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There are a few things we should have done while Scott was on vacation, and I'm not sure how they're going to get done now that he's back at work. Cordelia and I both need our hair trimmed. We were due for that in May. Cordelia needs a bigger viola before school starts, the sooner the better, so we all three need to go to the rental place (my name in on the rental agreement, so I probably need to be there). Then there's all that stuff with my laptop. Google hangouts/chat has pretty much stopped working in Safari, and the account I use with Firefox spontaneously blocks people I chat with and won't let me unblock them unless I sign up for Google+ which, well, that's my pseudonymous account. I do enough stuff in Firefox with that account that I don't want to try switching and using that one on Safari and the one I chat with on Firefox, and I really don't want to use both accounts on the same browser.

I'm also a bit concerned about my laptop because, Friday night, I tried to restart it because the Time Capsule had been trying to back up for a couple of hours straight and hadn't gotten past preparing to back up. All the programs closed just fine except Time Capsule, but the machine wouldn't actually shut down. It just presented me with a blank, white screen for about ten minutes. I finally had to force a shut down. When I restarted, everything went well until I got into my profile. At that point, the cursor started spinning and spinning. I waited quite a while but finally had to force a shut down again. This time, when I started back up, everything worked, but I'm not particularly reassured.

I've been looking over what I'd written previously of the story that I signed up for iddyiddybangbang with. I think I stalled out on it because I'm concerned about the characterization of one person in particular. I don't think there's anything in canon to contradict how I'm interpreting him and the backstory I'm throwing in, but he's very different in this than in other things I've written with him. The story hinges on those differences; without them, nothing happens.

I ended up not watching my movie yesterday. I forgot that I needed to stay online for a couple of hours after the Metanews post went up to make sure that I caught and corrected any errors people might point out. I was pretty sure there weren't any, but I've missed major things before, so better safe than sorry.

I have to return two unfinished books to the library today. One has a waitlist and is actually due today. I've enjoyed some of what I've read of it, and I like the main character (who is not the title character). It's a graphic novel, so I ought to be able to finish it quickly, but I keep needing to take breaks from it, and I'm only halfway through it. The other book, I've renewed three times already and just keep forgetting to dig out and actually finish it (it's buried in a stack of magazines next to my side of our bed. I know exactly where it is. I just haven't pulled it out in over a month). There's no waitlist, so I could, in theory, renew it again, but three renewals seems like it ought to be enough. It's not actually due until Saturday, so I'm debating keeping it that long. The main consideration against doing that is that it would require Scott to make an extra trip to the library next week.

Scott got me to sign up for Ingress. I don't know that I'll actually end up playing much as, by the time I can walk enough to do much, it's likely to be cold enough that I won't want to spend more than five to ten minutes outside at a time. I think Scott mainly wants me to hold his excess stuff and to back him up when he tries to hold the local portals. He does have some ideas about me playing while he drives me to and from places, but I don't know if I'll end up doing that. I'm Green because Scott is, and he is because the friends we see most often are.

The battery life on my new phone isn't as awful as I feared. I suspect that it helps a lot that I don't use it very much at all. Most days, it's just two five minute calls from Scott, a have-you-eaten-yet alarm at 7:30 each evening, and an occasional check of the weather. I charged it Friday night, and it's still at 90%.

Cordelia actually watered the raised beds yesterday without being asked or prompted in any way. That really surprised me. Oh, and I forgot to mention before-- On Thursday, evalerie and her youngest came over so that she could plant some forget-me-nots in the raised beds. She's not sure they'll survive because she had trouble getting much root for them when she dug them up, so she gave me some seeds for next year, just in case. Now I just have to find a good place to put them where Scott won't throw them out and I won't forget about them.

I wish I were still in bed, asleep, but I was up at 7:00, and when I'm awake at 7:00, I might as well get up. I can't afford to sleep past about 9:30 for medication and meal timing reasons, and, if I go back to sleep as late as 7:00, I'm likely to sleep well past 10:00, especially given that I was up until a bit past 1:00, reading. I expect Scott will sleep late as he was up for about twenty three hours straight yesterday.

I'm going to try to do some link finding today. I have doctor's appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday that will cut down the time I have available then, so starting early seems to me to make sense. I might try to go grocery shopping with Scott. It will depend on how my ankle is feeling and on how I'm feeling otherwise. I've been having intestinal difficulties that I suspect may be due to the erythritol in the Zevia I've been drinking. The viola rental place is closed on Sundays, so we can't do that today, but we might be able to do hair trimming. And, of course, we will definitely go to the library and get bubble tea.

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::grumbles:: I decided to look into Mountain Lion (the Mac OS that I need) myself. It costs all of $20. Scott's been looking for the CDs for months now, and he's now come up with a scheme to see if an old hard drive he removed from his laptop way back when has Mountain Lion on it and, if it does, if there's a way to port it from that drive to my current drive. I think all of this fuss over $20 is... excessive. I think I'm just going to ignore Scott and buy the damned thing. Yes, it'll be us paying for it twice, but at least I'll have the stupid thing and be able to go on from there.

I wonder what OS Cordelis is running. We probably should find out.