Aww, that sucks, Kat. It's hard to balance.

Today's second run into town was basically all fail. Well, I got the deposit made. But I called the propane company at 3:57 and got their answering service telling me they close at 4:00. I KNOW! So I have to call on the dot tomorrow at 7:00 when they open and hope to sneak in on the Tuesday delivery. If that fails, then I have to go back to the bank and take the cash back out I just put in to go buy firewood.

Then I went to the post office, where I found my Blue Cross statement and new cards, finally. I called them at 4:57 to pay them, but got voicemail saying they closed at 5:00. I KNOW! So I have to call them tomorrow and trust that they're as good as their word which said that we'd have until mid-month to pay the first premium even though we are theoretically covered by the new policy as of tomorrow. Which I hope is true because we are theoretically lapsed from the old policy as of tonight.

Then tomorrow I have to cover classes alone. The SO is headed to Kansas to record on a super seekrit project that I am so excited for him about. Wow, grammar. Anyway, if it pans out the way I think it might, it might a) put him on the same record as some fairly large names in our side of the industry and b) mean royalties for the family who has supported us for years and only stopped when they ran out of royalties. And then he's sticking around for the weekend to promote at another screening of the movie and to speak at our supporting church.

Which is all great. But means that the last week of promoting before this totally other concert we're throwing next Monday will now all fall to me. I hate promoting! Dave is good at motivating people to come to shows. I am good at making sure the shows are kickass. But I don't have any tech to run this show other than clearing the stage, and the hospitality is minimal. So I just need to spend my week running around taking care of getting people there; flyers, church speaking, newspaper, maybe radio if I'm lucky. So I just have to make sure I'm off my ass and doing it.

I would rather take naps.

Anyway, since this whole day ended up kerfucked, I opted for a Guinness instead of the hot cocoa.

Did anything happen after that?

Nope. There were a couple of shots of them looking at each other meaningfully, but nothing more.

Liese, that's ...a lot! Of a lot!

Ok, so now I also need to make two major financial decisions that need to be resolved tonight. BLARGH, world, come at me before I have the Guinness, not after!

Our landlord left a note that the power will be off for 2-3 hours starting at 10am tomorrow. This is not so good because Spring Break and a rainy day predicted. Maybe we will go hang out at Joseph Beth.

Take them to see the new Muppet Movie! It's good.

I know I should be an adult capable of functioning on my own when the SO is not here, but this one got sprung on us two ways. First, the opportunity just came up last week. And then this week we realized it lined up to let him to the second promo, which extended the trip from a few days to a week. So it's tripping all my "I MUST PLAN FOR THIS" triggers in an ugly way.

I'm going to punt. We'll miss this deal, but other deals will come up, and the need is not immediate. Blah.

Zen, did you get your Chromebook? Am I remembering right that you ordered one off that same deal tommyrot linked to?

I did, and I did. It came while I was gone, and I picked it up yesterday. I didn't get the zillion gigs of free Drive storage because it was a refurbished unit, but I don't really care. It's great. Thin and light, boots up in under 15 seconds, took less than five minutes to set it up to my preferences, charges fully quickly and the battery seems to last a really long time. It does exactly what I want a device to do: just fucking work. I expect it will almost completely replace my old personal laptop for ordinary use, and the old one will become extra external storage.

Guinness is good.

You are allowed to flip out like a small mammal when unexpected shit crops up. For a little while. You'll sort out whatever needs sorting and if you don't it probably won't be that terrible. Oxygen in, carbon dioxide out.

Yeah, you're right.