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mdlbearI should probably track my mood better. Then when I look back over the week on Sunday I'd have more to say about it. Not likely to happen. So it was a week. Still mostly worried about health insurance, and feeling somewhat out of place. Of course, that last is probably because I am out of place. Out of the US, to be sure; but I'd be feeling out of place there as well, given the ongoing coup. The words "exile" and "refugee" come to mind. I'm just a little ahead in the crowd.
I just replaced the mood field on this post with "insecure". The previous value was "stressed, worried, depressed", and that still applies, but "insecure" mostly covers that and feels like it belongs there. Right up there with "exile" and "refugee". I don't think that will change in what's left of my lifetime. I'd love to be wrong.
Meanwhile our cats were checked over by a vet who makes house calls, and the older two got their arthritis shots. And I discovered, somewhat to my surprise, that Bronx makes a pretty good lap cat! Not as good as Desti was -- he sometimes needs a little encouragement. But he's still a bit of a youngster.
As usual, it doesn't feel as though I did much over the week, but that's partly because I don't usually think to count dishes, laundry, and paperwork. The paperwork was especially arduous. Anxiety also takes energy, and there was a lot of it.
Yesterday N gave me a couple of field guides to Scotland's wild haggis, which naturally sent me off on a search for rhinogrades. Much more under Saturday. Enjoy.
Notes & links: 0216Su * sift litter boxen; & awake 3ish; spent much of the night fending off Bronx * up 7:30 (alarm); S=8:58, W=91.4; dishes, Dutch (w\ notes!), * drugs: first am 07:57; rest am 07:58; 2*coffee; pm * HMM: use a fountain pen to record/practice difficult words/phrases in DuoLingo @ Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship @ ysabetwordsmith | Losing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau good links ysabetwordsmith | Climate Change more good links - actions you can take From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world | Environment | The Guardian @ 40+ sources of news and information for the US in 2025 @ Hershey Fonts: Not Chocolate, The Origin Of Vector Lettering | Hackaday This one's from my ancient history. I wrote programs in the early 60s using these. % R leg (calf muscle) pain. -> heat. @ RFK Jr. could shake up vaccine advisers to CDC : Shots - Health News : NPR @ From Seattle to the Okanogan, ‘tax the rich’ is stirring | The Seattle Times & 17:38 440mg naproxen . register Cricket's chip (chaos in cat-chipping business) -> G has an inquiry in to Starwood to find out if they're already registered in EU % 21:42 frozen (not so much cold as decision paralysis) * 22:00 take out cardboard and paper for recycling 0217Mo * change litter boxen (N") new bag & awake 4:30ish; never did get back to sleep. Quieted Bronx (somewhat) by petting him when he was sitting on my pillow. I think the nips are just calling for attention. Sorry; my Feline is almost as bad as my Dutch * up 5:30ish; ; Dutch; * drugs: first am x; rest am 06:48; pm 20:53 & went up to grab the "extra meds" bag and turn on the air filter; wound up with a Bronx on my lap for most of the next hour while I caught up with social media (S/M?) and did my Duolingo lessons. : cardboard and paper recycling : 08:59 breaker#2 abruptly tripped -- that's the one in the utility closet. So no internet until the router reboots. @ Target drops DEI initiatives and learns there are harsh consequences @ All Kindles can now be jailbroken : kindle @ Will the Supreme Court constrain the wild Trump? tl;dr probably not @ Yarn Scrap Projects - Never Ending Hyperbolic Mobius Crochet Tutorial - Less Waste @ GitHub - ...BulkKindleUSBDownloader: Quick script to download all you Kindle ebooks @ The Real Stonewall Monument " Fear not! The National Pride Service is here to help! " w\ links to archived videos @ Stress relief robot developed in Japan mimics soothing cat bunting * call KvK " You can also add a partnership agreement to your KVK registration later. " " You do not need to use a lawyer or notary when you set up a vof. " -> Form 18 can be found here: https://www.kvk.nl/over-het-handelsregister/formulieren/ You can send it to...: https://www.kvk.nl/hulp-en-contact/postadressen/ @ WA scientists plan to publish report on nature that Trump canceled | SeaTimes $ had some trouble topping up my bunq account. Tried BECU, failed. Tried Xoom; 450 will arrive tomorrow; tried USB -- worked (on Chromium, after ID check). This was after paying an unexpected €162 at the door to Jumbo -- G usually does that -- and noticing that my balance was low. * re-load: * simvastatin, * doxazosin * load drugs: prednisone Su, so start We; Fe today, so start We. @ Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon | The Verge bellisk/BulkKindleUSBDownloader: Quick script to download all your Kindle ebooks. 0218Tu * sift litter boxen & awake 5ish <- thinking about custom elements for styling song lyrics * up 5:30ish; ; * drugs: first am 06:56; rest am 06:57; 2*coffee; pm 21:31 @ Chinese scientists make ‘super diamond’ material much harder than real thing Lonsdaleite hexagonal diamond -> led, as one might expect, to a wikipedia dive @ Roblox, Discord, OpenAI, and Google found new child safety group | The Verge Mastodon Migration: "Have you heard about ROOST (Ro…" - Indieweb.Social what could possibly go wrong? @ The war on DEI is a smoke screen | The Verge @ Fascism, the War on Complexity, and the End of Science - ZNetwork @ Presidents Day Protestors Face Down Trump at High Noon * download * Colleen's and * my Kindle books (many of mine were actually acquired by Colleen back when we were sharing a Kindle) DeDRM tools: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools.git ] * Download * Colleen's and * my Kindle books: bellisk/BulkKindleUSBDownloader: Quick script to download all your Kindle ebooks. had to use it on centraal because apparently some pieces are missing on Mint. * singing: paper-wings, * look for cat vet records. The file crate had their adoption papers and SWAC records * Found most recent vet "report card" for all four cats from FAH -> printed * 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 Pacific) Healing Center Passages support group - 1st, 3rd Tu 0219We * sift litter boxen & awake 4:30ish * up 5:30?; ; * drugs: first am 08:12; rest am 08:25; coffee; pm 19:40 * make sure to have cat paperwork -> printed from email. Not complete history, but up to date. @ Life Without the Tech Giants (via this comment on @minoanmiss) @ Public Domain Spotlight: Rhapsody in Blue | Internet Archive Blogs Rhapsody in Blue--Wikipedia * 1300-1500 expect postie w\ waffle iron & posted: mdlbear | Public Service Announcement: Back up your e-books! @ Brain Weasel Smacking Time | The Faithful Sidekicks @ She Takes Pole Dancing to the Next Level! | Got Talent Global - YouTube @ Claim Your Free COVID-19 Tests Now in Case the USPS Program Gets Shut Down - CNET @ Moving on from 18F. — Ethan Marcotte @ How to Back Up All Your Data and Important Documents - The New York Times (Gift link via @freedomofpress@freedom.press, boosted by Dan Gillmor) @ RFK 's plan to make America healthy again? Round up people with mental health conditions in camps | Salon.com @ Open-Source Tooling - John Oestmann Music * 20:00 - 21:30 (11:00-12:30 PST) Virginia Mason Living w\ Cancer group 1st, 3rd We -> one member pointed out that one should make arrangements to notify this and other groups if they die or become incapacitated. Something else to add to EOL plans 0220Th World Day of Social Justice * sift, top up litter boxen @ World Day of Social Justice | United Nations @ User blog:Kjnoren/Exploring social justice in filk | Filk Discography Wiki & awake 2:40ish; give up 4am; down: 5:55ish * up 8ish * drugs: first am x; rest am 08:29; 2*coffee; pm 21:37 & Tech continues to be political | Miriam Eric Suzanne @ Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power. @ STAND UP FOR SCIENCE – March 7, 2025. Washington DC and Nationwide. Because Science is for everyone. @ Trump Declares Himself King as He Kills Congestion Pricing in New York | TNR @ My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation — Cosive @ Scientists at U.S. weather forecasting agency ordered to get clearance before talking to Canadian counterparts | CBC News * KvK form; * Form 18 filled out and printed; w\ partnership agreement w\ID there's a neat official app that lets you take a picture of an ID doc and blank out whatever parts you don't need to send. In this case, that's the photo.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ % 15:07 _very_ low energy and somewhat out of it. Maybe need food. * 1600-1700 vet for Cricket and Ticia -- he also looked at Bronx and Brooklyn. Brooklyn's heart murmur isn't anything to be worried about yet; we'll check again in September. C and T got their Solensia. Total was €227 ~ 1800 Eurofilk 0221Fr o sift litter boxen & awake 4ish; give up 5am Bronx very insistant that I get up, but I don't know what he wants * up 5am; ; * drugs: first am 06:22; rest am 06:23; 2*coffee; pm 20:40 & clear off the chaise section of the LR couch, for N. 08:27 : am? N arrives from NY * fill out SVB form. ~ SVB forms _can_ be uploaded here via My SVB -> got errors when I tried -- may have to use snail mail C 27Eur to Mozilla.org via AX Au : N and m sang their new arrangement of Bells. Nice. 0222Sa * sift litter boxen & awake 04:56 % apparently sweated heavily. % R heel hurts when I step on it. Sliver? cat bite? Looks like a cut?? ->neosporin * up 7:30 (alarm); W=90.8; Dutch, shower & about an hour with Bronx on my lap; read all my 'am' tabs. W(Bronx)=4.9; W(Ticia)=5.1 * drugs: first am x; rest am 09:57; pm 9ish @ Paul Butler – Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji @ Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" - YouTube @ The Wizard of Speed and Time Original Short 1979 - YouTube ~ try to upload forms.. it didn't work, use postnl. G will get envelopes. & re-watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos from 1980; on Ep 03. Snarfed from archive.org 17:27 finished Ep. 4, "Heaven and Hell". epilog made in 2000 - climate warning 19:54 Ep 5, Blues for a Red Planet. I should probably stop for now. But dinner. 20:ish 17th Century Holland. Huygens et. al. : N gave me two books -- The Official Book of Wild Haggis Animals, and Field Guide to Wild Haggis Spotting in Scotland. @ Zoology’s Favorite Hoax Was an Island Rat That Hopped on Its Nose - Atlas Obscura Rhinogradentia - Wikipedia The snouters : form and life of the Rhinogrades : Stümpke, Harald, 1908-2009 : Internet Archive (borrowable) The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades | Speculative Evolution Wiki Form and life of the Rhinogrades pirated, presumably. Rest of site in Russian % conversation w\ N about my kids, my relationship with and responsibilities to them, and with N's family. -> made me a little more confident that I'm in the right place, and where Colleen wanted me to be. I still feel somewhat out of place.
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Date: 2025-02-25 07:19 am (UTC)Try this one: https://github.com/thekevincurry/BulkKindleUSBDownloader
(or it may be too late already)
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Date: 2025-02-26 06:54 am (UTC)Oh well.
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Date: 2025-02-26 12:16 pm (UTC)Yeah -- they probably changed something in the last few days after getting a lot of bulk downloads, because of course they would.