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Befitting the first day of meteorological fall, it’s currently 70°F, partly sunny, and breezy with low humidity…windows are open!! 
I, too, have mosquito woes. There are more of 'em than usual (I heard something about the reason being the hotter-than-average summer), and – in addition to threatening Bailey and me when we’re outside in the mornings/early evenings – they like to zoom inside when the door is open. Today’s breeze is quite useful in that regard. And thank goodness for hydrocortisone!
Yesterday I was able to put a good dent in both of the proposal sections that have an “11:59pm on Wednesday” deadline: it’s just for an outline review, so there doesn’t have to be much of anything in the sections at this time, but I know that tomorrow and Wednesday will be busy-ish. I’m glad I spent a couple hours on them. The rest of the day was spent in sloth mode on the couch, watching TV and intermittently coloring.
Something else I did yesterday was poke around my SDMB settings a bit, and while I was perusing my profile and stuff I revisited some old PMs. Back in July 2021, I wrote the following when another Doper and I did some kvetching about the state of the boards and the antics of a few posters:
- I recently decided to try to look for “normal” pockets here. I jumped into the ridiculously chatty MMP last week and so far those folks seem to be OK to hang out with…
So far… 
(And I stand by “ridiculously chatty”! LOL!)
A week ago, I got notified that my Google Voice number hadn’t been used in “a while” and would expire in 30 days unless I used it. It’s the number I’d set up for my volunteer work, and I was happy with the idea of letting it go…but in the past week I’ve gotten calls/texts from two members of that organization (including one just a little while ago), so the Google Voice number will live on for a while longer. It’s like they knew! 
I have no plans for the rest of today, which means more coloring…and a lot more TV. I’m making my way through the original Leverage series for the first time, after discovering/watching the reboot earlier this year. I was gonna have a personal training session this afternoon (moved from tomorrow evening at my request), but very early this morning my trainer texted and asked if we could do a different day instead. When I saw the message I told him my options – which include sticking with tomorrow’s usual session – and I’m waiting for him to be between clients and respond, but I won’t be going to the gym today. Can’t say I’m too sad about that. 
That part of my arm is almost always covered by a t-shirt (or other) sleeve, so I’ve actually never seen/noticed it very often: even after 25 years, it won’t be a “doesn’t look like my arm without it” thing. Maybe that’s at least partly because my arm already looks different after my bariatric surgery…? Anyway, the fade has been quite gradual over the past two years.
That happens to me in a slightly different way: my father will be turning 76 next month, and every now and then I’ll think “how is he that close to 80?!”…and then I realize how old that means I am!
Excellent!
Oh man, that happens to me all the time: I’ll think of something I should do/look up when I’m not in a position to make a note about it, which means I will promptly forget whatever it was. Sigh.