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Aug. 8th, 2015 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe got lucky-- Scott's not working this weekend. It's a good thing because it will make it possible for us to go and look at potential replacement cars. Scott ran the numbers last night, and, even without the exhaust system replacement or the costs of rentals while the car is in for repairs, we're spending nearly as much every month on repairs and upkeep for this car as we would on a car payment. He also spent a lot of time last night looking at Consumer Reports and other sites to see about car safety ratings and all of the other things that we want to consider. I think he even went to our bank's website to see what loans might look like (then he noted that the dealership from which we bought our old car is offering 0.9% financing right now).
All three of us ended up staying up well past midnight. I think it was 2:00 by the time Scott got to bed. That made getting up at 9:30 very, very hard, but I needed my meds and my breakfast.
I managed to reach the doctor's office about the biopsy yesterday. It took considerable doing because the university's website didn't actually list a phone number for the mammography clinic. The appointment confirmation they'd sent me only gave a number for a cancellation hotline. I ended up having to call the hospital operator and getting transferred a couple of times. Then, I had to wait for them to call me back which took about three hours.
They actually want me to stop my multi-vitamin because it contains vitamin E which is a blood thinner. I already knew to avoid NSAIs, so that wasn't news. I've moved my mulit-vitamins into the bathroom cupboard for the duration so that I won't forget and take one accidentally.
Because the medical stuff took so long, I didn't end up calling the Apple folks to try to get my refund. That's for Monday.
I'm cranky with LJ. They've changed me to an infinitely scrolling feed, and I can't figure out a way to get rid of it. I wouldn't mind as much if I could go into entries to read comments and then back button to the same place I left off. Instead, when I back button, the feed refreshes and takes me back to the top. If I was only three entries down, that's not such a big deal. If I was twenty or thirty down, it's a serious PITA.
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evalerie took me and Cordelia to the instrument rental place so that we could swap Cordelia's thirteen inch viola for a fifteen inch. The clerk who helped us was a little surprised that we were skipping over the fourteen inch size, and I'm a little unsure. We lost the slip on which Cordelia's teacher wrote the size she was to get. Cordelia's fairly sure it was fifteen inch, but we don't know. She does seem to be able to work with the fifteen inch viola, though. It's not in tune even though the clerk spent about ten minutes tuning it (with Cordelia muttering the whole time that he wasn't doing it right).
I did a little bit of link finding yesterday. I'm hoping to spend more time on it today and tomorrow. I need to so that Monday and Tuesday aren't utterly awful in that respect.
I realized yesterday that my reasons for not downloading Chrome no longer apply now that I have 500 GB of storage instead of 120 GB, so I downloaded it. I'll be using that instead of Safari, at least for now. Weirdly, it's having some issues with Gdocs.
I ended up having to disable Hangouts completely on my phone because I couldn't get it to shut up. I have no need for both my laptop and my phone to tell me that someone has said something. I'm a bit frustrated by that because it might actually be useful to have Hangouts on the phone sometimes (though I'm most likely to use it in places where having my phone make that much noise would be rude). I just don't want it running most of the time. All of the Google related stuff seems to default to always on and be designed to be very difficult to turn off.
All three of us ended up staying up well past midnight. I think it was 2:00 by the time Scott got to bed. That made getting up at 9:30 very, very hard, but I needed my meds and my breakfast.
I managed to reach the doctor's office about the biopsy yesterday. It took considerable doing because the university's website didn't actually list a phone number for the mammography clinic. The appointment confirmation they'd sent me only gave a number for a cancellation hotline. I ended up having to call the hospital operator and getting transferred a couple of times. Then, I had to wait for them to call me back which took about three hours.
They actually want me to stop my multi-vitamin because it contains vitamin E which is a blood thinner. I already knew to avoid NSAIs, so that wasn't news. I've moved my mulit-vitamins into the bathroom cupboard for the duration so that I won't forget and take one accidentally.
Because the medical stuff took so long, I didn't end up calling the Apple folks to try to get my refund. That's for Monday.
I'm cranky with LJ. They've changed me to an infinitely scrolling feed, and I can't figure out a way to get rid of it. I wouldn't mind as much if I could go into entries to read comments and then back button to the same place I left off. Instead, when I back button, the feed refreshes and takes me back to the top. If I was only three entries down, that's not such a big deal. If I was twenty or thirty down, it's a serious PITA.
evalerie took me and Cordelia to the instrument rental place so that we could swap Cordelia's thirteen inch viola for a fifteen inch. The clerk who helped us was a little surprised that we were skipping over the fourteen inch size, and I'm a little unsure. We lost the slip on which Cordelia's teacher wrote the size she was to get. Cordelia's fairly sure it was fifteen inch, but we don't know. She does seem to be able to work with the fifteen inch viola, though. It's not in tune even though the clerk spent about ten minutes tuning it (with Cordelia muttering the whole time that he wasn't doing it right).I did a little bit of link finding yesterday. I'm hoping to spend more time on it today and tomorrow. I need to so that Monday and Tuesday aren't utterly awful in that respect.
I realized yesterday that my reasons for not downloading Chrome no longer apply now that I have 500 GB of storage instead of 120 GB, so I downloaded it. I'll be using that instead of Safari, at least for now. Weirdly, it's having some issues with Gdocs.
I ended up having to disable Hangouts completely on my phone because I couldn't get it to shut up. I have no need for both my laptop and my phone to tell me that someone has said something. I'm a bit frustrated by that because it might actually be useful to have Hangouts on the phone sometimes (though I'm most likely to use it in places where having my phone make that much noise would be rude). I just don't want it running most of the time. All of the Google related stuff seems to default to always on and be designed to be very difficult to turn off.
