Done this week (20160207Su - 13Sa)
Productive? I'm not sure. Probably. Progress at work, though not as much as I would have liked, and a fair amount of clearing in the garage. Found many things that have been missing for years, including my box of good chisels. Also, an ENT appointment (follow-up to my faceplant; see 20151124Tu.)
Also, any week that includes Scalia leaving the Supreme Court is pretty good in my book. Impeachment or even retirement would have been better, but this was the only way given the current political environment.
We nearly lost Ticia, who bolted out when someone left the Great Room sliding doors open; fortunately she hadn't gone far, and Naomi and I make a great cat-retrieval team. Whew!
I've also been getting re-acquainted with LaTeX, which has evolved quite a lot since I wrote my filk-formatting macros. I'll be rewriting those shortly. Meanwhile I've also been doing some work in my Config package. Partly that's because I've been working on the equivalent package at work in preparation for getting an upgraded laptop.
Plenty of links in the notes. GOOD links! Your attention is drawn particularly to the first detection of gravitational waves (more links in the notes), this amazing music video, and this news article, which features some kids who people who know us will recognize.
Notes & links:
0207Su * up 6:45; W=196.2; dishes, ..., laundry : Ticia has apparently decided that my hair needs proper grooming. @ Two awesome choirs bumped into each other in a bar and this incredible performance just happened - Classic FM Music News and Features [video] f(various) @ The Kitten Setting - Whatever ( via When life gives you lemons, make science) (thnidu | Statistics of trolls) @ Bullet Journal Instructions - Bullet Journal except for being done with a pen, it's remarkably similar to what I (to.)do here. (via RowdyKittens) * more organizing in the garage. Cleared a box of music-related books. Well, ok; some of them are still sitting in piles until I move the travel stuff. But still: box. Found several boxes with the bottoms rotted out. Found another circular saw, and my box of Freud chisels. With mold on the bottom, but that's fixable. & changed the cut text for my notes. How long has it been? * garage: plugged in the extension cord that powers the garage door opener (it had been plugged into the wall where the outlets lost power). Found the rack for my Little Giant ladder, so now I can put that up. And get the ladder out there, since I can now get the door open. I love it when a plan comes together. @ Men In Skirts, Women In Suits: Fashion Goes Genderqueer (ysabetwordsmith) @ The Bria Fund Advances Study of the Deadly Cat Disease FIP - Catster (ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "Massaging the Heart") @ AltE: Solar Panels & Solar Energy Gear (Life in 120 Square Feet: Sunny Days = Solar Installation) @ Pizza restaurant eloquently shuts down arguments against gender-neutral toilets 0208Mo * up 6:15; W=196.2; laundry, dishes @ theferrett | Why Twitter Represents Everything Wrong With America Today @ Becoming the Parent of a Transgender Child f(Shawna Jacques et. al.) " You know, I may not understand being transgender, in fact I know I never will," Ken said. "But I understand this, that's my child and I would rather have a life with my son than a tombstone with my daughter's name on it. " & found the Secret Graveyard of the Cat Toys - under the blue chaise. But not the FX trackball I was looking for. Could be anywhere by now. * 2pm Harborview ENT took the bus, though it wouldn't have taken any longer to walk, hoping I could get in some work. Not enough to matter. Spent the rest of the afternoon in Port99 -> My septum is deviated a little to the left, but since it isn't interfering with my breathing enough to make it difficult, it's not worth the hassle of surgery. My mucosa are very dry; vaseline suggested to keep it moist. That's about it. @ The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin (thnidu) 0209Tu * up 6:10; W=197; laundry * I felt unproductive at work, but given some very useful meetings and a major bit of debugging, I probably wasn't. The debugging breakthrough came too late in the day to finish; I'll have to do it tomorrow. : As it turns out, today had record high temperatures. @ Emergency Preparedness - Week 3 "First Aid Kit" | A Bowl Full of Lemons A Nurse's Fully Stocked Medical Kit - The Busy B Homemaker (ysabetwordsmith") * Transfer some money to Colleen; check Amex (0 balance on both accounts) Transfer to BECU worked this time. No idea what the problem was last week @ HEVEA modern LaTeX-to-HTML5 converter @ LaTeX - Wikibooks, open books for an open world @ CTAN: Package memoir -> Spent quite a bit of time becoming re-acquainted with LaTeX. Much has changed; I am developing a better understanding of what can be done to improve the songbook. There do in fact seem to be several song/songbook formats, but so far I haven't seen one that uses pure chordpro notation like mine does. (Several appear to have been written, but they're not in CTAN and seem to have suffered from linkrot) -> CTAN: Package guitar "magic mode" 0210We * up 5:40; W=197; laundry, dishes @ 'Ed' by Taha Neyestani f(Laurent Linn) * major progress on my finishing-up-and-very-late project at work. @ Check your Google security and get 2 GBs on Google Drive for free | ZDNet @ Windows 10 Worst Secret Spins Out Of Control - Forbes It's still spyware even if you turn off everything you can. f(Moss Bliss) @ What It's Like to Date As a Demisexual | Alternet (ysabetwordsmith) There's also info on dating as a demiromantic -- that would have been useful about 45 years ago. 0211Th * up 5:30; W=197; laundry, dishes x it'll be just the Savitzkys for dinner; good time for moving router : Dwarves here. Ticia escaped out the Great Room doors, which somebody had neglected to close after airing out the room from cleabing the piggie cage. Found *hours* later under the table and wood in the back, though she had apparently been going between there and the woodpile under the back stairs. Possibly other places; Amber and I both heard her in several places along the North fence. Finally found by me and captured by Naomi. We make a good team. @ Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016) - Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger LIGO detects first ever gravitational waves - from two merging black holes - physicsworld.com ( Alinsa) Gravitational Waves Gravitational Waves Gravitational Waves - Alinsa The cool thing? You can *hear* it! 0212Fr * up 5ish; W=196; laundry : Had to power-cycle the dsl modem when I got home. Apparently nobody had bothered; it had been broken all day. * experimenting with devilspie. Rules for xdaliclock and oclock, so far. Fun! Doesn't seem to allow comments inside sexprs :P @ Seattle News and Events | The Climate Movement’s Secret Weapon: Kids! ~ can use xprop -i $WINDOWID -set ... to set window manager properties _NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER, _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR,\ _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY #from xprop -name gkrellm -> devilspie/gdevilspie, which does matching rules with lisp syntax wmctrl -r Dali -b add,skip_pager,skip_taskbar wmctrl -r Dali -b add,sticky wmctrl -i $WINDOWID -b add,skip_pager,skip_taskbar wmctrl -i $WINDOWID -b add,sticky ( -i -r #windowid ) undecorating is harder 0213Sa * Up 5ish; W=196; laundry, dishes * Moved DSL modem. Too many wires in that corner. It's gotten really ugly. I may end up running another ethernet cable from the desk to the bookcase, to put the gateway where it used to be. Alternatively, set up a Debian box as the gateway. @ What are the best programming fonts? - Slant Top 11 Programming Fonts for your Text Editor and Terminal | Wes Bos Top 10 Programming Fonts -> installing fonts-inconsolata gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'inconsolata 12' a little taller and wider than the one I set for emacs. 11 feels a bit too small, but was probably the default. (it was 13 on my work laptop. go figure) Programming Fonts * go to ER to get Colleen's plumbing problem dealt with. Again. The waiting room at NW has no comfortable chairs. % my back has been hurting a little, pretty much all day. This is making it worse. -> Oh, right. I put an inflatable bolster in my backpack. Helps. 3:51 been here for about 3 hours, judging from the battery remaining. Forgot to note the time when we arrived. I HATE THIS. * 15min: add .fonts to dotfiles, both home and work. * Needs fc-cache ~/.fonts/ @ Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79 - The Washington Post Best thing that's happened all year. Is it a coincidence that FB is broken? * ordered a (purple) mini-fridge for the bedroom: catfood, coke, humira, etc. @ OK Go - Upside Down & Inside Out music video shot IN ZERO GRAVITY on a plane. ysabetwordsmith @ Visions of the Future Retro travel posters. Gorgeous. % Did I mention that my back hurts? Yes. But I'll mention it again. * ordered 3.2 ft^3 purple RCA fridge for the bedroom. In large part because I'm tired of having to throw away half of every can of catfood.
[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
comments. Comment wherever you prefer; anonymous comments are allowed on DW only]