Done Since 2026-03-29

I walked every day this week! And they were good walks -- the shortest was .64km. We'll see whether I can keep it up. My blood count is still low (as of my appointment Wednesday), but it's stable and high enough that they aren't going to recommend a bone marrow biopsy. Whew! I mentioned the hip/back pain that limits my walking; I need to ask my GP for a referral to PT.

On the other hand, they didn't have my compression socks ready by my Tuesday appointment, so it got rescheduled to next week. Another week of uncomfortable leg wraps. Still better than it was before they started.

Still no action on Lizzy's repair or Scarlett's charger.

I posted a Songs for Saturday yesterday -- the last post tagged with s4s was in January. I need to write more.

Linkies: Desolation (One Small Step) by Mike Whitaker made me cry. And from Friday, A Dandelion on the Seder Plate - Keshet For trans love and celebration.

And then there's What’s The Difference between Utopia, Eutopia and Protopia? In case you were wondering what Naomi's book -- subtitled "Stories from a protopian future" -- is all about.

Notes & links:
0329Su 1am: DST starts in Europe (UTC+2)
@ Central European Summer Time - Wikipedia
* walk: H. Marsmanplantsoen 1: .70km, 11hp, 24mm, 34min, 1450st,
% could probably have gone farther but seemed to be a bit unstable
@ Cool386's Australian Site of Vintage Technology (C')
@ GE Monitor-Top Refrigerator
* 13:30 D"
@ Americans turn out for “No Tyrants” protest in Amsterdam - DutchNews.nl
: (scooter)Gizmo got rained on and stopped working. Hopefully will dry out and work.
@ Solar is winning the energy race
. check out phones and plans for A -> couldn't log in. They say it's on their end; try
later. The phones featured on the open part of the site are expensive.
~ hx work session
* Dutch
$ €166,49 from AX Au to Sainsmart for 4th axis CNC rotary attachment for Cubiko CNC
* 22:00 set out cardboard bin
-> box and large flattened boxes left inside because of rain. -> Take out tomorrow

0330Mo
% a lot of trouble getting out of bed. Got up at 5, peed, fed cats, then tried to get
back to sleep. In some pain because Bronx was lying across the bed and I had to curl
up. Eventually gave up without having slept.
-> realized later that DST was part of the problem - it was still dark at 6am
* take out loose cardboard - left inside because of rain
* walk: 07:22 DSB804 .64km, 10hp, 1300st, 24min, 17mm
* take in cardboard bin
@ Stop Complying. (It’s Easier Than You Think) - YouTube small ways to help
* 10:00 - 14:00 WZHThuiszorg leg-wrapping (here)
@ The Accidental Shape That's Cleaning Your Drinking Water (Most People Have Never
Heard Of It) #facts - YouTube - Oloid - Wikipedia
@ Curt Herzstark and his Pocket Calculator CURTA [Wikipedia]
: Livit Ottobock Care called to reschedule. they don't have the socks yet.
% 20:07 very cold 22:16 sleepy
* hx work session
* Dutch
@ Writers In The Storm How to Identify & Avoid Author Scams |
* enter tax data and Q1 invoices
-> involved tracking down our WOZ-waarde (property tax bill?) -- anyway we needed it
-> Note that it was sent to N
@ ForeverHomeHenge – Spring Edition | We Love The Stars Too Fondly

0331Tu Trans Day of Visibility
@ International Transgender Day of Visibility - Wikipedia
* walk: 8:40ish DSB801: .85km, 9hp, (17:34) 36mm, 3400st
x socks -- they don't have them yet - postponed to 0409Th 9:40
~ call WZH to make sure they keep me on the schedule
-> checked, and I'm on the schedule, so no need to call
@ jesse_the_k | Trans Duet: “Yellow” — Soprano and Tenor Eight Years Apart
@ Grand Bazaar, Istanbul - Wikipedia
@ I Decompiled the White House's New App
" The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks
your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages. "
: can't find lab form for my appointment tomorrow. call (070) 210 2556
* will email the form. -> received, printed
* email info@econelo.de about charger
* email A about phone
* hx work session
@ What Is Subtext? How Does It Work? and more from Mythcreants
" fantasy and SF for storytellers " -- good info; rabbit holes
I _really_ like Our Team
@ What’s The Difference between Utopia, Eutopia and Protopia? - Metamoderna
" In its original, minimalist — and admittedly rather lacking — formulation by Kevin
Kelly, Protopia is simply a term that denotes the gradual improvement of society
over time, without claiming either perfection or the reaching of a point of
stability. "
@ This App Makes Even the Sketchiest PDF or Word Doc Safe to Open | WIRED
Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous documents into safe PDFs [Git]
@ GIJN Toolbox: Hunting for Secret Money and Financial Conflicts of Interest
GIJN Global Investigative Journalism Network
$ I HX $5.49 from Bandcamp -> 4.77 EUR -> logged with bookkeepers
* Dutch
* load drugs. Skip doxazosin

0401We April Fools' Day; Pesach
@ April Fools' Day
@ Passover
* walk: 08:01 Erasmusweg: 1.17km, 18hp, 35mm, 41min, 2150st % good pace
~ call about Scarlett. Was dropped off 3/12; I left voice mail 03/27
-> sent with contact form. 15:50
* hx work session
* Dutch
* schedule uber pickup for 12:50
* 12:50 leave for 13:30 blood test, 14:30 Haga hematology
-> hemoglobin low, but stable, and not so low that they need to do a biopsy, or
consider a transfusion.
-> Discussed my walking; might want to talk to GP about PT
-> he's not going to be at Haga in October -- resident? But anyway we talked a little
about travel plans. I mentioned the eclipse in Aug and he asked for pictures -- I
pointed him at Going-Sideways.blog and steve.savitzky.net.
-> return appt scheduled for Th 1 Oct. 10:30
% 9ish feeling very cold

0402Th World Autism Awareness Day
@ World Autism Awareness Day - Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Autistic Pride Day, 18 June
@ Artemis II - Wikipedia
* SL: phone for A. Turns out AT+T won't ship a SIM without knowing the IMEI, so
they'll have to go to a store for that.
* walk: 7:44 H. Marsmanplantsoen 1: .7km, 11hp, 17mm, 18min, 1300st,
@ Claude Code's source reveals extent of system access • The Register
@ xkcd: Creation particularly
@ Desolation (One Small Step) | Mike Whitaker | NéPALM Music Tears. 😂 😢
% don't know whether those are tears of joy or of sorrow. Both, probably.
: heard from econelo -- they wanted pictures; sent them the EU cert as well.
Also asked whether I can just connect to the IEC C14 socket.
@ 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' Started Out as a Critical Flop. Fifty Years Later,
the Beloved Film Is a Cultural Phenomenon
* SL: cat litter, kibble
@ Let the commits tell the story - Chris Maiorana one-liners. examples are from a
novel-writer, which makes sense. In a team you need more detail. See below:
Git Commit Messages: Options and Approaches – Chelsea Troy This, and _especially_
Storing Context in Commit Messages – Chelsea Troy THIS
o change gmail and google.com passwords (WS=5)
~ n.b. google account ssavitzky expired 0321; never used
* hx work session
* Dutch

0403Fr Good Friday
: cats got out because I had to use the WC too urgently to set out the food bowls first
-> chased Bronx out of 2nd floor hallway. By which time Ticia had gotten out
-> got dressed. In particular, grippy socks. Meanwhile both cats were on ground floor
-> picked Bronx up off of the gray chair which, like Brooklyn, he was using the back
of as a scratcher. Made it up the stairs without much trouble, so Go Me
-> called to Ticia, and she came up for me. Win.
: DH migrated my acccount to ad1-shared-b8-03 -- update .ssh/known_hosts
* walk: 07:40 DSB801 .85km, 12hp, 18min, 22mm, 1600st
-> brought in PMD bin, which should have been done yesterday
@ A Dandelion on the Seder Plate - Keshet For trans love and celebration
@ ESA - Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS
@ 10 Most(ly Dead) Influential Programming Languages | by Brevis | Feb, 2026
@ Renewables dominate 2025's newly installed generating capacity - Ars Technica
* sent email re: Scarlett; email and contact form re: Lizzy. see Dog/yotracking.done
* hx work session
* Goodreads - make account, vote up TWAiOtB on several relevant lists (sugg. by N)
* get N on track with her share of the taxes -- US wealth+income
-> she asked, having been prompted by (bookkeeper)Maria. Timely, and one less thing
to worry about or procrastinate.
* Dutch

0404Sa
% Colleen showed up briefly in one of my later dreams. Sort of in the background. But
it's nice to know that she's still there in my dreamspace occasionally.
* walk: 7:31 Erasmusweg 1.2km, 15hp, 25mm, 35min, 2200st,
@ 12.5 Million Downloads a Month. She’s Never Seen Her Code on a Screen.
Jessica Tegner took over pypandoc in 2021. She lost her vision in 2018
" This is how open source succession actually works. There is no formal process. No
job posting. No interview panel. A polite email and willingness to show up. "
@ Europe’s €800 Billion Breakup Letter to America: AI, Satellites, Rockets, GPS, and $
| by Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. | Mar, 2026 | Medium
" ... a continent of 450 million people just decided that “never again” isn’t a slogan.
It’s a procurement strategy. "
@ W Social: Europe’s Social Network To Fight US Privacy Nightmare | Mandar Karhade
W Social: No You Are Not Losing The Privacy That You Never Had. Wake up!
@ Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia
" "the "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in
July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article remain." "
Not entirely true, though. See discussion above. Possibly, no _sentences_ remain
@ Orion Spacecraft - NASA By the numbers [PDF] The crew module is 3.35m high and 5m in diameter. It is
too tall to fit in our living room, and too wide unless we took out the furniture
@ The Oldest (Known) Song Ever
* back and seat of second Adirondack chair connected. (2 * (screw, washer, ferule))
% basically all that my back and feet will take today. Next time, the arms.
@ More context on this #Artemis II image: This is the night side, lit by moonlight
* hx work session
* research. UpCloud, among other things
@ Global Cloud Platform - UpCloud
seems fairly expensive compared with DH because everything is unbundled
@ OpenLiteSpeed Apache rewrite rules
@ posted mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: The oldest known song
after seeing The Oldest (Known) Song Ever - YouTube and doing a bit of a dive
* Dutch

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