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Sep. 28th, 2015 11:36 amI'm still procrastinating on calling the surgical nurse about my pain levels. I keep looking at my phone and telling myself that it's not that bad and then realizing that maybe it is.
I'm a bit annoyed. There's a DVD that I want to watch that I simply can't find. I can find the case, but that's empty. We watched the DVD the night of my surgery, and I wasn't really able to follow it, so I wanted to rewatch it and actually figure out the characters and plot. Neither Scott nor I remember taking it out of the DVD player (we have a five disk player, so things often stay for weeks). If I had, I'd have put it in the case, but Scott and Cordelia tend not to bother with that most of the time (which really annoys me). It is, of course, something that neither Netflix nor the library have, so I can't get it that way. If it's truly gone, I will have to buy it again.
We let Cordelia stay up for the eclipse last night. Scott went out every fifteen to twenty minutes to see if the cloud cover had broken, and about 10:00, it did. Scott and Cordelia spent the next half an hour outside. Well, actually, Scott spent a lot of time inside, searching for batteries for the camera. He had three and needed four. I was in my nightgown, but I went out for a while, too. After a while, I sent them to walk to the nature center a couple of blocks away because I thought there'd be less light pollution there. Cordelia tried to take a picture with her cell phone, but the darkened moon didn't show up in what she got, just the bit that was still lit.
Scott's sister came down yesterday to visit a friend whose child is in the U's children's hospital (which probably means the kid is very sick. There are other hospitals closer to where they live) and came by here for about half an hour after that. We remembered to return the container in which she'd given us soup the day of my surgery. We forgot about it the last time she was down this way. (And we still have a container belonging to Cordelia's best friend's mother. I have to remember to send that home with the kids on Wednesday.)
I had twenty six holds waiting at the library. They didn't all fit in the bag. We watched a good chunk of one of the movies last night before the eclipse. I got five DVDs, two of which interest Scott and a third of which is the entire first season of an anime series and consists of four disks. That last has a two week check out, so I don't have to get to it so urgently as the others.
Cordelia is being really good about managing her time in order to get her homework done while still being able to do the things she wants to do. I'm very glad that she doesn't need us to step in and manage things for her. We'd do it if we needed to, but it will be a big help to her later to be able to do it by herself. She has complained about the facts that she has to write an essay every other week and that all answers in social studies and science have to be written in complete sentences. Sh's of the opinion that fragments would be much faster. She's right, but she's not understanding that writing complete sentences is a skill that needs practicing.
I'm trying to figure out how to force either Chrome or Firefox to put links I've clicked on in some color that I can easily see. I particularly want it for DW where in long comment threads, things I've clicked on are vaguely blue and things I haven't are vaguely black. The shades are close enough that I can't always tell one from another. I forced it briefly in Firefox, but doing that broke a bunch of other things that I want to keep. Chrome is harder. There's no way to do it in preferences, and I can't find anything recent about how to do it (the most recent thing I found was 2013. It might still work, but I hesitate to gamble on it). At least, I finally figured out how to keep Chrome from launching every time I start up my computer.
My mother just called to check up on me. She's pretty definite that I should call the surgical nurses, so I guess I will. I just... I hate making phone calls.
I'm a bit annoyed. There's a DVD that I want to watch that I simply can't find. I can find the case, but that's empty. We watched the DVD the night of my surgery, and I wasn't really able to follow it, so I wanted to rewatch it and actually figure out the characters and plot. Neither Scott nor I remember taking it out of the DVD player (we have a five disk player, so things often stay for weeks). If I had, I'd have put it in the case, but Scott and Cordelia tend not to bother with that most of the time (which really annoys me). It is, of course, something that neither Netflix nor the library have, so I can't get it that way. If it's truly gone, I will have to buy it again.
We let Cordelia stay up for the eclipse last night. Scott went out every fifteen to twenty minutes to see if the cloud cover had broken, and about 10:00, it did. Scott and Cordelia spent the next half an hour outside. Well, actually, Scott spent a lot of time inside, searching for batteries for the camera. He had three and needed four. I was in my nightgown, but I went out for a while, too. After a while, I sent them to walk to the nature center a couple of blocks away because I thought there'd be less light pollution there. Cordelia tried to take a picture with her cell phone, but the darkened moon didn't show up in what she got, just the bit that was still lit.
Scott's sister came down yesterday to visit a friend whose child is in the U's children's hospital (which probably means the kid is very sick. There are other hospitals closer to where they live) and came by here for about half an hour after that. We remembered to return the container in which she'd given us soup the day of my surgery. We forgot about it the last time she was down this way. (And we still have a container belonging to Cordelia's best friend's mother. I have to remember to send that home with the kids on Wednesday.)
I had twenty six holds waiting at the library. They didn't all fit in the bag. We watched a good chunk of one of the movies last night before the eclipse. I got five DVDs, two of which interest Scott and a third of which is the entire first season of an anime series and consists of four disks. That last has a two week check out, so I don't have to get to it so urgently as the others.
Cordelia is being really good about managing her time in order to get her homework done while still being able to do the things she wants to do. I'm very glad that she doesn't need us to step in and manage things for her. We'd do it if we needed to, but it will be a big help to her later to be able to do it by herself. She has complained about the facts that she has to write an essay every other week and that all answers in social studies and science have to be written in complete sentences. Sh's of the opinion that fragments would be much faster. She's right, but she's not understanding that writing complete sentences is a skill that needs practicing.
I'm trying to figure out how to force either Chrome or Firefox to put links I've clicked on in some color that I can easily see. I particularly want it for DW where in long comment threads, things I've clicked on are vaguely blue and things I haven't are vaguely black. The shades are close enough that I can't always tell one from another. I forced it briefly in Firefox, but doing that broke a bunch of other things that I want to keep. Chrome is harder. There's no way to do it in preferences, and I can't find anything recent about how to do it (the most recent thing I found was 2013. It might still work, but I hesitate to gamble on it). At least, I finally figured out how to keep Chrome from launching every time I start up my computer.
My mother just called to check up on me. She's pretty definite that I should call the surgical nurses, so I guess I will. I just... I hate making phone calls.
