Done last week (20151220Su - 26Sa)
It's been a pretty good week. Feels like a vacation, since it included a short day (Thursday), a WFH day (originally planned for Thursday, but moved up because Colleen needed a second urology appointment on Wednesday), and one day of vacation (which wasn't much of one, since it included Colleen's and my monthly urology and psych appointments respectively.) But ok.
Sunday, I spent the morning on website administration, moving song audio files into a separate directory and fixing a lot of broken links in the process. In the afternoon, Colleen, Naomi, and I went wood shopping (to Rockler, which is pretty much the only place open on Sunday that sells exotic hardwoods). The main reason excuse was to get some wood for a sewing box/ottoman that N wanted to make, for which we scored a nice 10' piece of African mahogany. But along the way, Colleen spotted a gorgeous slice of olivewood. Obviously too expensive.
Naomi and I bought it for her as a surprise Christmas present. We win. It's going to become a little table to sit between the chairs in our bedroom.
My favorite gift was a red fluffy bathrobe from Colleen; N saw it and immediately dubbed me "Gandalf the Maroon".
Food was good, too. Christmas Eve BunBun came over; with BF, Chaos, and Alex; and cooked dinner. Christmas Glenn made Roast Beast.
I spent altogether too much time Friday and Saturday on a series of Wikipedia dives and research into tiny houses. But I finally understand the Banach-Tarski paradox. Which is something I've been puzzling over since high school. Nice to get some closure on that.
Lots o' links, as usual.
1220Su * up 5:45; W=197.2; laundry, shower, dishes * finished the upgrade on Blackroot. It reinstalled Grub. I'll have to see if I can set it up for chaining. Or just use Debian, since it's lighter weight. * set up DNS for Blackroot, static leases for Blackroot and Cygnus (via WiFi) * replace song audio in steve/Songs/% with symlinks into record/Steve-song-audio/% Much thrashing because I was careless and left off pathname components in places. The upload, of course, is taking a while. Apparently the original audio files on the website had gotten themselves blown away, so this repairs a lot of broken links. * 1pm out with Colleen and Naomi - to the tool/hardwood place near Northgate - Rockler Huge fun, and some expensive lumber. Dinner at Saffron Grill: tandoori delight appetizer plate, beef biryani, chicken tikka masala, lamb pineapple curry, raita, garlic naan, yogurt cucumber salad (Middle Eastern rather than Indian), goolab jamun for desert. Yum. & lumber included a nice piece of African mahogany for the sewing box/ottoman that N wants me to help her build, and a gorgeous slice of olivewood that will be our combined present to Colleen. * Asked N what G wanted for holiday gifts. Will probably get him chocolate * When we got home and N put Ticia and Desti in the Great Room, they actually got close to one another without hissing or fighting. (Though after we let them out, Ticia did pounce next to Desti, who ran away with Ticia in pursuit. But no fight at the end of it.) I think those two are coming to terms. That leaves Cricket, but she was slow to adapt to Desti and Curio, too. : Well, grump. the Debian partition on Blackroot has problems: if you leave it with the screen locked for too long, it hangs. Have to either reinstall from scratch, or just abandon it. * drugs ordered * 15min: book shelving. Down to one stack on the klik-klak, though there are several still on the floor 1221Mo Solstice * up 5:45; W=196.2; laundry, dishes @ @ The Historic Problem With Hoppin' John | Serious Eats f(Deb Wunder et. al.) @ emotions illustrated Word Wheel | Emotions (ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "To Change the Audience") * update vacation/sick time * 8am builder meeting * 1:45 Colleen Harborview Maleng Building 7th fl. Naomi will drive, which frees me up to go to my 11am meeting at work. N has a late morning appointment at Swedish. * found a cheap ($2) pair of knit gloves at Goodwill. They're ambidextrous, so I can use them to replace any two missing gloves. * pay utility bill, Amex Gold * Present for G, suggested by N: a leather desk pad. : Longest night 1222Tu * Up 6:15; W=196.8; laundry, dishes * ‘Smart’ Spoon Allows Parkinson's Sufferers to Feed Themselves (ysabetwordsmith) Liftware All Products % left QL has a knot in it; has had since last night. Ouch. @ @ The first website went online 25 years ago today * take G to work * 15min: all books now off the Klik-Klak. They're double-shelved on most bookcases, and there's still a stack next to G's desk. * 11:30 Colleen UNW * 2pm Anita Brown Why do I keep sabotaging myself? * 4:50 leave to pick up G : 6:15 Colleen's going to need a new catheter; the one installed this morning came out. Have to decide whether to spend the night in the ER, or go in tomorrow morning. The latter, I think. : Meanwhile, the DSL line is out. Again. : And Safeway substituted marinara sauce with mushrooms, WITHOUT TELLING US. Luckily G spotted it before E ate any, and there was some of last week's in the fridge. But still... -> On second look, it's just labeled "Marinara sauce". Which means that they changed the recipe, without changing the ingredient list on the website. & and of course now I can't find the phone that I got for line testing. :P -> intermittent. Came right up at the demarc, but Clink's troubleshooter still thinks there's a problem. Going to have to replace the inside wiring, which suggests running a new line up to the Great Room. -> it's working now, but I don't trust it. & Moved a pole lamp into the garage; plugged it into the socket on the workbench. % feeling defeated. Too much crap that I really don't want to have to deal with now. 1223We * up 6:30; W=197.6; dishes @ HTML-909 f(AMS) @ Tales from the Crypto Community | Foreign Affairs Nadia Heninger @ Independence Day Clothing | Reversible Preppy Apparel | optional GPS (WIMP via FB) Clothes for the dexterity-challenged and over-sensitive: " no tags, no zippers, no buttons, no worries, sensory-friendly & reversible apparel " Adult sizes "coming soon", though it looks like they have some already. : A call from the Acredo robot, after I'd already scheduled a delivery, made me ask for an agent. Turns out there was a duplicate prescription in the system. That explains some things. * start leaving 1:30ish * 2:45 Colleen UNW -> wasn't seen until about 3:15; took until 5:30 to get home (via 99, which may have been a mistake) % became very flaky while driving -- overload? * Shopping after dinner - Walgreens (where I spent too much on chocolate for stocking stuffers), Petco, and QFC (where I mostly got cheese). @ Landmark NIH study shows intensive blood pressure management may save lives " The intervention in this trial, which carefully adjusts the amount or type of blood pressure medication to achieve a target systolic pressure of 120 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), reduced rates of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and heart failure, as well as stroke, by almost a third and the risk of death by almost a quarter, as compared to the target systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg. " @ A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: On the Juniper backdoor * send Heifer gift cards to Mom, Al, Naomi 1224Th * up 6:30; W=196.8; laundry, dishes @ The True Story of How the Patent Bar Captured a Court and Shrank the Intellectual Commons | Cato Unbound f(Harold Feld) : The box Glenn's present came in is just the right size for Colleen's; G's has a very pretty (red) inner box, so it won't need wrapping. @ Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - Dr. Mary Crowell - YouTube * 7:20 done with my (admittedly minor) wrapping. Emmy and Martin did most of the work. : 7:40ish - BunBun arrives with (new BF) Gabriel, Kat, and Alex 1225Fr Christmas * Up 5:30; W=197.8 ; laundry, shower & Wikipedia dive into complexity theory, starting with the Banach-Tarski paradox and somehow including computability theory as well (presumably via the Axiom of Choice and axiomizations of arithmetic and set theory) Triggered by The Banach-Tarski Paradox - YouTube " Q: "What's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?" A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski." " which in turn was found by chasing links from Banned from Menthar - YouTube -> finally went through and grokked the proof. Cool. As somebody said, "you don't do it with an axe". Hardly. * Glen made Roast Beast. Yum. Good conversation afterwards with Colleen, G, Emmy, and Emmy's BF. * Some great presents. Colleen gave me an awesome fluffy red bathrobe, Glen gave me a bottle of local gin, and N gave Colleen a book on tiny houses (which I'm currently reading). There was more, too. Awesome Christmas all around. & Some really nice cuddles with Ticia and g. @ read Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures: Derek "Deek" Diedricksen 1226Sa Boxing Day * up 7:20ish; W=196.8; shower * currently wearing new bathrobe. Nice. Reasonably absorbant. N. saw it and immediately dubbed me "Gandalf the Maroon" * another wikipedia dive including elliptic curves, groups, rings, fields, and lattices The really mind-boggling one is the Plate trick @ This Is The Little Life " me: The only problem with having a cat like Ticia is that one doesn't want to move " @ Ah Moon အမြန္း - Myanmar ျမန္မာ - YouTube In A Swiftly Changing Nation, Myanmar's Rihanna Finds Her Voice @ Donald Trump leads an insane white cult - and Pat Buchanan just explained how it works - Salon.com Scary * 15min: went through pile to left of desk; tracked down uncashed checks.
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