mdlbear | Done Since 2024-07-14 (Reply)

Pretty good week for me. That's because I wasn't affected -- much -- by the Crowdstrike incident. I did my air traveling on Monday, I'm retired, and I don't use Windows. One of my $A orders was delayed, but at least it didn't go astray. Your mileage may vary.

Monday we flew back from the Netherlands; I watched the two most recent (2021 and 2024) Dune movies on the plane. Not too bad; could have been better, especially at the end, which they totally mangled. But not nearly as bad as the 1984 version.

I seem to have forgotten to post the Thankful Thursday post that I wrote last Friday. Grump. I may wait and combine it with this week's. Or maybe post it Tuesday -- "Thankful Monday" just sounds wrong.

I took advantage of a few Prime Day deals; some of those may have been ill-advised. $A has a good return policy, fortunately.

For links, have a look at EdZitron's scathing article about "CrowdStruck". Will anything change? probably not. Also, Tuesday has some links about Gray Eyes (my favorite color, for obvious reasons).

Notes & links:
0714Su Bastille Day, International Non-Binary People's Day
@ International Non-Binary People's Day - Wikipedia
& awake 3:30
% something of a nightmare. Poisonous produce--I had to wash my hands after getting up
* up 07:35; S=7:33;
* abiraterone 07:36; rest of am drugs 8:30ish; pm drugs
* H2O: 08:30, 09:09:c, 11:10:c, 12:24,
@ What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan for a Second Trump Term
(via solarbird | People Magazine’s writeup on Project 2025/Mandate for Leadership)
@ 2 galaxies, the Penguin and the Egg, get a family portrait thanks to Webb : NPR
@ U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Announce $1 Billion in Past-Due Taxes Collected
from Millionaires (via andrewducker | Interesting Links for 13-07-2024)
@ 10 Crucial Differences Between Worry and Anxiety | Psychology Today
~ noonish go to j's with N if up for it. Take backpack and laptop
-> j will come here ~1pm, so can simply pack for tomorrow's travel.
. re-packing. The MEI pack/suitcase holds all the meds and the CPAP. We'll see what
else fits once the CPAP is in. Will leave mostly in-flight electronics in backpack.
@ The First Ever Fossilized Chromosomes Came from a Freeze-Dried Mammoth | Sci Am
@ Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life’s Happiest Times | Scientific American
@ Some socially poor but also some socially rich adolescents feel closer to their
friends after using social media | Scientific Reports
@ People are surprisingly hesitant to reach out to old friends | Comm Psych
ummmm, yeah, this.
@ The Open Source Ring-leader - Hackster.io
One Ring to Rule Them All: An Open Source Smartring Platform for Finger Motion
Analytics and Healthcare Applications | Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on
Internet of Things Design and Implementation
mclear/OMNI-Ring Wiki · GitHub
* pm set alarms
* j came over ~noon; spend most of the day talking, mostly with N (including RPG'ing).
We ordered out to the pasta place; their lasagna was ok but not spectacular.
% I've spent the entire day in my yukata. It's been calm and quiet.
@ Edmund de Waal Library of Exile by Edmund de Waal | Goodreads one of the three
books sitting on the coffeetable in our room at Cove. Moving. I only had time for
part of it -- should have started earlier. Mom would have loved it.
@ The Gunman and the Would-be Dictator - Atlantic
. work on reply to Andrew Korsak

0715Mo Curio * litter boxen
& awake 3:15; politics - could not get back to sleep -- gave up 05:22
* up 05:22; S=6:32;
* abiraterone 05:23; rest of am drugs 6:30; pm drugs
* H2O: 6:30ish, ??, 11ish, 17:00ish:gin, || switch from CEST to PDT, at 18:03 PDT
x 10:20 leave for 11am Memory Keepers realspace at Third Place Commons. Third Monday
* 11:30 leave for 3:15 Delta 145 conf# H9DPCR dept 3:15 AMS - 10H 20M - ARR 4:35PM SEA
-> bought WiFi on my phone, connected Sable via USB tethering. Would have been free
if I'd had T-Mobile. But tethering works, and git works -- I'm not complaining.
-> gin on the flight is Bombay Sapphire, not Bols, because Delta not KLM. Oh, well.
-> there does not appear to be wall power at the bulkhead seats.
* watched Dune, parts 1 and 2. Way better than the first one; haven't seen the ones
in between.
. work on reply to Andrew Korsak
* home: 02"45ish; big drink of iced water; Bronx gave me a welcome nip, the rascal.
Ticia seemed a little timid; Bronx wanted nuzzles from the kitchen counter.
: Missed call from Norco bot, so time to reorder
@ You can buy this $5,500 house in Japan—and there are millions more like it
% 19:54 pain: L neck and back of head -- presumably trapezius.
% 20:00 400mg ibuprofen (2 tabs) - can use again in 6h.
% (all week) L eye problems from sleeping on the L side.
: I seem to have lost my entire email, etc. browser window
-> turned up the next day on Workspace 5.

0716Tu Prime Day (through 0717)
& awake 3:15
* up 08:43; S=7:00, W=194.5; kegels, Dutch
% neck pain mostly but not completely gone. L eye still problematic.
* abiraterone 08:55; rest of am drugs 09:55; pm drugs 22:55
* H2O: 09:40, 10ish:c, 17:04, 09:10:c,
@ Everybody's Free (To Write Websites) (via Chris Ferdinandi)
" Accept certain inalienable truths: connection speeds will rise, techbros will grift,
you too will get old— and when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young
websites were light-weight, tech founders were noble and fonts used to be bigger. "
@ Sea turtles make huge comeback, breaking 42-year nest record in Florida (ysabetwordsmith
& some Prime Day luggage and electronics ordering
@ Gray Eyes A rare and beautiful eye color - All About Vision
Which Eye Colors Are the Rarest? - All About Vision
" If you look closely, you might even spot streaks of brown, amber and gold within the
gray. " cf. Eyes Like the Morning

0717We * litter boxen
& awake 2:20; gave up trying to get to sleep: 4:20 (1:20pm CEST); S=5.0
: both cats very cuddly; slept with me most of the night. When I got up at 4 Ticia
was next to my L thigh and Bronx at my R foot. Very sweet. Not conducive to sleep.
% 05:02; BP=133/75, P=62
* up 4:20; S=5:00;
* abiraterone 06:10; rest of am drugs 07:10; pm drugs 21:29
* H2O: 07:08, 07:54, 8??:c, 16:02:gin, 18:20, 20:59
* guitar: Desolation Row (1 verse)
@ Purple is the new green: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds
New Evidence We Were Wrong About What Alien Life Looks Like - YouTube
@ You Are Not Violating the Law of Demeter | by Aleena | Code Like A Girl
chaining Stream methods doesn't violate LoD because everything returns a Stream
@ How Do Plutocracies End?. How America might escape a damaging… | by George Dillard
" ...eras of growing inequality only end in four ways: “mass-mobilization warfare,
transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues.” "
--from The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel
@ The iPad Switch I Never Thought I’d Make | by Mark Ellis | Mac O’Clock | Jun, 2024
@ Inburgering with Dutch News: the first 50 lessons - DutchNews.nl
@ Unlawful Access of Customer Data - AT&T Bill & account Customer Support hacked
: lots of git hassle because I used `make updraft` instead of `make redraft` in PJ.
updraft renames the most recent unposted entry to today's date, and I kept forgetting
that today is the 17th, but I started the entry on the 7th. Does this make sensd? NO
Probably need to take another look at the recipe for updraft; 17... was untracked
~ SL: Bartell's - N's wegovy, coffee for lair -> They had neither in stock. As usual
~ after consulting with G, decided not to get the larger (checked) Travelpro -- the
family already has more large suitcases than people.
-> I'm also not looking at slings, since I have Max and the OVFF one.
% mysterious pains in myy R leg and shoulder.
* load drugs

0718Th
& awake 2:20; out of bed 03:40; back to bed 4:30ish
cats both curled up at the foot of the bed. Ticia was cuddling when I was trying to
get back to sleep... fell asleep cuddling Tish
* up 07:00 (alarm); S=7:26, W=19;
* abiraterone 07:02; rest of am drugs 07:55; pm drugs 22:27
* H2O: 08:11:c, 9ish, 19:40,
@ It Will Soon Be Easier for Americans to Recycle Batteries | WIRED
Staples and Batteries+, but probably too late to matter for us
: Bronx seems to have learned from Ticia that the bathroom is where he can get treats.
I'm actually okay with this, since after getting treats, they leave.
-> WASH HANDS after loading drugs -- the cats lick my hands.
* 8:30am zoom meeting with Al and Greg
*- transfer to Schwab
*- trust - can I use it to buy a house? Is that okay tax-wise?
-> talk to Jerad about it
: zoom does not work well in the Lair
* order abiraterone
@ There Will Be Hilarious Karmic Justice If America Becomes A Christian Theocracy
@ The Programmers’ Identity Crisis: how do we use our powers for ‘good’?
& ferry k to ugent care at UW Ravenna, with m for support
-> took Max with Sable. A little less wieldy than the eagle creek shoulder/waist bag,
and not as easy access to cards. But everything fit. Would have had room for a
charger and cables. So that's my carry-on personal item from now on.
-> close to 4-hour wait because we hadn't thought to get in the queue
-> taco bell on the way back--k hadn't eaten anything and m and I hadn't had lunch
* email Jerad (from Ravenna waiting room)
: the logitech anywhere 2S that I ordered from $A is a big disappointment -- no unifying
receiver, and no carrying bag. Apparently it's compatible with the receiver, but it's
not included. Which explains why it was going for cheap on Prime Day. Send it back??
% Five Guys for dinner (hazard pay). Next time get one patty and skip the milkshake
% 21:45 flaking out - should go out to the Lair and fall down (after feeding the cats)

0719Fr * litter boxen
% apparently I slept through the night!
* up 05:51; s=6:42, w=194.4; exercises, Dutch; shower
* abiraterone 09:23; rest of am drugs 05:52; pm drugs
FSCK! took the wrong set of drugs - "rest" instead of abiraterone - at 5:50.
so no abiraterone until 2 hours after breakfast. (may fudge) -> 9:30
* H2O: 6:30ish, 07:26:c, 8ish?, 16:22, 18:30,
* guitar: Millennium's Dawn, Bad Guys (very sloppy); fingers a bit sore
: speaking of fsck, ran that on all the partitions of the old drive being worked on
-> there are errors.
@ CrowdStrike file update bricks PCs around the world • The Register
CrowdStrike shares sink amid global IT crisis • The Register
Reboots best fix for Azure VMs CrowdStrike borked, says Msft • The Register
Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved • The Register
~ pick up abiraterone at UPS store -> apparently delayed, and may have been or be about
to be misdelivered. Weird. ... Oh, right.
-> FedEx, UPS warn deliveries may be delayed due to Microsoft outage - CBS News
@ Why the Global Crowdstrike Outage Hit Airports So Hard | WIRED
% 19:17 sleepy.
* tried the AT bluetooth phones -- they work. Switching between BT when on and previous
system settings when off seems to work automagically. See if it connects tomorrow.

0720Sa Apollo 11 landing
% apparently made it through the night again, modulo barfing only a couple of minutes
after going to bed. Wrong side? Something I ate? ??
-> mentioned it to N ("sick to my stomach" last night) - she is not worried.
* up 06:40; S=7:42, W=194.4, BP=119/73, P=66; Dutch
* abiraterone 06:45; rest of am drugs 07:49; pm drugs 22:33
* H2O: 07:50, 13:51, 15:00ish:c, 14:46:cup w\PEG3350, 19:58,
@ Apollo 11 - Wikipedia
@ Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski lots of detail (via kaberett)
@ CrowdStruck - Ed Zitron
" This is the cost of the Rot Economy — systems used by billions of people held up by
flimsy cultures and brittle infrastructure maintained with the diligence of an
absentee parent. This is the cost of arrogance, of rewarding managerial malpractice,
of promoting speed over safety and profit over people. "
* guitar: Band played..., Bad Guys
@ What Great Listeners Actually Do
@ What is Wellbeing?
* dishes: 15:25
% 15:27 still a little shaky. Don't know what's up with that. -> skip the walk.
% there's a spot on my tongue (L side of the tip) that hurts. Probably bit it.
@ Your flight was canceled by the technology outage. What do you do next? | AP News
* 18:16 - 18:46 PEG3350 -and senna- (couldn't find senna in the house).
% 21:25 L hand mousing pain -> diclofenac