Done Since 2024-10-13

[mdlbear]

This marks the end of our third week in Den Haag. The cats are coming on next Friday, and the rest of our people the following Thursday. We are just barely going to have the place fully habitable by then, and the stuff we had shipped, and a few special order items, won't arrive until December.

Tomorrow I order a bed and internet service. We'd been using the internet connection left by the previous owners, but that ended three days ago -- a few days sooner than I expected. We've been getting by on our phones and my phone's hotspot since then.

I've been spending altogether too much time and bandwidth on $A. A lot of that is indecision, much of it more like decision paralysis. And a lot more is just forgetting -- I should have made a better checklist. And I should look more often at the one I did make.

And the whole plan is simply crazy. But so far we're pulling it off. Sort of. Today was a massive shopping trip for furniture, mostly successful; tomorrow a big Ikea delivery comes, including a chair for the desk I just finished assembling, and we need to order internet (which has been intensely frustrating so far).

Notes & links:
gi1013Su
  & awake 2:30ish
  * up 8ish (alarm); S=9:08; ... Dutch
  * abiraterone 08:15; rest of am drugs 09:03; pm drugs 22:05
  * H2O: not tracked well today; 2 coffees and maybe 1 or 1.5l water
  % more cheerful after breakfast and $A orders
  % apparently I've been staring at $A all day..  Foo.
  % I also seem to be eating less and may have lost weight.  Anxiety and depression?

1014Mo
  & awake 02:40ish; S=3:58; down 4am?->4:30
  * up 8ish; S=6:27;
  * abiraterone 08:30ish?; rest of am drugs 09:16; pm drugs
  * H2O: 09:20; 11:20:c, 12:33:c
  -> looks like the neighborhood's time to take out recycling is Sun pm for Mon am pickup
  & nice talk with N on the stairs.
  * 15:07 finished putting together the nightstand.  One of my hex bits went walkabout in
    the process, and the order of assembly could be a little better.  But it's a thing.
  * 1pm - 5pm: window for plumber -> fixed tub and washer issues.
    we now have hotter hot water, a working ice maker (but not a cold-water tap), and
    (hopefully, because I do't think it got tested) a washer and dryer both connected to
    the drain in a way that won't leave water all over the floor.
  * SL: cordless stick vacuum
  * */15   pay AX cards
  : Got me a copper kettle... (which scans to the obvious tune).  tap cold to boiling in
    4:35.  Much less starting from kitchen tap hot. 
  % my legs seem to be shaky, esp. calf muscles
  : and the chair that was supposed to have been delivered today, is now due on Thursday
  * load drugs
  * order things that can be sat on, for tomorrow.  Inflatable and a couple of ottomen

1015Tu
  * up 07:10 (alarm); S=7:13; Dutch
    % dream included sex with Colleen,  First time in ages that I can remember.  Wonder
      what that means.  Aside from missing her.  Wonder whether the 2-person tub has
      anything to do with it.
    % could probably close my eyes and sleep for another hour.  Won't.
    % ridge of irritated skin behind R knee.  Better not use the brace today.
  * abiraterone 07:11; rest of am drugs 8:15ish; pm drugs 21:55
  * H2O: ??:c(press), ??:c(bag), 21:05, 
  % developing a muscle knot in my L thigh.  Just what I need.
  @ N went to cat world - Avonturia
  * I can haz chair.  A nice deep gold color.  not perfect, but it'll do.
  % 21:04 now the knot is in my L shoulder.
  % 21:59 500mg acetaminophen, for shoulder pain - next dose not before 4am

1016We
  & awake 3ish maybe?
  * up 6:15; S=7:44; 
  * abiraterone 6:16; rest of am drugs 07:20; pm drugs
  * H2O: 08:13, 11ish:c(partial), 12ish:c, 18:18, 
  * SL:  dishwasher gel, washer _sheets_  -> one each (to try) from $A, here tomorrow
  % knee problems have migrated to the L knee -- applied brace
  : WEIRD.  Web doesn't work on unsable, but some other internet protocols appear to work.
    Web works on Raven, which is going through the access point upstairs.
    -> try connecting via WiFi. -> doesn't work.
    -> reboot -> appears to have worked.
    -> WiFi connection still too weak, which is odd because it works fine on Raven
    -> I think I updated the kernel but didn't reboot, or something like that.
  * again trying to configure the TP-Link RE365 as an access point.  It seems to be
    working, but as a router not a bridge -- unsable has an IP address of 192.168.1.2/24
    and can't access the RE365, which I configured as 0.251.
    -> I may have to give up on TP-link, especially if I can't also configure the Archer
    -> The router is an Archer C50 version 6, which isn't supported by OpenWrt or DD-Wrt
  * walk over to Wateringen to look around, hit the grocery stores
    * SL:  Jumbo. applejuice for N, pepper, olive oil,  ~ ginger jam (see below)
    & tripped on the way back.  very strange -- leaned forward (don't know why), then
      couldn't run fast enough to keep my feet under me.  Slighty scraped; N will monitor.
      -> the ginger jam was the only thing in a breakable bottle, so of course it did.
      -> trashed one of my only two remaining BECU Chico bags.  Because glass.
    * walk:  150min, 9850st, 6.4km, 4mi; 31hp, 131mm,  NOTE:  notation change
  % note:  when I have headphones on, I absolutely cannot hear the (LOUD) door buzzer.
    : the stepladder (the arrival of which I did not hear) is bigger and heavier than I
      expected.  For _my_ purposes, it's a _two_ step ladder with a tool platform.  No way
      am I getting on the top step.
  % 17:59 now sitting on the yellow chair while N takes a float.
    -> I need to try the tub sometime -- it's spectacular.
  & long conversation with N about the garbage bins; she's contacting Ceva,  It may (or
    may not) be more complicated than I thought.  I may have to re-sort everything in the
    yellow-lidded can,  Ugh.  Ceva's reply wasn't too helpful,  I'll find out more tomorrow
    -> tonight (glass, metal, drink containers) nobody's put out containers. (they fill up
       slowly).  Some people have black-lidded containers for generic trash.  those
       haven't been put out either,
  @ Hidden Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music Evolved | Scientific American
  * bring up to BR:  lap desk, laundry hamper

1017Th
  & awake 6:40; S=7:00;
  * up 9:15; no mask, S~=9ish; ... Dutch
  * abiraterone 06:49=5; rest of am drugs 09:17; pm drugs 22:50
  * H2O: ??:c, ??:c, ??, 20:02, 
  % a little pain (3-4) in my L wrist, which took a lot of my weight whan I fell yesterday
  & pictures of the recycling bins, plus the ones at the end of the block, for Ceva
    But it's clear to me that I've been doing it wrong.
  % I'm not assertive enough, don't trust my own judgement enough, and rely too much on
    what other people tell me.
  : lower-right corner of my phone case is abraded, and the glass is slightly cracked.
    Must have happened yesterday when I fell.  Well, I need a new phone anyway.
  : our BSNs (Dutch near-equivalent of SSN) finally arrived in the mail.
  : Network weirdness:  I can ssh between raven and unsable if they're on the same access
    point (the TP-Link downstairs).  The domain is .home rather than .local.  Feh!
    -> doesn't work between the low and high bands, though.  Growf
    -> Not going to deal with it now; it's enough to know that I can do it if I need to.
  ~ 18:00 CET Eurofilk 

1018Fr
  * up  05:08; S=5:57
    : no house internet.  1 month since we closed??  pretty close.
    : ISP deltanetwerk.nl -> caiway.nl +31118225547 (note: dial 0 for +)
  * abiraterone 05:08; rest of am drugs 06:22; pm drugs
  * H2O: ??:c; 15:00
  * attempted to sign up with Delta/Caiway  -> needs Dutch bank account, of course
  * am:  -Go out- _sit down_ with N and get bank accounts -> Bunq.
    -> I found the identity check process very stressful because it apparently completed
       without telling me it did, and kept sending me back to start.
    % thoroughly wiped out
  : 17:35 internet misbehaving -- staying off until after N's hearing and hoping I haven't
    hit some kind of daily limit.
  * guitar:  Millennium's Dawn, Freight Train, Desolation Row (about 2 verses each)
  : an unimaginable amount of Stuff arrived in the evening,  If I'd known I might have
    added to it with "get it tomorrow" stuff.  Just as wel I didn't.
    % usually I can handle this stuff easily; I think I'm still partly broken from the
      fall Wednesday and the internet/banking pile-up today
  % my lower back is starting to complain.  N says to stop unpacking things.  it's HARD
  * ~9:30pm:  N's hearing about name change (and NYC bureaucratic insanity). cf Kafka
  % 22:50 sleepy, cold.  Reading Solaris.

1019Sa
  & awake 3:30ish?
  * up 09:30; S=8:20; ... Dutch
  * abiraterone 09:35; rest of am drugs 10:36; pm drugs 21:00ish;
  @ Amazon.nl: vidaXL: solid wood
  * H2O: 10??:c, 13:41, 14:45:c; most of a bottle; 
  * noon j coming over  -> pasta for dinner
    ; should have gotten leftover containers, wooden spoons.
  * SL:  Flink:  butter,  & cashews, bread, etc.
  @ How to change your number in Signal without losing your chats
  @ All IVAR parts. Buy Online & In-store! - IKEA
  * (me, N, and j) disassemble the semi-loft bed in G's office and put in attic;
  : (N, j) move mattresses from 2nd fl. into the bedrooms on the first floor
  * SL:  * kleenex,  * honey ginger crystals,  (iron glycinate;  DI water for CPAP) later
  ~ (N) bring up to BR:  towel (for shower upstairs)
    -> current arrangement has the bed parallel to the long direction of the room with the
       head against the RH wal (as seen from the door), because that's where the outlets
       and ethernet are located.  There's good clearance on both sides.  There are windows
       all along the far wall, and radiators along most of it.  Could put the head of the
       bed toward that wall only if it has a pretty solid headboard.
  * SL:  toothbrush
  % gave up trying to get to sleep at 23:30.  Will try again ~00:30.

Comments

[teddywolf]

I hope the Internet issues become less frustrating in short order.

[mdlbear]

Thanks! Install is scheduled for Nov. 15. Easy date to Remember.