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the_rckScott worked late again last night. Rather than fuss with trying to find something for dinner (though I could always have done more tilapia. We have lots), Cordelia and I ordered from Jimmy John's. She got at BLT, and I got a roast beef sandwich. I think the menu has changed since the last time we ordered from there, but I'm not absolutely sure. This time, I knew not to order the chips for myself, but Cordelia still got some.
It was still cool outside yesterday, so I made brownies around 3:00. About a third of the pan is already gone.
I weeded my AIM buddies list. A lot of the people I removed are people I'd love to talk to but who I haven't seen there in several years (more than ten in at least a few cases). It's kind of a pity because AIM tends to be more stable for me than Gchat (which has a habit of deleting contacts and blocking people without me telling it to and won't always let me initiate chats even when people are definitely online and willing to talk to me). There are really only three people I talk to on AIM, and one of them is Scott, and we only do it when we're either talking about something we don't want Cordelia to hear or passing urls and images back and forth.
I'm very much hoping that Scott can do the grocery shopping today before we head up to his parents' place. I suppose it won't hurt to wait until tomorrow; I just like getting it done on Saturday. The most urgent things are my two prescriptions, and I've still got at least two days worth of both of those. Also, it's entirely possible that the pharmacy will be closed today, given the holiday. Oh, actually, the most urgent thing is distilled water for Scott's bi-PAP. He used the last of what he had last night, and now that he's used to a humidified bi-PAP, he can't sleep without the water.
I need to find out if the plan is for folks to go out on the boat this afternoon. If that's the plan, then I should take my laptop and a book or two because I'll be alone for a couple of hours at least. Of course, they may not want to go out when it's this cool outside. According to the National Weather Service, it's 71F/22C in our town right now, and they're predicting highs between 78F and 82F which might, I suppose, be warm enough to swim. Scott's parents live an hour drive north of us, so it's likely to be cooler there, however.
I'll have to make sure to take a jacket or sweatshirt with me, too, because I suspect it's going to get pretty chilly by the time the fireworks are over at 11:00 or so. Long pants are likely in order, too.
I went to the website for the Post Office and asked them to hold our mail during our upcoming vacation. That will be easier than asking someone to come by every day to bring the mail in. Getting to our house would be a considerable bit out of the way for pretty much all the people we could think of to ask. I'm debating asking someone to stop by once to water the Christmas cactus, but I'm sure it can last a few extra days without water. I try to water it once a week, but some weeks I forget, and it hasn't seemed to suffer from that.
I'm debating giving up on the book I started the other day. It's interesting, but I completely lack the context to understand most of the details. It's a collection of translated documents written by a seventeenth century emperor of China. I think it would be much, much more rewarding if it were annotated. There are a lot of people, places, things, and events referenced with no explanation (because why would the emperor need to explain those things? The translator, on the other hand...). The translator's preface says that the reign of this particular emperor is exceedingly well documented, so I don't think it's that the information isn't available. I think the translator may have assumed that anyone who was going to read this book would already have studied the period in question. I'm also not entirely sure about the translation-- At one point, one of the documents references the constellation Orion, and that seemed out of place to me.
I'm considering giving up on CD logging entirely. I've gone a couple of months without writing down any notes at all about the CDs I've gotten from the library (and I'm not sure I've written down all of the CDs, either), and, at this point, I don't remember most of them at all. I know which ones I liked enough to consider buying because I put those on my Amazon wishlist, but that's about it.
It was still cool outside yesterday, so I made brownies around 3:00. About a third of the pan is already gone.
I weeded my AIM buddies list. A lot of the people I removed are people I'd love to talk to but who I haven't seen there in several years (more than ten in at least a few cases). It's kind of a pity because AIM tends to be more stable for me than Gchat (which has a habit of deleting contacts and blocking people without me telling it to and won't always let me initiate chats even when people are definitely online and willing to talk to me). There are really only three people I talk to on AIM, and one of them is Scott, and we only do it when we're either talking about something we don't want Cordelia to hear or passing urls and images back and forth.
I'm very much hoping that Scott can do the grocery shopping today before we head up to his parents' place. I suppose it won't hurt to wait until tomorrow; I just like getting it done on Saturday. The most urgent things are my two prescriptions, and I've still got at least two days worth of both of those. Also, it's entirely possible that the pharmacy will be closed today, given the holiday. Oh, actually, the most urgent thing is distilled water for Scott's bi-PAP. He used the last of what he had last night, and now that he's used to a humidified bi-PAP, he can't sleep without the water.
I need to find out if the plan is for folks to go out on the boat this afternoon. If that's the plan, then I should take my laptop and a book or two because I'll be alone for a couple of hours at least. Of course, they may not want to go out when it's this cool outside. According to the National Weather Service, it's 71F/22C in our town right now, and they're predicting highs between 78F and 82F which might, I suppose, be warm enough to swim. Scott's parents live an hour drive north of us, so it's likely to be cooler there, however.
I'll have to make sure to take a jacket or sweatshirt with me, too, because I suspect it's going to get pretty chilly by the time the fireworks are over at 11:00 or so. Long pants are likely in order, too.
I went to the website for the Post Office and asked them to hold our mail during our upcoming vacation. That will be easier than asking someone to come by every day to bring the mail in. Getting to our house would be a considerable bit out of the way for pretty much all the people we could think of to ask. I'm debating asking someone to stop by once to water the Christmas cactus, but I'm sure it can last a few extra days without water. I try to water it once a week, but some weeks I forget, and it hasn't seemed to suffer from that.
I'm debating giving up on the book I started the other day. It's interesting, but I completely lack the context to understand most of the details. It's a collection of translated documents written by a seventeenth century emperor of China. I think it would be much, much more rewarding if it were annotated. There are a lot of people, places, things, and events referenced with no explanation (because why would the emperor need to explain those things? The translator, on the other hand...). The translator's preface says that the reign of this particular emperor is exceedingly well documented, so I don't think it's that the information isn't available. I think the translator may have assumed that anyone who was going to read this book would already have studied the period in question. I'm also not entirely sure about the translation-- At one point, one of the documents references the constellation Orion, and that seemed out of place to me.
I'm considering giving up on CD logging entirely. I've gone a couple of months without writing down any notes at all about the CDs I've gotten from the library (and I'm not sure I've written down all of the CDs, either), and, at this point, I don't remember most of them at all. I know which ones I liked enough to consider buying because I put those on my Amazon wishlist, but that's about it.
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Date: 2015-07-04 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-07 01:07 am (UTC)Of the people still on my buddies list, about half of them are scammers who I've blocked.
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Date: 2015-07-07 01:10 am (UTC)Yeah, you're the only person I talk to on there anymore. I debated whether to put it on my new computer, but ultimately decided to do it.
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Date: 2015-07-07 01:15 am (UTC)I talk to about three other people regularly. Well, two at least once a week and a third when her internet connection allows her to log in.
But I think it would be worthwhile just for the private conversations with Scott.
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Date: 2015-07-07 01:20 am (UTC)I talk to kevin on skype when he's at work. I also loaded all my facebook friends into skype so that's what I use most often.
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Date: 2015-07-05 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-07 01:04 am (UTC)I think I need to put the CDs into a spreadsheet or something so that I can actually easily check whether or not I've had a particular CD before. Right now, I just have DW/LJ entries with no real way to search them to see if a specific title or artist is in there.
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Date: 2015-07-07 11:39 am (UTC)Right now I need to get thru books, though - I added a ton of recs from FFA at one point and want to get thru those before the end of summer.