Done Since 2024-11-17

[mdlbear]

As usual, I don't seem to have gotten much done. Or, rather, I've been keeping busy with things like organizing my desk, tidying the living room, and taking out the trash, while mostly avoiding important things that I've been neglecting for weeks. (I've gotten a few middling-important things done, like fixing the downstairs access point, setting up a print server and household file server, and putting together quite a lot of furniture (and cleaning up the packaging it came in), And at slightly higher priority, going to Amsterdam with N to pick up my residence permit and look at enclosed, 2-person "scooters".)

I'm trying to get back into good habits like brushing my teeth and practicing guitar, with only slight success so far. Though I suppose I have to acknowledge that this week is a considerable improvement over last week. At least I'm logging them, so I can keep track. You can too, though I doubt anyone is.

I'm going to have to have Words with my American banks on Monday, following an unsuccessful attempt to wire some money to E for a car repair. (In fairness, US Bank did try to call me -- at 23:20 CET, by which time I was already in bed and on a different floor from my American phone.) Meanwhile my Dutch bank, which exists entirely online, continues to function perfectly while completely weirding me out. You want me to do what on my phone? I may be showing my age.

Notes & links:
1117Su  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3:30
  * up 7:30; ; 
  * abiraterone 7:30; rest of am drugs 08:43; pm drugs 21:27
  @ I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral
    The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
  * 15min;  3 bags of garbage, including the (very heavy) one from my room.
    -> do not bag more than a wee's worth of litter -- scoopings and _one_ change.
  : the mail receptacle door is stuck.  Something pushed it in too far. (G fixed it)
  @ Ontario calls for more inspections at U.S. border to stop gun trafficking after
    shooting in Toronto - The Globe and Mail
  @ Issue 70 – The Cryptocurrency States of America
  % suddenly missing my parents.  Being able to _call_ my parents.  I could call my
    brother or my kids, but it's not the same.
  % 21:07 I'm just sitting here being cold.  I should go upstairs.

1118Mo  * litter boxen
  & awake 3:30ish;
  * up 7ish; S=7:38; 
  * abiraterone 07:15; rest of am drugs; pm drugs 20:34
  @ Laundry and Taxes | Naomi Hinchen <3
  : It's quiet in the morning around 9am, so that's a good time for recording
  @ solarbird | i’m not trying to convince any americans today
  * guitar;  Wildwood flower (in G)
  @ lb_lee | Marzicastella's Pre-Trump Prep List!
  @ How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world
  @ Em :official_verified:: "Tiny Mastodon AND Privacy Tips…"
  * set up UA25 and Rode mics; experiment with Audacity and Zoom.  Appears to work but
    Audacity doesn't seem to understand the input, and not clear wtf the sample rate is.
    Pipewire is screwing things up; it seems to have taken over the input.
    -> set up (or attempt to set up) pulseaudio  -> helps a little
  * (with N) construct cat tree for Brooklyn in MBR
  @ solarbird | something about barn doors and escaped horses, but also fediverse
  * 2min:  bring drugs downstairs so I can...
  * re-load doxazosin, and then...
  * re-load drugs
  * dishes

1119Tu   * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3:30ish
  * up 7:30ish; ; (minimal)exercises, Dutch
    % woke with the 7am alarm but didn't get out of bed until going-on-8.  Depression?
  * abiraterone o7:30ish; rest of am drugs 08:24; pm drugs 20:45
  * re-load fish oil
  @ Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) - Cory Doctorow
  @ Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow process!
    " I'd long been a fan of the POSSE – Post Own Site, Share Everywhere – ethic, the idea
      that your work lives on platforms you control, but that it travels to meet your
      readers wherever they are. "
  @ Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog • The Register
  @ Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion bans - WyoFile
  * 15min:  cleaning and puttering
  * 15min:  set up Centraal as a print server -- utterly trivial.
  Your black plastic spatula could be slowly poisoning you, study says. Here’s what to do
  | The Seattle Times flame retardants in recycled plastics.
  * 14:30 start laundry.  Should be ready for dryer in about 3 hours
  * 4ish take bath (N will be out around then)
  * activate DigID
  * 16:49ish transfer laundry into dryer  (a little sooner than I expected.  Done in 3h)
  @ Debbie's Unofficial Guide To Bluesky - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish
  @ What is Bluesky? Does the hot new Twitter alternative live up to the hype? | Vox
  * 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 Pacific) Healing Center Passages support group
  * pick up hopefully-dried laundry
  * finish loading dishwasher; 4-hour eco cycle as usual.
  @ Saber-toothed ‘kitten’ mummy unearthed in Siberia is first of its kind | CNN
  @ ‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website | WIRED

1120We   * sift litter boxen   Transgender Day of Remembrance
  @ Transgender Day of Remembrance
    Transgender Day of Remembrance - Wikipedia
  & awake 2:30ish
  * up 5:30ish; 
  * abiraterone 5:30ish; rest of am drugs 06:53; pm drugs 21:44
  @ The secret Jewish history of 'Alice's Restaurant'
  @ Getting Up to Speed on Bluesky | School Library Journal
  % 07:44 been feeling sleepy -- or something like that -- all morning.
  @ Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute (jesse_the_k)
  @ Shell Is Closing 1,000 Gas Stations To Focus On EV Charging
  @ Efficient Aerial Water Harvesting with Self-Sensing Dynamic Janus Crystals | JACS
    (ysabetwordsmith
  @ Fully committed to electric driving | Vattenfall InCharge
  * 11-11:30 uber to Den Haag HS, intrcity train to Amsterdam
    start with Mango Mobility to look at scooters.  They only had one model, the newest
    from Move, with delivery dates starting in January.
  * 15:30 IND Amsterdam for residence permit  
      IND-loket Amsterdam / Pieter Calandlaan 1 / 1065 KH Amsterdam
  * walks:  combined: 35m, 12hp; day: s=7138.  apparently you czn't go back and retrieve
    distance walked, at least not in the app.  Took cane, which still didn't keep me from
    walking a little faster than N could handle at times, but did get me a seat on the
    tram a couple of times.
  % 21:59 sleepy and unproductive

1121Th   * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3:30ish??
  * up 7am (alarm); S=8:00; teeth... Dutch... dishes
  * abiraterone 7:15; rest of am drugs 09:37; pm drugs
  @ Robot Manufacturer Has 12 Robots ‘Kidnapped’ from Showroom by Another Robot
  @ Truly portable C applications
    Cosmopolitan Libc: build-anywhere run-anywhere C library
  : Our Toshiba air purifier arrived.  Bronx doesn't seem to know what to think of it.
    The user's manual is in English and Italian.  It claims that the plug is polarized,
    which it clearly is not -- ordinary 2-wire Euro plug.  Left over from the U/S version,
  : Ticia and Bronx have been down in the LR with me for most of the day.  Bronx is curled
    up on the yellow chair and hasn't moved; Ticia is parked on G's suitcase most of the
    time but tends to get up when I do, presumably to make sure she can follow me upstairs
    if I decided to go that way.  She seems pretty good about staying out of the cat-lock.
  * guitar:  Millennium's Dawn, Freight Train.  Have to get those fingers back in shape.

1122Fr   * change litter boxen
  & awake sometime before midnight
  * up 5:30ish; ; teeth, Dutch, 
    : the litter, even after sifting, was full of small bits.  Decided to change it.
      should have been topped up, at least, a couple of days ago.
  : It seems Ticia has taken to sleeping on the next-highest platform of the cat tree
  * abiraterone 5:30ish; rest of am drugs 8ish?; pm drugs
  @ Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink
  * 15min:  mount mirror-vv partition on centraal:/vv.  Pull users/steve/Private.
  @ 5 Fun Facts to Celebrate Fibonacci Day | COMSOL Blog
    (via The Sunflower: Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio in Full Bloom - EPOD - a service of USRA)
    Fibonacci sequence
  * chair hauled up and installed in sewing room
  * 15:46 catbox box assembled and in place in my room
    Bronx almost smuggled himself out in the empty box.
  * singing:  Desolation Row.  no capo, sung (unsuccessfully) at both ends of my range
  * 18:00 interview with potential housecleaners
  * reconfigure the downstairs TP-Link router as access point.  Just works.  Has an
    address configured by the house router's DHCP, but okay.  It works.  Ethernet and
    mdns (bonjour) both work fine.  No way to set its node name, but that's minor.  It's
    tplinkwifi.net, at least from its wifi.  Good enough.

1123Sa   * litter boxen   Fibonacci Day (1 1 2 3...)
  & awake 2ish
  * up 6:30ish
  * abiraterone 07:11; rest of am drugs 08:17; pm drugs ??
  % current earworm:  Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
  * N and G going to Leiden - G to buy a bike, N to visit j
    N may or may not be back that eveing.
  : USBank didn't send my wire to E, and my login is disabled. call  +1-800-872-2657
    during business hours 6am-midnight central time -- reference # 812256
    Apparently they called me, but that was 23:18 my time and I was upstairs in bed
    -> the first time I called: 8:32, I failed to get through the voicemail maze
    -> the second time, 13:48, the call was dropped, with a message about business hours
    -> the third time, I was told that the only person who can help me is the person who
       called me last night -> Jenn, 971-703-5560
    -> maybe I should take my US phone upstairs with me at night?
  *  singing:  Eyes Like the Morning (off book) - LH fingers hurting quite a lot
  * 15min:  break foam packing into pieces small enough to fit the trasb receptacle
    (measured at  ~48cm long x 45cm diameter -- use folding tables as a rough template.)
  @ Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in Unprecedented Hack
  * 2min: leave a couple of Whidbey Island FB groups
  % 19:57 cold and unproductive -- throw blanket (worn as cape) helps a little