Ellen Kranzer

For once, I seem to be mostly okay today, and on the whole I think it was a pretty good week, modulo worry about what's going on in the US. I noticed after the household seder last night that I wasn't shivering, which supports the theory that it's psychological rather than thermal. (Does not rule out something else, like iron deficiency.)

I got quite a lot done, including backing/ordering a Roamate Mobility Device (a combination rollator and powered! wheelchair), going to an initial appointment at the local hospital (mostly for bloodwork; I have another this week to discuss it, and another next month with the oncology team), helping N and N" clean up the living room (prep for Saturday's seder), filing my income tax extension, and singing at Eurofilk on Thursday (only one song, because I still suck at deciding what to sing),

And I completely forgot to include the fact that we have tulips blooming in the planters on our back deck in this week's Thankful Thursday post. I still sometimes have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I live in Nederland now, but I have to admit that tulips next to a canal are very convincing.

In case it gets omitted from wherever you get your news, yesterday Protesters gather[ed] for 'day of action' against Trump administration, Anti-Trump protests build momentum in WA: ‘We’re just getting louder’ | The Seattle Times. There have been a couple of promising court victories, but we all know how much respect the current administration has for the courts. On this side of the pond, Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling.

A few nice things in the links: there's a Capybara Cafe in Florida, and last month was the first on record when fossil fuels drop below 50% of US power mix,

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I'm always hesitant to put down just "okay" as my mood -- I'm not sure I know what it's supposed to feel like. But it's not a bad morning. The rest of the week hasn't been so good. According to my doctor, who I had an appointment with on Monday to discuss the results of last week's bloodwork, I'm very anemic. Also I have a referral for cardiology now, to go with the previous oncology referral. Both of those appointments are tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.

There are yellow tulips blooming in two of the planters on our back patio. Sometimes I have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that we're really Dutch residents now, but the tulips are very convincing.

In the links, Is It Time To Leave The US? is alarming. Good luck. To leave on a much lighter note, watch Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat (Animated Music Video) - YouTube. And if you're my kind of geek, read 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful by Scott Chacon, one of the authors of Pro Git and one of the founders of GitHub.

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