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Scott doesn't think he'll be able to get time off to come to my radiology planning appointments with me, so I've emailed his mother and sister to see if one or the other of them can come. I'm very unclear as to how long the second appointment will run (the first must, necessarily, be less than an hour as the second is scheduled an hour after it). I'm assuming at least an hour, but two or even three wouldn't surprise me. I'm thinking now that scheduling a start time of 11 wasn't wise as I'm not sure if there will be time for me to get lunch, even if I bring food for myself. The radiology clinic isn't helping me because all the information they gave me was time, room number, and directions as to where to park. There may be more information in the handbook the Cancer Center gave me at the beginning, and I need to figure out what our cleaning lady did with that since it's no longer where I left it.
I just bounced off a romance that might well have been right up my alley otherwise. The heroine's father is a billionaire. She and her brother are her father's only children. Her brother is a computer geek who's in prison for some sort of malicious hacking and getting beaten up regularly. That's the point at which the story lost me. I mean, really? A really rich, white guy in that situation? The author tries to finesse it by saying he pled guilty, but... In the US, I would not expect an extremely rich, white guy to end up in a prison where violence was common enough that his sister feared for his life. The whole thing is an excuse to make her cooperate with the FBI in exchange for her brother's freedom (which I'd take as an indication that whatever he did wasn't that terrible).
Scott needs to cook tonight because we're out of leftovers. I'm probably on my own for dinner because, if I go to curriculum night, I will have to leave before Scott's likely to even have started cooking. It's cool enough in here that I probably could bake the chicken instead of having Scott grill it, but he doesn't like me doing that when the weather permits grilling. He thinks grilled meat tastes better. I disagree but not strongly enough to argue with him. (There was a point at which Cordelia preferred grilled meat, but she now objects to that, too, as terrible.)
I talked to my psychiatrist about taking Ativan and hydrocodone together. Her main concern is whether or not the combination will make me sleepy, so I'm going to take both around 4 p.m., two hours before I need to leave, and see how that goes. I'm also hesitating-- Scott's expecting to have to go in early tomorrow, and going to curriculum night will pretty much mean I have no time with him this evening as he'll be getting ready for bed by the time I get home.
I'm trying to figure out how to persuade Gmail that messages from Cordelia's school's PTO are not spam. I added them to my contacts last week, but this week's message went to spam anyway. I've now starred them. I have no idea if that will make the slightest difference as adding addresses to my contacts has always done the job before. I know these are mass mailings, but for goodness sake, Google, they're mass mailings that I very, very much want and need. If something goes to spam, the only way I can get it to download to my desktop is to forward it to myself, and I have difficulty working Gmail's web interface to do that. I find Gmail very counterintuitive in general.
I've already scheduled my parent-teacher conference with Cordelia's social studies and English teacher. I have no idea what's going on with the science and math teacher. A conference with her may actually require going to curriculum night after all. Last year, the two teachers did a joint, twenty minute conference, but the social studies and English teacher is scheduling people for ten minutes with just her, so I don't know. I really liked the joint conference. I'm also concerned-- The social studies and English teacher's online sign up form appears to be scheduling two simultaneous conferences in each ten minute slot. I don't see how that can possibly be right. I worry that half of us are going to suddenly discover that we don't actually have conferences scheduled after all.
I have made a longish list of things currently available on Netflix streaming that might work for me to watch during the next three months. About half of them are things I've seen before, though, and I don't know if I want to do that. I'm also having trouble figuring out how to browse Netflix streaming properly. It only seems to want to show me a selection of titles, the ones the system thinks I'll be most interested in, and... That omits a lot of things I know they have that I am interested in (and a lot of things I know they have that I'm not interested in). What is it omitting that might interest me that I've never heard of before?
I just bounced off a romance that might well have been right up my alley otherwise. The heroine's father is a billionaire. She and her brother are her father's only children. Her brother is a computer geek who's in prison for some sort of malicious hacking and getting beaten up regularly. That's the point at which the story lost me. I mean, really? A really rich, white guy in that situation? The author tries to finesse it by saying he pled guilty, but... In the US, I would not expect an extremely rich, white guy to end up in a prison where violence was common enough that his sister feared for his life. The whole thing is an excuse to make her cooperate with the FBI in exchange for her brother's freedom (which I'd take as an indication that whatever he did wasn't that terrible).
Scott needs to cook tonight because we're out of leftovers. I'm probably on my own for dinner because, if I go to curriculum night, I will have to leave before Scott's likely to even have started cooking. It's cool enough in here that I probably could bake the chicken instead of having Scott grill it, but he doesn't like me doing that when the weather permits grilling. He thinks grilled meat tastes better. I disagree but not strongly enough to argue with him. (There was a point at which Cordelia preferred grilled meat, but she now objects to that, too, as terrible.)
I talked to my psychiatrist about taking Ativan and hydrocodone together. Her main concern is whether or not the combination will make me sleepy, so I'm going to take both around 4 p.m., two hours before I need to leave, and see how that goes. I'm also hesitating-- Scott's expecting to have to go in early tomorrow, and going to curriculum night will pretty much mean I have no time with him this evening as he'll be getting ready for bed by the time I get home.
I'm trying to figure out how to persuade Gmail that messages from Cordelia's school's PTO are not spam. I added them to my contacts last week, but this week's message went to spam anyway. I've now starred them. I have no idea if that will make the slightest difference as adding addresses to my contacts has always done the job before. I know these are mass mailings, but for goodness sake, Google, they're mass mailings that I very, very much want and need. If something goes to spam, the only way I can get it to download to my desktop is to forward it to myself, and I have difficulty working Gmail's web interface to do that. I find Gmail very counterintuitive in general.
I've already scheduled my parent-teacher conference with Cordelia's social studies and English teacher. I have no idea what's going on with the science and math teacher. A conference with her may actually require going to curriculum night after all. Last year, the two teachers did a joint, twenty minute conference, but the social studies and English teacher is scheduling people for ten minutes with just her, so I don't know. I really liked the joint conference. I'm also concerned-- The social studies and English teacher's online sign up form appears to be scheduling two simultaneous conferences in each ten minute slot. I don't see how that can possibly be right. I worry that half of us are going to suddenly discover that we don't actually have conferences scheduled after all.
I have made a longish list of things currently available on Netflix streaming that might work for me to watch during the next three months. About half of them are things I've seen before, though, and I don't know if I want to do that. I'm also having trouble figuring out how to browse Netflix streaming properly. It only seems to want to show me a selection of titles, the ones the system thinks I'll be most interested in, and... That omits a lot of things I know they have that I am interested in (and a lot of things I know they have that I'm not interested in). What is it omitting that might interest me that I've never heard of before?
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We have multiple profiles on Netflix and tend to watch the romance-ier ones on one profile and some of the more action-y ones on another, so it keeps the recs kind of consistant? don't know if that's something that would help.
I *think* I gave you some rec's? but let me know what you're interested in (or definitely not interested in) and I'll see if I can think of more. <3
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To do that: select "More". Select "Filter messages like these". It'll start with just the from address filled in, which is usually perfect. Select "Create filter with this search". Then check "Never send it to spam" on the next screen, then "Create filter".
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That's my Grumpy Old Lady beef with Netflix, and a large swath of otherwise very useful services like it -- they seem to be doing their best to circumvent random browsing and make it difficult, and random browsing is a big part of how I like to find new things. It's the thing I miss most about video rental stores, for example, for all their drawbacks.
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