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Feb. 14th, 2019 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThere was no school Tuesday due to freezing rain and no school Wednesday due to more snow on top of that. Cordelia and I managed to get most of the ice off of the main sidewalk on Tuesday because it was all at that point when the temperature is hovering right at freezing. We had rain coming down sometimes, and sleet at others.
The ice on the sidewalk was sufficiently porous that I could use a normal, flat-edged shovel to break it up. Cordelia had the snow shovel and couldn't make much headway because the shovel's not up to dealing with ice. I'd have put out ice melt, but the rain would have carried it away. We only had a fraction of a bag, and I thought we'd better save it for a point when it might actually work.
I had to go out for an appointment yesterday, and it was nasty enough that I didn't want to go down the hill to catch the direct bus to campus. Instead, I went downtown and transferred. Everything was slow and late, to the point that the trip took me twice as long as it would under normal circumstances (even with the extra time for going downtown and transferring).
My doctor's pleased by my general test results. My total cholesterol is a trifle higher than it ought to be, but the ratio of HDL to LDL is good. We're going to test again in six months. My A1c and triglycerides are down just a bit. I got my DTaP booster while I was there. I'd expected to have to make another trip for that, but they were able to do it with under a ten minute wait.
I didn't want to deal with the hill on the way home, either, and the timing was off for the stops that I'd normally have aimed for. The wind was bad enough that I didn't want to stand for longer than 5 minutes. I ended up taking 20-25 minutes to walk to the downtown bus station. I still had a wait there, but the station was open, and if it hadn't been, the library is a block away and across the street.
(There was a big warning on the bus website that they were planning to do emergency preparedness drills this week and that that might result in the station being closed but wouldn't affect bus service.)
My water bottle came open in my bag while I was on my way to my appointment, so my phone charger is now in a baggie with uncooked rice. I also may need to pay for the library book that was in there. It didn't get very wet and only got wet in two spots, so I've got it under two big books and an 8 pound weight to see if it flattens. I'm not entirely optimistic, though, because I'm almost certain that the bits that did get wet then froze.
The wet charger meant that I didn't play Ingress after the appointment. I really didn't want to be out in that weather with my phone dead. Circumstances that would have made a working phone necessary were extremely unlikely, but I thought that Scott and Cordelia might worry if my phone suddenly vanished from Life360.
Scott took Cordelia and one of her friends to a showing of Totoro last night. The general consensus seems to be that they prefer the dub that they grew up with rather than the subtitled version with the original voice actors. Also, Cordelia's friend just finished reading Howl's Moving Castle and much prefers the movie (which I take as supporting the idea that the movie's not a bad movie but rather a bad adaptation.
The ice on the sidewalk was sufficiently porous that I could use a normal, flat-edged shovel to break it up. Cordelia had the snow shovel and couldn't make much headway because the shovel's not up to dealing with ice. I'd have put out ice melt, but the rain would have carried it away. We only had a fraction of a bag, and I thought we'd better save it for a point when it might actually work.
I had to go out for an appointment yesterday, and it was nasty enough that I didn't want to go down the hill to catch the direct bus to campus. Instead, I went downtown and transferred. Everything was slow and late, to the point that the trip took me twice as long as it would under normal circumstances (even with the extra time for going downtown and transferring).
My doctor's pleased by my general test results. My total cholesterol is a trifle higher than it ought to be, but the ratio of HDL to LDL is good. We're going to test again in six months. My A1c and triglycerides are down just a bit. I got my DTaP booster while I was there. I'd expected to have to make another trip for that, but they were able to do it with under a ten minute wait.
I didn't want to deal with the hill on the way home, either, and the timing was off for the stops that I'd normally have aimed for. The wind was bad enough that I didn't want to stand for longer than 5 minutes. I ended up taking 20-25 minutes to walk to the downtown bus station. I still had a wait there, but the station was open, and if it hadn't been, the library is a block away and across the street.
(There was a big warning on the bus website that they were planning to do emergency preparedness drills this week and that that might result in the station being closed but wouldn't affect bus service.)
My water bottle came open in my bag while I was on my way to my appointment, so my phone charger is now in a baggie with uncooked rice. I also may need to pay for the library book that was in there. It didn't get very wet and only got wet in two spots, so I've got it under two big books and an 8 pound weight to see if it flattens. I'm not entirely optimistic, though, because I'm almost certain that the bits that did get wet then froze.
The wet charger meant that I didn't play Ingress after the appointment. I really didn't want to be out in that weather with my phone dead. Circumstances that would have made a working phone necessary were extremely unlikely, but I thought that Scott and Cordelia might worry if my phone suddenly vanished from Life360.
Scott took Cordelia and one of her friends to a showing of Totoro last night. The general consensus seems to be that they prefer the dub that they grew up with rather than the subtitled version with the original voice actors. Also, Cordelia's friend just finished reading Howl's Moving Castle and much prefers the movie (which I take as supporting the idea that the movie's not a bad movie but rather a bad adaptation.
