Done Since 2023-09-17

A fairly busy week; not a particularly pleasant one, though it had its moments.

So... Monday we (me, G, and N) made our reservations for OVFF. Which means that I will be going there instead of the Columbae reunion in the Bay Area. I'm going to be second-guessing that until the end of time, I think. It's just barely possible that I could do both, but it would be more flying and hotel time than I want in a week. I will attempt to attend the reunion via Zoom.

I also got my flu and RSV shots, and made appointments for COVID and my second Shingrix stab. COVID was the most complicated, because the major chains were scheduling out in late October, which would have meant that I wouldn't be at full strength for OVFF. Safeway, however, had appointments. So did Island Drug. My guess is that the chains don't actually have it in stock, but are counting on getting some over the next month. All of the chains are using the same miserable scheduling software; Safeway's was different but still tedious. All require entering at least some data before you can see the available appointments, which means that it takes more time and more typing before finding out that they don't have any.

Meanwhile I have a prostate MRI scheduled for Wednesday.

Some of this weekend was spent looking at the 20-odd pounds of accumulated, mostly-dead hard drives. Most are IDE; some are SCSI, which I probably won't be able to read because I appear to have gotten rid of all my SCSI boards, cables, and terminators. Blarg. So those will have to be shredded. I have also been looking through boxes, some of which contain treasures. Which means I have to triage their contents and attempt to scan the photos. And figure out what to do with the stuff I can't scan... And deal with the fact that I've fallen way behind.

The language app I've been using, Mondly, started the week still broken; it came back on Tuesday but by that time I had started with Duolingo, which on the whole seems to be an improvement. I'll do a review at some point. Both are annoying, but in different ways.

Under links, take a look at Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power (Single-bladed is a bit of a misnomer; it's one piece but provides two blades at 180°. Dutch company -- windmills are in their DNA.)

( Notes & links, as usual )