the_rck

I had an awful time staying sufficiently awake yesterday to be coherent. I had a headache when I woke and ended up taking an Amerge for it. The headache faded, but I got some nasty nausea. I had Scott pick me up a Dr Pepper while he was out to get his hair cut. I hoped that the sugar and carbonation would settle my stomach and that the sugar and caffeine would help me act awake when we arrived at Scott's parents place. The first part worked, more or less. The second... I didn't actually start feeling awake until a bit after dinner. I had eaten earlier in the day, so I'm not sure what about the meal worked.

The trip home produced more nausea. I don't usually get carsick, so I tend to take it as a sign of something else going on. Some of it might be that Scott was listening to an audiobook that had a level of violence that isn't particularly remarkable but is more than I would read or watch. It was one of the Expanse books.

The battery in Cordelia's phone has been gradually dying, so Scott bought a new battery and tried to install it last night after she went to bed. There was a lot of swearing and a lot calling himself names, and the phone now doesn't work. He's out getting it fixed. Basically, he couldn't really see the tiny pieces, the tools he'd bought didn't do what he expected them too (I couldn't figure out if they weren't magnetic and should have been or were and shouldn't have been. It didn't seem like the time to ask), and his hands weren't as steady as they needed to be (and bonus! Arthritis makes those fine movements hurt).

At any rate, he found a place locally that he hoped could do the repair. He just texted me that it's done and that they were able to fix the problem with his phone, too. The place opened less than an hour before he texted me that all was well, so neither repair can have been hugely difficult.

I did a beta read on a short fic last night. I have no idea if anything I said will be useful to the author. They're not someone I know; we connected through one of DW's beta finding communities. It gave me something to focus on while Scott was cursing his inability to do what he thought he ought to be able to do. He gets so very angry at himself when things don't work right. It's as if he feels he's failing some basic test for being a good husband/father. He ends up yelling (never at us, just at what he's working on and at himself) which spikes my adrenaline and makes Cordelia assume that she's done something to make it happen.

Scott's mother brought out some old photographs yesterday, mostly pictures of her parents but also some of her grandparents. She was talking about throwing them out because she didn't see why we'd care. Scott ended up taking them with the idea of scanning them. I intend to keep the physical objects, too. I'm not sure where, but I want paper back ups, too. Scott's mother also had her mother's senior class yearbook from 1931. I think our niece took that because she was kind of fascinated by it. I'd like to see that scanned and put online somewhere for other people to see. It doesn't contain a lot of information, but I'm sure that many of the people pictured have descendants who might be interested. The yearbook is stapled at the spine and has construction paper covers. I'm not sure how terribly acidic the interior pages are, but I'm sure they must be.

Scott's parents also gave away a bunch of old cameras. Cordelia and her cousin both thought the idea of film cameras was kind of neat. Cordelia spent a lot of time pretending to take pictures (no film in that camera) just to hear the sounds of the parts moving. One of the cameras we brought home had film in it. Scott says it belonged to one of his grandmothers. We're going to have the film developed by a place Scott found online that does 'found film.' There may be nothing there worth looking at, but there might be something from that grandmother. Who knows?

Weiss Kreuz is way, way behind on the battle in weissvsaiyuki. This makes me really want to finish my three stories because I'd like to see Weiss Kreuz make a better showing than it currently is. One of the stories is likely to be at least 10K words when it's done (it's 8.5K now) which is a lot of points since it's 250 pts per thousand words. The other two stories currently stand at 5K and 2.3K. The last of the three probably won't break 5K, but the second story might get very long. Or not. I don't actually know.