mdlbear | Done Since 2024-12-15 (Reply)

Well, happy sun-return to those who celebrate it (and even to those who don't). I meant to make a Solstice post yesterday, but I hardly ever follow through on anything and that was no exception.

Still not practicing nearly enough, but I went out for a walk Thursday, registered for health insurance (which I should have done over a month ago), set up DigID, got our DAFT business registered, and have been exercising a little in the mornings. Still letting things fall through the cracks, and very down on myself. Getting anything done is hard, which includes getting out of bed most mornings. (I have to be a little more careful about how I do that, too -- Bronx bit my toe Tuesday morning because I was letting it dangle over the side too long while I was trying to convince myself to get up. Cat.)

A few good things happened: our living room couch arrived Monday, which was good. It's in sections, and I'm refraining from putting the big pieces together until I'm sure it's not going to have to be moved. A very lovely dark green. The living room is, gradually, getting organized. And I had a very nice video call with E Thursday morning (Wednesday night for her), as she was setting up for a household solstice party (Thursday is her day off).

Hit an unexpected emotional land mine yesterday singing Paper Wings. That's not a bad thing at all.

If you need a quick cheat sheet for the command line, go to tldr: 📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands. There's a another one at cheat.sh.

Check out Conway's Game of Life as a Musical Instrument and watch out for rabbit holes. Speaking of rabbit holes, also be careful around Quanta's The Unraveling of ‍Space-Time

Notes & links:
1215Su * sift litter boxen
& awake 3:30ish - very dry mouth -> put water in CPAP
* up 7am; ; Dutch, dishes
* abiraterone 7:05; rest of am drugs 09:10; pm drugs 21:14
* 15min: oiled the bamboo cutting boards and wooden utensils. (except one spoon that
had to be washed). "cutting board oil" -- basically just mineral oil.
@ tldr: 📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands (via Hackaday)
cheat.sh: the only cheat sheet you need
* singing: october-country riverheart ... guitar:paper-wings:
@ Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views,
harassment | TechCrunch Don't bother reading the comments
@ Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove
Surveillance Capitalism Wrong | WIRED
@ Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton
@ She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax | WIRED
% cold. It's 21,5 in here -- I shouldn't be that cold
: the Thinkplus earphones are flaky. I couldn't get Zoom to talk to them. Foo,
* caught Jen Midkiff's concert on FotLR. Ended at 11pm, so that was it.
" It's all right not to be all right " - line from one of her songs.

1216Mo * sift litter boxen (N")
& awake 3ish?
* up 6am; ; dishes
* abiraterone 6am; rest of am drugs 07:06; pm drugs 17:37
* couch due btw. 8:30 and 11. N is sitting outside to watch for it -> arrived ~9:45
Needs to be put together. The ends attach with long screws; the couch and the chaise
sections attach with two-part fasteners. Attaching anything to the couch section
means pulling out the trundle and setting it on its back, which we don't really have
room for, and besides I want to make sure it actually gets into its final position
before putting it together and making it much harder to move. Not worried.
" DEURBEL -- Houd de knop twee seconden ingedrukt. " (label for the doorbell button)
* 10am (housekeeper)N"
* 15min: take off the zipties and bolts fastening the two cat carriers in the LR.
* 15min: (later) disassemble the one in the bike room and re-stack all of them.
@ Nanorobot hand made of DNA grabs viruses for diagnostics and blocks cell entry |
Department of Chemistry | Illinois Impressive, but the headline is mostly clickbait
* load drugs

1217Tu * sift litter boxen
* up 5:30ish;
* abiraterone 5:40ish; rest of am drugs 06:50ish; pm drugs 10ish
% Bronx bit my toe while it was dangling off the edge of the bed. Cat.
@ Time for tech firms to act: UK online safety regulation comes into force - Ofcom
* 08:00-10:00 car delivery window
* 15min: lowered shelf in the bamboo shelf unit to make all heights even -- I wasn't
using the extra headroom on the bottom shelf, and wanted more space for bins
~ call Vattenfall about getting a charge card. After finally getting through to a
human, they said they'd pass me over to someone in the InCharge group; then when they
couldn't connect said they'd leave a message to call me back. Didn't happen.
-> Finally the first person called me back at around 15:40
* Apply for InCharge card for charging car. Ordeal. Had to use DDG to find the FAQs,
which were in English, only to find that the link to the request form was /# -- had to
go back to find the Dutch version. _might_ have gotten it done.
-> supposed to get a login link for the website, but that hasn't happened yet
: BT earcuffs, or sable, suddenly forgot about stereo, and Sable would only recognize
them as a mono headset, which Firefox wouldn't talk to at all. Some combination of
disconnecting, forgetting, and reconnecting finally worked. So far.
! anxiety. not a full-on attack, but close. May have caught it in time.
* guitar: bits of things... Bad Guys
@ If You’re Planning to Leave Trump’s America, Don’t Come To Europe | by Mona Lazar
* need in bedroom: wet cat food, batteries for mouse -> staged.
% most likely reasons for cold would be not enough sleep or not enough hydration
Could also be sleep cycle out of sync.
* 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 Pacific) Healing Center Passages support group

1218We * sift litter boxen
& awake 4:45ish - wakened by Bronx kneeding my stomach.
* up 8ish; ;
* abiraterone 5ish; rest of am drugs 8ish; pm drugs 20ish
@ How to Reduce Your Taxes as a Working Musician - InSync
* register business. Partnership; N's email and phone are the official ones; two names
-- HyperSpace Express hyperspace-express.com and Colleen's Closet colleens-closet.nl
@ What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do? Bernoulli numbers. It had loops.
@ Never Forgive Them
long, angry rant by Ed Zitron against what he calls the Rot Economy
: Our little black carlet has been named Scarlett
* 2min: activate DigiD app. Basically an authenticator app; gives you a code when you
use it to log in on a Dutch official site. Knows stuff that auto-fills on the site
@ The ultimate guide to setting up your DigiD in the Netherlands 2024

1219Th * sift litter boxen 22ish because I fell down a rabbit hole
& awake 4:50ish
* up 6:50ish;
* abiraterone 6:50ish; coffee; rest of am drugs 07:50; ...coffee; pm drugs 21:49
% went out to use the bathroom; G was there -- I'd gotten up later than usual -- so I
went downstairs and routine took over.
@ Conway's Game of Life as a Musical Instrument - YouTube
* 10ish expect call from E -> actually started at 9:24 and went for 2 hours.
Good conversation. Lots of SCA news, cookies, latkes in an air fryer, cats, etc.
$ C €55 via PayPal to Sib for DFDF
* Register for health insurance - VGZ.nl
: We have final artwork for the Colleen's Closet logo.
* 2min: trimmed my L eyebrow. Probably got it a little too short; maybe it'll grow out.
It's been getting into my field of view and threatening to get into my eye. So...
@ A new microbead proves effective as a plastic-free skin scrubber
: lenovo headset suddenly stopped being recognized as a stereo output device.
* walk: to Erasmusweg, 1.2km, 20min round trip. 12hp, 30mm, s=1750.
did not go to the bus stop, which would have been a little more.
Wore yellow down jacket with black LE vest under it. Cane->Should have taken gloves

1220Fr * sift litter boxen
& awake 1:30, (no sleep) 5am
% nice dream - I was about to get laid at a con. Post-Colleen, post-cancer; nice.
woken up by a cat, IIRC. Probably just as well.
* up 9am; ;
* abiraterone 5ish; rest of am drugs 09:01, coffee; 11:08 coffee; pm drugs 9ish?
: the thinkplus headset is weird and Linux is inconsistent about which profiles it sees
Sable seems to have no trouble with the Thinkpad keyboard, though, so it can be
trivially switched between Sable and Centraal
* updated mailing address for SSA -- complicated by having to set up login.gov.
* guitar: paper-wings

1221Sa * sift litter boxen; Solstice
@ Winter solstice - Wikipedia
& awake 3:30ish
* up 5:30ish; ; Dutch,
* abiraterone 5:30ish; rest of am drugs 06:51; 2*coffee,; pm drugs
* singing: Paper Wings. Some rough guitar spots (I doubt my chords in places), and I
% choked up badly from the end of the third verse (paper dragons watch her bed) on.
Dry sobs afterward. Don't know why, but presumably I needed it.
later: Stolen Child, Cap and Bells
@ The Unbelievable Story of the Carol of the Bells - YouTube
starting with a totally unrelated Ukrainian song.
@ Research team discovers seven new dark comets, identifies 2 types based on orbit and
size | NSF - National Science Foundation
@ The Unraveling of ‍Space-Time | Quanta
@ The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature | Quanta octonions
@ The Proper Way to Clean Your Eyes - Laurier Optical | Innes Eye Clinic
" Start from the inside: Wipe from the inner corner of your eye towards the outer
corner, using a clean section of the cloth or tissue for each eye. This prevents the
potential spread of dirt or bacteria from one eye to the other. "
@ Holland vs the Netherlands(G)
* out shopping with N in Scarlett. N driving -- I'm not sure I'm going to be up for it
except for practice and emergencies
@ The Traumatic Loss of a Loved One Is Like Experiencing a Brain Injury | Discover
@ AI Has Officially Hit A Dead End - by Will Lockett
% 21:23 lower back pain, increasingl in severity over the last hour or so
I'm also mis-interpreting unexplained sounds as cat sounds, which is weird
: The longest night, or close to it. Maybe it was last night.