Done Since 2021-12-19
Today is Charles Babbage's birthday. Also Boxing Day, but I haven't written a song about that. Yesterday was my first Christmas without Colleen. I'm not going to try to summarize the week this time.
The YD held a Solstice party Tuesday, so I finally got to see her new house. (Not her cat, though; she never came out of hiding.) After spending several hours looking unsuccessfully for someplace in Seattle to buy a home COVID test kit, it turned out that she had a spare. All the major drug stores have websites that claimed to have them in stock. They lied. I didn't bother calling the places whose websites said they were out of stock.
Link of the week: the James Webb Space Telescope currently on its way to L2. Meanwhile,The Antarctic Is Signaling Big Climate Trouble. But we already knew that.
Notes & links: 1219Su * litter boxen * Up 5:30; S=6:33; BP=126/75, P=68; shower @ How the Netherlands will survive in floating cities - Big Think (ysabetwordsmith) cf this WaPo article also noted on 1217 ~ home COVID-19 test: -> RiteAid in Freeland does _not_ have tests; their website lied to me -> pickup in Oak Harbor: -Walgreens-, Home Depot -> safeway pharm. Oak Harbor (360) 240-1063 -> no -> walmart pharm. Oak Harbor 360 279 0671 opens at 2pm -> no -> Should not have ordered the masks for pickup; drive back from OH was uncomfortable * house key for c (front, back) Identified inside key; have not found box room key yet * pack: bookends (small ones) * SL: * 4 sparkling cider * 3 boxes of 3M N95s % 7:16 feeling a bit cold -> heating pad should help @ What to Do When You Get an Omicron Breakthrough Infection - The Atlantic @ Detect - Detect Covid-19 Starter Kit™ molecular; $75/1; refills $50 each; add $20 to be valid for travel. Sold out, of course. (via At-home Covid tests are getting better. Stock up for winter holidays. - Vox) * dishes; c's laundry -- both should have been checked some time ago & ordered iHealth covid tests fromm $A -- will arrive Jan 4-5 * charge Molly - turned off hilltop reserve this time. still lousy range (G's driving) * laundry x make a payment or do other paperwork 1220Mo * up 6ish; S=6:52; * before leaving RE collect: night guard, drugs, CPAP (leave humidifier tub) x Bagels: 2 salt, 1 everything, 1 cinnamon raisin. 4 plain (2/3 my usual) 2 tubs @ What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure? - The New York Times " ... observing how families spoke about their missing relatives, coined a term to define the unclear - and often unacknowledged - absences in their lives: “ambiguous loss.” " -> there's enough down this rabbit-hole for a River post. Ame et. al. -> also feeds into something about caregiving in a time of pandemic @ The crumbling Thwaites Glacier - Liam's write-only LJ - LiveJournal (andrewducker) -> Good collection of links. Could update my earlier post: Antarctic Glaciers @ What is the log4j vulnerability and should I do anything to protect myself? * Solstice Who Roast Beast at RS @ How to answer ‘How many children do you have?’ when one is gone. 3, in my case % meloxicam, docusate with pm drugs % 10:30 my back hurts and I'm cold -> heat 1221Tu * up 7:30ish; S=9:02; * music: a little bit of Bad Guys; with singing * leave ~9:30 for... * Parents' Solstice at Breezehome (E's house) * bring a bottle or two of Martinelli's -> 4 * covid test before entering - E has an extra -> main gifts were a marvelous photo album from E+M, and a bottle of Sapphire from B * GS learning my way around wordpress % N thinks I should talk to a doctor about my memory problems % meloxicam and docusate with pm drugs 1222We * Up 5:10; S=6:24, BP=122/81, P=61; * walk: 2 blocks W, E * GS: write new about me page & ordered: Beowulf: A New Translation: Headley, Maria Dahvana @ The Antarctic Is Signaling Big Climate Trouble. - The New York Times " the concern is that if the ice shelves melt too much, they could collapse, accelerating the movement of the glaciers, and eventually much of the West Antarctic ice sheet, to the ocean. New research suggests such a collapse of part of the Thwaites ice shelf, and a resulting speed-up of the flow there, could occur within the next decade. " * stir fry - start ~6pm (after lid comes out of the dishwasher) @ How To Bypass Any Paywall For Free | by Nathan Ang | DataDrivenInvestor % meloxicam, heat pm 1223Th Festivus, Night of the Radishes * up 6:05; S=7:19; @ Night of the Radishes Festivus * walk (not quite) 1 block W, N, S, E @ kovidgoyal/kitty: Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal Home - kitty x charge Molly. Central Market? WSDOT 15710 Dayton Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133, USA go left on N 155th St. just past Safeway Level 2 but 12 stations and free -> Complete waste of time: none of the chargers there appeared to be working. And it would have been a long walk to Central Market from there. * started reading Travel Hacks and Beowulf The latter is the new translation by Mariaa Dahvana Headley. Bizarre, but wow! 1224Fr Christmas Eve & Awake 3am; % politics, so sleep unlikely for a while; down 5ish * up 8:30ish; S=7:57; docusate % having a lot of difficulty getting out of bed even after waking up. Depression? * wash Sonovia mask. Should be dry by tomorrow at the latest : Worry about timing wrt snow predicted for the weekend * Charge Molly -> Northgate. charging at 20Kw Plugshare says it's Electrify America, but there's stil one of the EVgo fast chargers at the S. end of the parking lot : Charging: 1hr, 24.340 kWh, $17.40, which got Molly up to 73%/135mi. : the home Covid tests I ordered via $A arrived. BD Veritor, like the ones E was using As it turned out I won't be needing it as soon as I expected, so could have ordered a better one (i.e. that doesn't want you to use a phone app to read it) * order 2 more Sonovia masks % docusate, meloxicam with pm drugs 1225Sa Christmas, Newton's Birthday & awake 4:55; S=5:35; * up 6ish; ; : Snow expected - 3-11". Does not appear to have snowed last night : Newtonmas: it's worth noting that I started the day with apple slices in my cereal. . postpone Whidbey until the week; kids will be at RS over New Year's weekend * post State of the Bear @ The Joy of Tech comic... I'm dreaming of a lockdown Christmas. @ James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia Webb's Launch GSFC/NASA Where Is Webb? NASA/Webb * actually got some writing done: Christmas post plus more of $writing-gig-6 than I've done in the last 2 weeks. (Not that that's saying much) @ 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages • Hillel Wayne @ Tag: The Crossover Project • Hillel Wayne " Is software engineering really a branch of engineering, and what makes us different from other engineers? Dissatisfied with the present online discourse on this question, I interviewed 17 people who worked professionally as both a software engineer and a “real” engineer. " tl;dr yes we are. % meloxicam with pm drugs
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