Up and down. Ame's thirty-fifth birthday, and the atomic bombings 80
years ago. OTOH m's return from the US Wednesday, and for some reason I
noticed being in a good mood shortly before bedtime. Possibly from
getting out of one of my support groups early. Or it could have been
something somebody said in the group. Also, my balance seems to be
improving a little after finding a test that
I can practice against. But I should also find some exercises.
Not exactly a good week for walking either. I skipped Tuesday because
(IIRC) I was running late after helping N give Cricket her meds, and had a
doctor's appointment after that. Then I did something unpleasant to my
right ankle Friday morning, probably on the stairs with an excessively
heavy bag of garbage. (Mostly cat litter.) I went to the end of
the block and back this morning but didn't want to push my luck. I have
no idea what became of my little plastic bin full of knee, ankle, and
wrist braces.
On the gripping hand, I have the old household server, Nova, running
again. That's notable mainly (only?) because it's still running Mint
version 21.3, so it still has Python 2 installed, so I can run my
Dreamwidth posting client on it. (I also have it on Raven, but N is
borrowing it. When she's done with it I'll be able to upgrade it.)
Nova is headless. I could ping it, but not ssh to it, which turned out to
be because it was on the wrong subnet. Fixable by widening the netmask on
Nova and one laptop. That was an interesting exercise, though, because I
had to do it over ssh (i.e. without a display), which meant that I had to
learn the text user interface for Network Manager. Feeling mildly
accomplished from that.
Also, m and I had a good rehearsal of Ship of Stone yesterday. The plan
is to do one song per day to use as scratch tracks for the next album. My
intended recording hardware was not cooperating -- I seem to be
missing one of my large-diaphragm vocal mics. May have to fix that.
Meanwhile I used my trusty old Zoom H2, which is perfectly adequate for
scratch tracks.
In links, last week Mastodon was
added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s Registry, which is
pretty cool. And the World’s first Facebook museum helps users face the future after its
hoped-for demise.
( Notes & links, as usual )
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