I’ve been fighting a cold for about a week now. The symptoms are mostly gone, except this nagging tickle in the back of my throat that makes it nearly impossible to get to sleep.
So I’m up late posting this instead of sleeping like I should, and I have work to get to in the morning. And next week I’m off (I have some use-it-or-lose-it vacation time, lots of it actually) so I need to make sure I tie things up well before I’m off.
I should just be grateful that I’m almost over this and that I’m not sick with anything worse, but it’s hard to be grateful for anything right now.
I inherited a share in some useless property in a failed development. I’m the person who pays the (trivial) semi-annual property taxes on Dad’s little slice of paradise. Not.
My reminder comes up today to hit their website and pay their danegeld via credit card. Trying to be all efficient and shit I jump right on that ehre pre-dawn before even starting to Dope; imagine being so task-oriented!
So of course the website is failing. Do the captcha, pick your property out of the search, put the tax bill in your cart, click buy, acknowledge their 3rd party fees, aknowledge leaving their site for the payment site, fill in your CC and mailing details, click [pay]. ERROR Will Robinson ERROR. transaction failed.
Try entire rigmarole again. ERROR Will Robinson ERROR. Duplicate transaction.
I bet I’m now locked out of paying them online due to the jammed half-transaction of the first failed attempt. At least until tomorrow and maybe forever. Oh bother.
Ahh, got my second pig butchering overture yesterday. I should have known sooner, because it referred to me by name on a platform that I kept it off of. (Though it at least demonstrated that I need to do something about that.) I actually thought it was from someone who knew me, so I engaged. It only sank into my thick skull when it became clear that they were evading my simple questions. Bah.
got notification that the new loveseat/sofa will arrive on the 7th. looks like this weekend will be cleaning and moving furniture for the removal/delivery on monday.
Woo! I get to start this month on a nice anti-rant!
We woke up this morning and the house was cold. Uh-oh. Head downstairs to dig out the folder about the furnace/water heater/plumbing co we had install them… but what’s this? Downstairs is just fine, exactly the temperature we have the thermostat set for. So, did we somehow turn off the upstairs thermostats? Some investigation reveals, no, the set temperature is what it should be, the actual temperature the thermostat reports is exactly what a nearby wall thermometer shows. Aha, hubby says, the thermostat is requesting heat and the furnace isn’t delivering it, but it’s working properly on the ground floor. Therefore the circulator pump on this circuit has gone flooey. (I just love when he goes all engineer on me.)
So we wait and call the plumbing co at 8:05 a.m. Hubby and the phone answerer person have a solemn discussion, agree on the probable diagnosis. Phone person says "we’ll try to get a guy out to you today if some previous job takes less time than expected. Okay, I guess. At least it’s not horribly frigid, and we’ll survive on the ground floor if necessary.
And then the truck arrives at 1:30 pm, a cheerful young guy runs up and down all the stairs a few times, agrees that one of the circulator pumps has died, and proceeds to replace it from his truck’s stock. Done and gone by 1:50 pm and the upstairs starts warming up instantly.
I mean, it was as close to the perfectly provided service as anyone could ask for. No confusion, no mixups, no delays, no long waits while the service person had to hunt down some rare part, not even some left behind mess of wrapping carton or whatever.
If anyone needs the name of a good plumbing company in Burlington MA, just ask.
I “upgraded” my iphone operating system.
I can no longer make pdf’s in the notepad. I used that shit all the time.
Just gone
apple can eat a bag of dicks.
I’m hoping that yesterday is not a harbinger of the way that the rest of April will go. I woke up, fed Rascal, then went back to bed. Woke up an hour or so later, got my yogurt and juice breakfast, and after a while went back to bed for a nap.
Later I managed to stay awake long enough to fix myself a salad for lunch, and resisted the urge to go back to bed. The rest of the day was an exercise in trying to tell myself I needed to stay awake and decide whether I might be coming down with something.
Fortunately I felt better this morning. Getting old sucks.
Lately I’ve been taking mid-morning naps about twice a week. I avoid afternoon or evening naps because they would interfere with me sleeping through the night, even with the melatonin and gabapentine I take before going to bed.
There have been any number of times when I’ve told myself that I’d love to spend the whole day in bed. However, I’d prefer to do it by choice, not because I don’t have the energy to do anything. That always makes me worry that my anemia is kicking in, which could mean having to get another iron infusion (which I could live with) or an endoscopy (which is a major hassle as it involves trying to make arrangements for transportation).
I’ve gone through the day feeling pretty good, so I’m hoping yesterday was just a fluke.
According to my much older brother, sleeping in bursts rather than continuously overnight becomes more common as one ages. Naps aside, if you can enjoy a continuous overnight sleep count yourself lucky. I actually don’t mind the wakings-up, mostly thanks to my tablet which, aside from internet connectivity, is loaded with movies and TV shows on the 256 GB SD card for which I paid the princely sum of around $10. See, I’m not really a Luddite – just a pup who hates upgrading Windows and the computers they run on! I actually watch more stuff on the tablet these days than on any of my actual TVs.
In any case, if you happen to notice me posting here at some ridiculous hour like 6:00 AM or so, I assure you it’s not because I’ve turned into a Morning Person like you. It’s either because I’ve temporarily woken up and wish to haunt the SDMB with my brilliant thoughts, or because I haven’t even gone to bed yet!
Last month I posted about my enlarged lymph node and the impending biopsy due to my history of lymphoma (20 years ago).
The good news is it is not the return of what I had. That much was definitive.
One test (flow cytometry) identified a low grade B cell lymphoma The pathologist did not see any cells to be able to confirm it. So my diagnosis “favors” a low grade lymphoma. He sent the slides off for further testing including genomics. Those tests came back negative (which I guess means that it wasn’t detected).
My oncologist said the flow cytometry test is pretty accurate so he thinks that’s what it is. He also wanted a blood test with flow cytometry to see how extensive this was. It came back inconclusive.
I’d really like something definitive, instead I get additional testing in 3 months.
I’m going to change my user name to Schrodinger’s Lymphoma.
If I do have this low grade lymphoma the good news on that is there isn’t a reason to treat it unless it becomes a problem, which it usually doesn’t.
The local news did a kind of puff piece/ free publicity for a Hindu temple in New Jersey this morning. They mentioned off hand that this particular Swami Narayan temple was built with volunteer labor. They are either lying or really failed to do their research.
When the temple was being built, my Gobhi and I planned to visit. Then, a story broke in all the local papers and on all the local news broadcasts. The Swami Narayan organization had been sponsoring Hindus in the process of getting visas to come to the United States. Once these people arrived, they had their papers, money and all their possessions confiscated. They were then told they could work building the temple as slaves or be handed over to ICE and sent back home poorer than when they left.
This was not a hoax or urban legend. It was not a smear campaign. It was reported by every paper and tv station in the tri state area. This morning, one of the staff on Good Day Philadelphia just smiled and said “volunteer labor”.
I actually watch more stuff on the tablet these days than on any of my actual TVs.