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I don’t have a headache this morning. I’m not quite awake, but my head doesn’t hurt. I have no idea why not given that I didn’t sleep all that well. If the headache stays gone over the next few days, I’m going to feel stupid for having emailed my doctors about it, but it had been going on for so very long, that I really think I had to.

We’re running a lot later this morning than I’d hoped. I think it’s Scott’s usual unwillingness to hurry when he doesn’t have to. He’s been up for more than two hours but has only just started doing anything beyond playing XCom 2. He’s made pancakes, and he’ll also take at least another hour before he’s ready to go. I think we’ll be lucky to get out of here by 1:00, and we’ll likely need to get food somewhere while we’re out.

Still, not doing the Apple Store means that we can get all of our errands done in a much shorter time. If we leave at 1:00 and take two hours for all of our Carpenter Road errands, we’ll still have two hours before Great Clips and the pharmacy close and three hours before the library closes.

I’ve been looking at recipes for beans in the pressure cooker. Excluding recipes that call for tomato ends up eliminating almost everything (and one of the remaining recipes called for ketchup, so). Pretty much everything I see that I actually could do and that all three of us could eat is just beans and water which… I can’t imagine that tastes all that great unless one really, really loves beans. I mean, not even salt? I guess I’ll start from the water and beans instructions and improvise a bit.

I never did open that interlibrary loan book that can’t be renewed. I think I may need to schedule some time for reading books every day and not let myself do anything else during that time. I renewed a bunch of other things. I actually do want to read all of this stuff. I’ve just been so very tired and putting all of my available energy into writing.

Speaking of writing, I need to put some effort into bridging the gap between sections that is currently marked with a '[stuff happens here]' note. I’m currently not very interested in what happens there. It’s just that it’s a jump of three years forward to the next section, and I think there needs to be something in there. Maybe not a lot but something. The characters actually change during that gap.

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I had to send Scott and Cordelia off for the first bit of errand running without me because I had painfully bad gas and couldn’t be entirely sure it was just gas. I didn’t want to be far away from a bathroom for as long as would be necessary for the Verizon part of the trip.

Judging by the family tracking app we’ve got, they’re at the Verizon store right now. I’m hoping that they went to Target first because, if they didn’t, they’ve been at the Verizon store for almost an hour and a half. Given that they knew exactly what they wanted, the only reason for them to be there that long would be if the story was exceptionally busy. I was hoping they’d be back here by 3:00 which is kind of soon.

3:30 will probably be soon enough that we can still get the haircuts and the groceries done. I’ll just have to make sure Scott goes to the pharmacy first. I’m out of levothyroxine, so getting that prescription is essential.

This gave me enough time to finish a library DVD that I’d been halfway through since Monday or Tuesday. I also started and gave up on a graphic novel I’d had for weeks. Right now, I’m watching Danny Phantom as something that requires very little brain.

No writing so far today. I’m not sure if there will be any later on. I kind of don’t want to right now, at least not the story that I’ve been working on. I hope that that doesn’t last because I do have a deadline on that (15 September). At the moment, I kind of want to write something that isn’t even vaguely important or aimed at going anywhere or… well anything at all.