I'm going in to the office tomorrow to get my flu shot, and I figure on staying for my forecast review call. Because that just seems easier? I have lost track of which week is supposed to be my in office week, but I doubt anyone will notice or care.

Lack of blood pressure is worrisome, are you sure you aren't a vampire or zombie?

My blood pressure is always good! I was so proud of it! And now it has let me down. Or those automated machines, who usually hate me, have let me down.

Downside: I don't know how to wrap an ankle with an Ace bandage correctly.

The figure 8 is a good idea. Make sure it's tight enough to provide support but not so tight that it affects your circulation.

I walked into CVS after work yesterday and got a flu shot no problem, which was nice. Although my blood pressure did test high in the machine there, it's been low the last couple of times I've given blood. (And by "high" I mean normal....)

Has anyone heard from Sue Ozon?

Sue is on Instagram and her cat is a delight.

I emailed Norah about a month ago, around our firstborns' birthdays, and she seems ok.

Dear hivemind: for my next mound of tomatoes

Have you ever made a French tomato tart? They are delicious!

Has anyone heard from Sue Ozon?

She's also still around on FB too. I pinged her on something not that long ago.

And she's on Twitter.

I swore to myself that I wasn't going do any political volunteering this election because of the way the Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated Campaign treated me last year. But a state assembly person--not even my district but I love her--asked me personally to coordinate some phone banking for her.

Ugh. I couldn't say no. She's awesome and we're using an easy program.

So I cam home last night to organize the phone bank and the zoom call before hand and *poof* I couldn't access that database I needed, the training video wouldn't play on my 10 year old laptop and I couldn't get the phone bank running.

I ended up buying a new laptop today.

• sigh*

Now to get some local people to actually sign up.

I keep thinking, "what would msbelle do?" And I keep moving forward.

The nice thing about ACE bandages is that you can tailor tight-loose to where you need the pressure and where you don't.

I'm with Laura, and maybe Zen, on avoidance. I'm actually cultivating numb because the alternative is so distressing. I don't follow news. I am on FB, mostly for a few special interest groups (tarot, zen, environment, fandom, etc.) I belong to, and avoid "news" as much as I can. Those of you who read my feed know I don't really manage all that well. But I do stay off news sites--just can't handle it.

I'm actually resigned to Emperor T until I die, or he does. Of course if he goes first his dynasty will just step up, one at a time, dear leeder is dead, long live the successor. I hope I go first. I don't want the animals I love, and the ones I'm skeered of and the ones that squick me to die, along with more millions of humans, of famine and heat death and raging pandemics. I don't want to see science and literature, and honor and decency subsumed by greed and venality in every walk of life. I don't want education and possibility and hope to become endless indoctrination and slavery to capitalism. I hope I'm gone before any of that happens. Because right now? It seems pretty inevitable. I'm just trying not to think about it.

And...you're truly awesome, Cash, as is msbelle, as are all of you in one way or another. You are the ones who renew my hope.

Doing an actual show has done wonders for my mood. And the show essentially being a Fannie Lou Hamer rally doesn't hurt. Between Friday-Monday I applied to be an election judge, I contributed to many many campaigns and I ordered 100 postcards to send to voters.