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mdlbearI think this was one of those weeks that makes me want to give up on trying to characterize my week. It wasn't particularly good, it wasn't particularly bad, I didn't get a whole lot done, the US had a lot of mostly-peaceful No Kings" demonstrations, but it also had political assassinations in Minnesota alongside other symptoms of its slide into fascism.
Last Sunday was the 23rd anniversary of this blog's founding, back on LJ. Today is the 27th Father's Day since my Dad's death in February of 1999, and I've been kind of wrecked since Thursday. The keyboard I ordered on Tuesday arrived Friday; it's flawed but will do what we need it to. The one I ordered for m has not arrived yet. I may have the start of a toothache.
Thursday was my first, and so far only, Thankful Thursday post ever with only two items. Since then, both of my kids wished me a happy Father's Day, so next week should have at least that many. I had a blood tests and a CT scan done last week, but I won't get to talk with a doctor about them until tomorrow.
See what I mean?
Here -- give a listen to the recordings of my and m's 2-song "set" at DFDF two weeks ago. In keeping with the theme of the week, the first verse and a half of Millennium's Dawn got cut off thanks to technical difficulties.
Notes & links: 0608Su * sift litter boxen LJ bloggaversary & awake 3ish * up 6ish; ; Dutch * drugs: first am 07:24; rest am 08:24; 2*coffee; pm 19:00ish * walk: 8ish: around block * order more catfud from zooplus -> 6 boxes -- should last a while; AX via PayPal s@t : 23 years since I founded my LJ @ Okay so just to sum up recent events on the US Right... – @andrewducker on Tumblr 0609Mo * sift litter boxen & awake 3ish * up 7ish; ; Dutch * drugs: first am --; rest am 07:48; coffee; pm 19:02 * 10:30 m and j heading for the US on Delta @ Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew taken to Israel|AlJazera @ Israeli forces detain Greta Thunberg after halting Freedom Flotilla aid boat | AP @ Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys 100s of National Guard | AP @ Trump’s Police State @ Universal Basic Income isn’t about free money — it’s about a freer life % I just want to curl up in a wingback chair with a blanket over me. @ Bill Atkinson - (17 March, 1951 – 5 June, 2025) Bill Atkinson Mac engineer dies at 74 of pancreatic cancer @ Ukraine’s Operation Spider’s Web is a game-changer for modern drone warfare. NATO should pay attention | Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank @ Diabolus Ex Machina - by Amanda Guinzburg ChatGPT being creepy * load drugs. Have backup for buspirone and aspirin @ Your Cat Can Smell the Difference Between You and a Stranger and They Prefer the Stranger * update payment method for AT&T. also update password, because short 0610Tu * sift litter boxen (N") & awake 3am * up 6:30ish; ; Dutch * drugs: first am --; rest am 06:55; 2*coffee; pm 20:ish @ Claude 4’s Leaked System Prompt Exposes AI’s Controlled Personality Deception Claude’s Full System Prompt Leaked: 24,000 Tokens of Hidden Instructions ExposedN @ Why Trump’s ICC Move Is a Wake-Up Call for Cloud Sovereignty | by Andrew Zuo * set alarm for tomorrow's appointment : keyboards: all 61 touch-sensitive keys, midi out over USB. Thomann.de - 109 Startone MK-201 -> 129 Startone MK-300 Delivery approx. between Saturday, 14.06. and Monday, 16.06. - 169 Startone MK-400 SD card heavier at 5.1kg - 169 Casio CT-S300 audio in?, lighter; built-in handle, micro-usb - 196 Roland E-X10 - 198 Yamaha PSR-E383 audio in excellent reviews - 228 Casio CT-S400 strap buttons, USB C in, audio in * 17:30-21:30 expect DHL zooplus 0611We * sift litter boxen & awake 3am * up 6am; ; Dutch * drugs: first am 6:30; rest am 08:01; 2*coffee; pm 21:22 * order Casio CT-S200 keyboard, stand, bench for m @ Protesters’ Rights | American Civil Liberties Union (amaebi) * 10:30 leave for 11:30 Haga blood draw for appt 16-06-2025 with Dr H. Bergsma. * set alarm for tomorrow's appointment % I'm going to be second-guessing my keyboard purchase decisions for weeks, aren't I? * update AT&T billing address -- failed 0609 for reasons unknown @ Preservation at OVFF 2022 | The Harold M. Stein Memorial Filk Archive Caring for Belongings Caring for Private and Family Collections — NEDCC How to Preserve Family Archives | National Archives @ The Book That Solved Philosophy - Standard Ebooks @ Kobo Writing Life | Publish today and reach millions of Kobo readers worldwide @ The Hermit Crab Essay: Brenda Miller Unshells her Own – Thin Air % lab results - hemoglobin, hematocrit low but better than last time (2 months ago) some of transferrin-related numbers are worse. 0612Th o sift litter boxen & awake 3ish * up 6ish; ; * drugs: first am --; rest am 07:15; pm @ 61 Mini Crochet Animals [Free Patterns] | AllFreeCrochet.com * SL: eyebleach -> ordered from $A because unsearchable otherwise * 10:20 leave for 11:20 HagaZiekennhuis Radiology - CT - non-empty bladder (1h) NOTE: Registration QR code accessible from text messages on phone @ Nyxt browser: The hacker's browser (LWN) @ Open source and the Cyber Resilience Act @ FREE Bucket Hat Pattern by AppleGreen Cottage - in 5 Sizes! (via Sacha Chua) Lots of stuff on bagmaking, etc., much of it free. * laundry: started 15:29; -> in dryer 1700ish?? % 17:48 been feeling rather drained all day. More than usual, I think. WTF? * 18:00 Eurofilk My audio, normally quite good, was incredibly bad. Don't know what was going on there. The fact that zoom and the system frequently have different ideas of what audio they're using didn't help. -> Sang Stuff that Dreams are Made Of. % Wound up somewhat wrecked thinking of Dad. % posted a 2-item Thankful Thursday; see above. x 18:30 overlake cancer support group - skip? : WU was supposed to have R's money available todday. Now they say tomorrow. But a lot of people seem to be having trouble with the banking systen lately. Cloudflare? % toothache -- upper R 0613Fr o sift litter boxen Friday the 13th _ought_ to be lucky for me. Is it? @ Friday the 13th - Wikipedia & awake 3ish % very little actual sleep, thanks to Bronx * up 5 or 7 depending on how you count; ; Dutch * drugs: first am --; rest am 07:18; 2*coffee; pm 8ish? % toothache (pretty bad, from yesterday) -> naproxen 440mg 07:22; -> 21:17 -> much less pain by 11:25 : WU says R's cash is available now, and my keyboard is arriving this evening @ How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: The Ultimate Self-Hosting Series | by Levente Csikor | CodeX | May, 2025 | Medium @ Google, Spotify and other major platforms down in massive internet outage @ Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia 100y anniversary of her PhD thesis: " Stellar Atmospheres; A Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars. " @ TPM - Talking Points Memo - Noem Says National Guard Occupation Is Meant To ‘Liberate’ LA From Its Mayor And Governor @ Leading risk factor for cancer revealed –- [AGING] not smoking, alcohol or the sun % I want to start a refactoring plan, but the most certain sign that it's needed is that I don't know which directory -- or even repo -- to put it in. -> historically, starport/Admin/admin-to.do, but it's ancient. -> also, I've lost track of things: the intranet site on Centraal should have been web/Local, but instead I abused web/meta for it. Trivial to fix? @ Zimmer tower - Wikipedia astronomical clock tower in Lier, Belgium, built in 1930 (via Friday the 13th) ... MF is now working properly after a reboot-> no it's not. Gets stuck on a page. @ How to ACTUALLY Deal with Tear Gas – Skepchick * keyboard arrived. Bulkier than I expected. G played through all the voices; I did chords, metronome. The metronome is pretty crappy so I'll stick to the phone app. ~ the eyebleach I ordered from $A did NOT arrive; now scheduled for Monday 0613Fr-0615Su Festival of the Living Rooms ~ Sat. and Sun. stuff starts at 11am Colorado time, so 19:00 here (Fr is way too late) 0614Sa * sift litter boxen No Tyrants! @ No Kings day of protest NO TYRANTS Mass Protest in Ottawa: June 14 - democratsabroad.org & awake 3:30ishh * up 8?; W=89; shower * drugs: first am --; rest am 8ish; 2*coffee; pm * music: woodshedding Millennium's Dawn, mostly to make the verse melody farther from the chorus. Singing The Fox as a chaser (as it were) @ About | Disco Scallops New (@dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz) * eyebleach arrived -- a day late but sooner than they told me it would. Yay!