Done Since 2020-09-06

Not a good week. Not horrible, either, by contemporary standards, but Colleen spent Monday through Thursday in the hospital with another UTI, and the air quality has gotten progressively worse. Up until today Whidbey Island -- or at least the Oak Harbor measuring station -- has had a slightly lower AQI than most of the surrounding measurements, but today it's solidly up into "Unhealthy" (around 185, though it depends somewhat on which map you're looking at and how you interpolate; the Washington department of Ecology's map has it in the mid-to-high 200s, which is Very Unhealthy). Parts of Seattle are up into the Hazardous range. "Don't breathe anything you can see" -- good advice if you can manage it. I can't.

I've been making progress on upgrading (laptop)Sable to a 1TB SSD and three distributions (Mint/MATE, LMDE/Cinnamon, and UbuntuStudio/Xfce4). The main obstacles are the fact that Mint and UStudio both identify themselves as "ubuntu", so their boot/efi information clobber one another, and the fact that a lot of my setup for (window manager)Xmonad was based on Gnome, which doesn't play well with MATE or Xfce. And some of it was based on the (previously-valid) assumption that I would need only one set of config files per machine. Working on it, and (setup manager)Honu will be the better for it when I'm done. Hopefully this week. I also expect to get a few curmudgeon posts out of it.

I have not been singing nearly as much as (I feel that) I should be. A lot less than is good for me. This is, sadly, typical.

( Notes & links, as usual )