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Nov. 7th, 2019 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThe list of medical appointments for the last two years ran 9 pages. Scott is dropping off that and some insurance claims at the post office on his way to work. Scott was a bit put upon by me asking him to copy things and to address envelopes. I think it was the one thing after another part rather than that the tasks were so onerous.
My next task is to work on my UCon games. I have an idea for the space setting scenario that I think will let me get some words written for it. I have a general background for the supers game; I wrote that during a two person, last minute write-in last Saturday.
Which reminds me-- I need to send out write-in invitations for something this weekend. I wouldn't mind hosting more than one session, but it would be more fun and social all around if everyone can come at the same time.
My deadline for having all of the UCon game materials written is the morning of the 21st. That will give me time to print them and to deal with things like the printer running out of ink or me suddenly discovering that I can't find our stapler.
The deadline for Fandom Trumps Hate is the end of December, but I want to complete that story sooner.
Yuletide is effectively due on the 17th of December (9 a.m. UTC on the 18th is the middle of my night, so I need it in before I sleep). My hope is to get it done sooner than that. I might well as I've got the general shape of an idea. I think I'll need to try a couple of approaches to it before I find the right one, though.
I would like to sign up for a flash exchange that's currently in nominations, but I think it would be a bad idea. I'm not convinced I have resources for it. I might find that, during the writing period, I have time and energy, but I don't want an assignment. Treats or pinch hits, possibly. For those, I'll know exactly what I'm getting into. I'm probably going to do the same thing with the Dreaming of Sunshine exchange. Both exchanges use freeforms for signing up/matching, and I hate dealing with freeforms. I understand why they're useful for exchanges, and I like them when I'm looking at requests, but I hate them when I'm signing up. They make the process of figure out requests and offers much more stressful and time consuming.
I almost did that for Yuletide, but I realized that I did want to get a story from it this year. I'm looking forward to writing for my recipient, but I'm also looking forward to whatever story I might get. Mainly, I need to avoid cat waxing.
I managed to send back that package that contained the incorrect item, and I've now got the right one. I ended up giving it to Scott early because it's a supplement for a board game he'll be running at UCon. The return process required an irate call to UPS after the driver who was supposed to pick up the package dropped the mailing label on our doormat and walked away without even climbing the steps to knock/ring the doorbell. We have a motion sensitive camera just above our mailbox, so I had video of the whole thing and was on the phone to UPS less than ten minutes after.
The camera is set so that it only reacts when a person is within about three yards of our door and is coming from directly in front of it. That means it catches most people right as they hit the foot of our steps (our walk is parallel to the sidewalk and runs from our driveway to our porch) or when they're in the middle of our front lawn. We'll very occasionally pick up bright headlights going by fast late at night, usually after something has happened to alter the settings, but we don't normally pick up people on the street or sidewalk. If we did, school drop off and pick up times would be a flood of notifications and a clogged folder of footage.
At any rate, the UPS guy came back less than an hour later and actually picked up the package this time. The woman I talked to was very unhappy that we had video evidence that he hadn't even come near the door.
The school millage passed. Scott and I voted in person, and there was a 10 minute delay because the volunteers got only a partial message from their computer system. They got 'affidavit required,' but the rest of the message was cut off, so they spent a while trying to find the right form and ended up having to call the city clerk's office.
The form was very short, but I was really exhausted and shaky by the time we were done voting. Standing for that long is difficult. I'm better off walking half an hour than standing for five minutes. I considered trying to sit while the volunteers figured out what forms we needed, but I was too embarrassed. I ended up using one of the folding tables for balance which was more of an issue than support was.
Not too surprisingly, the absentee ballots arrived after we got home. They're in the pile for shredding. I guess we need more than 8 days lead time for requesting absentee ballots via mail. The online articles after the votes were counted noted that about a third of the ballots were absentee ballots. Turnout seems to have been higher than usual for an election like this, too.
Adjusting to Scott's new schedule is proving challenging. We're up until some time between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. Cordelia gets up at about 5:45 a.m. Scott can only see her awake if he gets up then, so he has been. She leaves at 6:50 a.m., and he comes back to bed. I'm taking half a tablet of Halcion when we go to bed and another when Scott comes back to bed. I talked about it with my doctor before I tried it. So far, I think it's the best option for me. A half tablet seems to help me sleep for three to four hours, so that still has me waking for the day between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. I'm spending much of each day wishing that I could sleep, though, and that's not a thing that makes the days enjoyable. I also have very little time when I'm home alone, and I miss that.
My next task is to work on my UCon games. I have an idea for the space setting scenario that I think will let me get some words written for it. I have a general background for the supers game; I wrote that during a two person, last minute write-in last Saturday.
Which reminds me-- I need to send out write-in invitations for something this weekend. I wouldn't mind hosting more than one session, but it would be more fun and social all around if everyone can come at the same time.
My deadline for having all of the UCon game materials written is the morning of the 21st. That will give me time to print them and to deal with things like the printer running out of ink or me suddenly discovering that I can't find our stapler.
The deadline for Fandom Trumps Hate is the end of December, but I want to complete that story sooner.
Yuletide is effectively due on the 17th of December (9 a.m. UTC on the 18th is the middle of my night, so I need it in before I sleep). My hope is to get it done sooner than that. I might well as I've got the general shape of an idea. I think I'll need to try a couple of approaches to it before I find the right one, though.
I would like to sign up for a flash exchange that's currently in nominations, but I think it would be a bad idea. I'm not convinced I have resources for it. I might find that, during the writing period, I have time and energy, but I don't want an assignment. Treats or pinch hits, possibly. For those, I'll know exactly what I'm getting into. I'm probably going to do the same thing with the Dreaming of Sunshine exchange. Both exchanges use freeforms for signing up/matching, and I hate dealing with freeforms. I understand why they're useful for exchanges, and I like them when I'm looking at requests, but I hate them when I'm signing up. They make the process of figure out requests and offers much more stressful and time consuming.
I almost did that for Yuletide, but I realized that I did want to get a story from it this year. I'm looking forward to writing for my recipient, but I'm also looking forward to whatever story I might get. Mainly, I need to avoid cat waxing.
I managed to send back that package that contained the incorrect item, and I've now got the right one. I ended up giving it to Scott early because it's a supplement for a board game he'll be running at UCon. The return process required an irate call to UPS after the driver who was supposed to pick up the package dropped the mailing label on our doormat and walked away without even climbing the steps to knock/ring the doorbell. We have a motion sensitive camera just above our mailbox, so I had video of the whole thing and was on the phone to UPS less than ten minutes after.
The camera is set so that it only reacts when a person is within about three yards of our door and is coming from directly in front of it. That means it catches most people right as they hit the foot of our steps (our walk is parallel to the sidewalk and runs from our driveway to our porch) or when they're in the middle of our front lawn. We'll very occasionally pick up bright headlights going by fast late at night, usually after something has happened to alter the settings, but we don't normally pick up people on the street or sidewalk. If we did, school drop off and pick up times would be a flood of notifications and a clogged folder of footage.
At any rate, the UPS guy came back less than an hour later and actually picked up the package this time. The woman I talked to was very unhappy that we had video evidence that he hadn't even come near the door.
The school millage passed. Scott and I voted in person, and there was a 10 minute delay because the volunteers got only a partial message from their computer system. They got 'affidavit required,' but the rest of the message was cut off, so they spent a while trying to find the right form and ended up having to call the city clerk's office.
The form was very short, but I was really exhausted and shaky by the time we were done voting. Standing for that long is difficult. I'm better off walking half an hour than standing for five minutes. I considered trying to sit while the volunteers figured out what forms we needed, but I was too embarrassed. I ended up using one of the folding tables for balance which was more of an issue than support was.
Not too surprisingly, the absentee ballots arrived after we got home. They're in the pile for shredding. I guess we need more than 8 days lead time for requesting absentee ballots via mail. The online articles after the votes were counted noted that about a third of the ballots were absentee ballots. Turnout seems to have been higher than usual for an election like this, too.
Adjusting to Scott's new schedule is proving challenging. We're up until some time between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. Cordelia gets up at about 5:45 a.m. Scott can only see her awake if he gets up then, so he has been. She leaves at 6:50 a.m., and he comes back to bed. I'm taking half a tablet of Halcion when we go to bed and another when Scott comes back to bed. I talked about it with my doctor before I tried it. So far, I think it's the best option for me. A half tablet seems to help me sleep for three to four hours, so that still has me waking for the day between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. I'm spending much of each day wishing that I could sleep, though, and that's not a thing that makes the days enjoyable. I also have very little time when I'm home alone, and I miss that.
