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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

...continuing flight...

It was no surprise that connections were departed or cancelled when we arrived at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. Because I had gate-checked my carryon, I escaped relatively quickly (for sitting in the rear of the plane) but the line for the ticket agent was already longish, maybe 10 ahead of me, and only one agent. Only one? What were they thinking? 1 in the morning, and very tired travellers, and a need for efficiency... I didn't see the second agent arrive, or know she was there as she was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Home again!

Finally...! The getting of the ticket was perhaps an omen. For one thing, the layover went from several hours in Phoenix to about an hour in Dallas/Fort Worth. The flight wasn't unpleasant: while I had been assigned the center seat, the window seat guy didn't mind in the least switching, so I got the window after all, looking out the east side of the southeast-bound flight. Very cloudy skies all down through California, though I think I got a glimpse of Shasta Lake--extremely low!--and Mount... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Missions Accomplished

Well. The eyes are fixed, and in a month or will be all healed, and then it will be time to get some prescription glasses for close work:taking pictures, reading and writing and doing computer work. Until then, it's muddling along with magnifier glasses which... muddle along. The second mission was to clear out some of the stored old household stuff which currently takes up two (one large, one small) storage units near the old house. Originally, I'd intended to rent a Uhaul truck, but with one... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Yesterday...

Charlie is spending the weekend at a state park south of Olympia where his ole buddies are creating another Live Action Role Play fantasy weekend. But before we dropped him off there, he and I had a lovely and longer-than-expected walk through the campus of The Evergreen State College. We used to go there for other LARPs and for TESC's Super Saturday which was one of the best community festivals ever until it lost its original spirit and turned into just another sales/shopping opp for vendors... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Eyes can see (almost) clearly now...

Surgery was yesterday, patch came off today, and there are certain auto-habits I have to be changing. I will no longer be able to adjust my vision by pushing on the bridge of my nose. Wearing magnifiers to see close up, I will now be looking over my glasses to see far rather than near. It will be useful to remember I no longer have protective eye-shields when eating grapefruit. While Fluffy seems to have gone, and Spot visits only now and then, and is somewhat smaller than before, I now have a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Scotch eggs!

Never had them before... Since hearing about haggis, I've glanced askance at Scottish delicacies. But last night, on my elder daughter's recommendation (she tried them at the same restaurant when she was visiting Seattle a few months ago), I discovered them to be tasty! Imagine a deviled egg surrounded by thin pork and bread crumbs, deep-fried. Eggs not merely deviled, but totally cursed! There were two eggs (four pieces) accompanied by a garlic mayonaise. Beside them, I had a bowl of yellow... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Going down the list...

Go to the bank... check! Pack clothes... check! Prepay surgery copay... check! Print out boarding passes... check! Recharge phone... check! Feeling much better today, and getting things accomplished... Might fit in a haircut, if they can fit me in, and I have in mind shopping for a new camera, not too pricey, that works, as both my older ones are not working at all well. There is a chance that tomorrow, flying from CoSprings to LA, seated by a south side of the plane window, I may catch a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

And they're off!

A dozen or so various sized plastic bins and boxes, labeled by actor and characters... All the stuff that is mine, not bought on Theatre D'Arte's budget, has been listed out on loan agreements for the actors to sign, taking responsibility to get them back to me within a couple of weeks after the end of the show, and clean. I am not going with them as I have been feeling a might peakie today... dizzy and tummy-troubled, maybe a bit fevery, and not up for a jaunt downtown. As I napped this... Sign in to see full entry.

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I hated to do it...

but cute and winsome as they are, mice are terribly destructive and are vectors around here for deadly diseases, though no fault of their own. There is bubonic plague in the American West, associated with many rodents, also hantavirus, salmonella, and other nasty things. Some of these are transmitted by droppings which mice drop in abundance. They also drop more mice in abundance and in very short order. My visiting mousies had to go. As my animal-aware daughter pointed out, a quick-kill snap... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Return of the Soup

This morning I had to face the truth: the baby zucchinis in my fridge are on their last day, maybe the day after. The butternut squash I steamed the other day cannot last much longer. The green onions, the fresh mushrooms, the exotic carrots... all fading and looking like... Cook Me NOW! Okay... can of Progresso's french onion soup in a pot, followed by all the rest, and a bit of lime juice still left from yesterday's cookery. I am eating it now... and... delish! Oh, and whole grain toast... Sign in to see full entry.

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