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[the_rck]

I’m never sure how early in the morning it’s okay to call people. In the evenings, I generally don’t call after 8:30 in whatever time zone the person I’m calling is in, but mornings are more difficult. I don’t want to cut off someone’s last half hour of sleep or catch them in the middle of traffic somewhere. Right now, I’m trying to figure out exactly when to call someone. I’ll likely do it at 9:00 (in about three minutes), before I finish writing this post. I already texted, but that’s only useful for people who actually look at their phones.

Oh, thank goodness. She just texted me back. This is about transportation for Cordelia to her last PT appointment this morning. Our normal ride would be from evalerie, but she has a sick child at home today. I was prepared to take a cab, but that adds at least half an hour to the time Cordelia would be out of school, so I’d rather not do that.

Apart from a mild headache, I’m not hurting today, so I guess yesterday’s walking was okay. I want to try to do some (though, probably less) today, too.

I foresee one problem from Scott’s desire to disconnect us from cable. When he has access to the shows he wants to see on his laptop, he watches them there as a solo thing while he’s doing other stuff. They’re no longer a family activity from his point of view. I don’t care about something like Legends of Tomorrow enough to watch it without him, but I think it’s nice when we can watch something together in the evenings.

Our library has some music available for free download, and I’ve been sampling a bit. I’ve only downloaded two albums, but I’ve tried songs from at least forty. I don’t think that the stuff I’ve bypassed is necessarily bad, just not to my taste. There’s a lot of electronica and a lot of jazz, and more than half of what I’ve tried has been purely instrumental. I generally prefer vocals, and I lean more toward 1960s style folk music and bluegrass in general. Basically, I’m running through all of the albums in the download category that are tagged 'folk.' I had hopes for the albums based on the poetry of Robert Burns (three different albums by three different artists), but I couldn’t actually understand the lyrics, so I don’t see the point for me.

I got the results on the uterine ultrasound. Everything looks good. There’s a note that there are things they couldn’t see because of the IUD. I have the impression that the tech who did the ultrasound didn’t quite get why my sister having problems meant that I thought I should get checked. She gave me a very odd look about it. She was my age at least, quite possibly older. But, really, it’s not as if an ultrasound is particularly hard to schedule or to do. Yes, it took about an hour, and that’s not trivial. And, yes, bits were mildly uncomfortable. But it beats a mammogram or a blood draw (fasting or otherwise) or an MRI or… Having an ultrasound doesn’t, to the best of my knowledge, increase my risk of anything at all.

I got myself on the FDA mailing list for food recalls. There are rather a lot of them. It’s been a week, and I’ve only caught a couple of things that I needed to check against what’s in the house, but it’s almost all listeria contamination warnings, and those are a big deal. It seems like a huge chunk of the frozen vegetables in the country are being recalled, and a lot of sunflower seed products and walnut products. Right now, I need to check to see what brand of Korean barbecue sauce Scott bought last week. If it’s Whole Foods’ brand, we’ll need to take it back because of peanut contamination, but I’m 90% sure he didn’t go all the way to Whole Foods last weekend. Kroger carries perfectly good Korean barbecue sauce that we already know Cordelia likes. (And done. It’s a completely different brand.)

Okay. I need to leave in about fifteen minutes. Time to post this.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

It's good you feel fine after yesterday's walk.

I hadn't heard about the FDA mailing list for food recalls. I'll look into that.

[the_rck]

It's pretty high volume mailing list, but I can usually tell very quickly if a particular recall affects us.

[hamsterwoman]

We saw the frozen veggies recall at Trader Joe's last week. Hadn't heard about the walnut/sunflower seeds one yet -- there was a previous round, though, that we were affected by (in the sense of having to dispose of some packages, not in the sense of actually getting sick from them)

[the_rck]

It's a little scary to see the frozen vegetable recalls just trickle in. It makes me wonder if buying such things is a good idea just now. Then again, our brand has already had its recall, so what's in the store should be safe.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Sorry about tanking on the ride to physical therapy. :( I'm glad you found another ride to get there.

I generally wouldn't call someone before about 9am on weekdays, more like 10 on the weekends. But if I know for sure that they would be awake, then I'll go ahead and call. Like on Thursday when my youngest was sick and so I called another family from my middle kid's school to ask them if they could take her to school that day, I called them at 7am -- and I would normally never call anybody at that hour, but I was sure that they would be awake and getting ready to leave to go to school at that time, so I figured it was okay.

[the_rck]

It all worked out. Your kid needed you, and that's that. We'd have been fine with a cab had it come to that.

My main regret is that I'd meant to ask if I could take you to lunch. There must be options in town for places we could both eat safely. Would you like to some time?

I would call my mother as early as 7:00 her time, but she's unable to sleep much past 5:00, so I'm not going to wake her.

People with infants, I mostly email or text since I never know when they'll be sleeping.