Author: grysbok

What I did

• Fell into a hole of anxiety
• Scheduled a telemedicine appointment. The next available was 10pm.
• Set up the balcony as a “walkies station” for Elvis.
• Forgot to eat until 11 am because anxiety. Ate a soylent. Tried eating again at 1 pm, nursed that sandwich until 6pm.

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• Talked to a fellow autist on Reddit about what they’re going through, suggested some ways to regain structure.
• Found http://stayathomefest.com/ . It’s awesome!
• Went to the Dropkick Murphys – Streaming Up From Boston liveshow — me and my 153,903 closest friends!
• Picked up my knitting
• Installed the Calm and Headspace apps
• Took a hot bath
• Dyed my hair purple

Today’s Symptoms

• Sore throat
• Very mild fever (98.9°C)
• tightness in the throat
• sinus gunk
• sore back
• nausea

None of these symptoms is debilitating and they can all be explained by anxiety. I have so much anxiety. In about 2 hours I’ll talk to a nice doctor from Tennessee and see if she thinks it’s just anxiety.

Update: telemedicine was a failure. The video call just wouldn’t connect. I rescheduled for Wednesday.

Also, Fairfield County is up to 48 presumed or confirmed cases.

WCSU has taken a “work from home as much as possible” stance in light of Covid-19. I’m still getting set up for remote work. I can check email, but that’s about it.

Today’s accomplishments:

1. I set up my home office.

2. I re-potted my ZZ plant. Now I have 3 ZZ plants.

3. I took cute picture of my dog

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Covid-19 Stuff/Symptoms

Since coming back from the code4lib conference on 11 March, I’ve come down with what is probably a cold. It’s all up in my sinuses. I have some joint paint, but that might just be from awkwardly sleeping on the train. I also have an embarrassing number of bruises, also likely from the train. I’ve been sneezing. I have a very minor cough first thing in the morning. I also have a slight sore throat. No fever. My symptoms line up nicely with the “it’s a cold” column of the flu/cold/covid-19 chart that’s floating around.

I’ve been quarantining myself as much as possible–the dog still needs walking, and I made a dog food/human meds run on Friday. I wore a mask because I have a mask and I have a cold. Friday, I was the only one I saw in a mask.

I’ve also been keeping separate from my partner Chris. This is because he planned to go to NJ to visit a group of 3 friends over the weekend. This was a very important mental health thing for him. So, we considered the risks and decided to minimize risk to them by minimizing Chris’s exposure to whatever germs I have.

Now that Chris is back, we’re still limiting our exposure to each other because now he has NJ germs and I have Pittsburgh germs. We recognize that if either of us has Covid-19, the other will, too. The hope is that we can delay transmission as long as possible because it means there’s hopefully one halfway-healthy person to do what needs doing. It’s a mini “flatten the curve”.

The apartment complex wanted to do energy efficiency improvements in my apartment today. It was scheduled out weeks ago, before covid-19 became impossible to ignore. Fairfield County has 16 cases as of yesterday evening. I told the complex that I did not want a bunch of people in my apartment who had just been in someone else’s apartment and were about to go through a third. I don’t want to get anyone else sick, I don’t want to be sick myself, and, while my balcony door is drafty as all get out, energy improvements can wait.

I hope this finds everyone safe and well.

Update

As up this evening, Fairfield County has 29 cases.

Searching for “Atlanta, GA” was giving 0 results, despite there being several GAFilk items tagged “Atlanta, GA”. Turns out my schema.xml was a bit off. So, I fixed it on my local machine and rebooted Solr to reload the schema. It was glorious. I simultaneously fixed the related bug of creators not being searchable.

But then, when I uploaded the new configuration to my server, there was no change in behavior. I restarted Solr. Still no change. Tried restarting Solr in a different way. Didn’t start. Long story short, my production server stores its schema in a different folder than my local machine does. I copied the file over to the proper directory, restarted Solr the original way, and ta-da! Glorious, functional searches.

About 70% of the spreadsheet is in EAD format now. It’s on the github repository but I haven’t indexed it on the website because it needs extensive cleanup. Names especially are not consistent.

I’ve installed ArchivesSpace locally to help me with that. That installation was straightforward, but when I tried to load the 70%-done EAD I found out that AS has different standards for EAD validity than Arclight does. Naturally, a hand-coded 1.5 mb file had many rought spots and AS choked on those. I spent the evening fixing and, by mdinight, had a parsable file to load.

I’ll finish up the last 30%, load it in, and use AS’s handy user interface to clean up the names and subjects. It’ll take a while, but it’ll be straightforward, and much easier than by hand.