Sunday, 16th May 2021

On Monday i talked to the doctor about parts of my body going numb (peripheral neuropathy)
- They were a little mocking and weird about it when i asked if it could be diabetes (because it seems to happen when i eat stuff that would raise my blood sugar)
- They issued a blood test
- Abe collected it on his way home, also bringing taco ingredients
- My body hurts
most meals this week have been tacos
- corn tacos are gluten free, low gi and delicious
- Mex Grocer is a wonderful place
  - next day delivery
  - Komali are the tastiest brand
    - Komali Tradicional are 15cm, good size
- Read about heirloom corn (archive.org link)
in this clip from True Detective, when McConnahuey says “Again, and again, forever” he has Simon Legg’s exact mannerisms and facial expressions
added indieweb features to my blog
- it turns out there’s a bunch of wordpress plugins for indieweb
- and i don’t have to do any work to support things like Webmentions
- and there’s a theme that adds a bunch of semantic html to post types. it’s amazing
  - i’ve forked that theme; “rabbit sempress” is what i’m using here
- i informed my RSS subscribers that the feed may get more noisy
- and now i can replace Telecam and chee.party/audio with wordpress lol
  - also if i ever stop being a weirdo about social media then i can feed those RSS feeds to stuff like Twitter and Instagram
- using “post own site, syndicate elsewhere” (POSSE) turns social networks into nodes
  - i post something on my blog, it gets syndicated to Twitter
  - you like it from your site. the like gets syndicated to Twitter
  - the like is then picked up by something like Bridgy which sends a Webmention to my blog
  - Our nodes have used Twitter as a node to communicate
  - Social networks no longer the network, now nodes on a wider network: the web
On Tuesday, I had the blood test
- the person said “I am a student: is it OK if I take your blood?”
PSA: You should stop using AWS in your personal projects
Abe woke up in the middle of the night and said
- “Hello! I’m looking at the lights— Not the lights but the reflectives. They store the energy???”
- and then went back to sleep
On Thursday I got my blood results
- My average blood sugar has been over twice as high as the top-end of “normal range” for at least a month
On Friday night we opened booking.com and filtered “Greater London” by “has bath” and booked the first result
- We’re in Harrow now
- It’s cute here
- We got a bunch of bath products like radox, and bath bombs, and bubble bath and a bunch of masks (face, eye, hair, boob & bum)
  - i am so clean