Today's agenda is to do laundry and update my laptop. Two days ago, there was a major flood in Paris.
3 Good Things:
07:30. Woke up. Got up and got dressed. Went downstairs and brushed my hair. Anxiety was looming in the background, but I pushed through. Put my laundry in the wash. Grabbed a cherry Bubly sparkling water and took my meds and vitamin B12.
08:00. Checked email. I have an eye doctor appointment on July 2. Applied for gift membership with the Free Software Foundation. Poured a cup of coffee.
09:00. Watched a video of a crazy flood in Paris. Someone from System Crafters sent it to me. (System Crafters is a GNU/Linux user community focused around GNU Emacs and GNU Guix.) Moved laundry to the dryer: The laundry was sopping wet! I should have added more clothes to the load... Actually, I guess our washer is just not draining correctly, according to my mom. Put Mom's laundry in the wash. Went to take the dogs out, but it's raining.
Video: Chaos in Paris, France ! Massive storms and severe flooding
10:00. Updated Fedora operating system on my Chromebook.
11:00. Tried to SSH into my hosts. GPG Agent refused operation. The fix was to run echo UPDATESTARTUPTTY | gpg-connect-agent and it worked again. Restarted dryer, because my clothes were still wet. My laundry detergent is Xtra Calypso Fresh. Listened to some Old School Runescape covers of classic rock songs. Mom liked them! Ordered a few things on Walmart+ with food stamps: Bubly (strawberry sunset, bellini bliss), mango chunks, Amy's meatloaf, Amy's bean burritos, and strawberry preserves. Aunt came in and added a few more things to the Walmart+ list. Turned on KZHE classic country station on the Shortwave app.
Bohemian Rhapsody
but it's OldSchool RuneScape soundfont
Free Bird
but it's OldSchool RuneScape soundfont
12:30. Still haven't eaten anything. Put up my laundry and moved Mom's laundry to the dryer. Got a bowl of Cheerios with soy milk and local raw honey.
13:00. KZHE started playing Gospel songs, so I changed Shortwave to 101 The Fox. Turned off Shortwave at 13:14 and Mom turned the television on. Checked Geminispace for updates. Read Christopher Howard's post about Messianic Christianity and the impact of technology on congregations. While I disapprove of Messianic Christianity, finding it to be tacky and lacking in its own unique substance, compared to other Christian churches, I like the commentary on analog church
and the observation that our modern technologies draw us further apart. This is something I have learned much about in both my learning about traditional Jewish שבת observance, and in my studies of the Amish.
Christopher Howard: Study Updates [requires Gemini protocol app]
13:50. Called the Wellbeing Center for my pickup time Second Day. Had to leave a message. Checked candle lighting times for tonight: שבת begins 20:30 and ends twenty-five hours later at 21:30. Brought Mom's dried laundry into her room. Checked COM on SDF. Promised thingfish that I'd give him one of my gay pride pins.
15:30. Grabbed my last strawberry Bubly sparkling water. Logged into Fedora Chat to see what has happened there. Quite a bit, and lots of spam.
16:00. Waiting for my spam to delete on Fedora Chat. Followed Ubuntu's guide on how to mitigate spam on Matrix. Figured out how to display Unicode characters on OpenBSD hosts: echo 'export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"' >>~/.profile. The Walmart+ delivery came: I took the groceries in and put them away, and microwaved my two boxes of Amy's veggie loaf. I wasn't hungry for mango afterward. The cat is mewing in a very sad way; she's very old and might not last much longer.
18:20. Today I learned that Cheogram Web Demo has screen sharing! I can't wait for it to have OMEMO encryption so I can switch to it!
Cheogram Web Demo [web app is free software]
19:05. Getting tired. Finished sparkling water. Reloaded the mini fridge with cans of Bubly. Switched laptop to Dark Style.
20:00. Checked email. Received a reply to a thread I have with someone about fixing the HTTPS on calebh.top. It looks like the cat has a cyst in her ear.
20:29. Lit שבת candles and got a new can of Bubly. Staying online this שבת because I did not prepare. I like the new candle holders!
21:25. Closed excess programs and SSH sessions. Went upstairs to bed.