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mdlbearI've been feeling time pressure all week. This close to our departure on the First, that's not surprising. Two weeks and two days. I'm not sure I've managed to force myself to believe it enough to get everything done.
It somehow fails to surprise me that simple-scan (1) works better than the program that came with my new Epson portable scanner.
I upgraded (my main laptop)Sable's disk from one terabyte to two
yesterday, and in the process moved /home into its own
partition, and upgraded the OS (Linux Mint). The latter may have been a
mistake. I spent all afternoon fixing glitches, and I'm still finding
them. But it's nice not to be running out of space anymore.
Also my ability -- or maybe it's motivation -- to write has gone out the window. Here, have a musical instrument made from a Commodore 64 (or two).
Notes & links: 0908Su * up 06:00; S=7:17; ... Dutch. A day of packing should count as exercise * abiraterone 06:00; rest of am drugs; pm drugs 21:59 * H2O: 6:30ish, 07:13, 08:48:c, 08:50; at least one more glass; @ Hackers Threaten to Leak Planned Parenthood Data | WIRED @ xBloom Studio Coffee Machine Review: The Future May Be Closer Than You Think pour-over "I have seen the robot coffee future, and it requires a phone app." @ The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case | WIRED @ Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients can't make this stuff up * 9am E' for cleaning * 15min: sort/consolidate plastic bins. * noon (organizers)Rebecca and Lauren for identifying everything being shipped * 2min: swap CPAPs. @ 10+ Things to Know about The Great Wave | The Art Institute of Chicago Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji ! realizing that I am really having trouble writing. Do. Not. Like. % 21:27 my hands are incredibly itchy. Time to haul out the cortisone 0909Mo * litter boxen & awake 4:30 * up 05:33; S=7:13; exercises, Dutch * abiraterone 05:33; rest of am drugs 06:31; pm drugs * H2O: 06:43, 07:56, 09:59:c, 11:30:c, 12:12, * 15min: start sorting clothes into take vs ship. Take down suitcase. * bring in needlepoint and Winter Tree from the Lair @ The End of Finale - Finale @ The Commodordion is a musical instrument made from a Commodore 64 (or two) @ The non-electric version of an e-bike is an acoustic bike, of course @ We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us. | Psychology Today Hmmm. @ Replace Your To-Do List With Interstitial Journaling To Increase Productivity in 5 min pomodoro break, write down: what did I just finish, what do I do next * questionaires for 9/16 appt available on MyChart (just Medicare) : call from Fred Hutch pharmacy - 90-day supply of abiraterone on its way to UPS store ~ schedule cardiology appointment -> as expected, nothing available until October 2 -> might actually have gotten one if I'd called a week ago. Dumb bear. -> but in reality, this was the first text I've gotten saying they were ready @ RIP: James Earl Jones, commanding actor who voiced Darth Vader, dies at 93 - WaPo * are we keeping caravan-massage.com? NO -> mark as "let expire * 2min: also mark rainbowsendmassage.com as "let expire" (will do so in 2025) * ordered 26" Medium Expandable Rollaboard | Maxlite 5 by Travelpro arrives 0918We. * Finished The Soul of an Octopus. Beautiful, moving, and haunting. 0910Tu & awake 3:30ish * up 7:00ish; * abiraterone7:05ish; rest of am drugs 08:14; pm drugs 22:01 * H2O: 08:13, 08:31, 9ish:c, 13:15:c, 16:20:wine, 18:38, =* remember to save on sable before pulling!!! -> rebased cleanly, so go me! & go git! * 10am - 11:30 Memory Keepers grief support group -> 15 min late because I didn't hear my alarm. WTF. Was turned off. -> the AT BT phones kept disconnecting. Don't know whether it's them or Sable -> put them in their box, labeled it, tossed it on the donate heap. -> retrieved the Bose phones from where they'd been sorted with the maybe-carryons * walk: Monkey Grind with m: w=0.8mi, s=3300, 18hp, 28min @ MAGA influencers are scrambling after the DOJ's Russia indictment * Pay for house -> my whole share was sent from Schwab, at Jerad's suggestion : used the Epson scanner for a form -- it's wicked fast (of course having it set to 300dpi probably helped with that) % 15:57 kind of wiped out. : abiraterone arrived at UPS store 9:32am - I'll pick it up tomorrow, thanks * 6:30 cancer support group - Jimm Harrison aromatherapy % this talk would be better at 2x speed. -> someone suggested another cancer lifeline group 1st and 3rd Wednesdays 11am-12:30 * 2min: worked out that the walk to (grocery store)Albert Hein is about the same as from here to Bartell - 1.3km = 0.8mi. And of course it's dead flat. That'll be easy. There's another cluster of grocery stores a little closer in the other direction. 0911We * litter boxen & awake 4:30 * up 5:40; S=7:12; exercises, Dutch * abiraterone 06:00; rest of am drugs 07:11; pm drugs 22:16 * H2O: 07:11, 07:53, 09:25:c, 23:00, * 15min: dishes: load, run, unload * email * E and * R * pick up abiraterone at UPS store * pick up a priority mail box (7x7x6) * walk: around park 17:52: w=0.8mi, s=1560, 19min, 9hp; today: s=2950, 0.97mi, 33mm % my legs started twingeing in weird ways, so glad I'd taken the short route * scan N's wwft form. apparently permanently damaged the scanner by pulling paper out of it backwards instead of opening it up to clear a jam. Shit. Not only that, it's out of production and in any case I didn't get it from $A -> used the Brother all-in-one. Then looked for ways to fix the Epson. -> turning it off, pushing what looked like an _undocumented_ reset button on the bottom, and generally messing with it appears to have fixed it. Whew! % I appear to have written my gratitude post a day early. I'll see how it holds up when I post it tomorrow. * load drugs. 0912Th & awake ? * up 7ish; S=7:42; Dutch * abiraterone 7am; rest of am drugs 08:30; pm drugs 22:19 * H2O: 08:14, 08:45, ??, 21:02, 21:13 * JPMorgan Chase to equip 140K workers with generative AI tool | CIO Dive * JPMorgan Chase to equip 140K workers with generative AI tool | CIO Dive : load new supply of bupripion 300, simvastatin, prednisone, buspirone. Here but not loaded: KCl, abiraterone. Extra 90 days backup for simvastatin, doxazosin, and bupropion 300 (see 2024-02-25). Way more vitamin C, niacin than needed; low on buprion 150; out of D3 and fish oil * rename ../2024/09/11--thankful-wednesday.html to ...thursday... and post. : ... and as it turns out the problem with the scanner was in the damned _software_ -- the "correct document skew" "feature" shifts everything over to the left and puts a black stripe about 1/4 of the way from the R edge. IDIOTS! simple scan works fine, but might not do duplex. * fill out/scan Gosselin (moving destination) forms @ The northern lights could be visible tonight. Here’s where to see them. - WaPo * order fish oil, D3; hard case for scanner * walk: around park 15:53: w=0.8mi, s=1500, 12hp, 14min; 18mm, s=2000 @ Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) * send email to R @ Alarm Bells Ring As Chemicals in Personal Care Products Linked to Early Puberty in Girls What Products Contain Musk Ambrette? Possible Link to Early Puberty, New Study Finds artificial musk, in all kinds of scented products, mainly personal care. * make Dutch flag icon. Upload. 0913Fr-0915Su Festival of the Living Rooms #23. 0913Fr * litter boxen * up 5:30; S=7:08; exercises, shower, Dutch * abiraterone 05:58; rest of am drugs; pm drugs 22:39 * H2O: 6ish, 8ish:c, 15:25, 19:18, @ Science Magazine - ChatGPT to the rescue? Science Magazine - Generative AI as a tool for truth " Conversation with a trained chatbot can reduce conspiratorial beliefs " ?!!! Article Summary - Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI Research Article - Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI * the Lair needs catfud @ The EU Has New Carry-On Luggage Rules. Here’s What to Know Before You Fly | WIRED Actually they're just the old rules about taking liquids and tech out of your carry-on @ The Best Hearing Aids of 2024, Reviewed by Experts | WIRED @ Hurricane-fueled blackouts could devastate Houston and other U.S. cities - WaPo power outage plus heat wave. Hurricane Beryl - Wikipedia * 11am (sewing machine) scanner software lesson Wendy's and ice cream on the way home. % noticing that I can type pretty quickly if I don't think about it too much. Hmm * 15min: did some sorting mostly on the left of the desk. Pile is considerably shorter % freaked out -- or something -- making dinner. Probably good that I'm out of gin. % 21:45 sleepy. Not getting anything done. Can't focus. 0514Sa & awake 4:30ish? * up 07:40; S=8:37; Dutch * abiraterone 07:41; rest of am drugs 08:43; pm drugs 22:25 * H2O: 07:40, 08:52, @ Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying | Ars Technica The Truth About SSD Data Retention proportional to working temp, inversely proportional to power-off temp. Backblaze Drive Stats for 2023 @ Coffee alternatives: Start-ups claim beanless coffee more ethical * bring in Dragon tumbler and Breathe tumbler from lair, to be packed. * 2min: cancel Chewy autoship (which was about to ship); order just the wet food. Thought I'd cancelled it, then remembered that the cats are going to be here another month. But we don't need that much litter. Would have cancelled just the litter if I'd seen a way to do it. @ 23andMe agrees to pay $30 million to settle lawsuit over massive data breach|Verge * noon signing/notarizing (PNW Apostille)Michaela @ Mapo Tofu’s Fiery Path to World Domination * upgrade sable (now called unsable for the moment) to 2TB SSD -> took all damned afternoon. BUT IT WORKED! -> there appear to be some glitches in the xmonad configuration, but not enough to keep wss from doing approximately the right thing. -> had to install zoom, discord, and signal. -> and now I have to figure out where to put the 1TB SSD I replaced. Hmm. raven or panther, most likely. Worry about it later. * take plastic tumbler out to the Lair to replace the dragon one