RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

 Seattle! Tonight's 98.1% moon rising behind the #Seattle skyline and the cascades shot from 10 miles away. October is a great month for moon chasing as the moon is close to full over 3 days. This year the 3 days fell over a weekend and we got unusually clear skies. pic.twitter.com/KBlYvKfFgu — Sigma Sreedharan (@sigmas) October 30, 2023 4.4 hours of sleep Look what happens. I store up sleep and then it's cat videos and wars and the soap opera that is the gumming of the US of A Tonight it will be worship with Kyiv.

 One of the key things that keeps X formerly Twitter from turning into a total cesspool is people who send out pictures of scenery. Here is an item from Iowa. This is the Iowa River at sunset, near Marshalltown, Iowa. At left is a sun pillar, a relatively rare, atmospheric event scene, sometimes at sunset. pic.twitter.com/yTgBpJtksF — Bill Schrier (@billschrier) October 30, 2023 5.6 hours of sleep. Bright sunny day.  Braille embosser lesson for staff. Writing tasks where I am just going to make comments and not work too hard to fit them into a full framework for now. And then there is the one about Dear Supreme Court....

  Hard to see in the photo but the Christmas Cactuses have BUDS 5.9 hours of sleep. Apparently I needed it.  But I woke up in time for porridge AND meeting, well not International Ukraine meeting but oh well. I want a few groceries. I also want more sleep. AND  I still mean to WRITE SOMETHING. I think I should grab some afternoon sun.

Heh. Blind people need to charge devices at conferences. The odds they will spontaneously discover a whole table full of outlet pairs without someone telling them they are there. ... Look Look. Charge devices here. Also give walking directions relative to the entrance to the restaurant. Please don't mix up left and right. I shot a photo of a whole table of such devices. Then I had to go look in a couple places to find the photo on my goshdarn NEW PHONE. In other related commentary: I can live without the flowery air freshener. I can SORT of live with paying outrageous hotel prices for ordinary things like bananas AS LONG AS there is decent chance that those I pay are earning a decent wage AND there is someone available to just take my money and not ask what latte I want. Such first world problems 5.9 hours of sleep. I survived the wonders and vagaries of Sound Transit vertical conveyance. I am not as charmed by escalators as I was in my outrageous youth but I COPED! More to say but...

5.6 hours of sleep. FUN vendors at Convention LOTS of good conversations and meeting people in person or seeing them after a good break. COLD in the spaces where we meet and sleep schedule rattled because of wanting to make it in time for keynote. I am glad I still have it in me to do transit and not try to tote life off to hotel for 3 nights. Shower before bed helps SO much except for the part about washing hair and braiding it so it's not quite dry and one wakes up cold in the morning. Beautiful sunny day. And Sound Transit gods of "vertical conveyance" looked favorably on my journeys.

Youtube noted the recent 40th anniversary of the Korematsu vs US corum novis decision overturning the original Supreme Court ruling against Korematsu. The Korematsu case is related to another one related to Gordon Hirabyashi. This vid later showed up in my feed. It makes me smile. 5 hours of sleep after 5 loads of wash. Maybe I should not try to edit blog post while doing webinar. Maybe time for chair exercises and the under the desk bicycle exerciser.

NICE cate video and I logged off and WENT TO BED at a semi decent hour 6.0 hours of sleep! up in time for Wednesday webinar. also in time for breakfast and modest stretches and aerobics