The governor has announced that everyone in the state is eligible to get a vaccine as of Friday. On the other hand, we have appointments to receive our third injections in the Novavax crossover trial in three/four weeks. Do we abandon the trial and get some real shots? (The Lynn Institute instructed us to let them know if we had the opportunity to get an approved vaccine, and they would un-blind us to let us know if we are already full vaccinated or not.) Or do we stick to the schedule? I put myself on a waiting list for a…
The first year we were married, I worked in an un-airconditioned warehouse in Oklahoma City while my husband worked his way through flight school. Whenever I was having a bad day, my husband would put on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, and it never failed to cheer me up. Despite being in the same city as The Flaming Lips, we never saw them live; we certainly never could have afforded tickets to one of their concerts, as I made just over the amount that would have qualified us for food stamps. Seventeen years later, after moving to Colorado and after…
Cliff Bennett died today. He and his wife had just sold their home in Georgia and bought one in Arizona to retire and be near their youngest daughter and youngest grandchild. But both of them caught COVID-19 around the beginning of the year. His wife recovered. Cliff was admitted to the hospital, eventually intubated and put on a ventilator, then given a tracheotomy. In February he was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital to try to wean him off the ventilator. But then he had to return to the hospital with a fungal infection and sepsis. He recovered from the infections,…
Now that I’ve got Starlink up and running in a bonded connection with my DSL while still hosting my own webserver, I thought I’d share some details about how. I’ve learned that I’m old and when this all stops working in a year I’m never going to remember what I did or why, so I needed some rough documentation just for me. Additionally, I had a heck of a time figuring out how to do some of this stuff. In particular, the less common uses nftables seem to be poorly documented. To start with, Starlink promised that during this beta…