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Mar. 23rd, 2020 01:03 pmMy sinuses decided to throw a hissy fit yesterday. They do this a couple of times a month for reasons I've never been able to pinpoint. It happens often enough that Scott and Cordelia just make sure that I have a box of tissues and a place to throw out the dirty ones. Generally speaking, the only thing that stops this is dehydrating myself, so I think I'll be drinking mostly black tea today.
I've taken Claritin, Benadryl, and Sudafed. I've also got the furnace fan running even when the furnace isn't, just in case it's a matter of unfiltered air from outside. I don't think it is because it snowed yesterday, but I figure that having the fan on won't hurt anything.
Over the weekend, I roasted chickpeas from a bag of dried chickpeas. It took a lot more time and effort than working from canned chickpeas does. I soaked them for six hours. The instructions on the bag said to simmer them, so I did. At the point when I could stick a fork through them, they still tasted raw, so I cooked them longer. That's really the part of the process that I think will make me keep going back to canned chickpeas because it needs regular checking/supervision.
At least I've established that I can used the dried if I need to.
Scott and Cordelia went driving for about an hour last night. They saw a lot of deer, and that's when it snowed, so it was kind of stressful for Cordelia, but I think it's good that she now has some experience with both of those things.
We need to look into having Cordelia take the SAT. Normally, that's done as the school district's standardized testing of the high school juniors and happens during the normal school day on the district's dime. That almost certainly won't happen this year. I haven't researched the options yet because, until we have a better idea of the time frame, planning something like that doesn't make any sense.
I'm currently exploring some of the public library's music downloads. I'm frustrated by the utter lack of cataloguing for all of the available downloads (books, music, video) because all I have to go on is cover image, artist name, and title. There aren't any genre tags or blurbs. The books are more difficult because I can't sample them easily and because they tend to be badly formatted. At least with the music, I can stream a song or two and move on.
I just don't think it's unreasonable for me to want some broad category information. I know that cataloguing is resource intensive and expensive and not a thing the library does in-house any more, but... Telling me if an album is jazz or classical harp music doesn't seem like a really large thing. Telling me if a book is horror or mystery or romance also doesn't seem like an unreasonable request.
I've also been listening to audiobooks, but I keep hitting unexpected sex scenes and really not wanting to share those with the rest of the household (no, earphones/earbuds are not an option). Audiobooks also don't accommodate skipping around in the story which is something that I do with paper books to decrease my anxiety.
Audio and video both tend to make me feel kind of trapped and unable to control my experience and interaction with the text. I'm apt to stop, walk away, and not come back for months which interacts badly with Overdrive and with getting DVDs from the library.
Scott's got vacation scheduled next week (to coincide with Cordelia's spring break). Right now, we're assuming that it will happen, but I think that could change if anyone at work gets sick. I'm also not convinced that Scott will be back on 1st shift after his vacation. He might be, but he also might not be. His plant being essential infrastructure means that they can reasonably ask for employees to do things that they wouldn't ordinarily.
I guess we'll see.
I've taken Claritin, Benadryl, and Sudafed. I've also got the furnace fan running even when the furnace isn't, just in case it's a matter of unfiltered air from outside. I don't think it is because it snowed yesterday, but I figure that having the fan on won't hurt anything.
Over the weekend, I roasted chickpeas from a bag of dried chickpeas. It took a lot more time and effort than working from canned chickpeas does. I soaked them for six hours. The instructions on the bag said to simmer them, so I did. At the point when I could stick a fork through them, they still tasted raw, so I cooked them longer. That's really the part of the process that I think will make me keep going back to canned chickpeas because it needs regular checking/supervision.
At least I've established that I can used the dried if I need to.
Scott and Cordelia went driving for about an hour last night. They saw a lot of deer, and that's when it snowed, so it was kind of stressful for Cordelia, but I think it's good that she now has some experience with both of those things.
We need to look into having Cordelia take the SAT. Normally, that's done as the school district's standardized testing of the high school juniors and happens during the normal school day on the district's dime. That almost certainly won't happen this year. I haven't researched the options yet because, until we have a better idea of the time frame, planning something like that doesn't make any sense.
I'm currently exploring some of the public library's music downloads. I'm frustrated by the utter lack of cataloguing for all of the available downloads (books, music, video) because all I have to go on is cover image, artist name, and title. There aren't any genre tags or blurbs. The books are more difficult because I can't sample them easily and because they tend to be badly formatted. At least with the music, I can stream a song or two and move on.
I just don't think it's unreasonable for me to want some broad category information. I know that cataloguing is resource intensive and expensive and not a thing the library does in-house any more, but... Telling me if an album is jazz or classical harp music doesn't seem like a really large thing. Telling me if a book is horror or mystery or romance also doesn't seem like an unreasonable request.
I've also been listening to audiobooks, but I keep hitting unexpected sex scenes and really not wanting to share those with the rest of the household (no, earphones/earbuds are not an option). Audiobooks also don't accommodate skipping around in the story which is something that I do with paper books to decrease my anxiety.
Audio and video both tend to make me feel kind of trapped and unable to control my experience and interaction with the text. I'm apt to stop, walk away, and not come back for months which interacts badly with Overdrive and with getting DVDs from the library.
Scott's got vacation scheduled next week (to coincide with Cordelia's spring break). Right now, we're assuming that it will happen, but I think that could change if anyone at work gets sick. I'm also not convinced that Scott will be back on 1st shift after his vacation. He might be, but he also might not be. His plant being essential infrastructure means that they can reasonably ask for employees to do things that they wouldn't ordinarily.
I guess we'll see.
