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So, apparently, the hot water handle in the shower got stuck. That was why we couldn't get enough hot water to shower. Joel turned it really hard (I had, but not hard enough), and it unstuck. We clearly need better fixtures. They are little cylinders that are guaranteed to be impossible to turn on when we are old. So, yeah, we need to get that fixed.

vvalkyri

Exhausted -- a good deal of 'too stupid to sleep' until 4 (I think I got home not much after midnight) and then having trouble keeping my Displeased Tibialis Anterior in a position it wasn't pissed about on and off all night. And all the sleepy things I've tried are still in my system, too.

Posted just now on FB:

That it is so difficult for me to sleep if anything hurts is testament to a life blessedly without pain.

That perhaps it was unclever to already have 10000 steps before arriving at Blues last night and then take an aleve before 10000 more . . .*worth it* - I had some truly exquisite dances.

My conclusion at the end of the night that 'Oh cool I was right - I don't lift my feet much in Blues and that's why nothing hurt' was obviously flawed; still I was/am especially thankful it was my left and not right leg that currently gets mad about pointing* and somehow so many of these exquisite dances had times where I was pointing my right and not my left. (Except for one time when any other time I would have gotten all the way on the ball of my foot to be turned around - blues/tango mix is so very marvelous, in a way completely different from simply blues or simply tango**.

Y'know what's especially frustrating? Sitting here typing nothing hurts at all, and yet it seems almost every way I might want to sleep will annoy my let.

And yes, I'm fully planning on being unclever and going to The Grandsons tomorrow at Glen Echo. After possibly being out at the AFGE event. (Possibly in that what with the high of 23 and 50mph wind gusts making for a wind chill around 0 they may move it all inside, however *that* works.) I so very much enjoyed dancing to The Grandsons at the Holiday Market '24 on asphault; I am really looking forward to the sound and the floor of the real ballroom.

I *do* plan to be sedentary today, but that might still involve a costco and hopefully a best buy before eventually Romeo and Juliet, the comedy at Greenbelt.
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*TA is jacked up and really dislikes too much engagement /or/ stretch
** what to me felt way less on axis than it could have been was still apparently sufficiently on axis that my lead noticed nothing amiss so yay, and I hope I managed to get across that my telling him pointing my left was painful was an explanation of why I hadn't done so and not that he'd caused me pain. Because he didn't.

Hilariously, a goodly reason for those already 10k steps was that I had a doctors appointment today about WTF TA. But my phone has been spending a lot of time unuseable and I hadn't previewed "okay how loong will it take me to walk from the Washington Post Union rally (which was astonishingy well attended given under 24 hrs notice) to the drs office, which helped enable me brain glitching and walking most of the way to a *former* drs office before asking someone to look up the location of the current one. Meaning quick walked 13th & K to 11th & I before speedwalking back over to 16th and I. And then I had the bright idea to walk from fed center sw instead of changing trains to get home.

I'm starting to think that what's going on is from having had the extremely talented ability to turn my foot with both my back and it firmly on the ground. Why firmly on the ground? I had a guy 70 pounds bigger than me on my other foot, then dropped him into my knee, and my leg was busy maintaining stability. Oops.

Well not entirely that, but, well as I emailed primary care yesterday afternoon, add something else that usually wouldn't make TA seize up but apparently did, and then after thta all had calmed down slide off a snowbank into a car (best guess about some bruising) and then have the bright idea to speed walk at the end of the night hoping to get to 6k steps ... and somewhere in there getting as far as 'oh TA is seized maybe stretch it? this may be why everything's still a mess.

what's especially weird is the bruising down near my foot; it looks exactly like when I sprained the hell out of an ankle, but anything sprainlike would have been nearly 2 weeks ago.

PC wants to give it a little bit and then xray.

I should probably email that other baltimore study that definitely not til March sometime.

I don't think I want to bail on the AFGE thing. This is the largest i guess umbrella federal union. They have a convention here in DC annually; I'm pretty sure it was at their rally last year I walked with Senator Sarbanes back to the Capitol and asked him about speaking at the 2nd 50501 rally, the one on President's day. I'm certain that conversation was the first he knew of the now large movement, and I'm ever so glad he headlined Annapolis rather than coming down to us at the Capitol - getting him through that dense crowd to the underpowered sound system would have been a nightmare.

Right, the AFGE thing. Anyway they're having a Young Workers March tomorrow, the first march they've tried. It's entirely possible that they'll have a rally inside the hotel, but it doesn't sound like they have a room that would hold what I would be expecting for the march and rally. Then again, I made those expectations a month ago on learning they were having buses coming in, and it's been clear for a week that tomorrow will be miserably cold.

(Still, I'm feeling bad I didn't post flyers anywhere)

Yes, I'm rambling.

50501. Here's what I wrote on that, in an intro to 50501 National (there isn't a National!) FB post on the first birthday (There's probably bsky and insta with similar content):

One year ago today* was the first 50501 national day. Here in DC it was pretty small compared to some other places - maybe 300 - nobody knew who was running it and USAID had a rally the same place nearly the same time and planned for an unheard of nearly a week. They then wandered over to Department of Labor, answering their call for a crowd before Doge was expected.
12 days later was the second national day, with over 100 locations and at least 5000 at the Capitol reflecting pool.
By a week before Hands Off (April 5) there was nowhere in the Continental US more than 4 hours drive from an event.
Well over 2000 locations October 18.
February 17 is Lobby Everywhere.
I've told people so many times that I care so much less about how many people make their way to DC than how many ever smaller towns and communities are making their displeasure visible. And making it clear to those who thought they were alone that they are not.
I've described 50501 as "baby's first protest." Even as recently as October I was still seeing so many "I brought my husband to his first protest." "I brought my mother to her first protest." This is not a small thing. (Sure, I usually call them rallies and events, as a nod to 'protest is disruptive.)
(Also shoutout to the overpass actions, which I think are one of the best ways to get people not paying attention to have something filter in. HCR yesterday said the average American spends 4 min A WEEK on politics. In this area that's a lot of different Indivisibles, but that's also something 50501s do in a lot of areas. The Colorado Bridge Trolls have been having overpass action dance parties.)
Lets go.
* well I haven't gone to sleep yet

Looking at the "well I haven't gone to sleep yet" from 8 hrs ago...
Maybe I can nap...

lillilah

I hooked the computer up to the UPS/backup battery (I had tried previously with the monitor also, and that was too much), and it works fine. However, I have to remember that the battery is drained very quickly, so I can't expect it to handle the power going off and on and off and on for hours. I have to shut it off after the first outage to give the battery a chance to charge again.

If this keeps happening, I'll probably buy a UPS for the internet gateway/wifi, since it would be nice to not constantly have it going out. Other than that, all is well.

magid

Another boxed share due to the cold weather, so I was inspired to pull out the kitchen scale again.

about 9.5 pounds of carrots
about 4 pounds of Yukon Gold potatoes
about 4 pounds of red daikon
two medium bags of spinach
2 4-ounce containers of salad mix sprouts from the Gill Greenery (alfalfa, China Rose radish, and crimson clover)
0.75 pounds of little shiitake mushrooms from Mycoterra Farm

First thoughts: a lovely bowl of ramen with mushroom, carrot, and spinach. Slaws with carrot and/or daikon with either Asian-ish or mustardy dressing. Carrot halwa pudding. Potato salad, possibly with sprouts. Mashed potatoes with spinach. Baked potatoes. Fried potatoes. (I like potatoes….).Pickled daikon and/or carrot, possibly with ginger and other flavors toward bahn mi-style pickles. Some kind of saute to feature the shiitakes, likely with onion, carrot, and tofu.

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dw_maintenance

Hi all!

I'm doing some minor operational work tonight. It should be transparent, but there's always a chance that something goes wrong. The main thing I'm touching is testing a replacement for Apache2 (our web server software) in one area of the site.

Thank you!

magid

I won a copy of Hinenu (David Shlachter) from LibraryThing, and it arrived a couple of weeks ago. I had a bunch of library books out so it sat for a bit, until I got an email from Lehrhaus that the author was going to give a talk tonight. That got me to read it Friday night so I could be prepared for the talk.

This is a gorgeous, full-color book using profiles of 100 Israelis as representatives of the entire population of the recently achieved 10 million. He uses a variety of demographic axes: age, gender, religion, native/immigrant (including region of origin)/non-citizen resident, and region lived in. The design is beautiful, with a full-page spread for each person, approximately one page of text facing a full-page photo, plus a smaller second photo. Under the big photo there’s the demographic information, which is also color coded. The photos are incredible. I found the choices of which colors to use for which age ranges led to some photo captions in those colors that were quite difficult to read (lacking enough contrast). I appreciate the thought that went into the design; it would work better for me with just a few different particular color choices.

The profiles are organized in decade order (and oldest to youngest within the decade), oldest first. I hadn’t realized until reading this just how young Israel skews: 18 profiles were of people aged 0-9, and another 17 were aged 10-19. So a third of the population is under 20. I understood why there were so many younger profiles, though that meant a number of the later (younger) ones were from a parent’s perspective, which I found inherently less interesting than the ones in first person.

Because it mirrors the population, I got a better sense for how the country’s demographics are in general; I know my experiences there have definitely been skewed/siloed, so this helped me.

I appreciated the author’s notes on the project at the end (and agree that there were a few too many surfers!).

At the talk tonight, I heard more about how the author came up with this idea and found people to fit the needed profiles, as well as how it’s changed him. He also talked about some of the challenges (some people would’ve liked to have participated, but feared retaliation from their community, for instance). There was a short 9-min video about the book, including some of the people profiled; it was great to hear their actual voices. He’s an engaging presenter, very curious about people, so I was glad I went (plus I got my book signed).

lillilah

A while back, I saw an ear, nose and throat doctor in Lisbon, and he was a dick. He complained about how I didn't speak Portuguese (I was complemented by a lady at the hospital the next day for my Portuguese, but I was so shocked by how aggressive he was that my brain just refused to give me anything but Russian (not because Russians are rude, because they aren't)) and wasn't able to give me any helpful info. This was also an ENT, and he was much nicer and more helpful. The lump in my mouth isn't a problem now. I prefer to ignore problems, and that is what we will do until it starts to get bigger/hurt. (It is some kind of calcification.) As for the polyps in my sinuses, apparently they don't have to be treated with steroids. This doctor gave me some nasal antihistamine spray, and we'll see if that helps. I'm going to get a CT scan of my sinuses at some point too. So yeah, good news and a nice doctor who I can go back to if I need an ENT. Phew!!!

lillilah

The one thing we aren't making progress on is the water heater. It is getting worse. Now, the pressure is way down. We are pretty sure it isn't due to a problem in the shower head, as the cold water still comes right out. There are plenty of possible reasons that the water heater isn't working right, especially since the compressor went out last year, and we are running on some backup system. And now, that isn't working well. So, it is time to deal with it. Of course, this is the opposite of fun, but it needs to be done. Joel is, at the moment, trying to see if there is anything we can do to fix the short term water pressure problem. Once I know where we stand, I'll contact all the companies that could possibly service the water heater and see if we can get one to do it. Otherwise, we'll need to get a new one soon, as this has been going on too long and is very frustrating.

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lillilah

I feel like I'm finally making progress on house stuff. Of course, everything is slow, but I caught up with the sewing that needed to be done. I made that basket and crocheted a floppy hat. Joel got all the cobblestones moved down from the street into our yard. I'm planning on painting a box I made in Russia. FINALLY!! I don't think that we are steaming ahead in any kind of shocking way, but I feel like slow progress is being made. I'm almost keeping up with the weeds in the yard. It is nice.

flexagon

Not a lot to report this week. I did a lot of shoveling on Monday and Tuesday -- I'm particularly proud of remembering about our street drains, and finding them and making sure there are paths to them for the eventual meltwater. Not that anything has thawed yet; we're still buried in piles of white. I did a little reverse applique on a tank top, just to try out some techniques. Cooked dinner for my polycule as planned, and finished Winter Burrow. After that, I was felled by a classic rhinovirus and nothing else happened. My acro class was also cancelled on Monday due to the snow, so I've now missed a full week of acro practice and I am hating that to pieces.

I did still get handstands and contortion in, and with a couple of interesting "aha" moments in each handstand class. Spring keeps leveling up my press drills, and there's a new one I haven't quite managed to do yet where I get support just on my arms, and just for the first part of the press, after which I'm supposed to come off the support and actually balance myself like a grownup. SIGH. I have a much younger friend who's going to be way better than me in two years but is currently right around where I am -- and she's just starting the same exercise, too. The friendly competition is good for me, in that it gives me some kind of faith: if she can do that, then I probably can too. For now, anyway.

I navigated a tricky situation involving the hemming of a kid's pants, which I think I handled pretty well in the end. My own parents used to clash with me on how my clothes fit, so I was not very on board with doing an undesired hem, and I told the kid I wasn't going to put needle to fabric unless/until they were okay with the proposed change. Who knows whether they believed me -- I meant it though. Mercifully, after some pinning and re-pinning we found a pants length that everyone seems cheerful about.

Called my congress critters. It feels ridiculous to tell Elizabeth Warren what I think she should do about ICE or anything else, when she has political opinions more nuanced and on more issues than I ever will. But if it helps her to say she's hearing from constituents, then very well, I'm in.

Now, back to paying some kind of Weirdo Tax -- yet another insurance company is saying they won't cover me anymore (this time, just part of my real estate, because I don't own it with "household members"). I really don't like how messy my insurance situation is. I haven't done anything wrong, but my finances don't quite look like the average American's, and "unusual" is expensive because it means "hard to assess". I strongly respect insurance companies for being data-driven in the face of all political pressure, but sometimes they piss me off for the exact same thing.

What's next? Well, I got past my low-buy January, so I can buy fabrics and shirts for further sewing adventures. I've also signed up for Flash Fiction February through storytellingcollective.com, which is something I wanted to do / tried to do last year but couldn't because of work. So, assuming I can avoid getting sick, I guess I'm planning a month of creative output to go along with my handstand drills. Wish me luck. My nose says I'm still only at 90%, but improving.

magid

I didn’t manage breakfast until midday, radiatore pasta with a mix of somewhat random things, including the end of some ajvar, Earth Balance, pureed basil*, pureed garlic scapes*, salt cured olives, green Manzanilla olives, fermented hot pepper*-carrot* sauce, chickpeas, and smoked sardine fillets.

The weather has me wanting hearty food, so I'd defrosted a package of beef shin meat, perhaps a pound, and realized that I wasn’t sure which type of beef stew I wanted, so I split it between two pots, a soup for dinner, and a cholent for lunch tomorrow.

The soup: onion, sweet potato*, the end of some corn* and red pepper* relish (canned 8Sept24), the end of some lemony zucchini* relish (canned 19July24), pureed garlic scapes*, a quart Ziploc of sauteed spinach* & turnip greens* (frozen 17Oct25), the canned chickpea liquid, a pint of crushed tomatoes (canned 22Aug25), some crushed Manzanilla olives, lemon juice, farro, some caramelized onion hummus, half a dozen pieces of beef, and some almonds.

The cholent: onion, potato, purple-topped turnip*, carrot*, barley, smoky tomato jam (canned 18Aug23), TVP, fermented hot pepper*-carrot* sauce (made Sept25), umami seasoning, miso, the rest of the package of beef pieces. and mustard. I wish I still had some farm share cabbage, but that was gone a while back.

* locally sourced

lillilah

A few nights ago, we had a huge wind storm here. It was way more severe than usual, tearing the roofs off houses and flipping over cars up north. Anyway, our power went out, as did the power of about a million others. The day before yesterday, it was out for most of the day. Yesterday, we has power, but it went out quite a few times. So, there has been a bit of drama here. However, I'm starting to do better, finally. I'm over the stomach problems of the dog bite and antibiotics, and while I still have a big swollen area on my leg that is healing from the bite, it really doesn't impact my ability to do stuff. I'm less moody, anxious, and tired. Thank goodness. Hopefully, that will continue.

magid

Sunday into Monday we got a good sized snowstorm, almost two feet of snow (the biggest storm since 2022). Work announced the campus was closed Monday, but those who could work from home should, so I did (no people distractions, but no large screen either, so maybe a wash?). Tuesday I was feeling a bit off in the morning, plus the forecast was cold, so I worked from home again (Cambridge schools were closed, the parking ban in effect until 5p, but the library was open because…?).

But the forecast is staying cold for a long while (where cold = doesn’t get above freezing even during the day, often single digits F at night), so yesterday I ventured out for the first time in three days. As always, sidewalk conditions varied widely, some fully cleared to the ground, some cleared pathway for just one person, some clearly tramped down by folks walking through when the owners/landlords hadn’t bothered. My usual bus stop was useless, with no way to get from the sidewalk to the bus, so I walked to the next one, which was fully cleared.

One advantage of the cold is that it’s mostly not in a melt-freeze cycle, which means there’s a whole lot less ice than there could’ve been. Still, I’ve had a couple of slips (though no falls, thank goodness). And curb cuts are not reliable, either. I thought of it as a 2D ant farm for humans, as the paths change over time, as huge hills of snow get moved about (the city is bringing snow to Danehy Park, with possibly overflow to Harvard’s Allston campus, the unbuilt part near the Mass Pike entrance).

I checked the Massachusetts drought monitor today (it’s updated Thursday mornings), certain that at least those numbers would be better, but somehow, nothing has changed since last week, despite two feet of snow? Is it because the snow hasn’t melted yet? It’s not obvious to me.

The drifts on my porch are tall enough that I can’t open the screen doors (outward), so the blue jays will not be getting almonds until I can.

The forecast has snow again this Sunday, but I don’t know whether that means some frosting on top, or a new layer with noticeable depth. I don’t want to buy anything tomorrow for the nationwide general strike, so I really hope I’ll be able to get groceries Sunday before it starts (I will be out of onions, potatoes, and eggs by then).

siderea

Overheard on Reddit, u/Itsyademonboi:

Sorry, Nazis are from Germany under Adolf Hitler, what we have here is Sparkling Fascists.

flexagon

Things progress:

The cat is eating, the metamour is healing.

I do have a tenant! He starts March 1 and has signed an 18-month lease, though the deposit money hasn't shown up yet. Something to poke at.

I finished all my sewing/alteration projects and immediately got itchy for more. I've been intending January as a low-buy month, so there's stuff piling up in online baskets at blankshirts.com and moodfabrics.com. In the meantime I'm realizing that some of my athletic wear is still produced by black magic. I have flat seams that look like the wrong side of coverstitch machine stitches, but on both sides.

Made progress on several of my handstand exercises, and also more hand-to-hand. We're getting more used to working on it with no extra mats and no coaches.

The Montana trip is shaping up. The squirrel is going to come along(!), and we barely kept Birdie's dad from also showing up (!), and we found a surprisingly nice AirBnB very near my dad because I guess search results for groups of four are just better around there. Yesterday I told my dad the schedule and the guest list, and he took it pretty well, if with some confusion.

Things don't progress:

The NYT rejected my third crossword puzzle, which I'd had really high hopes for, with a very nice personalized letter from one of the head editors saying she was sad about them not taking it. But a rejection nonetheless. We are planning to rework it to address the feedback... but I'm feeling pretty down about it anyway. Maybe my taste in themes just isn't aligned enough with the cruciverbalist masses.

I was going to go to the Fetish Fair Fleamarket with the squirrel this year, but eventually learned that NELA itself has ceased operation and the FFF is no more. Looks like the pandemic killed it. More lost chances, another thing I attended for the last time without realizing it might be the last time. :( My gripe about this on a forum led to a discussion about Arisia also being much smaller than it used to be, about #metoo and Dobbs and covid collectively being extra hard on communities that require the genders to get along en masse.

Thanks to a giant snowstorm, there was no circus open studio today and no show to attend this evening. Only shoveling, and some stretching at home, although Birdie came over and stretched with me and cooked (we're attempting rosemary-salt bagels). A lot of things will still be closed on Monday too.

I'm having just a few feelings about being unemployed, or I guess about not being considered valuable by large powerful (rich) organizations. Some of this is about an unexpected eldercare expense, some of it is hearing about various perks provided by other people's jobs (subsidized concierge healthcare) and remembering the ones provided by my old job. Somehow the ICE stuff in Minneapolis, which oh yeah I've got to call my congress critters about, is not helping. It's a "what if nobody powerful cares about me" feeling. Of course I have some power of my own.

lillilah

I had a terrible headache all day. Probably, I didn't drink enough water yesterday. Or, it could be hormones? Staying up too late? Anyway, it is finally going away.

Did I tell you about the basket? A while back, the AI and I talked about how to make a basket from rope, and neither of us were finding a lot of tutorials on how to do it that didn't start with "take some rope and a hot glue gun". That isn't my style. So, I had started a basket with a Navajo style, which is super cool and would have taken the rest of my life to complete. Looking again online, I found a tutorial where someone was using something that looked like a regular basket pattern. Then, I found another. So, I tried it out, and in fact, the sisal rope works great for making baskets. The one I made for laundry is about 10 inches wide and 15 tall (24cmx36), which will hold about as much as our washing machine does. I need to finish that. Now that I've figured it out, I need to make a couple more for various uses and clean up the bottoms, which aren't perfect yet by any means. I'll figure it out.

In other news, a friend of mine wrote this brief piece about what is going on in Minneapolis. She covered the riots in Portland in 2020 in a very impressive way. For me, there is a big difference between anger and defiance when it comes to reactions to politics. This piece is defiant in a way that I find encouraging. I would love to see less "you should be afraid" or "you should be angry" articles and more "we can work together to fight this". Of course, I'm worried for my friend, but we are rapidly approaching a situation where everyone is in danger. Might as well step up. (I'm not in a position to protest, even if I was in the US. However, I decided to get a paid subscription to this friend's newsletter, since I know that she's doing good work and will need the support.)

sweh

New blog post in which I pontificate about AI systems; where I'm not a fan, and where I think they might be useful. You probably won't agree with me. https://www.sweharris.org/post/2026-01-24-no-ai/

siderea

For those of you in the parts of the US for whom an ice storm is predicted and who have no idea of what that is except that it means it will be cold:

1) If you have an ice scraper to clean the ice off your car, have it inside with you, not in the car. Because at a sufficient level of ice coating, leaving your ice scraper in the car is like leaving your car keys in the car.

1a) Honestly, at a certain level of ice coating, it's more like having one's car coated in concrete, and you shouldn't waste your energy and body warmth whaling futilely at it. One of the failure modes is you succeed in getting the ice off but take the windshield with it.

2) You probably associate winter storms and coldness with grey-overcast skies and darkness. But once it is done coming down, often the arctic winds that drove the storm will blow the clouds away, the skies clear and the sun will come up. I cannot begin to describe how bright it gets when the sun is shining and the whole world is made of glass. If you packed your sunglasses away for the winter, go get them out. If you store them in your glove compartment of your car, again, maybe go get them and have them inside with you so you can see what you're doing when you are trying to get the ice off the car.

3) All that said, maybe just don't be worrying about leaving home. A fundamental clue is that an ice storm is not done when the storm is done raging. For as long as there's a thick glaze of ice on everything, the crisis is not over. Your life experience has given you an intuition of physics that says ice forms where water pools and is therefore mostly something flat. But in an ice storm, you get ice coating absolutely everything including sloped and vertical surfaces. YouTube is willing to show you endless videos of people attempting and failing to walk up quite gentle slopes covered with ice and cars slowly and majestically sliding down hills. Driving and walking can be unbelievably dangerous after an ice storm. Try to ride it out by sheltering in place and don't try to go out in it if you can at all avoid it. Remember, it's not about how good a driver you are, it's about how good a driver everybody else on the road isn't.

4) Snow and ice falling off buildings can kill you. Yes, I know snow looks fluffy, but it is made of water and can compact to be quite solid and if it attains free fall it can build up quite a bit of momentum. Icicles are basically spears. If you endeavor to try to knock snow or ice off from a roof or other high structure, be real careful how you position yourself relative to it.

5) Now and until this is over is absolutely not the time to do anything that entails any unnecessary risk. Any activity that is at all discretionary that has even a remote likelihood of occasioning an ER trip is to be avoided. Boredom, I know, makes people find their own fun. Resist the urge.

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