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mdlbearNote: I haven't had more than a short nap in over 36 hours. So this is going to be a really short and possibly incoherent post.
The main thing this week was my (short) trip to the US -- first solo transatlantic flight. Far easier than I'd been afraid it would be. The bank errands didn;t get run, but I got to the Wednesday grief group gathering in Third Place Commans, got my driver's license renewed (and had a nice long chat with MG from the Tuesday group, while she drove me down to the DOL in Tukwilla), and had lunch with my kids on my (79th) birthday. The sushi place was closed, but we went next door and had ramen and pork buns.
I took Lilac, and got everything done that needed to be done, but it was a struggle. Some scattered commentary below. There are links below but you'll have to dig them out yourself -- I'm going to bed. With my cats.
Notes & links: 0308Su International Women's Day International Women's Day - Wikipedia * walk: 7:39 DSB801: .85km; 13hp, 15min, 1404st @ Gemini Won Every Benchmark. Don’t Use It for Everything. | by MohamedAbdelmenem " Ask yourself: “If my model makes a mistake six hours into a session, how much does that cost me?” If the answer is “a lot” (lost progress, corrupted context), prioritize Sonnet. If the answer is “not much” (short, atomic tasks), optimize for cost with Gemini or for speed with Codex. " * start laundry early 10:50; @ Five Women In Tech That EFF Admires @ RIP Country Joe McDonald ysabetwordsmith | Moment of Silence: Country Joe McDonald good set of links I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag How to Be a Singer Songwriter: 15 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow : Apparently one can use a non-contact credit or debit card in place of an ORCA card. Whew! just like here. Wonder whether my Bunq card would work. * book ride to Schiphol; leave ~6am 0310Tu for Delta DL0143 0310 10:15am in notes say "driver speaks English" htmc.nl/getapp/index-en.html * hx work session * finish packing -> rollaboard is 5cm too wide for Delta carryon. Meds all fit in the larger CPAP case, though. -> Check the suitcase, or take a backpack. :( -> next time get a Travelpro Maxlite 5 (non-international) for Delta. -> CPAP and meds barely fit in the CPAP case; better in a convertable backpack -> 19:32 packed, except for the last-minute stuff. Wound up using the orange-trimmed tan bag instead of the black one -- the latter is better padded, but has all sorts of unnecessary strappage hanging off it. * Dutch * lilac: copy over FF profile, Overkill, and it ought to be password protected 0309Mo * walk: 7:44 DSB801: .80km, 9hp, 21mm, 2400st, * 11:24 WZHThuiszorg leg-wrapping (here) * hx work session * tried x2x between Sable and Lilac. Works fine. ssh lilac; ... x2x -west -to :0.0 (apparently needs to be done from a terminal window on Sable) * Dutch ~ call pharmacy 07 07112424 8:30 to 17:30. Order listed as "pending". WTF??? -> I have 10 lisinopril left, very few pantoprozol, but I can use Rennie -> ready for pickup. Damnit, I asked for delivery -* picked up - Uber both ways * set alarms 4:45, 5:00, 5:15, 5:55 * masks! * pack Lilac, US phone (side pocket of sling), * address conf., cane, mouse, keyboard, glasses (suitcase) final decision about which bag to use for cpap etc.; bathrobe? no; * NAPROXEN -> might have made sense to use the black bag, and the tan one in place of the sling, but I'm not going to try to fix it now 0310Tu * turn off watch and leave it at home; turn off BT on phone. * take am1 drugs before leaving; am2 before leaving; pack the box. * 6am leave by taxi for Delta DL0143 0310 10:15am -> 12:35pm conf# HLLNEN -> The slingś a bit too small. -> should _definitely_ have brought a battery. -> not all of my emacs config ishere -> touchpad right click not working. Missing drivers, apparently. Have mouse. -> 11:31 Either my charger is broken,or the outlet is -- red light, no power. Growf. there's one in my suitcase,,, -> no there apparently isn´t. -> Lilac´s screen is in danger of getting stuck caught behind the seatback in front * 13:20 (arrival+45min) pickup by crown limo * hx work session ~ having trouble setting up ecryptfs for ssa x Bunq elite? -> no, insurance only for people under 75yo ~struggling to get ssa set up properly. right now it´s totally broken : now set up with local Private. but it works. - Dutch * load drugs 0311We : Lizzie is afhalen. * 10:15 -> summon Lyft or go down to bus stop and catch the 372 * 10:20 leave for 11am Memory Keepers realspace at Third Place Commons. had a coffee and breakfast croissant from the bakery Had a good visit. Stupidly forgot my cane, the one time it would have been useful. There does not appear to be public WiFi here -- wtf? I guess they assume everyone uses it from their phone. -> wrong: kcls (King County Library System) - fully open, no login * call WhidbeyHealth Sleep Center (360) 240-40A80 to verify that data is uploading -> it is; they have data up theough yesterday * grocery shopping - got coffee (Major Dickison´s) and candied ginger. No prunes or distilled water. Growf. . hx work session ; continuing to beat Lilac into submission. XMonad had errors in the config; now it's compiling but fails with an X error wss works when run from a terminal, but not M-p. And scrolling in the dbar moves windows to another workspace imstead of switching workspaces. WTF? * Dutch 20min? : now using Lilac in tent configuration on an actual table. * Honu/bin/show-temp should send error msgs to /dev/null. . N reports that the mailing list button for WAiOTB is broken. DAMN!!S we must have been losing readers all this time. CRAP The problem may be a link rather than the app itself. -* the PDF is missing! -> fixed (Makefile, upload) -> does the confirmation email point to the right page? -> also the subscribe link hangs in Cloudflare when clicked on n-r.com Probably due to same-origin trouble? 0312Th $ C $50 to Carleton from AX Au : noon (CET) Scarlett is back! @ Signal >> Government Requests >> Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia * put address conf´s and glasses in sling @ install uBlock Origin on Lilac´s firefox (via don_marti_feed) gorhill/uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. · GitHub @ Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media | Cat Valente @ A 'mass migration' of stars from the Milky Way's center could explain why there's life in our solar system | Live Science * 1pm meet MG at street level for pickup -> got her lost by mistakenly telling her 25th Ave NW instead of NE -> still made it to DOL,with about 10nin to spare % had a great talk. Mostly talking about me, which is typical. * -maybe- hit storage unit on the way back to test key * 14:00 DOL Tukwilla office 200 S Andover Park E STE 3, TUKWILA WA 98188 % annoyingly, I needed my glasses this time. Fortunately, i had them with me. $ paid via AX Au. I did need the glasses this time. $141 for 8years % 18:48 cold, sleepy. Damned glad I´m not driving on this trip * hx work session * Dutch * do ad blockers break the newsletter signup? -> no. -> uBlock Origin, at least, does _not_ prevent it from working. & talk with N about her hiring a marketing person and author page designer : current Lilac problems: scroll wheel. It seems to be sending some stupid character combination rather than just the buttons. Causes havoc in dzen2 bar. Might be due to solaar screwing something up. But xev says it's sending buttons 4 and5,which I think is right. xmonad problem? Dead keys. Or rather the inability to turn them off in the external keyboard. 0313Fr 79 : But now after sleeping with the kbd off, both keyboards work properly as US, no dead keys. I would hesitate to turn int'l back on. Scrolling still borked. -> explicitly set R alt to Compose in the keyboard map applet -- fixed it? no @ Complete Guide to (57) Almost All Types of Fiber Arts with Photos--Sarazen AnYin (via ysabetwordsmith) * hx work session * Dutch * links and address to healing ctr and realspace mailing lists * 13:30 summon Lyft for... * 1400 lunch with kids - meet at -Tengu Sushi-> closed due to weather - WTF? -> ramen place next door. then the storage unit. Chaos took some stuff. I consideed taking the small Travelpro hardshell, but decided against. * storage unit. Key in wallet. Verified yesterday -> standing at the unit was exhausting. -> back 17:07. Took picture of key to see if we have the second one * 8pm zoom with C´ nice talk, ~40m; met his SO. I had to download the damned program, of course, and then spent several minutes figuring out how to get a _link_ to the meeting that I could send. It turns out that the way to do that is before you actually launch it. 0313Fr-0315Su Festival of the Living Rooms 0314Sa Pi Day 3.14 @ Pi Day - Wikipedia @ What Does Pi Sound Like? | IFLScience ` : the roasted almonds and the Shure earbuds are missing. Don´t care about the almonds -> earbuds in the little bag with the mouse, which is the right place for them * hx work session * Dutch ~ lilac: the dead keys still won´t die. mod4 needs ´hyper mapped to win´ option. -> some sites suggest having it installed on boot. * 11:30 pickup by Crown Limo for Delta DL0142 4:05pm -> 0315Su 10am conf# HLLNEN * movies watched; Fantasia, Wonder Woman,
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Date: 2026-03-15 09:43 pm (UTC)