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mdlbearI had a lot of trouble getting things done this week. That may have been due in part to having gone out of the house three times (for a doctor's appointment, labs, and picking up drugs at the pharmacy). Each of which burns up two or three hours, and I seem to have trouble switching gears after that. Or maybe I'm just lazy.
Thursday I let the cats out of my room, which may have been a mistake. Picking Bronx up afterward and trying to carry him upstairs to put him back was definitely a mistake, and a firm reminder to keep one hand on the banister every damned time. Fortunately, I got away with it -- this time.
I've started using compression socks; they seem to help somewhat with the edema, but it's still there and doesn't seem much improved in the morning after not wearing the socks at night. Well, I have another appointment this coming Friday.
Linkies: Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. -- if you're surprised, you may be reading the wrong blog. Also, Satellite images reveal the fastest Antarctic glacier retreat ever. On the other hand, it seems that A Poem Is All You Need to Jailbreak a chatbot.
And on the gripping hand, here's a filk adjacent cat video: Bohemian Catsody.
Notes & links: 1116Su * 8am N's ferry scheduled to arrive -> actual time 8:24; estimated 1h to home -> 9:15 & uninstall Google News from (Dutch) phone. Too much clickbait. @ Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. (C') @ Carter Family picking - Wikipedia "church lick" -- one of my main playing styles. @ A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed @ Spiral-Obsessed AI ‘Cult’ Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots : Raven.local is back on the local DNS, after having been missing for _weeks_. Not complaining, but I'd like to know why, and how to get it back more quickly. % N gave me a copy of her book. Of course I asked her to sign it. She also told me more about the next one, which is going going be amazing. 1117Mo * walk: turned back when the hail started. 4hp, 10mm, 7min, 633stn .5km, : I'd been thinking I'd swap some memory out of Panther to upgrade UnSable while installing the new keyboard. Turns out I must have done that already -- Panther has only 6Gb, and unSable has 16. *checks hardware list* -> *updates it* @ Bohemian Catsody - A Rhapsody Parody Song for Every Cat Queen and King! - YouTube * laundry % borrow a pair of compression socks from G * got cat litter bagged; take it down later or tomorrow. Meanwhile, back hurts * SL: silicone mat for cat water dispenser, compression socks, blanket, mulling spices % L thigh has been feeling all tensed up for a while now; wondering what's up % 19:13 too cold to think straight? : meanwhile Plink's capo has gone walkabout 1118Tu % could NOT get moving this morning. Brain very fuzzy. * walk: DSB804 .75km, 5hp, 1230st, 22min, 16mm @ Satellite images reveal the fastest Antarctic glacier retreat ever (ysabetwordsmith) . kf/hx work session * Eyes Like the Morning -- the turnaround at the end of the chorus is nice and clean; the verses are uneven. 11-11:30 * some work on the web -portfolio- _list_ @ Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna's Café Culture * ~14:00 set alarms for tomorrow's appointment : cloudflare's having a major outage. -> resolved 15:50ish * 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 PST) Healing Center Passages support grp - 1st, 3rd Tu * load drugs -> order amlodipine, simvastatin, bupropion, doxazosin 1119We ~ 11-14 or whenever kf/hx work session * prepare mail for stop by postbox x see whether any drugs are orderable -> no * 12:45 leave for 13:30 GP ~- ask for refill of simvastatin, doxazosin, amlodipine -> WTF? They (and the app) say I have them; maybe they didn't notify me when they came in??? Growf. x- what about "low sodium salt" (KCl 69%, NaCL 30%) x- compression socks -> Need to come in tomorrow for labs. Should have gotten them last week but I never got a lab form? WTF? % shivering; probably not all temp -- probably anxiety attack @ A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers | WIRED % new blanket arrived. Green and fuzzy. Cozy but maybe not as warm as the scooter cape * guitar: Eyes, River 1120Th % crashed hard last night; could easily have stayed in bed another hour. * 7:30 -> 8am -leave- _summon uber_ for labs at GP clinic. FASTING. Urine too. -> took them a while to find a vein that worked. -x go across street to see if drugs are there % took Uber because it was raining; was beating myself up over not having stopped across the street before ordering my ride home, but in fact I didn't get notified that it was ready until 2 minutes before I got home. ~ 9:30 D" % 12:20 feeling a little light-headed. Postural hypotension? Unclear. & read most of Amphigorey @ A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech " Big Food has made us think that it’s too onerous to buy fresh ingredients, wash them, slice them and cook them. Thus, many people default to ultra-processed, pre-cooked meals. Big Tech has made us think that the Fediverse is too technical and too complicated to join. Thus, many people default to centralized, algorithm-based apps inside walled gardens. " @ The Death of Arduino? h/w still open " Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform... " Death of Arduino?|Hacker News Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight so maybe no need to fork just yet @ EU regulators launch trio of cloud market probes | CIO Dive & let my cats out. May have been a mistake. % carried Bronx up the stairs -- almost didn't make it. -> remind me NEVER to use both hands to carry something up the stairs. Or down. -> had a shot of gin afterward. Hazard pay. -> eventually, after he hid under N's bed, she said she'd put him in my room when he came out (Ticia had already been herded at that point) @ Crazy Eddie's Used Computers Bit blit - Wikipedia " I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin " % 22:47 *notices the time* *should go to bed* 1121Fr % the mesh watchband is very comfortable, but the magnetic catch doesn't work well -> switch back to the nylon/velcro one and maybe order a better mesh band @ Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models | ResearchTrend.AI [PDF] A Poem Is All You Need: Jailbreaking ChatGPT, Meta & More — LessWrong * 09:34 go up to Apotheek to pick up drugs. Drop off mail on the way up. 10:50 @ 🦀 Turbo Vision a DOS era Text UI masterpiece | by Enzo Lombardi | Nov, 2025 @ Your Database Is Slow Because You’re Using UUIDs (And How I Made It 500x Faster) % 13:31 feeling a little off -- try hydrating. @ Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 @ 'The sun is slowly waking up': NASA warns that there may be more extreme space weather for decades to come | Live Science @ Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source !!! @ Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation | Aeon Essays Of particular interest to bloggers, I should think % 21:30ish a bit of a hot flash, after being cold pretty much all day. Ice water and ice cream put an end to it. * Replace keyboard on unsable. Getting the new one in was a bit more fiddly than I remembered; it's possible that my last keyboard replacement was on the 120e. 1122Sa @ Dutch looking into "consequences" of Digid takeover by US firm - DutchNews.nl @ TIL ECOG Performance Status Scale - ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group % 15:30 freaking out?? for no apparent reason. @ down the Toki Pona rabbit hole
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Date: 2025-11-24 04:34 am (UTC)Thank you for Bohemian Catsody! Sounds about right to me. :-)
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Date: 2025-11-25 09:16 am (UTC)