I got my second covid shot Monday afternoon. I woke up at 2:00 AM Tuesday morning with fever, chills, aches, and nausea. I couldn't take the day off, because there was a meeting I absolutely had to be at, but after several hours of tossing, turning, and barfing, I called in to say I'd be in late. I dragged in to work at nine, made it through my ( Read more... )

For most of my life, I've been able to group my anxiety dreams into several distinct categories.

1. Someone I care for (friend, family, signficant other) treats me with indifference, cruelty, or contempt. When I confront them about it, they shrug or roll their eyes, tell me in detail how annoying I am and how much they've always disliked me, and ( Read more... )

This morning when walking the dog, we saw the detritus from some flares in the road ahead. "Oh, there must have been a traffic accident last night," we said. When we got to the northeast corner of 28th and Indian School, there was a bunch of sand in the road, soaking up oil from what must have been a car crash. And there on the sidewalk was one ( Read more... )

Hello to the new fridge, which fits perfectly. (Though Kathy said the delivery guy did have to take both the handles off the fridge, and the front door off its hinges, to get it inside. We're betting that the Costco delivery guy didn't want to go to all that trouble.)

And goodbye to Cairo. :( He was twenty-two years old this year, a very good ( Read more... )

Kathy and I got our first covid vaccinations on Sunday. Monday morning, I went to the dentist to finally deal with my fallen-out filling. (I had originally been scheduled for last week, but the dentist's assistant had a family emergency, and we had to move the appointment.) I hadn't had any adverse reactions to the shot up till then, but after ( Read more... )

I had intended to do many things today, but we had a cold snap, and a lot of wind, so many of them did not get done. Luckily we managed to get 85% of the water sealing in the back yard done (all of the tiki bar, and the boards in the two gates) done Saturday. We still have to do the clothesline, but hopefully next weekend will be a little more ( Read more... )

So a while back I was asked to do a report at work. It had last been done a couple of years ago, no one had access to the original code, and I had to research the process and build it from scratch. Which was fine, except that my results were really different from the old results, and no one knew why. The other day someone was able to give me the ( Read more... )

So the vet called today, and to make a long story short, Valentine's* second test came back negative. So we gave him an official name, and I think we will be keeping him. He will have to stay in quarantine for at least another week, because of the respiratory infection. Apparently the kind of negative Valentine got is a possible indication that ( Read more... )

The bad news is, Stray Cat's initial quick and dirty test for feline leukemia came back positive. The maybe not as bad but don't get your hopes up news is, the vet said that the initial quick and dirty test can throw false positives, especially when a cat is sick with something else, and Stray definitely has an upper respiratory infection. So we ( Read more... )

We have this ongoing issue where the cats want to sleep in the dog crate, which makes the dog Very Sad, and when the dog is in the crate, the cats are Very Sad. So today I took a bunch of scrap lumber, plywood, foam padding, and upholstery material that I had left over from other projects, and made a covered cat bed. It's only about a third of ( Read more... )