Done Since 2025-06-15

[mdlbear]

Welcome to the start of summer, and maybe of WWIII. This post that came across my Mastodon feed this morning kind of says it all:

You don't have to prefix things with "doom" anymore, that's just the default now. You can just say scrolling.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, ...

I had my oncology appointment; I'll be getting a hormone injection (tomorrow, and apparently they do house calls for that) rather than continuing with abiraterone (which insurance won't cover because not metastatic). It's good for six months, which will take me through the end of my 2-year course of treatment. I'm okay with this.

Last night I fell down a rabbit-hole troubleshooting my little script that prints out the URL of one's last post. See this commit. Pretty sure I can blame AI bots for that problem.

I fell down another rabbit-hole Friday, which started by looking for the overture to Wagner's opera Der fliegende Holländer. Turns out that J. Slauerhoff, whom our street is named after, wrote a poem about it. It's in his book, Eldorado. I expect to have a little fun trying to translate it. (And note in passing that doom is also mentioned in that connection.)

ysabetwordsmith has some good links about dealing with Heat. It was supposed to hit 30C (90F) today, but it looks like we may be getting a thunderstorm instead. It'll still be too hot indoors.

Notes & links:
0615Su Father's Day  * sift litter boxen
  @ Father's Day - Wikipedia
  & awake 3am, with an earworm.
    % trying to remember the rest of "Sam's Song" is not conducive to getting back to sleep
    @ Sam's Song | Zanda Myrande
  * up 7ish; ; Dutch (minimal)
  * drugs:  first am 7ish; rest am 8ish; 2*coffee; pm 21:25
  @ AI can’t have my em dash | Salon.com
  @ A gathering of pictures from the largest nationwide protest in history.
    Young Protester Rips Into Trump Birthday Parade: “This Is Not North Korea!” | AC1G
    Over 70K in Seattle denounce Trump at massive ‘No Kings’ rally | SeaTimes
  ` for f in ../2*/*/*thank*; do echo $(grep "li>" $f | wc -l) $f; done |grep ^[2-3] `
    # count "thankful thursday" posts with < 4 items.  5 with 3 items, only one with 2
  * set alarm for tomorrow's appointment
  @ Design for Deconstruction: Sustainable architecture transformation
  * 22:00 put out cardboard for recycling
  @ The Universe's Largest Map Has Arrived, And You Can Stargaze Like Never Before
    COSMOS-Web Unveils Largest Look Ever Into the Deep Universe | COSMOS
    COSMOS-Web zoomable map
  * Need B12+folate

0616Mo  * sift litter boxen (N")
  & awake 3
  * up 07:30; W=89, BP=141/77, P=56;
    % woke up with a painfully full bladder; maybe due to the kidneystone?
  * drugs:  first am --; rest am 07:45; pm
  @ APOD: 2025 June 16 – APOD is 30 Years Old Today 32,232 tile mosaic "starry night"
  @ It’s time to shut down Meta — and prosecute Mark Zuckerberg | Enrique Dans
    Have You Forgotten That Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Person? | Jovan Cicmil
  @ Electromechanical Atari Is A Steampunk Meccano Masterpiece | Hackaday
  @ Demonstrators Are Trying to Make Sure ICE Agents Can’t Sleep – Mother Jones
  @ U.K. lesbians are resisting state-mandated transphobia | Xtra Magazine
  * 10:30 prepare to leave for 11:30 Haga H. Bergsma,
    x- small kidneystone in bladder; should maybe have asked more, but considering the
       bladder pain this am it may well have passed.  Ask if it acts up again
    -> cysts in liver and kidneys, but numbers are ok, so they're nothing to worry about.
    -> phone appointment in 6 weeks, tests a little before that.
  @ Science and Technology News and Commentary: Aardvark Daily
  @ ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "Born and Found and Made"  families.
  @ Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back | WIRED
  @ Realtime Fascism | Tracking Fascist Trends in the US
  @ fandomweekly | [#262] A Change In A New World (Original) (ysabetwordsmith)
  * load drugs

0617Tu  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3:30ish
  * up 6ish??; ;
  * drugs:  first am --; rest am 6ish??; pm 9ish
  @ Thanks to the MAGA monsters, some American heroes never get to retire.
    Top Signs from No Kings Protests - by Ron Filipkowski (minoanmiss)
  * set alarms for tomorrow's appointment
  @ This AI Agent Cancels Subscriptions for You | JavaScript in Plain English
    Runner H AI: Automate Complex Tasks with Intelligent Web Agents
  @ Musk Just Crushed SpaceX. Yet again, Elon has shot himself in the… | Will Lockett
    " Trump threw out Isaacman’s NASA nomination, partly because of his ties to
      SpaceX. When something is too corrupt for Trump, you know it’s bad. "
  @ Glacier Chorus — Underwater Soundscape
  @ Retrotechtacular: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts The Future | Hackaday
  @ Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! | Tuta
  * music:  towards melody revision for  Mill's Dawn, and melodies for two new songs by N
  * 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 PST) Healing Center Passages support grp - 1st, 3rd Tu

0618We  Autistic Pride Day  ; * sift, top up litter boxen
  @ Autistic Pride Day
  & awake 3:30ish
    % dream included mixing soup with an electric drill (works fine with the appropriate
      attachment).  Then reconstruction a couple of proofs that the algebraic numbers are
      countable and that some real numbers aren't algebraic.
  * up 6:15 (after cat cuddle);
  * drugs:  first am 6:16; rest am 07:13; pm 18:16
  * 8:30am leave for 9:30am Haga BP, ECG; 10am Dr. de Weger, internist-oncologist
    *- second opinion on the liver and kidney cysts -- yeah, they're okay
    x- ask for suggestions about the kidney stone.
    &- dentistry - dental insurance usually isn't necessary
  @ A decades-old tune rings true today  The Merry Minuet
  @ The modern web sucks. My band's website doesn't. - YouTube 11ty
  @ I Turned this Skinny Abandoned Tiny House into a Dream 2 Bed Home - YouTube
  * trying to reconstruct how to set up a concert directory, for DFDF.  The last time I
    did it was 2022, for OrECon-2
  @ Enjoy Your Time in GifCities! amazing rube goldberg machine gif -- can tile.
    use, e.g., style="background-image: url('img_girl.jpg');"
  * 20:00 - 21:30 (11:00-12:30 PST) Virginia Mason Living w\ Cancer grp - 1st, 3rd We

0619Th  * sift litter boxen, top up;  Juneteenth
  @ Juneteenth - Wikipedia
  & awake 4:30ish;  awake7:30ish but in bed until alarm at 8
  * up 8am; ;
  * drugs:  first am 8:00; rest am 9ish?; 2*coffee; pm 19:58
  @ The Sadness of Clothes | Poem Of The Day | ArcaMax Publishing via a grief group
  @ The ABA Declares War - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
  + Haga called -- Monday they're sending out a nurse to give me my hormone injection
  * Called UPS at  833 372 5815,  case# 23362805
    tracking # 459434054860 459713907104 459713921406 case# 23362805  833 372 5815
    might need to redirect to UPS store 10002 Aurora Ave N Suite 36, Seattle WA 98133

0620Fr  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3ish
  * up 6ish; ; exercises, Dutch,
  * drugs:  first am 06:45; rest am 08:ish; 2*coffee; pm 8ish?
  - idiot FedEx delivered the keyboard to the wrong house.  next door, so probably ok
  * walk:  to the bridges on each side of JJSla...  $G says 815 steps, .5km, 10mm
  @ AI Obituary Pirates Are Exploiting Our Grief. I Tracked One Down to Find Out Why
  @ The Enshittification of Everything I Loved Online | Dinah Davis | Code Like A Girl
  - the green Noodlers pen made an ungodly mess - the cap for the piston knob was screwed
    on too tight; the who piston assembly came out when I tried to fill it/figure out why
    I couldn't.  The sea turtle mouse pad now has some black stains that aren't coming out
    -- that pen was/is filled with Noodler's "Heart of Darkness" permanent black ink
  * guitar:  noodling around melodies for N's new songs, revisions to Mil's Dawn
  @ J. Slauerhoff Eldorado (poetry collection) - Wikipedia downloaded
    " The poems contain familiar themes for Slauerhoff: a sailor's life, the impossibility
      of life on land or in society, the myth of the pirate and the Flying Dutchman. "
    found in a wikipedia dive after looking for Wagner's "Flying Dutchman" overture
  @ A Meal on Wheels: How Does the Kessler Soup Bus Feed the Homeless and Build
    Community? – Struggle in the City

0621Sa  * sift litter boxen  Solstice
  @ Solstice - Wikipedia
  & awake 5ish
  * up 8am; ; Dutch,
  * drugs:  first am 8am; rest am 08:45; coffee; pm 17:59, +naproxen 440
  @ ysabetwordsmith|Heat
    Extreme Temperature Warning: ‘Buckle Up’ For Heat Dome Set To Roast The U.S.
    How does heat affect the kidneys? - Cincinn (bardic)ati Kidney Docs Blog
  * 1330-1430 DHL inbound -- cat fud and litter
  ~ 16:00 (10am Eastern) Friends of Filk Bytes
  & fell down a rabbit-hole trouble-shooting posting, and the `last-post` script in
    MakeStuff.  Wget wasn't getting the page!  Neither was Curl.  Finally occurred to me
    to use the RSS feed, which I maybe should have done in the first place.  By the time I
    got the Sed script working it was after midnight, but I Did A Thing.