Done Since 2025-10-26

[mdlbear]

Not a bad week. The housemates returned from OVFF Wednesday morning, so I'm off the hook for taking care of Cricket and Brooklyn. So I'm back to caring for two cats in one room again. And I was fairly productive -- not much music but a lot of work on the HyperSpace Express website, and N's author site. Which should have been done a month or more ago, but better late than not at all.

I wrote a post yesterday that wasn't one of the usual repeating ones (Thankful Thursday, Done Since, and Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit). It's been a while since I did that.

Only four walks this week :P -- I woke up with a leg cramp yesterday; the other two missing mornings were a matter of timing. See above about Wednesday. I think Monday I just slept in. Or fell down a rabbit hole. So far the main thing the Sansung smartwatch is good for is tracking my sleep. The main reason I got it in the first place was for emergency calls, but I haven't tested that function -- or even ordinary calling -- at all. Should fix that.

I also haven't made a portfolio/list of all the websites I've build over the years. I'm not even sure how many there are. Need to fix that too.

Notes & links:
1026Su  * sift litter boxen  * Brooklyn  * Cricket
  * 02:00 DST ends in Europe
  & awake 4ish
  * up 6:30; S=5:27/7:35;
    % fantastic head-bump from Ticia this morning.  And woke up with her on my left arm,
      and Bronx draped over my right ankle.
  * drugs:  am1 6:34; am2 07:44; 2*coffee; pm 9ish?
  * walk:  H. Marsmanplantsoen 09:08, .7km, 6hp, 1230st, 15min, 21mm; no stops
    % in _some_ pain by the time I got back, but never had to stop.  So okay.
  * feed Brooklyn  * breakfast   * lunch  19:50 (not so)early dinner  22:26 bedtime
  * 11-12 hx work session:   add $A.{eu, uk, fr} links to books page.
    : European $A sites seem to have ridiculously long lead times (.nl says 6-7 MONTHS) --
      Probably worthwhile checking Monday after things have been open a while.
  % the naan would be better with more savories to put on it, though what I had was okay
  * pm j leaving 14:10
  * 16:00 OVFF chamberfilk, followed by ...
  % 20:00 freezing.  Have been for the last hour
  : 21:40ish It seems Brooklyn has learned how to open doors.  Let Op!
    Hoe vs wat (in exclamations) + Pas op vs let op : r/learndutch 
  * 22:00 take out cardboard -> raining so do the box in the morning
  . scissors in bag for opening Cricket's litter bag

1027Mo  * litter boxen  * Brooklyn  * cricket
  & awake 5ish
  * up 6am; ;
  * drugs:  am1 6:30ish; am2 07:38; 2*coffee; pm 20:41
  * feed Brooklyn:  * 7ish 1st bfast  11ish?? lunch  16:39 early dinner  23:20 bedtime
  % not a great day so far.  Got up early - 6am - with a headache; one of the cats (Bronx,
    most likely) barfed on the floor behind the garbage can, I discovered that I'd sifted
    the litter wrong and put the sieve on top of it; Cricket escaped, got on the kitchen
    counter twice,  and I had to shoo her back upstairs so I could take out the cardboard.
  % Made the mistake of sitting on the floor in m's room and had a lot of trouble getting
    up.  Possibly because I couldn't get traction on the floor.  But not good.
  * take box of cardboard out if up early enough
  @ Disabled toilets: What is a Radar key? - BBC News brilliant!
  @ Merry go round of life Howl's moving catsle OST for Meow - YouTube
  @ California invests big in battery energy storage - Los Angeles Times
  @ FreeContactForm.com
    Contact Forms - The Definitive Guide
  * 10ish bring in cardboard bin
  * 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session
  * go over to pharmacy to pick up drugs
    The pharmacist is as baffled as I am about why my drug list isn't there on the app
  @ U.S. stillbirth rates higher than reported, with Black families at more risk-WaPo
    % hit me pretty hard.  Of course.
  % 20:33 realizing that the excursion to the apotheek really took an axe to my afternoon.
    Haven't done anything to speak of since I got back.  That would have been ~4h ago.
    Also, I'm sleepy.  And I _really_ want a bath, but can't count on being able to get out
  * guitar -- I can play F's again, at least on Flame; singing:  For Amy
    I don't know what I was doing, singing with more ????resonance????, but I was.

1028Tu  * litter boxen  * Brooklyn  * cricket
  & awake 5:30
  * up 7:30; ; shower... Dutch
  * drugs:  am1 7:35; am2 08:28; 2*coffee; pm 22:00
  * feed Brooklyn:  * 1st bfast  12ish 2nd bfast/lunch  *  early dinner  o bedtime
  * water Cricket 12:57 -- hope it wasn't empty for too long
  @ Haibun A has been writing them
    " Haibun (俳文; literally, haikai writings) is a prosimetric literary form originating
      in Japan, combining prose and haiku. The range of haibun is broad and frequently
      includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem,[1] short story and travel journal "
  * walk:  8:47 DSB804 (a bridge not too far) 10:30; .75km, 3hp, 1333st, 18mm, 22min
    % another walk where it would have made sense to have worn a scarf
  @ Great Green Wall (Africa) - Wikipedia via article in American Scientist
  @ Point Nemo - Oceanic Pole of inaccessibility (via an article on tha
    Kessler syndrome)
    cf Spacecraft cemetery
  @ Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the
    time – regardless of language or territory
  * 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session (split)
    . email contact form (for Goodreads)
  * (finally) install second set of coat-hooks in entryway closet?  alcove?  whatever.
  * order cat fud (mine and Brooklyn's), litter
  * load drugs
  : head-bumps from Brooklyn.  (His dinner was late)

1029We  * litter boxen  * Brooklyn  m cricket
  & awake 4:30ish
  * up 6:30ish; ; Dutch
  * drugs:  am1 07:08; 2*coffee; am2 07:54; pm 21:30
  : G, N, and m return from the US (0740ish)
  @ Bare Bones Convention Accessibility Timeline (via access_fandom)
  @ AI restores James Webb telescope’s crystal-clear vision | ScienceDaily
  @ Before plants or animals, fungi conquered Earth’s surface (ysabetwordsmith)
  @ Trump Just Announced His Police State - Robert Reich
  @ WHN joins in the chorus: Medical masks are not PPE - WHN
  @ You Won’t Believe These 10 Linux Commands Actually Exist | by Kuldeepkumawat
    Fun stuff:  figlet (ascii banners), bb (ascii art demo), rig (random identity
    generator), sl (steam locomotive; cf. ls), espeak (text-to-speach)
    and the ones I knew about:  fortune, cowsay, cmatrix, oneko; _maybe_ figlet.
  * My federal tax refund arrived.  Just moments after my balance at USB went $20 under
    because I'd made a WU transfer from them when I thought I was using BECU.  Whew!
    hrblock's text saying it was on the way arrived hours later.  :P
  * 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session
    Colophon, About page
  * print off med list and optical prescription for tomorrow's appointment
  @ The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form | WIRED
  * set alarm for tomorrow's appointmemt

1030Th  * litter boxen
  & awake 5am
  * drugs:  am1 07ish; am2 08:25; pm 22:24
  * up 6:kish; ; Dutch
    % The watch has finally assigned me a sleep animal. 
    " Nervous Penguin depicts light sleepers who can be easily rattled while sleeping and
      may have trouble going back to sleep. "
  * set out PMD bin -> before walk, because why not?
  * walk:  DSB801 - bridge before turnaround, .75km, 5hp, 26min, 23mm, 1528st,
  @ A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm • The Register
    olafurw/opssat-doom (andrewducker | Interesting Links for 29-10-2025)
  * guitar:  Freight Train w\ work on the E7 sliding down to (cheating)F
  o 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session
  * bring in PMD bin
  ~ bring med list, glasses prescription, glasses. -> in sling, 
  * leave 1250 for 13:45-1400 Haga  ==> opthalmology referral? no, endoscopy, to inform me
    that all the biopsies they took were normal.  "this meeting could have been an email"
  * set up basic author site at naomi-rivkis.com
  & track down the opthalmology referral, which was done weirdly
  & Firefox was clogging up unsable.  And I'm still getting connection timeouts and other
    oddities.  Going to do a full power cycle.  (printed the instructions for resetting
    the battery, because charging is stuck at 70%)

1031Fr  samhain  * litter boxen
  @ Samhain
    Halloween
  & awake -> no, slept all night!
  * up 6:50ish; S=6:19/7:10, score=90; Dutch, ... laundry
  % R ankle hurting.  Foot sometimes.  Neuropathy, presumably.
  * drugs:  am1 7am; am2 8ish; 2*coffee; pm 20:40
  * walk: 8:05 Erasmusweg: 1.2km, 13hp, 20min, 30mm, 2000st;    % no stops or slowdowns
  @ It’s Not As Bad As You Think | The Brevity Blog
    " Is it really the case that writers need a sizable following to land a book deal? "
  @ How to Build an Author Website: Getting Started Guide | Jane Friedman
    Top 20 Author Websites Every Author Must See (in 2025)
  * attempt to order pantoprozol and buspirone
    I need refills for pantoprozol and buspirone.  I have had them filled at this pharmacy
    before but the mijngezondheid website and the medgemak app have no record of them, so
    I can't order refills in the usual way. -- 
    -> something went wrong. please try again later  (twice)
  . working oninfo sheet for web designers
  * 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session
    * add N's portrait to the author site instead of the HSX logo
  ~ sent message on mijngezondhijd for pantoprozol, buspirone

1101Sa  Day of the Dead 
  Day of the Dead
  . (from N) clean up around the couch - by Monday
  @ libraries as resistance - by earthlyeducation and yun shu (ysabetwordsmith)
    " In a system that wants to dismantle education and undermine critical thought,
      libraries become sanctuaries of truth, radical hope, and quiet rebellion.
      ¶Generously stocked, freely accessible, public libraries are ideal.
      ¶However, if the government destroys them, we have another option: private
      libraries run by actual bookworms. "
  @ An Oral History of The Electrical Eggs: Science Fiction, Disability Activism, and Fan
    Conventions | Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (access_fandom) [HTML] [PDF]
  : looked at the analytics on GS -- 63 views today, way over average.  WTF?

If you're one of the few people who read under the cut, take a look at Saturday and tell me whether not posting the litter box, sleep stats and drug times is an improvement, neutral, or something you'd miss. I'll keep logging them, but I'd like to know whether anyone but me ever reads them.

Comments

[solarbird]

hi i read under the cut

it's neutral to me because i don't read those stats BUT i think you should keep doing it because it might be useful to you to have the continuous same-format record at some point

but it's up to you, as always

[mdlbear]

I'd keep them on my home network, I just wouldn't post them. There are other things already in that category. They get marked so that I know to delete them from the posted version (I should automate that, but I've been lazy), but they're kept in the log.