Done Since 2025-08-24
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mdlbearSubject: Done Since 2025-08-24
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Music: Millcon4!
Mood: tired
Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
This is a day late because of both MillCon this weekend, and the end of the month. It's also going to be a bit short on narrative, because the con report deserves its own post, and also because it's 9pm and the trip back was nine hours by three trains and two taxis.
Kaleidofolk's half-hour concert set consisted of: Toolmakers, Life Cycle Of Flowers, Lord Of The Buffalo, Ship Of Stone, Bells Of Norwich, and Millennium's Dawn. We'd wanted to include Staying Home Tonight but didn't have time for it. Sunday night I sang Windward and The Shuff That Dreams are Made Of.
Not exactly a link, but under Thursday you'll find both my packing checklist, and a list of stuff I should have taken but didn't.
Notes & links: 0824Su * sift litter boxen & awake 2ish? 4:30ish * up 6:50ish; ; laundry, Dutch * drugs: am1 0655; am2 8ish?; 2*coffee; pm 9ish; 22:14 440mg naproxen @ How Framework Laptop Broke The Hacker Ceiling | Hackaday @ How Dropbox Stores Exabytes of Data Without Going Broke deduplication; 4MB blocks @ GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down - Ars Technica * 16:30 KF band practice * practice: lock-keeper, ... Life Cycle of Flowers, Ship of Stone -> replace Lock Keeper with Life Cycle of Flowers in set. (I like the easy chords) Life Cycle has some chord changes that sneak up on me, but it's all in C : note: "Staying Home Tonight" comes from "Deluge" in _The People: No Different Flesh_ -> 20:53 which I have now read. I don't remember having read it before; I think I only read at most a handful of the stories. I don't remember when. % 22:16 sleepy; out of it. going splat 0825-27 Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam Open Source Summit Europe | LF Events $500 for small business, so no 0825Mo * sift litter boxen & awake 2ish?m 5i30ish * up 6ish; ; Dutch * drugs: am1 6:30ish; am2 8ish; 1.5*coffee; pm 19:16 @ What Does a Truly Ethical Tech Platform Look Like? | by Dr. Alex Bowyer * UK e-travel authorization Took 3 or 4 tries over more than an hour. @ MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing | Fortune * band practice: setlist, Life Cycle of Flowers (harmony, a little guitar) * load drugs -- loose aspirin in box $ EUR75 to INWX account (preloading) from USB HSX debit via PayPal -> invoice downloaded; should go to bookkeeper * set alarms for tomorrow * order kibble. OK for now on litter. 0826Tu * sift litter boxen & awake 3ish; * up 6:30ish * drugs: am 1 7:15ish; am2; pm 21:36 * order cat fud, D3 o 9:30 leave for 10:10 appt at Berestein with Dr. Gulya ~- interaction between simvastatin (I'm taking 40mg) and amlodipine. @ 5 Interactions " When more than 20 mg of simvastatin, a lipid-lowering agent, are given with amlodipine, the risk of myopathy increases. The FDA issued a warning to limit simvastatin to a maximum dose of 20 mg if taken with amlodipine " *- CPAP -> check with pharmacy for supplies; also insurance company ~- PSA, testosterone -> urologist -> get BP checked every 3 months or so * practice: warm-ups and Life Cycle of Flowers * 4pm practice - full set. Came out to 40m, so we'll need to do some cutting. Used both the H2 and the Edirol (with the RODE-NT5 mics in XY configuration). Very rough, especially my parts. * set alarms for tomorrow 0827We * sift litter boxen & awake 5ish * up 6am (oops!) % L QL twinges. Will have to be very careful. * drugs: am1 06:05; 06:50 440mg naproxen; am2; pm * 6am npo prior to appt (3h before) (meds okay). -> Took naproxen w\ ~100ml appelsap at 6:50 * 8am leave for 9am abdominal ultrasound at Haga (concentrating on kidneys) -> arrived home a couple of minutes after 10 -> everything normal (call from GP's office 14:11) * morning band session: last-minute corrections, printing; packing for f in `cat millcon.set | grep -v descant`; do lp2s -d $PRINTER $f.pdf; done m's copy keeps the descant page. * 15:00 practice session - early because N has an appointment * music: running through the setlist. Several times on songs where it's necessary. @ dw_news | Mississippi legal challenge: beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs; ysabetwordsmith | Let's Boycott Mississippi 0828Th * sift litter boxen & awake 4ish * up 6:30ish * drugs: am1 7ish; am2 08:01; pm 23:17 * packing. checklist: * wallet (w\ passport) * cane * laptop, charger, adapter -> Lilac! (and accepting the inevitable problems) * songbook * guitar * CPAP * meds box (can pack in sling or with cpap) * nail clipper, nail file * H2? * wired earbuds -> would have preferred the sling, but too small. Ended up using (for the first time) the orange Eagle Creek backpack/briefcase/shoulder-bag. Wound up a bit heavy, but... * 09:49 naproxen * leave 10am for 11:41 train leaving from Rotterdam, London St. Pancras 4:27 - probably forgot to take a mouse, and definitely forgot my US phone. manageable? NO Also forgot tissue paper. Should probably also have taken the flannel shirt. should _definitely_ have taken a chico bag and an extension cord -> US PHONE! CPAP HUMIDIFIER! ~ some complications syncing p/ws and family info, but did it: encrypt, commit, push then pull, reset to the commit before they were added, then decrypt. : somehow got the keyboard layout with dead keys. alt-gr enlivens the one it;s shifting, but it;s annoying. % _very_ weak. Alarmingly so. From 1600 or so esp. Scared N. worries _me_ : and the pw I have saved for DW is wrong. fsck (no; cut-and-paste error probably) : the Firefox settings are absolutely unreadable when the phone is in night mode. 0829Fr - 0831Su MillCon 4 @ The Mill House - MillCon 4 0829Fr & awake 2:30ish, 5ish; did not get back to sleep. % very dry mouth because I hadn´t packed the CPAP humidifier. IDIOT!!!!!!! I may have gotten away with it before, but I´m going to be _SINGING_ on this trip * up 6; ; * drugs: am1 6ish; am2 7ish; ~coffee; 9ish naproxen; pm * 10am breakfast. They close at 10:30, so go earlier tomorrow. * Band practice: runthroughs -- I keep screwing up song intros, guitar intros and starts. Life cycle of Flowers very rough. for f in $(cat millcon.set|grep -v descant); do echo $(grep timing $f.flk) $f; done\ | sed s/\\timing/-/ FSCKING keyboard appears to make curly quotes! * much Chinese food at Mill House. The "szechuan chili beef" was not spicy at all. OTOH the "aromatic duck" -- basically Peking duck -- was lovely. Came with slivers of cucumber and lemon grass. Pay Marilisa by bank transfer sometime in the weekend 0830Sa & awake 3:45ish * up 7:30(alarm) * drugs: am1 07:34; 07:43 naproxen; am2 8:30ish?; pm ??? i must have had it early * kf band practice: full runthrough * go for breakfast 9ish * concert 15:45-16:15 * toolmakers, life-cycle-of-flowers, lord-of-the-buffalo, ship-of-stone, bells-of-norwich, (staying-home-tonight omitted for time), millennium-s-dawn -> went very well. I always notice my own mistakes, but they didn't matter. -> two Miller (the attendee-voted awards for things sung at the con)nominations - best classic for Ship of Stone, best serious for Life Cycle of Flowers. : some fantastic performances, more than one of which had me with my head in my hands to keep me from laughing it off. : installed MATE on LMDE!Lilac. Cinnamon is pretty unusable. 0831Su & awake 4ish * up 7:15ish * drugs: am1 7:30; am2 08:26; pm 21:03; 220mg naproxen 22:17 ~ go down to breakfast when ready; N and m will almost certainly sleep through it -> N pinged at 08:35 just as I was getting ready to go out the door. * the harmony workshop was fantastic fun * singing: in "present from the cats" circle: Windward, Stuff That Dreams are Made Of ~ bring out cardboard for pickup : FIXME: the temp display widget is broken on LMDE!Lilac. Possibly Lilac generally. Shell arithmetic is not happy with floating point numbers.
