Oy, my weekend did NOT start off well.

Friday began with my sister looking and feeling sicker than a dog and me freaking out and emailing the surgeon's office. Then her 11 am med vac dressing change got shifted to 1 pm, which meant her meds were off and it hurt like hell for her. And then she spiked a fever of 101.9. Which meant the day went downhill from there. After dinner I took her in to the ER. Luckily the surgeon's office had already contacted the ER and gave them the head's up that we were coming in, so we got a room fairly quickly, but even "fairly quickly" meant she didn't see the surgeon until around midnight. At which point they decided to admit her for treatment of an infection plus surgery. EEP! Then later the doc came back and said "change of plans, we'll open, clean, and pack the wound here in the ER right now." Even with an IV push of morphine that hurt like hell as well. My poor sis.

I didn't get to bed until 3 am. But today has been better, for me at least. Pretty sure my sister is not thrilled with the new wound dressing and cleansing routine.

Most of my life consists of decisions made before coffee.

I think that means you don't get to berate yourself ever.

The logic is unassailable.

Nifty, dcp! I think I've heard good things of that train before, although, you know how it is, so many trains, so little time.

Eta: oh, no, Burrell! I'm glad she got treated relatively quickly, even though that's still a lot of no fun for anybody.

I'm glad today is better, Burrell! I hope it is better for your sister too--frustrated with new routine is objectively better than spiking a fever and delayed meds, but what the fuck isn't subjective about being sick? So I hope she feels better as soon as possible.

Which meant the day went downhill from there

I've never been sure how to use this--downhill implies fast and out of control, uphill implies difficult and unpleasant. Since either direction is bad, I feel weird about the lack of a clear opposite.

I think that means you don't get to berate yourself ever.

I tripped on the middle of my carpet and broke my ankle. I think self-beration is totally on the menu.

Shit, if I don't write those status reports soon, there will be immediate beration upcoming.

(I was unsure about the contents of a couple presentations and gave them half-finished to my boss--he was mad because of how much work he had to do, I thought, but when I apologised, he said he hadn't realised how hard the work I'd been doing was, and how long it took.)

Right. Status reports.

So I hope she feels better as soon as possible. So I hope she feels better as soon as possible.

Thanks. The problem with the new routine is it hurts like hell AND it needs to be done twice a day. Ugh.

The bottom line is: avoid surgical infections, my friends!

oh no Burrell!

healing 'ma to sis.

I'm curious about California's no cellphones while driving law. This [link] says I can't use my phone's GPS navigation if I touch the phone, I'm assuming. If it's just talking to me and I am looking over to where it is? Can I do exactly the same thing with a Garmin? Can I pick a playlist on my iPod if there's no phone attached?

I can still hold a paper map, though, right? Flip through a Thomas Guide? Read my static Google instructions? Off paper? From where I scribbled them down? Or printed them? Off my tablet? Which doesn't have a SIM card? On my iPod as a PDF?

Needless to say, perhaps. I both used my phone's navigation to get to the art class (I'm so bad at Pasadena!) and listened to "Welcome To Night Vale" off my iPod (one earbud in--I know that much).

Which is very interesting. I don't much like the weather, though. And it's hard to tell which things will come up in later episodes. I'm kind of scared the answer is "all of them". The narrative device is a bit hard to track.

Jesse, Good Stuff is on the trending blogs list on the Tumblr app. You have to scroll down a bit, but maybe that's why there's so many new follows.

I seem to double post a lot n the iPad. Is it me or it?

ita, wrt to cell law, the deal is it's hands free. So if it's set to go and talking to you and you never touch it, then it's fine. (This is what my friend in the LAPD tells me). It's also why speaker phone, with you holding the device nearish your face and yelling is a no -- you may as well just use the phone regular then because either way you are breaking the law.

Which meant the day went downhill from there

I've never been sure how to use this--downhill implies fast and out of control, uphill implies difficult and unpleasant. Since either direction is bad, I feel weird about the lack of a clear opposite.

THIS is why I hate hiking. Like the metaphor, at least here, all hiking is unpleasant in BOTH directions because too mountainous. Maybe the opposite of uphill/downhill is a straight path (like a land version of smooth sailing)?

Burrell, I hope your sister is through with all the medical stuff soon.

I'd rather bike than hike. All downhill from here is a good place to be for a biker. All uphill less so.