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mdlbear Not a great week. Started out well, with cat cuddles and walks Sunday and
Monday mornings. Then came my GP appointment.
Of course, I was supposed to be fasting, so that was a bust. And I picked
up my re-filled prescriptions (the pharmacy is across the street), but
there was one missing. So I went in again for labs on Thursday, and they
couldn't find a vein. WTF? They advised me to try at the hospital. Labs
at HagaZiekenhuis require an appointment, but fortunately I already
had an appointment, following up on my anemia. So that was
Friday. Skipped breakfast, went in, handed them both lab forms,
one stick and done. And their website works, so I got to see the
results ahead of the appointment next week.
Oh yeah, I also had a psych appointment Thursday afternoon, to discuss
antidepressants, which actually went well. I really don't have any idea
how to make use of therapy, but I like talking about myself, my problems,
and my family. Follow-up in two weeks.
CW: medical, whingeing.
Since April or therabouts,
my "GP" is a clinic with a handful of doctors and a bunch of assistants.
It took me a while (months) to finally figure this out. Anyway, Carmen --
the assistant I saw on Monday -- couldn't find my lab results from 20
November. Fortunately I'd asked for a printout at my previous
appointment, so I scanned that and sent it by email. I got my BP meds
changed somewhat. Then labs on Wednesday.
Then yesterday I tried attending Festival of the Living Rooms, the quarterly online filk con that started almost by accident during Covid. But instead of using the Zoom app, which just works, they insisted on going through the web app embedded on their shiny new website. Calling it beta quality is being generous. FotLR may have jumped the shark this time.
Naturally I didn't get much done otherwise, although I did go back and look at the scratch tracks I'd recorded for my next album, Amethyst Rose. Um... They were recorded between 2004 and 2010! WTF? I'll have to see whether anything can be rescued from that debacle.
Enough griping. Links! How about Grooming a Giant Rescue Maine Coon Cat? And Monday's APOD, Flying Over the Earth at Night, a time-lapse from the ISS. Particularly noteworthy for the footage of the Aurora Australis starting at 1:20
If you have lots of free time, take a look at WikiFlix. CONTENT WARNING: very deep rabbit hole full of old movies.
And finally, because of the season and because it's incredibly cool, here's The Ukrainian Origin of “Carol of the Bells” | The Story of Shchedryk (Щедрик). Turns out the tune was taken from an old New Year's Day chant, from back when New Years Day was celebrated on Beltane. Better, here's the Original Ukrainian Version, sung first in a pretty littleral English translation (with Ukranian subtitles!), then in Ukranian. And best of all, here's a Remix by the B&B project for bandura and button accordion.
Notes & links: 1207Su @ Attack on Pearl Harbor % 08:16 Bronx purring in my lap. should do this more often * walk: 10:39 Erasmusweg 1.2km, 8hp, 25mm, 29min, 2100st % my second cup of coffee, after my walk, may have been excessive 12:46 @ grimthorpe/clbre: A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out @ How Fayetteville’s New Program Makes It Easy To Build Housing | Strong Towns (ysabetwordsmith) * SL: fish oil, kibble, pantsu, green soap dishwasher tablets, catlitter @ Grooming a Giant Rescue Maine Coon Cat...I Was Not Expecting This - YouTube 1208Mo % woke up to some absolutely lovely headbumps from Ticia. Twice -- 5ish (she must have noticed that my bladder was waking me up) and again 7ish. She's a darling. * walk: 8:38 Erasmusweg 1.2km, 10hp, 24mm, 32min, 2215st, @ APOD: 2025 December 8 – Flying Over the Earth at Night time-lapse from the ISS Particularly noteworthy for the footage of the Aurora Australis starting at 1:20 @ Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Cory Doctorow " AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. " @ Satellites spot rapid “Doomsday Glacier” collapse | ScienceDaily (ysabetwordsmith @ Surprising Foods That Are Safe for Your Feline Friend (dialecticdreamer) @ UK Open Government Licence is now compliant with the Open Definition Open Definition 2.1 - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge @ What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026? — P.D.Review Advent calendar Stoking creative fires: Counting down to Public Domain Day 2026 @ How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks | The Verge : call from GP clinic; a little difficult to figure out exactly what it was about. 1209Tu & 25ml BBotE + 300ml H2O in unwashed coffee mug. Tasty. More caffeine than usual? * 08:45 leave for 09:30 GP dr? Carmen ~ are you the one who called me yesterday?? different voice ~- edema, itching, etc. Possibility of blood clot. deep vein thrombosis? feels like stuff -- blood clots?? -- moving around under my skin. *- amlodipine has edema as a side effect, and also interacts with simvastatin *- increase lisinopril, ~ possibly furosemide, * drop or decrease amlodipine x- mention that I'm using compression socks ~- feeling cold. anemia or something else to worry about (for hospital?) : couldn't find lab results frm 20 Nov. -- I had to scan the copy that (fortunately) I had had printed out at my last appt (28 Nov), and email it. -> but they were found at my 28 Nov. appointment. @ The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About Code | Krzyś Read it for the humor, especially the quotes, and the illustrations Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis " 3. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. " " 14. In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble. " " 40. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. " @ Bonus: The One-Liner Dark Mode Everyone Copies (But Improved) % 16:33 having a _lot_ of trouble getting anything done. & spent much of the last hour and a half looking at the scratch tracks I'd recorded for Amethyst Rose. WTF? They are 18 projects in Tracks, and 13 songs ripped. They appear to have been recorded, at 44.1kHz/24-bits, between 2004(!) and 2010. % AND THEN I JUST STOPPED! WTAF?? Then nothing for 15 years. And here I am. -> talked with N about it. She pointed out that the medical stuff I'm dealing with is definitely getting _something_ done, even if it doesn't count as "work". And that I'm not the only one with unfinished projects. * load drugs . SL: lisinopril thru Wed; furosemide thru Thur, pantoprozol out, bupropion out next wk lisinopril and pantoprozol refilled. 1210We Human Rights Day @ Human Rights Day-Wikipedia ~ 8ish leave for bloodwork at clinic -> not fasting so I'll have to come back tomorrow DAMN x- ask receptionist what's going on with records -> OTOH I didn't get furosemide refilled, so I'd have had to go back tomorrow anyway % 10:27 falling apart * request furosemide refill * account on FotLR site @ Signs the Collapse is Here. The Point of No Return | Investor’s Handbook % 17:57 cold... 21:38 starting to overheat. Took off blanket and sweater. @ WikiFlix CONTENT WARNING: Rabbit hole 1211Th * FASTING * 8ish leave for bloodwork at clinic *- urine sample before leaving -> they couldn't find a vein and told me to try at the hospital. -> Fortunately I have an appointment there for bloodwork tomorrow. ~- ask receptionist what's going on with records -> same "they're working on it." nonsense @ solarbird | the united states declares strategic war on the EU @ Evacuations ordered in Skagit, Snohomish counties amid WA flooding | SeaTimes ‘Catastrophic’ flooding expected in King, Snohomish, Skagit counties | Sea imes @ ongoing by Tim Bray · After the Bubble Money Stuff: Put the Data Center in the Box | NewsletterHunt * leave 1:15 for 2pm psych appt at Parnassia -> forgot to ask for a new scrip, but we agreed that it would be worthwhile continuing Bupropion. OTOH not having a scrip might make tapering off a good experiment * SL: wet cat fud (4 boxes), 3*litter - to arrive tomorrw 1212 as it turned out, we actually had plenty of litter. Still needed the wetfud, tho % forgot to take watch off charger; forgot to refill water bottle. WTF? 1212Fr FotLR * 9ish(?) to Apotheek to pick up furosemide, which got missed on Tuesday ?? box said 90 but there were only 30 tablets in it. % the seat collapsed shortly after I left from the apotheek -- apparently I hadn't pulled up hard enough to completely latch it. -> ibuprofen. Pain just under ribs * 11:15 summon uber for 12:03 bloodwork @ Haga -- lab sheetS in wallet pocket of sling @ The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency 1213Sa * walk: Simon Vestdijkstaat .4km, 3hp, 10min, 16mm, 463st, * 9:45 D" -> change litter, change bottom sheet @ Footage appears to show large aircraft soaring over California Stratolaunch | The Future of Hypersonic Testing [wikipedia] * 8ish Festival of the Living Rooms (FotLR), the occasional (quarterly, now) virtual filk con, has a shiny new web site, with a slightly-broken login prcess and a rather more broken embedded version of Zoom. @ Ground Zero: Los Angeles and the Endgame of the Growth Ponzi Schemec(ysabetwordsmith) @ The moment the earliest known human-made fire was uncovered - BBC News @ The Ukrainian Origin of “Carol of the Bells” | The Story of Shchedryk - YouTube Shchedryk / Щедрик. Carol of the Bells. Original Ukrainian Version with English and Ukrainian Lyrics - YouTube Carol Of The Bells / Shchedryk (Remix by B&B project) bandura and button accordion * 19:00 FotLR (11am MST) -> may not be back tomorrow, it's that bad.
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Date: 2025-12-14 03:40 pm (UTC)theres a church by my house who plays greensleeves on their bells every day at noon in december. they dont do a really good job, haha.
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Date: 2025-12-15 12:02 am (UTC)