{"id":658,"date":"2016-11-29T23:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T05:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2016-11-29T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T05:07:31","slug":"update-for-11272016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/update-for-11272016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 11\/27\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thanksgiving<\/strong> &#8211; On Wednesday I made a very stressful drive down through hours and hours of rain to my sister&#8217;s place, and what a relief to finally get there and see her and my brother. Thursday we went over to her friends&#8217; house for Thanksgiving dinner, where their sister&#8217;s family was also visiting, and I learned that the sister&#8217;s husband works in AI, a surprising and welcome coincidence. Friday we watched a movie (more on that below) and took a walk through some nearby woods, where my hurting leg reminded me that I&#8217;m old and haven&#8217;t exercised in a while. Saturday we took our brother to the airport, and Sunday I had a much easier drive back, which included an interesting detour around some traffic through some US Routes that Google Maps told me would save seven minutes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ray<\/strong> &#8211; I visited Ray after my Remicade treatment on Monday at the same hospital, and I met his brother, who gave me an update. It turned out Ray&#8217;s condition was very bad in spite of some improvements, and he died Thanksgiving morning. I&#8217;m going to his memorial service on Saturday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Project map<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking through my topics of interest and arriving at a helpful broad analysis of my project ideas. I don&#8217;t like the ramble that&#8217;s in the wiki article right now, so I&#8217;ll replace it soon with the much briefer set of lists I&#8217;ve come up with so far.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bookmarks<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m starting to work on a program to merge the Firefox bookmarks from my three computers, and then I&#8217;ll export them as a set of web pages for my own reference, and I&#8217;ll delete most of them from Firefox and basically start over so I can sync the files normally and work from a more current organizational scheme.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; <em>14<\/em> was good and left me wanting more, which there is, sort of, in the form of a side-quel, <em>The Fold<\/em>, but I won&#8217;t get around to it until I convince myself to subscribe to Audible, because that&#8217;s the only convenient place the audiobook is available. <em>The Stand<\/em> became available, so I started that on the Thanksgiving drive down, but I wasn&#8217;t in the mood for horror on the drive back, so I started <em>The Long Earth<\/em> by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, which pushes several of my interest buttons and which is worth reading without any spoilers.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Movies<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Over Thanksgiving my siblings and I went to see <em>Loving<\/em>, which is about the Supreme Court case that established interracial marriage as constitutional. I was struck by how normal and caring and gentle the couple was, and I hoped the real people were like that and I wasn&#8217;t just being manipulated into liking them. The movies my family sees together are usually historical or historical fiction, and while I used to think these were the most boring genres, over the past few years I&#8217;ve given them a chance and found that an open mind can go a long way to making life more enjoyable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christmas<\/strong> &#8211; I have a few, rather involved things to do to prepare for Christmas, so I&#8217;m going try to get a good start on them this week. I don&#8217;t know if decorating will be one of them, since I&#8217;d have to clean up a lot first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life updates Thanksgiving &#8211; On Wednesday I made a very stressful drive down through hours and hours of rain to my sister&#8217;s place, and what a relief to finally get there and see her and my brother. 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