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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 Comeau2024-03-11blog for 2024-03-04-0040
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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 Comeau2024-03-04blog for 2024-02-21-0729
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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 Comeau2024-02-21blog for 2023-10-09-2317
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Hosed my dedicated server the other day, but never lost ssh access nor use of dpkg. So I got it back gradually, using ...John Comeau2023-10-09blog for 2023-09-07-0058
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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 Comeau2023-09-07blog for 2023-08-26-0312
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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 Comeau2023-08-26blog for 2023-08-04-0631
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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 Comeau2023-08-04blog for 2023-07-28-0342
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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 Comeau2023-07-28blog for 2023-07-23-2326
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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 Comeau2023-07-23blog for 2023-07-21-0437
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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 Comeau2023-07-21blog for 2023-06-21-0428
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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 Comeau2023-06-21blog for 2023-05-20-1252
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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 Comeau2023-05-20blog for 2023-05-20-0630
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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 Comeau2023-05-20blog for 2023-05-20-0257
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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 Comeau2023-05-20blog for 2023-05-13-1740
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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 Comeau2023-05-13blog for 2023-05-08-0421
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Over the last 24 hours, I developed a sore throat. Stress and sleep deprivation are both horrible for the immune system. ...John Comeau2023-05-08blog for 2023-03-20-1629
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Symptom just cleared. I may have had a stroke. ...John Comeau2023-03-20blog for 2023-03-20-1608
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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 Comeau2023-03-20blog for 2023-03-05-2238
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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 Comeau2023-03-05blog for 2023-02-12-1209
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Yesterday, at my workshop, I needed to check the voltage at the sprinkler relay input. The battery ...John Comeau2023-02-12blog for 2023-01-23-0118
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Symptoms still gone this morning, save for a raw throat, so ended quarantine and took a bus back to Centro. ...John Comeau2023-01-23blog for 2023-01-21-0021
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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 Comeau2023-01-21blog for 2023-01-18-1615
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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 Comeau2023-01-18blog for 2023-01-18-1532
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Figured out the hodgepodge of clock chimes in the area of the cathedral on 5 de Mayo in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. ...John Comeau2023-01-18blog for 2023-01-04-1841
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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 Comeau2023-01-04blog for 2022-12-22-2015
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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 Comeau2022-12-22blog for 2022-12-20-0048
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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 Comeau2022-12-20blog for 2022-12-19-0239
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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 Comeau2022-12-19blog for 2022-12-05-1628
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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 Comeau2022-12-05blog for 2022-11-24-2302
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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 Comeau2022-11-24blog for 2022-11-22-0059
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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 Comeau2022-11-22blog for 2022-10-03-1608
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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 Comeau2022-10-03blog for 2022-09-24-0258
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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 Comeau2022-09-24blog for 2022-09-11-1759
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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 Comeau2022-09-11blog for 2022-09-09-2316
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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 Comeau2022-09-09blog for 2022-08-29-0046
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48 hours or so since the last poison oak itch. Hopefully it's over. ...John Comeau2022-08-29blog for 2022-08-19-0252
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Rash has been gone for a few days now, but the itch still persists. ...John Comeau2022-08-19blog for 2022-08-11-2232
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Documenting the week from Hell as best as I can remember it: ...John Comeau2022-08-11blog for 2022-08-02-1600
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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 Comeau2022-08-02blog for 2022-07-28-1604
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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 Comeau2022-07-28blog for 2022-07-26-0427
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Maybe I need to rename my blog something like Misadventures of an Incontinent Wanderer. Got down to the waterfront late with my ...John Comeau2022-07-26blog for 2022-07-23-1644
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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 Comeau2022-07-23blog for 2022-07-22-1642
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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 Comeau2022-07-22blog for 2022-07-21-1256
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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 Comeau2022-07-21blog for 2022-06-19-2010
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Intrepid Wanderer's Law of Found Clothing: any piece of clothing found by itself is likely to have been used as toilet paper. ...John Comeau2022-06-19blog for 2022-06-13-1539
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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 Comeau2022-06-13blog for 2022-06-07-1820
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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 Comeau2022-06-07blog for 2022-05-27-2339
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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 Comeau2022-05-27blog for 2022-05-18-0309
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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 Comeau2022-05-18blog for 2022-05-01-0224
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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 Comeau2022-05-01blog for 2022-04-29-1516
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Trying to pip install uwsgi on termux, got several errors 'sys/sem.h' file not found. Then after a pkg search ...John Comeau2022-04-29blog for 2022-04-28-0005
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Fixed at least part of the problem. ...John Comeau2022-04-28blog for 2022-04-27-2355
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Nope, I'm missing libssl.so.1 since installing openssh. Can't install anything else now; I get CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE ...John Comeau2022-04-27blog for 2022-04-27-2351
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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 Comeau2022-04-27blog for 2022-04-13-1950
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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 Comeau2022-04-13blog for 2022-04-09-2054
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Just learned, or relearned, some things in Python I either never knew or had forgotten: ...John Comeau2022-04-09blog for 2022-03-12-1929
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Just got off the phone with Volaris. Was on hold almost 10 minutes, but finally got my flight canceled. Whew. ...John Comeau2022-03-12blog for 2022-03-11-1459
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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 Comeau2022-03-11blog for 2022-03-11-0726
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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 Comeau2022-03-11blog for 2022-02-27-1613
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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 Comeau2022-02-27