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It doesn't feel like a very productive week, but I have gotten a few things done. Five (short) walks, four (short) guitar practice sessions, some patio furniture assembled (one Adirondack chair fully assembled, the other partly assembled, table unboxed).
The Adirondak chairs each have a curved, removable leg-rest. It's not exactly an ottoman, so I've decided it needs to be called a nottaman -- hence this post's music.
The weather has gone from unpleasantly hot to pleasantly cool (with a reverse or two) over the course of the week; we are now enjoying a light rain. Or at least I am -- I'm the one who sits closest to the sliding door in the living room. It opens to half the width of the house, and fortunately has a screen behind it. Because cats.
Between ADT and anemia, my body's temperature sensing has become very wonky; I feel like I'm freezing at temperatures that the rest of the household thinks are too hot, but if I put on something warm I quickly become overheated. It is not conducive to sleeping well. I don't so much mind having the cats wake me in the middle of the night, because my bladder is also wonky, but it would be nice to be able to get to (or back to) sleep in a reasonable amount of time. On the flip side, if all goes well I won't have to talk to a urologist until November.
Not much to say about what's going on in the US. But One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings looks like something you can do.
And go watch The FIRST images from the RUBIN observatory! - YouTube
Notes & links:
0629Su * sift litter boxen
& awake 3:30ish
* up 7:15ish; ; dishes
* drugs: first am 7:30ish; rest am; pm 17:07
. some back-patio furniture assembly
* one Adirondack chair and its nottoman (because it's not an ottoman) assembled
. the table has been unboxed, but it's not the next thing N wants done
* walk: N. to Simon Vestdijkstraat 16:24 ~15min, .58km; day: 17mm, 1764st, .85km +cane
0630Mo * sift litter boxen (no N")
& awake 1:30, 4:30,
* up 6:30ish; ; Dutch (very late)
% some nice Bronx cuddle in the white chair
* drugs: first am --; rest am 8ish; pm 23:20
* walk: garbage dropoff, 1 bridge N. -cane, so didn't push it. 1hp, 14m, 8mm, 375st.
& bring in more chair pieces. (everything but the arms). -> done as much as possible
% 11:14 naproxen 440mg; next allowed 23:14 (but that's after bedtime)
@ Big, bold turnout at Seattle Pride Parade: ‘Not a time to be quiet’ | Sea. Times
* go out to storage room with N and mark which boxes should go into the storage unit
* AX Pt card expected to arrive at Lake City; m's keyboard also maybe -* send message
Keyboard at Guitar Center. Card out for delivery (20:00ish)
aaaaaaand Sweetwater wants to re-ship. fsck. What to do now?
-> wrote email asking for a refund rather than a re-ship. Grumph.
@ You need to build mastery in order to find your flow | Aeon Essays
* guitar: October Country, Ship of Stone
* track down directories with recordings:
locate 'songs' | grep -v '~' | grep record/2 | grep -v Tracks | wc -l => 73
also: /vv/users/steve/Albums/{amethyst,bleeding}
730701Tu * sift litter boxen
& awake 1:30, 3ish
* up 6ish; ; walk, ... Dutch
! *happy* -- I said so! -- when I set up the Italian leather briefcase for Bronx.
* drugs: first am 8ish; coffeel rest am 08:25; pm 20:46 except I took We's _am_ drugs
* walk: N a block or so - Simon Vestdijkstrat I think. 12mm, 12m, 822st,
* load drugs
@ New “curiously isolated” butterfly species wows scientists (C')
@ Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated
@ The Junior Developer Extinction: We’re All Building the Next Programming Dark Age
~ check cats for overheating every couple of hours: 12:45 put an ice cube in their water
dish. Ticia looked at it with suspicion, but seemed to like the cooler water after I
removed it (after letting it float a while).
@ China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
* updated whois data for the 6 domains at DH that still had old address.
` for t in $(seq 40 -1 -9); do echo $t $(units "tempC($t)" tempF); done | column | cat `
# prints a nice little 10-row x 5-column temperature conversion table.
* 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 PST) Healing Center Passages support grp - 1st, 3rd Tu
% my vision seems a lot blurrier than usual
x SL aspirin 100mg in bottles - even $A doesn't have it
% 22:22 so sleepy I'm almost falling over
0702We * sift litter boxen
& awake 3:30ish
* up 7am; ; Dutch,
* drugs: first am 7am; rest am oops; pm 7ish
@ The Triple Risk of Traveling While American | by David Wineberg
@ Heatwave brings amber alert to southeast as storms loom in east - DutchNews.nl
@ Disability Pride Month - Wikipedia (ysabetwordsmith)
@ Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong Nasal cycle
* 16:30 phone call from Dr. de Weger, oncology (rescheduled from 0626)
-> urologist will make appointment around November. If I don't hear by Dec., call.
* 18:30ish start laundry; 20:13 load dryer
& re-arrange boxes for a wider walkway past my desk.
% successfully avoided damaging my back. Or maybe not.
x 20:00 - 21:30 (11:00-12:30 PST) Virginia Mason Living w\ Cancer grp - 1st, 3rd We
* guitar: short session because my fingertips are, AGAIN, out of shape. Practice!
@ Grow Your Own Services – A beginner's guide to
creating your own little corner of the Internet
@ Progressive parents in Oklahoma offer blueprint to mess with MAGA censorship-Salon
0703Th * sift litter boxen (N")
& awake 4ish
* up 6:30; ; Dutch, ?exercises
* drugs: first am 6:30; rest am 07:53; coffee; pm 22:ish
@ The Banks Know What’s Coming. Wall Street’s (not so) quiet pivot to thriving in a
world that’s burning. | by Angus Peterson | Edge of Collapse | May, 2025 | Medium
" the scariest part is that we’re not planning to fix it. We’re planning to adapt to
it. We’re planning to profit off it. That’s not resilience. That’s surrender dressed
in a business suit. "
Banks see a dire climate future — and ways to profit - POLITICO
@ The Tools I Use Every Day That Would Get Me Fired If I Had a Job security stuff
@ The language rules we know – but don’t know we know - BBC Culture
" Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order:
opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely
little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife... "
* guitar: October Country -- did better than I expected to.
@ Emoji Domains: Technology, Opportunities, and Risks
@ The Drugs I Need - YouTube
: apparently USBank doesn't have my correct address. There may be fraud involved.
: Roamate has presumably been loaded onto a ship (up to #376; mine is #303)
@ On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on
Android. | Tuta
@ "Sovereign cloud" or "sovereign washing"? A Trojan Horse at Europe's digital gates
* sl: * kleenex
% 22:25 sleepy, L eye has been hurting all day, feeling vaguely unwell.
0704Fr 4th of July * sift litter boxen
@ Independence Day (United States) - Wikipedia
& awake 4ish
* up 6ish; ; exercises, Dutch
* drugs: first am 6:55; rest am 8:30ish; coffee; pm 20:24
# NOTE: I don't remember _not_ having coffee, but several days didn't get logged. :(
* walk: +cane 08:37 N arm of Jan Greshoffplantsoen 10mm, 852st, 440m
@ The FIRST images from the RUBIN observatory! - YouTube
@ Yearning to Breathe Free - YT (madfilkentist)
@ Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate
implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar
* sl: * cat fud, * litter,
~ MillCon hotel reservations -> N will call tomorrow to make sure our rooms are close
* birthday email to R
& decided to decline the NHS 60-year reunion -- it hurt, but I don't see any way to do
it, and by November travel to the US could be distinctly risky.
% 23:23 ibuprofen. Also I have a bad case of the hiccups right now.
0705Sa * sift litter boxen
& awake 4ish
* up 7:30ish; ; exercise, Dutch
* drugs: first am 7:30ish; rest am 08:50; 2*coffee; pm 10ish?
* walk: 09:24 far end of the Simon Vestdijkstraat loop. 5hp, .6km, ~1000st, 11mm, +cane
% 12:48 back pain (QL?) mostly L. -> heat
@ Gifts of Retirement Funds – Planned Giving – Carleton College
Carleton: Download a guide to giving retirement plan assets
* guitar: Millennium's Dawn, October Country, Desolation Row
@ One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings