Done Since 2025-09-21

[mdlbear]

Welcome to (Northern Hemisphere) Autumn. This last week appears to have gone quickly and left very little in the way of a lasting impression. Perhaps that's for the best. (Hopefully guitar practice, at least, will stick around, and the bits of paperwork will have wound up where they're supposed to go.)

N and I have now been beshotted. Pfizer. Flu and pneumonia are week after next. Hopefully the effects of those will stick around as well. We've also scheduled studio time over the next couple of weeks. (He says after suddenly remembering to make sure we didn't get double-booked. Apparently not. Whew!)

I have not been logging my thrice-daily servings of what Colleen used to call "pill salad" as carefully as I ought to. But there's nothing still in my pill sorters today, so apparently I've been taking them. This week, anyway -- I remember there have been a couple of weeks when I missed one. I also haven't been very careful with logging my sleep. Not really all that surprising; I tend to walk over to my computer and promptly fall down a rabbit hole rather than making whatever log entry I intended to make.

Hopefully you won't need to know How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone, but these are perilous times.

Notes & links:
0921Su  * sift litter boxen
  & awake ?
  * up 8am; ;
  * drugs:  am 08:05; am2 9ish; 2*coffee; pm 
  * 6ish m's Uber to Schiphol to Seatac to Seattle
  : my (plastic) litter scoop has gone missing
  * kleenex for bedroom -> in bag
  @ Author outfits old pickup truck to be traveling banned bookstore (ysabetwordsmith
  & ~2:30 -- with N, sprayed fly spray into my garbage can; should sit for 3-4 hours
    before being taken out.
  @ How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone | WIRED
  @ EU Data Act — What Businesses Need to Know
  * 7ish:  with N, take down/out garbage from my bedroom, get it out to the bins, then to
    the back patio where we could wash it with hot water, spray it, and re-line it.
    % legs very weak -- bath or shower will have to wait until tomorrow.
  @ ‘Politics of the End’ is a Seattle U class...could be a study of last week’s news

0922Mo   Equinox 18:19UTC 20:19CEST  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3ish?
  * up 6:30; ; Dutch
  * drugs:  am1 6:40; am2 07:55; pm 19:44
  * walk:  bridge before turnaround (DSB 801) 8:25; 21mm, 5hp, 1470st, 16min, 1km
  @ Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody -- isiZulu version - YT (via gingicat)
  @ Year of the Linux Desktop
    " Going over Apps compatibility and the state of Linux Desktop components. "
    Extensive, pretty informative, pretty, somewhat opinionated. Aimed at Windows users
  @ John Oliver Defends Jimmy Kimmel on 'Last Week Tonight'
  ~ 10ish G will drive me to get COVID shot.  Must have BSN handy  -> closed Mondays
    -> however, passed by apotheek on the way back
    * pick up drugs at apotheek
  % 14:15 sleepy?
  * 16:30-17:00 vet visit for Cricket (here)
  * guitar work for Life Cycle of Flowers.  Faster; more like Where the Heart Is etc.
  @ Something Old, Something New | Science History Institute
    TIL: Horseshoe crabs are actually arachnids!

0923Tu  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3?, 5?, 7?
  * up 8am; ;
  * drugs:  am1 7ish; am2 8ish; pm 21:05
  @ Jimmy Kimmel's show to return to ABC on Tuesday | AP News
  @ Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
    basecamp/omarchy: Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup
  @ They May Be Winning But They’re Scared | by Agent Nkrumah | Sep, 2025 | Medium
  * kf practice:  wheelin, life-cycle, things-  -- i.e. the hard ones
  * load drugs
  
0924We  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 1:30, 3:30, ?5ish
  * up 6:30; W=91.?
  * drugs:  am1 07:20; am2 08:20; 2*coffee; pm 8:30ish
  : 9:30 N leaves with Cricket for ultrasound (N)
  * Order:  * weed hoe (see Bol wishlist)  * wet cat fud  * Rennie

0925Th  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 3ish?
  * up 8ish; ; Dutch
  * drugs:  am1 8am; 2*coffee; am2 09:13; pm 21ish
  & at N's request, change hyperspace-express/Writing/ to /Books/ in time for her book to
    launch with the URL on its title page.
  % 21:09 feel like I'm freezing.  Thermometer on my desk says 24.7°C
  : WOTD:  beshotted (from G via Signal)
  : Blast from the past -- email from Judy P.  really need that infodump
  * unjam Schwab; top up Bunq for 500EUR

0926Fr  * sift litter boxen
  & awake 4ish
  * up 6:30ish; ;
  * drugs:  am1 07:55; am2; pm 20:56
  ? top up BUNQ from USB (which should have received $500 from BECU)
  * Lord of the Buffalo license:  * signed  * paid  * mailed
  * pay vet from Bunq
  @ Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
  * COVID shot -> go with G - drop-in -> N and I got beshotted.  Pfizer
    -> but there's something deeply weird about our BSNs - they couldn't find us in the
       system.  Hopefully we can get that straightened out soon.
    -> but I _do_ have a (virtual) health insurance card -- it's in the VGZ app
  % 18:29 cold, sleepy; drifty.  Working on an email (answer to Judy)

0927Sa  * refill litter boxen (D")
  & awake 5ish, maybe earlier as well
  * up 7:40ish; ; missed alarm at 7:30
  * drugs:  am1 08ish; am2 10:13; pm
  * had D" put the duvet into the cover
  % 13:48 headache, vaguely out-of-it.  I blame being beshotted.
  * finish answer to Judy's email
  % 21:33 mostly over any shot side-effects.  Easy.