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Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: scattered

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Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for...

Cooler weather.
My cats being helpful (see, e.g., this incident.). Also, little furry alarm clocks. (Though, unfortunately, Bronx does not have a snooze button.)
Good customer service. Special thanks to Sweetwater. NO thanks to FedEx. Also no thanks to my stupid mistakes with the order. The main one being trusting FedEx.
Pretty good airflow. Using the kitchen's hood fan with the back sliding door is a hack, but it's a working hack.
A new website building and maintenance project that will Make Money for HSX.
Leftovers for lunch, and occasionally dinner. Not today, unfortunately.
A fridge with a working ice-maker.
A telehealth appointment with my oncologist getting rescheduled automagically after yesterday's outage.

Current Mood: apprehensive
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: The Merry Minuet

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Done Since 2025-06-15

Welcome to the start of summer, and maybe of WWIII. This post that came across my Mastodon feed this morning kind of says it all:

You don't have to prefix things with "doom" anymore, that's just the default now. You can just say scrolling.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, ...

I had my oncology appointment; I'll be getting a hormone injection (tomorrow, and apparently they do house calls for that) rather than continuing with abiraterone (which insurance won't cover because not metastatic). It's good for six months, which will take me through the end of my 2-year course of treatment. I'm okay with this.

Last night I fell down a rabbit-hole troubleshooting my little script that prints out the URL of one's last post. See this commit. Pretty sure I can blame AI bots for that problem.

I fell down another rabbit-hole Friday, which started by looking for the overture to Wagner's opera Der fliegende Holländer. Turns out that J. Slauerhoff, whom our street is named after, wrote a poem about it. It's in his book, Eldorado. I expect to have a little fun trying to translate it. (And note in passing that doom is also mentioned in that connection.)

ysabetwordsmith has some good links about dealing with Heat. It was supposed to hit 30C (90F) today, but it looks like we may be getting a thunderstorm instead. It'll still be too hot indoors.

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: not on line yet

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Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for...

My keyboard arriving last Friday without any problems. NO thanks to FedEx, which has failed to deliver m's keyboard to their home in Seattle. Twice.
Remembering a very little bit of how to sight-read.
Finally solving my audio input problem. NO thanks to Zoom and Audacity, which fail in entirely orthogonal ways to sanely handle my UA-25.
Thanks to them, however, for at least allowing the system default as a device. Differently, of course.

Linux command-line tools, including (but not limited to) Grep, Find, Ls, Sed, and of course Bash, for always being there when I need to do some trivial but off-the-wall bit of data-mining. Like listing all Thankful Thursday posts with fewer than four list items.

$ for f in ../2*/*/*thank*; do echo $(grep "li>" $f | wc -l) $f; done |grep ^[2-3] 
  3 ../2019/09/12--thankful-thursday.html
  3 ../2020/06/05--thankful-friday.html
  3 ../2020/06/25--thankful-thursday.html
  3 ../2021/04/25--thankful-sunday.html
  3 ../2022/02/24--thankful-thursday.html
  2 ../2025/01/03--thankful-thursday-addendum.html
  2 ../2025/06/12--thankful-thursday.html

NO thanks to 2025!me for continued procrastination., and NO thanks to 2022!me, for letting the MakeStuff/music toolchain languish with no maintenance and inadequate documentation, making it way harder than necessary to put a two-song concert set online. Which might get done this week.

Current Mood: unhappy
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: earworm: Sam's Song

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Done Since 2025-06-08

I think this was one of those weeks that makes me want to give up on trying to characterize my week. It wasn't particularly good, it wasn't particularly bad, I didn't get a whole lot done, the US had a lot of mostly-peaceful No Kings" demonstrations, but it also had political assassinations in Minnesota alongside other symptoms of its slide into fascism.

Last Sunday was the 23rd anniversary of this blog's founding, back on LJ. Today is the 27th Father's Day since my Dad's death in February of 1999, and I've been kind of wrecked since Thursday. The keyboard I ordered on Tuesday arrived Friday; it's flawed but will do what we need it to. The one I ordered for m has not arrived yet. I may have the start of a toothache.

Thursday was my first, and so far only, Thankful Thursday post ever with only two items. Since then, both of my kids wished me a happy Father's Day, so next week should have at least that many. I had a blood tests and a CT scan done last week, but I won't get to talk with a doctor about them until tomorrow.

See what I mean?

Here -- give a listen to the recordings of my and m's 2-song "set" at DFDF two weeks ago. In keeping with the theme of the week, the first verse and a half of Millennium's Dawn got cut off thanks to technical difficulties.

( Notes & links, as usual )