blog of Intrepid Wanderer http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/ this blog is a soapbox and rant space of John Comeau blog for 2024-03-11-0706 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2024-03#T2024-03-11-0706Z A few days ago, I somehow bit, cut, or otherwise injured my tongue, somewhere near the base. Can't localize it. Also, about the same timeframe, the arthritic ... John Comeau 2024-03-11 blog for 2024-03-04-0040 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2024-03#T2024-03-04-0040Z Bought a Baofeng UV-82 on Amazon, and got it maybe a week or so ago, but until today haven't had any luck programming the local repeater into it. The PTT-A ... John Comeau 2024-03-04 blog for 2024-02-21-0729 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2024-02#T2024-02-21-0729Z Picked up a respiratory virus, probably at the hospital. Started feeling a scratchy throat around 10PM last Saturday night, and by 6AM my nose was all ... John Comeau 2024-02-21 blog for 2023-10-09-2317 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-10#T2023-10-09-2317Z Hosed my dedicated server the other day, but never lost ssh access nor use of dpkg. So I got it back gradually, using ... John Comeau 2023-10-09 blog for 2023-09-07-0058 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-09#T2023-09-07-0058Z This morning I figured out what I was doing wrong with tor. I thought the HiddenServicesPort number was automagically used by the onion network when ... John Comeau 2023-09-07 blog for 2023-08-26-0312 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-08#T2023-08-26-0312Z Just for the record: my home-brew bicycle trailer, which I've had downtown for about 2 weeks, locked to one of many bicycle hitching posts, disappeared today ... John Comeau 2023-08-26 blog for 2023-08-04-0631 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-08#T2023-08-04-0631Z Went to Novato to get some work done at Panera. But they closed at 8 instead of 9, which is what Google showed as their hours. So, I packed my stuff and ... John Comeau 2023-08-04 blog for 2023-07-28-0342 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-07#T2023-07-28-0342Z Stood on my Lake County lot today. It felt good. A nice, flattish, almost square, parcel on iron ore, covered with wild oats and deer droppings. No ... John Comeau 2023-07-28 blog for 2023-07-23-2326 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-07#T2023-07-23-2326Z Friday night I was at a friend's house for dinner outdoors. At one point, I was alone in the garden and, noticing a ... John Comeau 2023-07-23 blog for 2023-07-21-0437 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-07#T2023-07-21-0437Z Just noticed a new lipoma on the left side of my groin, about the size of a robin's egg, to balance out the ... John Comeau 2023-07-21 blog for 2023-06-21-0428 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-06#T2023-06-21-0428Z I was today years old when I found out that one can make short aliases for hostnames or IP addresses to which he can then ssh and rsync. ... John Comeau 2023-06-21 blog for 2023-05-20-1252 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-05#T2023-05-20-1252Z Got this idea in a dream, but don't think I have the smarts to pull it off. It's a story, possibly 300 to 500 pages, a contract law 'thriller'. Is there ... John Comeau 2023-05-20 blog for 2023-05-20-0630 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-05#T2023-05-20-0630Z Finally figured out an alternative route to Anaheim from San Diego: 235 bus to Escondido; NCTD 388 to Pala Casino; walk 14 miles to Promenade Mall in ... John Comeau 2023-05-20 blog for 2023-05-20-0257 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-05#T2023-05-20-0257Z My Blackview phone wasn't charging overnight when connected to my computer, even though it showed the 'lightning bolt' icon that showed power in. I'm ... John Comeau 2023-05-20 blog for 2023-05-13-1740 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-05#T2023-05-13-1740Z That virus lasted for only 4 days. Still in mop-up mode, but got through it without any medicine, and without any coughing worth mentioning. ... John Comeau 2023-05-13 blog for 2023-05-08-0421 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-05#T2023-05-08-0421Z Over the last 24 hours, I developed a sore throat. Stress and sleep deprivation are both horrible for the immune system. ... John Comeau 2023-05-08 blog for 2023-03-20-1629 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-03#T2023-03-20-1629Z Symptom just cleared. I may have had a stroke. ... John Comeau 2023-03-20 blog for 2023-03-20-1608 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-03#T2023-03-20-1608Z Suddenly the peripheral vision in my left eye is gone. Everything starting at 45 degrees left of straight ahead is blurry, as if an out-of-focus lens had ... John Comeau 2023-03-20 blog for 2023-03-05-2238 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-03#T2023-03-05-2238Z Bought one of those cheap, Chinese-made otoscopes on MercadoLibre. Couldn't get it to work on my Android 10 phone, either with their app or with one of the ... John Comeau 2023-03-05 blog for 2023-02-12-1209 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-02#T2023-02-12-1209Z Yesterday, at my workshop, I needed to check the voltage at the sprinkler relay input. The battery ... John Comeau 2023-02-12 blog for 2023-01-23-0118 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-01#T2023-01-23-0118Z Symptoms still gone this morning, save for a raw throat, so ended quarantine and took a bus back to Centro. ... John Comeau 2023-01-23 blog for 2023-01-21-0021 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-01#T2023-01-21-0021Z The cold or whatever illness I picked up earlier in the week, and noticed on Tuesday the 17th, quickly turned bad. Despite quitting beer as soon as I ... John Comeau 2023-01-21 blog for 2023-01-18-1615 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-01#T2023-01-18-1615Z Yesterday, while on the bus (both times), I noticed a little more discomfort in my throat than usual. By evening, I was pretty sure I had caught some bug. It ... John Comeau 2023-01-18 blog for 2023-01-18-1532 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-01#T2023-01-18-1532Z Figured out the hodgepodge of clock chimes in the area of the cathedral on 5 de Mayo in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. ... John Comeau 2023-01-18 blog for 2023-01-04-1841 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2023-01#T2023-01-04-1841Z For a while now, I'd been trying to get systemd to work in usermode on one of my servers, with no success. While systemctl --user enable myservice ... John Comeau 2023-01-04 blog for 2022-12-22-2015 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-12#T2022-12-22-2015Z Ar?mburo had ground beef at 50 pesos/kilo, marked down from about 150 two days ago. I bought half a kilo, made meatballs out of half, and will make a ... John Comeau 2022-12-22 blog for 2022-12-20-0048 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-12#T2022-12-20-0048Z One of my top rules for experimenters: always defer cutting purchased and found materials. I'd been dithering about how to build a raised bed for a garden. ... John Comeau 2022-12-20 blog for 2022-12-19-0239 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-12#T2022-12-19-0239Z The first thing that Rawls's participants in the original position become aware of, once they come out of their matrix of ignorance?before realizing ... John Comeau 2022-12-19 blog for 2022-12-05-1628 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-12#T2022-12-05-1628Z Well, the tattler lid just popped on the attempted hot-fat canning of some beef kidney yesterday. I'd better cook it and try again another day. ... John Comeau 2022-12-05 blog for 2022-11-24-2302 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-11#T2022-11-24-2302Z Over a week ago, I had two mornings in a row that I couldn't get an erection. Googling green papaya, I found a couple of relevant links, one from a ... John Comeau 2022-11-24 blog for 2022-11-22-0059 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-11#T2022-11-22-0059Z First time doing a saline nasal rinse. Quite unpleasant, but maybe that's a good thing? We'll see. Trying to get rid of a chronic sinus problem I've had ... John Comeau 2022-11-22 blog for 2022-10-03-1608 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-10#T2022-10-03-1608Z Weird dreams last night. One included an oblongated, copper, acorn penny encased in a silver shroud. Also, the house was full of dead and badly injured ... John Comeau 2022-10-03 blog for 2022-09-24-0258 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-09#T2022-09-24-0258Z For about a week now I've been successfully limiting my alcohol intake to 2 drinks a day, defining a drink as a 5-oz glass of wine or a 12-oz bottle of ... John Comeau 2022-09-24 blog for 2022-09-11-1759 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-09#T2022-09-11-1759Z Woke up feeling a little more congested than usual Friday morning. Saturday morning my throat felt a little funny. This morning the same. Since the symptoms ... John Comeau 2022-09-11 blog for 2022-09-09-2316 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-09#T2022-09-09-2316Z Went to the DMV today, to finish the address change begun weeks ago, and may have finally succeeded. Here is the saga, as best as I can put it together from ... John Comeau 2022-09-09 blog for 2022-08-29-0046 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-08#T2022-08-29-0046Z 48 hours or so since the last poison oak itch. Hopefully it's over. ... John Comeau 2022-08-29 blog for 2022-08-19-0252 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-08#T2022-08-19-0252Z Rash has been gone for a few days now, but the itch still persists. ... John Comeau 2022-08-19 blog for 2022-08-11-2232 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-08#T2022-08-11-2232Z Documenting the week from Hell as best as I can remember it: ... John Comeau 2022-08-11 blog for 2022-08-02-1600 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-08#T2022-08-02-1600Z Early this morning, in the dream just before awakening, I was explaining to someone else why I had to stop my intermittent fasting. A nomad, I was saying, ... John Comeau 2022-08-02 blog for 2022-07-28-1604 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-07#T2022-07-28-1604Z My solar setup is working out well so far, but there is a constant stream of nulls showing on the console as ^@, which is actually being seen as coming from ... John Comeau 2022-07-28 blog for 2022-07-26-0427 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-07#T2022-07-26-0427Z Maybe I need to rename my blog something like Misadventures of an Incontinent Wanderer. Got down to the waterfront late with my ... John Comeau 2022-07-26 blog for 2022-07-23-1644 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-07#T2022-07-23-1644Z I woke up coughing about 0400 local time. It lasted less than an hour, stopping after a small sip of that potent kraut-garlic juice. That stuff made me ... John Comeau 2022-07-23 blog for 2022-07-22-1642 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-07#T2022-07-22-1642Z Using probiotics (sauerkraut, its juice, and yogurt) I managed to keep the disease from progressing all day yesterday, but overnight it got worse, and ... John Comeau 2022-07-22 blog for 2022-07-21-1256 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-07#T2022-07-21-1256Z Yesterday my teeth had a dull pain, which could of course be anything, but last night my nasal mucosa started becoming inflamed. And this morning it's ... John Comeau 2022-07-21 blog for 2022-06-19-2010 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-06#T2022-06-19-2010Z Intrepid Wanderer's Law of Found Clothing: any piece of clothing found by itself is likely to have been used as toilet paper. ... John Comeau 2022-06-19 blog for 2022-06-13-1539 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-06#T2022-06-13-1539Z Tips for Starbucks summer game, level 6, that as far as I know aren't mentioned in the instructions: groups of 5 or more are counted double (20 per square ... John Comeau 2022-06-13 blog for 2022-06-07-1820 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-06#T2022-06-07-1820Z Weird exim4 problem: I added a spammer's IP range from whois to my /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist file and, checking over an hour later, noticed ... John Comeau 2022-06-07 blog for 2022-05-27-2339 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-05#T2022-05-27-2339Z Got caught short on the walk home Wednesday. Held it back all the way up English street, but then had to let it all go. What a mess. I really have to ... John Comeau 2022-05-27 blog for 2022-05-18-0309 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-05#T2022-05-18-0309Z Been eating poison for 3 days. Bought a 3-pound bag of potatoes and some steaks on Saturday or Sunday at Grocery Outlet. Cooked them all together as ... John Comeau 2022-05-18 blog for 2022-05-01-0224 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-05#T2022-05-01-0224Z The deadbolt next door wasn't working: the key turned but not enough to retract the bolt. Took it apart, was able to retract it using a slotted screwdriver that ... John Comeau 2022-05-01 blog for 2022-04-29-1516 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-04#T2022-04-29-1516Z Trying to pip install uwsgi on termux, got several errors 'sys/sem.h' file not found. Then after a pkg search ... John Comeau 2022-04-29 blog for 2022-04-28-0005 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-04#T2022-04-28-0005Z Fixed at least part of the problem. ... John Comeau 2022-04-28 blog for 2022-04-27-2355 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-04#T2022-04-27-2355Z Nope, I'm missing libssl.so.1 since installing openssh. Can't install anything else now; I get CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE ... John Comeau 2022-04-27 blog for 2022-04-27-2351 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-04#T2022-04-27-2351Z Found a way to fix the already-install Termux app on my newer phone. The command `termux-change-repo` pops up a text menu, to which you select all 3 ... John Comeau 2022-04-27 blog for 2022-04-13-1950 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-04#T2022-04-13-1950Z I've been using refrigeration for a few days: 1 bag of ice (24 pesos, about \$1.20 USD) in a small cooler with my arrachera meat. It works really ... John Comeau 2022-04-13 blog for 2022-04-09-2054 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-04#T2022-04-09-2054Z Just learned, or relearned, some things in Python I either never knew or had forgotten: ... John Comeau 2022-04-09 blog for 2022-03-12-1929 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-03#T2022-03-12-1929Z Just got off the phone with Volaris. Was on hold almost 10 minutes, but finally got my flight canceled. Whew. ... John Comeau 2022-03-12 blog for 2022-03-11-1459 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-03#T2022-03-11-1459Z Suddenly my lymphoma looks much larger than I remember seeing it before. Or just more noticeable for some reason. I suppose that's cause to worry, but ... John Comeau 2022-03-11 blog for 2022-03-11-0726 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-03#T2022-03-11-0726Z Today when eating one of the ocotillo flowers, it hit me. They're like crabapples. Not in appearance, of course, but in flavor and in the dryness felt ... John Comeau 2022-03-11 blog for 2022-02-27-1613 http://jcomeau.unternet.net/blog/?2022-02#T2022-02-27-1613Z In my dream this morning, I was looking at a book, and the bottom of the page started scrolling up with text from the following page. I suddenly realized ... John Comeau 2022-02-27