Done Since 2020-04-12
I may have gone down a few too many rabbit holes this week. And not getting much else done, but at least it gives me a bit of a respite from way too much stress. This is actually not unusual -- it happens a lot these days. I'm not even counting the two I fell into this morning. Several of them started on #filkhaven. One of those was Apollo 13 in Real Time (see last week's s4s), which I kept coming back to and having to get back up to date with. Because real-time. (With a 50-year lag, of course. The commentary track was fascinating.)
The other was the song Gingerbread [YouTube] [bandcamp, with lyrics], by Nancy Kerr. I was listening to the Folk on Foot Festival on Monday, and was grabbed by the line "You are not your grieving". (It'll be an s4s post, either this evening (taking advantage of the ambiguous initial letter) or next week.)
Today's rabbit holes, in case I don't get around to making separate posts for them, started at Computer Scientist Donald Knuth Can’t Stop Telling Stories (which went on to take in his massive organ composition Fantasia Apocalyptica), and Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math.
Thursday Colleen and I went out on the front deck and did some gardening. The weather was perfect for it. I'm not normally a garden person, but she'd been feeling down and I figured we could both use a little time in the sun.
Notes & links:
0412Su Yuri's Night, Easter * litter boxen * up 6:40; W=195.2, S=6:22; shower @ He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus - NYT @ The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus - The New York Times full set [pdf] @ Yuri's Night - Wikipedia * 10am - 2pm Rite Aid curbside pickup -> went out about 1pm @ For space is wide and good friends are too few [filksong genealogy] / C very unhappy about not being able to cook our usual seasonal meals. We should have thought of that when we made our last shopping list. -> I can't fix it, and it's stressful. / lorazepam -> suggested charoset and horseradish. C later she said that if I hadn't thought of it she would have. But only after the lorazepam. " C: It made me stop of thinking about how bad it was, and start thinking about how to make it better " 0413Mo & Awake 4:30ish; S=4:48; Watered my nose because I hadn't before I went to bed % right ?QL hurting a little. -> heat * up 6:30ish; S=5:15; never did get back to sleep @ ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "Brief Bright Flames" lots of good grief resources Helping Someone Who’s Grieving - HelpGuide.org Coping with Losing a Pet - HelpGuide.org Loss, Change & Grief Chronic Grief: Symptoms And Processes For Recovery | Glynis Sherwood @ streaming Folk on Foot Festival Folk On Foot Front Room Festival - YouTube @ Gingerbread - Nancy Kerr - YouTube (lyrcs) @ Maker Mask - Home As 3D printing of protective gear ramps up, a free mask designed in Seattle is the first of its kind to get federal approval | The Seattle Times @ FilKONtari-NO " we are woking on a virtual version of FKO to take place over FKO weekend, April 24 to 26. We have created a FaceBook group called FilKONtari-NO which all members of our community are invited to join. @ Should I Disinfect My Groceries? Advice About Grocery Shopping Safely : NPR ! stressed, anxious, depressed, and hopeless. Also unable to concentrate. : and now we have roaches again, as well as ants. -> put out roach baits. We'll see * backed up Apollo 13 a bit so I could catch the entire "problem" sequence. -> I hadn't known that they actually figured out what caused the explosion -- an oxygen tank heater that was designed for 28V, but was subjected to 65V on the pad. Manufacturer had missed the requirement change notice. 0414Tu * up 5:30; S=6:33; / left her bag hanging on the pole all night -- nothing in it. Hopefully it will fill now that it's on the floor. : Surety. Common odorous house-ants -- he'll drop some baits off tomorrow attracted to water and sugar. -> cleaned stovetop. Need to clean under dish drainer, and eventually find a replacement that doesn't collect standing water. @ Jailbreak your CPAP machine with Airbreak osresearch/airbreak: CPAP jailbreak to allow it to be used as a temporary ventilator @ N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count - The New York Times " New York City [...] sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it. " # by the time this is over we'll all be experts on everything from discord and zoom to tin cans and string. * Separated out the 1099 tax forms -- next step is data entry. * Pay BECU for Molly @ CDC, FEMA have created a plan to reopen America. Here’s what it says. % 9:50pm sleepy @ Coronavirus nixed your social life. Here’s how to host a virtual dinner party during a pandemic. | The Seattle Times $ someone wants to license World Inside the Crystal as the intro to a cyber-security podcast in Arabic. How cool is that? @ WHO message to youth on coronavirus: 'You are not invincible' - Reuters " “We are changing to say ‘physical distance’ and that’s on purpose because we want people to remain connected,” said Dr. Maria Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist. " 0415We * up 6: S=7:08; % what little I remember of dreaming included something about tiny houses * SL: 5# bag of onions, 5# bag of potatoes, 2# broccoli heads, 1 head of butter or red lettuce, 1# parsnips, 1 head of celery, 1# green beans, small pkg bean sprouts, 2# roma tomatoes, 1# cucumbers, 2 med eggplants, 2# zucchini, 3 unripe avocados walnuts, peanut oil, oat-nut bread, 3 pkgs of sourdough English muffins (one of us has a dairy allergy, so not Thomas's), canned tuna in water (5 cans of whatever's cheapest), unsweetened applesauce, 2# ground beef, whole chicken for roasting, 2# boneless pork chops, Hempler's beef summer sausage, blue cheese crumbles, 2 doz eggs, 2 bags Kettle unsalted potato chips, almond milk, 2 boxes of 12 Friskies Tasty Treasures prime fillets, 1 case or 2 12-packs Canada Dry ginger ale, 2 pkgs Crystal Light raspberry lemonade, 2 of any other flavor, Lee Kum Kee chili garlic sauce, rocky road ice cream, 2 chocolate vegan yogurt. -> L' @ The Beatles / Yellow Submarine (Buddhist monk cover) / Kossan - YouTube (thnidu) * pay AX (SS payments should be in) -> BECU has a s/w problem @ Time Is Meaningless Now - VICE (thnidu) ~ tax filing deadline moved to July 15th * change CPAP filter 0416Th * Up 4:50; S=5:47; / up most of the night; on her recliner when I woke up. nauseous. @ Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19 | CDC (via email from Medicare) ~ (attempt to) order CPAP supplies from Island Drug; maybe order more filters from $A -> took a message; whether I'll ever get anything is of course problematic. * brought up a weighted-base mic stand -- smaller footprint than tripod. Hopefully the weight of a T-shirt or pillowcase on the boom won't unbalance it. : Apparently I did get a "stimulus" payment -- it's $572, which seems low. What I get for not filing by the 15th. It's listed as a tax refund, though. @ Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Seattle Pride events will be held virtually this year | The Seattle Times will be updated. Nothing on seattlepride.org, though @ How Coronavirus Almost Brought Down the Global Financial System @ Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code | Zenodo * 4ish went out on the deck with Colleen; did a little gardening. Fun! Lovely weather for a change. Picked a tiny purple wildflower -- or weed flower -- and gave it to her Figured we could both use a little time in the sun. @ Behold Dune: An Exclusive Look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and More | Vanity Fair one to look for when/if it comes out / Colleen is calling people. I'll ask for an update. % 9:15 sleepy. Should go to bed ~10pm -- I'm really out of it 0417Fr * up 5:10; W=195.8, S=5:56; @ Coronavirus Tips: Frequently Asked Questions and Advice - The New York Times @ TOM BIHN Face Mask - Made in Seattle BOGO. links to patterns How to Turn a T-Shirt into a Ninja Mask {With no cutting or sewing!} @ How coronavirus could change your office space and remote work from home - Vox / 3pm C MAC clinic for catheter replacement & Drive afterward - Clinton % 10ish back (R) started hurting while loading the dishwasher " QOTD: Colleen: Desti, you and your cardboard addiction... me (channeling Desti): I can stop any time I want. " 0418Sa & Up 4:53; S=5.3; & read some stuff on dead trees (Stanford alumni magazine, mostly) @ COVID-19 Lessons from Three Mile Island #2 - the NRC | I, Cringely * Dinner from Pickles Deli. Curbside pickup (delivery is a separate payment and all I have is a $20. Friday after Thanksgiving for C, Hot Italian for me, antipasto salad. : N suggests being accountability buddies for keeping a bit more structure in our lives. : 8pm finished replay of the Apollo 13 re-entry and recovery. (realtime was ~11am Fri.)
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