Done Since 2019-12-15
I didn't get much done this week. Sunday was eaten up by travel back from Mom's birthday party. I actually had a good conversation with a seatmate on the second leg of my trip, thanks to her 2-year-old sitting between us; kids and pets make good conversation starters, even for someone like me who isn't good at starting conversations.
In the spirit of "eat the biggest frog first", I started making French lessons on Mondly the first thing I do in the morning after taking my drugs and writing my sleep stats in to.do. Too early to tell how long I'll keep it up. I've cut back on 7Cups now that I've discontinued my therapy "subscription", so there's some hope I'll do a little more writing.
Along those lines, I started drafting my traditional New Year's Eve and New Year's Day posts. It's also possible that I'll get a "State of the Bear" post out at some random date between now and the end of the year, but don't hold your breath -- the last one appears to have been somewhat over a decade ago. Not sure why I decided to try it this year.
Notes & links:
1215Su & awake 4:30ish; * up 7:30; ; awakened by alarm * breakfast. Wasn't staying late enough to have brunch with everyone else; sat with (residents)the ?Puette; then Al. Blueberry pancakes. * 10am leave with Ellen % somehow managed to pick up an extra copy of Mom's memoir. Mail back if necessary : the salt causes problems at TSA -> bring packets next time % things forgotten: hairbrush, fluticasone; salt packets for neti * American Airlines 2495 RDU to CLT Dec 15, 1:02 PM conf# ZGNDYB American Airlines 2062 CLT to SEA Dec 15, 4:46 PM arr. 7:38 shuttle leaving 6:45pm, arriving in Freeland 8:35pm : one of the cords on the luggage carrier broke; I tossed it. Means I'll have to hold both the CPAP and Plink, but I was doing that more often than not anyway. : Firefox gives me security violations in both airports; probably using MIM filtering & wrote fsetup - just 1-4 with -d -r (which ought to be flipped) % idiot bear confused the departure time of the last leg of the flight with the arrival time. Hurriedly called shuttle and V to change reservation. Pretty clear that it was bad formatting - the return departure times were in the same position as the outbound arrival times. Growf. : sable keeps turning off if left asleep for too long. Hibernation fault? Looked at man pm-suspend-hybrid, but didn't find any way of controlling it. : American has much more legroom than Delta. Can actually use a laptop in my lap. & nice conversation with the woman (Brandi -- 31y old) sitting in the aisle seat -- her two-year-old was in the middle. fun. Babies and pets are always good conversation-starters. Had a brief interaction in the airport with parents of twin girls as they were getting off the plane -- they seemed like a handful * reread Drunkboat * read the latest edition of Mom's memoir. I've been getting a lot of things wrong all weekend (and before). : flight running about 20 minutes ahead of schedule. * reread The Ballad of Lost C'mell * call V on arrival at the airport. * 6->8:30 catch shuttle for 8:45 departure 1216Mo * Up 5:30; S=6:02; : My new insurance card for Premera finally showed up, % so that's a relief ~ call Island Drug and order heated tubing -> waiting for tubing to come in? & tested hibernate; enlarged swapfile. hibernate *does not work* & paid V out of household account. Very tight right now. * email Mom and offer to mail back extra copy of memoir attach copies of Rainbow's Edge, Get Up and Go, and The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of : call from Island Senior Resources (Julienne.France@dshs.wa.gov) re: programs we might be eligible for -- we're not - over asset limit -> there are some volunteers who do transportation. -* sending a list of paid providers and how to hire guide ~ no singing lesson today -- N' has a cold. % I note in passing that my right knee hasn't bothered me for the last few days. * change CPAP filter, clean humidifier * finished gin : new vacuum cleaner arrived. Much lighter than the old one; feels kind of cheap, but will be easier to haul around and was a lot cheaper. & attempting to create a new swap partition, using the app on the menu which I thought was gparted. Wasn't. It apparently made my linux partition go away. Wrote /home onto a 64G SD card (after some fumbling around to reformat it), and used fdisk to create the swap partition. Hopefully the win7 partition got resized and not ruined in the process. Hopefully rewriting the partition table with fdisk will have fixed whatever the gui tool did to it. -> win7 was resized to 85.6G-> * check after reboot -> Cool! It worked! Now we want to see whether it works after a plain suspend, but I'm not going to worry about that right now. * $300 to E for books 1217Tu * Up 6:41; W=198.4, S=7:23 * order wipes @ Approval Extraction Advertised as Production | Compass Rose (7c) Y Combinator, IQ test scores, SAT, etc. measure the ability to pass tests, etc. not intelligence Hotel Concierge - The Stanford Marshmallow Prison Experiment drunk looking for their keys under the lamppost because the light's better / 11:30 Thel wound care - almost closed * leave 1:15 -> had a hell of a time finding it; google was off by far enough to be nearly useless. / 2:30 checkin C Skagit Regional Clinics - urology Dr. Amy Arista 32650 Hwy 20, suite E-105, Oak Harbor -> info on how to flush. 1-year callback * pick up L's drugs at Payless on the way home. : sable didn't un-hibernate, it just rebooted. So bletch. # for f in */*_files; do ls -d $(dirname "$f")/"$(basename "$f" _files)"*; done -> the idea being to s/ls -d/git rm -r/ and get all those worthless duplicates out of books/Cordwainer_Smith/ 1218We & Awake 4ish; cleanup; % heat on back; back to bed 5ish * up 8:34; W=198.4, S=7:24; / 2:30 C Dr. Rochier x- have him look at leg wound (Thel) * coat rack: cut both pieces of ?redwood 1x2 to length, sand, finish (Watco Danish oil) @ Why is Not an Accordion - daverupert.com accessibility % somewhere between choice paralysis and lack of motivation * started drafts for year-end and new-year posts 1219Th * Up 6:15; S=5:57; shower * started with Mondly. Caught up on daily lessons, did 3/8 of "Romance" @ Progressive Web Apps | Google Developers Web DNA Report 2019 | MDN Mobile-Friendly Test - Google Search Console Progressive Web App Checklist | Google Developers Consolidate duplicate URLs - Search Console Help (link rel=canonical) * Some images on s.s.net, e.g. CC icons, are http, not https. (Mobile-Friendly Test - Google Search Console) ... there are a hell of a lot of http: links in other locations. * SL: miracle whip, jiffy peanut butter creamy, blood orange cran, straight cran, sandwich bread, english muffins, colleen frozen veg: broccoli and rice, green bean & potato, mediterranean mix, garden medley; TP, 5 lbs flour, brown sugar, onions (2-3 yellow, 2-3 white), hamburger, ground breakfast sausage, baking soda, peanut oil, chicken thighs, 2%milk, Darigold eggnog, roma tomatoes, pretzels x lettuce, 1 frozen pizza, ros\'e wine for C, gin, aveeno intensive care lotion; ~ take mis-delivered package across the street -> left it in the shed (out of the rain) and put a note in their mailbox. It worked. @ An Introvert's Guide to Hosting Parties (ysabetwordsmith) 10 Hacks For Surviving A Party As An Introvert 1220Fr & Up 3:06 (Ticia); mondly; back to bed 4:50 % lol: one of the phrases in the "romance" unit is "Il nous restera toujours Paris." * up 8:30ish; S=7:08; * 11ish C Thel catheter change : call from Island Drug -- they don't have tubing in stock yet. Will call when they do @ OSCAR - Open Source CPAP Analysis Reporter Phil Olynyk / OSCAR-code · GitLab OSCAR Installation - Apnea Board Wiki @ How To Help Someone Who Is Grieving - Band Back Together (ysabetwordsmith) & another blob of compressed fluff in my phone's USB-C port. Had to take a bit of guitar string and *bend the end int an L-hook* to tease it out. -> Figured I should lint my shirt pocket while I was at it. -> ordered plugs. 1221Sa & up 12ish; / 2 cleanups, C took a shower for the last one. If it _is_ the last one % left lower back hurts. QL? not like the usual QL pain -> tizanidine * up 7:45; S=5:41; naproxen Back still hurts % probably is the QL, though; where it joins the hip -> leading to a wikipedia dive starting with muscles of the lower back, and going through anatomical direction terms to port/starbord, stage left/right, etc. @ How attachment theory works in the therapeutic relationship | Aeon Essays : L off visiting; will be back Mo or Tu. @ Meet the Modern-Day Pagans Who Celebrate the Ancient Gods (archived) ADF (Ár nDraíocht Féin - Wikipedia): founded in 1983 by Isaac Bonewits @ Straw Phonation - VoiceScienceWorks What we do - VoiceScienceWorks " Our goal is to take contemporary research on the voice and translate it into directly applicable information so that you, the voice user, can immediately apply it in your practice. " Warm ups and exercises - VoiceScienceWorks NCVS: Ingo Titze bio How blowing into a straw can save your voice - Vox The Unspoken Benefit of the Straw - Petersen Voice Studio " There’s one really great additional usage of the straw that often isn’t mentioned: You can practice and warm up in environments where normally it would be inappropriate to sing! " Harmonics Vs. Formants - VoiceScienceWorks @ Nancy Nolan: Singing to Reach the Eternity of Now | Whidbey Life Magazine @ Preparing for the Recording Studio - Voice Soaring Studio
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