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Sep. 6th, 2018 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI didn't end up going out yesterday. I showered, and by the time my hair was dry enough to put up, it was 90F, and I wasn't feeling great. I placed an order for pickup at Kroger, though, and a couple of the friends who came over for games last night picked it up for me.
I may still try to go out there today to pick up prescriptions. I don't know. It's dark enough outside right now, that I think it's threatening rain. Also, I really, really want to try to nap. We have roofers coming tomorrow to work on the garage, and I will not be able to sleep in then.
Scott thinks that it might save us time if I order at least some of our weekly groceries for pick up, so we'll be experimenting with that. The search function on the website is kind of terrible in terms of needing to have the exact right name ('Colgate sensitivity toothpaste' brings up zero results. 'Colgate sensitive toothpaste' finds what I'm looking for. That would seem like a case for matching on two out of three words).
Also, they don't guarantee that the price on the website is the price we'll pay. If the price changes between ordering and pick up, we pay the price that's current at pick up. That makes stocking up on things that we only buy on sale considerably more challenging. I think it can work if I order the same day Scott will pick things up.
Accepting substitutions on the order is something that is on for the whole order or off for the whole order. That's hard because there are some things for which a substitute would be fine, some things for which a substitute from a short list of options would be fine, and some things where substitution means that one of us can't eat the thing without getting sick. If I'm getting, say, sliced cheese, the brand likely won't matter, and nothing horrible will happen if I get colby-jack instead of medium cheddar.
We played Flashpoint Fire Rescue last night. I missed the second half of the game, but apparently we won. We were playing the airplane hangar board which is more challenging than the basic house, and we had both hotspots and hazardous materials.
We talked to those of our visitors who're helping run UCon about events we were considering running. There's a glut of Sentinels of the Multiverse games, so I'm going to run something else for my board game option (I usually run a board game in a two hour time slot and an RPG in a four hour time slot).
Scott's probably going to run two or three sessions of Flashpoint (part of why we were trying the more challenging scenario). I need to check a couple of timing details with Scott before I register my events. I want to make sure he has vacation on that Friday because I don't want to commit to a 9 a.m. game on Friday when I have no way to get there.
We stayed up later than we should have because Scott was expecting a call from work telling him all of what was going wrong on 2nd shift, but the call never came. Scott had to take melatonin and benadryl in order to fall asleep.
My own sleep has been difficult. I'm still taking a single tablet of Halcion at night. If I take two, I sleep very soundly and feel more rested but also somewhat groggy. If I take one, I wake a lot during the night, not full waking but the sort where I'm awake enough to be annoyed about where my pillows have gotten to and to wonder how much time I have left to try to sleep but can't manage enough awareness to rearrange my pillows or look at the clock.
There's also a certain amount of concern from doctors apart from my psychiatrist who are afraid that taking Halcion will doom me to a slow slide into addiction that will lead inevitably to death. I'm sufficiently dependent on the stuff right now that, if I don't take it at bedtime, I'm lucky to get an hour or two of sleep. My intention was to try getting through that over the summer so that I'd know what it looked like, but I never managed to find a point when I could afford several days of near zero sleep.
I may still try to go out there today to pick up prescriptions. I don't know. It's dark enough outside right now, that I think it's threatening rain. Also, I really, really want to try to nap. We have roofers coming tomorrow to work on the garage, and I will not be able to sleep in then.
Scott thinks that it might save us time if I order at least some of our weekly groceries for pick up, so we'll be experimenting with that. The search function on the website is kind of terrible in terms of needing to have the exact right name ('Colgate sensitivity toothpaste' brings up zero results. 'Colgate sensitive toothpaste' finds what I'm looking for. That would seem like a case for matching on two out of three words).
Also, they don't guarantee that the price on the website is the price we'll pay. If the price changes between ordering and pick up, we pay the price that's current at pick up. That makes stocking up on things that we only buy on sale considerably more challenging. I think it can work if I order the same day Scott will pick things up.
Accepting substitutions on the order is something that is on for the whole order or off for the whole order. That's hard because there are some things for which a substitute would be fine, some things for which a substitute from a short list of options would be fine, and some things where substitution means that one of us can't eat the thing without getting sick. If I'm getting, say, sliced cheese, the brand likely won't matter, and nothing horrible will happen if I get colby-jack instead of medium cheddar.
We played Flashpoint Fire Rescue last night. I missed the second half of the game, but apparently we won. We were playing the airplane hangar board which is more challenging than the basic house, and we had both hotspots and hazardous materials.
We talked to those of our visitors who're helping run UCon about events we were considering running. There's a glut of Sentinels of the Multiverse games, so I'm going to run something else for my board game option (I usually run a board game in a two hour time slot and an RPG in a four hour time slot).
Scott's probably going to run two or three sessions of Flashpoint (part of why we were trying the more challenging scenario). I need to check a couple of timing details with Scott before I register my events. I want to make sure he has vacation on that Friday because I don't want to commit to a 9 a.m. game on Friday when I have no way to get there.
We stayed up later than we should have because Scott was expecting a call from work telling him all of what was going wrong on 2nd shift, but the call never came. Scott had to take melatonin and benadryl in order to fall asleep.
My own sleep has been difficult. I'm still taking a single tablet of Halcion at night. If I take two, I sleep very soundly and feel more rested but also somewhat groggy. If I take one, I wake a lot during the night, not full waking but the sort where I'm awake enough to be annoyed about where my pillows have gotten to and to wonder how much time I have left to try to sleep but can't manage enough awareness to rearrange my pillows or look at the clock.
There's also a certain amount of concern from doctors apart from my psychiatrist who are afraid that taking Halcion will doom me to a slow slide into addiction that will lead inevitably to death. I'm sufficiently dependent on the stuff right now that, if I don't take it at bedtime, I'm lucky to get an hour or two of sleep. My intention was to try getting through that over the summer so that I'd know what it looked like, but I never managed to find a point when I could afford several days of near zero sleep.
