fluffy rambles

First, some positive things.

Yesterday I had an online appointment with a physical therapist, who quickly figured out what the problem “in my shoulder” is; it’s actually a problem with my neck. He showed me a bunch of exercises that are already helping a lot. I’m still in pain but it’s not nearly as bad.

Also I had an intake appointment with a new sleep doctor and we went over my medical records as well as my CPAP machine’s recordings, and she actually agrees with me that the CPAP machine isn’t doing anything useful for me, my particular apnea was badly misdiagnosed through flawed methodology, and I should have never been on a CPAP machine based on it. In a few weeks I’ll get a proper sleep study with sensible methodology and we’ll figure out if there’s some other treatment I should be doing, but her suspicion is that my fatigue is just, you know, fibro stuff.

The muscle relaxers I was on weren’t helping with the pain but were causing my GERD to come back in a big way, so I’ve stopped taking them. I’ve also reduced my gabapentin back down to 200mg/day since 400mg was (unsurprisingly) making my constipation really bad again.

Oh, and this was a few days ago, but I released another version of Publ which has reduced average page load time by 90% (i.e. it’s now 10x faster) while also decreasing the memory load. So I’m pretty happy about that. I had made a minor change to cache key generation which improves performance on all pages by a constant factor (including cache hits), and also a major change to page rendering which improves render performance by around 15%. Really it’s the cache key generation change that’s responsible for most of the load time improvements (since my site has a very high cache hit rate) but every bit helps.

Negative things I’m mostly posting to Twitter. Here’s some highlights (such as they are).

First of all, this happened three blocks from my home (and was the source of the teargas cloud):

Crazy video of Jo Ling Kent in what appears to be a war zone but is actually Seattle pic.twitter.com/tanqVCk9nJ

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 2, 2020

oh really? you want a link to the stream where the huge chunk prior to this moment was 100% peaceful?
this is a POLICE RIOT.#seattleprotest#fuckthepolice#blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/zdNOAdzBvv

— izaacmellow (@izaacmellow) June 2, 2020

I live on 11th between Pike and Pine, my entire building is full of tear gas. We have elderly, babies, and pets here. Fuck the police. #seattleprotests

— coquito commie (@thistlemouth) June 2, 2020

And some of my own commentary:

Sure is “funny” how one bad apple in the militarized police force is used as an excuse to do nothing, yet one bad apple in a group of peaceful protesters is used as an excuse to attack the entire crowd and every other crowd like it.

Sure is weird how there’s no footage of the couple of people supposedly throwing bricks that led to an entire city block be doused in teargas and a rain of rubber bullets

— fluffy 💜 (@fluffy) June 2, 2020

How to be a cop in America:

1. Punch a brick wall
2. Blame the brick wall for your broken hand
3. Destroy all walls in retribution

— fluffy 💜 (@fluffy) June 2, 2020

And, some fun facts for you:

Yesterday a Seattle officer told my brother he was covering his badge number with black tape as a “symbol of mourning.”

My brother asked “for who?” The officer said “for all our fallen officers.”

In case you’re wondering what level of bullshit the SPD is on. #seattleprotests

— keaton (@birdEnjoyer) June 2, 2020

no SPD officer has been killed in the line of duty since 2009, icymi https://t.co/l7U76Stol9

— 🔞 Auntie Fa 🔞 (@Garudina) June 2, 2020

Yesterday our CEO declared that we’re going to cease all non-essential activities for today (presumably to give everyone a mental health break) so I’m going to spend my day trying to tidy up my home, both because I really need it for my own mental health and also because I’d like to be able to offer shelter to more people if the pattern of the last few days repeats itself tonight.