her
    again, "I will always love you".
  * Post River: Colleen: Three Years Later

0713Sa
  & awake 1:30, 3:30.
  * up 6:30; S=6:49; exercises, Dutch
  * abiraterone 06:31; rest of am drugs 07:39; pm drugs
  * H2O: 7ish:c, 07:40, 10:34, 21:17
  : note:  chocolate mini-meringues and dried apricots go well together.
  @ ‘Tuk-tuk’ three-wheeled taxis coming to U.S. | The Seattle Times
  @ The Physician and Social Media: 'To Be or Not to Be' On? | MedPage Today
  @ The Last Day of the Dinosaurs | FD Ancient History - YouTube
  * pm go to Leiden to help j put furniture together - N is in good enough shape to go too
    % I had entirely too much trouble getting up from various crouches.   :P
    -> worried.  I seem to have gotten old.  How did that happen?
  : screwed up my chip card again, getting on somewhere
  @ It’s Shockingly Easy to Buy Off-Brand Ozempic Online, Even If You Don’t Need It 
  x maybe Lily et. al. as s4s, since I mentioned it
  x 3pm Pacific (midnight CEST)– Julie Matthaei, An Introduction to Energy Healing.