Done Since 2025-02-02

[mdlbear]

So this week I thought to look up "anxiety chills" (and related topics - I have no way to tell whether it would be better to call it "tension", nor whether it matters). Turns out they're a thing, which explains why I've felt cold almost every evening since November, despite the house thermostat being set to 21.5. (Tt does not explain whether this is due to being in here in NL or to the ongoing coup in the US, but I'm guessing mostly the latter. Although not having my health insurance settled yet has got to be contributing something.)

I finally got around to updating the HyperSpace Express website -- the last edits were in 2018, and a lot of water's gone under the bridge since then. No new products, though -- Coffee, Computers, and Song! was released in 2007. And I finished getting the Colleen's Closet site up. Both need a lot more work to make them more attractive and more useful (which of course requires being able to list products, and sell them, though that detail may be handled by linking out to a site like Bandcamp or Etsy, especially at first).

We had a couple of good practice sessions, some of which paid off when N and m were in the open filking last night at Contabile 35. It's in Norwich, so of course one of the things they sang was "Bells of Norwich". I also dropped in on Eurofilk, the local zoomcon, but only sang one song.

I always have trouble thinking of what to sing. This time I asked for a suggestion, and got WItC. I really have more songs than I can usually think of singing. Which is a little weird. I'm not sure my brain's been working all that well lately. (And I know my hearing isn't -- it's hereditary and progressive, currently cutting off somewhere between 5 and 6kHz. Last night I didn't hear the microwave's chime when I was standing right next to it.)

Aside from that not much is happening. My list of "things I'm still looking for after the move" is shortening somewhat, after having pawed through a couple more boxes. That includes my collection of fountain pens (which I hardly ever use, but still...).

Notes & links:
0203Su  Oimelc  * sift litter boxen
  @ Oimelc (as observed in RDNA)
  & awake 3:30ish
  * up 6am; W=90; dishes, Dutch,
    % Bronx curled up over my head.  He was very insistant that I get up, but gentle.
  * drugs:  first am x; rest am 07:12; coffee; pm 18:58
  @ Cat Meme Of The Decade - Cheezburger has a lot of my favorites
  @ Federal websites scrub vaccine data and LGBT references after Trump order
  * crochet.  just a couple of inches of chain.  Having a lot of trouble holding stuff.
    Better than last time, though.
  @ BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across
    all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

0203Mo  * top up litter boxen (N"; just add the half-bag that's up there)
  & awake 3ish, 5ish
  * up 7am; ; Dutch
  * drugs:  first am 08:33; rest am 08:33; 2*coffee; pm 8:30ish
  * 10am (housekeeper)N"
  @ Platypus venom paves way to possible diabetes treatment - BBC News ozempic et. al.
  @ 'This is a five-alarm fire': Experts pounce on Musk's new 'grave national security
    threat' - Raw Story
  @ Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system - WaPo
    'This is a five-alarm fire': Experts pounce on Musk's new 'grave national security
    threat' - Raw Story
  @ The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover | WIRED
  @ Follow the Money - by Jonathan V. Last - The Bulwark
    " I suspect that the markets do not quite understand the gravity of our situation
      because they have never seen anything like it in a first-world country. They have
      never witnessed a global hegemon attempt suicide. "
  @ The fastest energy change in history continues – pv magazine International
  @ RFC 7725: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
  @ Matthew Sheffield: "🧵 The world is on fire. Chaos …" - Indieweb.Social
    The Apocalypse of Don: Trump, Nietzsche, and Antichrist America
  @ List of products from the United States subject to 25 per cent tariffs effective
    February 4, 2025 - Canada.ca
  @ Odin Halvorson: "* "When the Patriot Act was passed …" - Indieweb.Social
    " libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history.
      * We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for
        that reason.
      * "We figured, what's the fun in just telling them there's nothing? What the feds
        always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause. "
  : Found the Ox Box
  @ Departing the New York Times - by Paul Krugman
  @ Prepare for Implosion, or, This is America’s Brexit Moment | by umair haque
  @ Alienating the right people | Go Make Things
  % something painful in R eye.  Growf!
  @ 69 'Buy It for Life' Products: Cast-Iron, Tools, Speakers, Chairs, etc. | WIRED
    I/we have several of these.
  * load drugs - prednisone every third day for another week, then stop
    yesterday and today were skipped, so start tomorrow.  

0204Tu  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3am; give up 04 am; laptop; down 5; never got back to sleep
    % Ticia woke me by scratching at my head.  night sweat?  -> changed bottom sheet.
    -> 5-7am Bronx and my breathing kept me up. 
  * up 7am; ; Dutch
  * drugs:  first am x; rest am 07:42; 2*coffee; pm 20:50
  @ Dutch privacy watchdog warns about uploading info to DeepSeek - DutchNews.nl
  @ Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk - Bert Hubert's writings
  @ Prostate cancer - today's featured article in Wikipedia
  @ Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space - phiresky's blog (andrewducker)
    % Mom would have loved this
  @ Elon Musk’s Effort to Control the Treasury Payment System Is Dangerous
  @ China imposes 15% tariffs on coal, LNG in response to Trump's tariffs | AP News
  @ Trump faces sudden wave of resistance from Congress' fuming Democrats
  * singing: w\ m warmup, album planning (also with N), Ship of Stone
    -> recorded with the zoom H2.  not enough gain.  see /vv/users/record/2025/
    -> I note with dismay that the previous entry under record was 2022/06-OrECon-2/
  * guitar:  working on Ship of Stone and a few other things, mainly with F chords
  * 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 Pacific) Healing Center Passages support group - 1st, 3rd Tu
  % 21:49 sleepy.  Almost bedtime.

0205We  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3am; give up 04 am; down 5 never got back to sleep
    % Ticia woke me by scratching at my head.  night sweat?  -> changed bottom sheet.
  * up 7am; W=90.2; Dutch
  : 08:23 Bronx is a lap-cat!!  How did I not notice this before?  When can I get my
    coffee?  Note: he snores.
  * drugs:  first am 09:23; rest am 09:23; pm 23:06
  * set alarms for 15:55 and 19:55
  @ Suspension of Inbound Parcels from China and Hong Kong - About.usps.com
    service resumed after a few hours, but SHEESH!
  : Jumbo's hot salsa would have been rated mild in CA and _maybe_ medium in Seattle
  @ Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
  @ A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
    Unpacking claims that Elon Musk and his DOGE team secured access to Treasury payment
    systems | Snopes.com -> true
  @ What we know about nationwide anti-Trump protests on Feb. 5 | Snopes.com
  @ Trump's Treasury sued after DOGE reportedly accesses sensitive data
  * 16:00 (4pm = 10am EST) Jerad zoom call
    *- R's student loan (w\ DOE destruction)
    *- how much news is he getting?
    -> rebalancing 5% from equities to hedged equities, gold, etc.
  & more letters from (health ins)VGZ asking for results from (soc. sec.)SVB.
    -> trouble with scanner,  Finally it worked.  No idea why.
    -> scanned, tried to round up all relevant letters.  Will email to Elles in morning
  % _extremely_ out of it.  Eating may help, or may not.
  * 20:00 - 21:30 (11am-12:30pm) Virginia Mason Living With Cancer support grp 1st, 3rd We
    -> boring.  May drop out
  * 22:00 set out PMD bin

0206Th  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3ish
  * up 6:30ish; ; Dutch
  * drugs:  first am x; rest am 07:57; 2*coffee; pm
  * early:  N and m take the train for Contabile (gone by the time I got out of bed)
  & Bronx in my lap for a while before getting dressed and after doing the litter
  * email Elles about health insurance
  @ The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis
  @ Subject: Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries
  * 12:30 - 15:30 N+G's bed. -> showed up at 12:15, left 12:55.
  @ CNN · 2d ‘Am I now a walking target?’: The Canadians boycotting travel to the United
    States because of Trump By Vivian Song
  @ Millions of Accounts Vulnerable due to Google’s OAuth Flaw ◆ Truffle Security Co.
  @ A Log Cabin Quilt Like Ricky Has Never Seen Before - The Quilt Show Quilting Blog
  * 15min:  uncovered another piece of curtain.
  * guitar: Ship of Stone - nice clean F's both with and without capo.  Progress!
  * 18:00 Eurofilk
    singing:  World Inside the Crystal, 
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record : Luca Messarra

0207Fr  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 2ish?
  * up 6:30; ; Dutch
  * drugs:  first am 08:48; coffee; rest am 08:48; pm 20:40ish
  * 2min:  one slice of French toast for lunch  <- stomach a little queasy
  % add "insecure" to stuff-I'm-feeling-now
  @ Ada Palmer: LGBTQIA+
    As we resist those who claim diversity distorts scholarship, let’s run through the
    acronym & show how easy it is to find the rainbow in every era
  @ Attorney General Bonta and Coalition of 14 Attorneys General Release Statement on
    DOGE Access to Sensitive Personal Information | State of California - Department of
    Justice - Office of the Attorney General
  @ GovWayback Access historical versions of
    U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 with a simple URL change.
    Take any .gov URL and add wayback.com right after .gov, and you'll be redirected to
    the Wayback Machine's archived version of the page.
  @ U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts - WaPo
  @ Of course it’s a coup - by Timothy Snyder
  
0208Sa  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3:50
  * up 5:30; ;
  % about an hour with Bronx in my lap, catching up on my tabs.  (Not tabbies--B is Bombay)
  * drugs:  first am x; rest am 07:18; 2*coffee; pm 19:40
  * 15min:  delved into the half-empty box labeled "mugs and clothes", found pens
  % back pain -> 440mg naproxen 07:23.  heat.
  @ Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt
    industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
  : song idea "Comfort Food and Tears"
  @ Everything Trump did this week, from USAID to latest with DOGE : NPR
  * remove GS contact form -- useless
  * update HSX webpage
  * make a start on Colleen's Closet
  @ Everybody In America Is Female
  @ siderea | If it's not one dam thing its another [civ eng] beavers.  link to YT
  @ Microchip company ceases operations, pet owners urged to re-register - CBS

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[mdlbear]

Took me a long time to put the pieces together. Fifteen or so years after I first started having them. The difference is that they used to last only an hour or so.

I need a userpic for this stuff. Maybe several more, because I'm not sure what "this" is yet.