note: enter only one-story buildings (not climbing stairs with a cane)

I'd opt for stairs if (1) my knees would let me and (2) if the security on the stairs only lets you in on the office floors and out on the ground floor.

I'm making stairs plus cane work. Mostly, it involves holding the railing and moving deliberately. And a strong preference for elevators if I have to go more than one story.

Fire drills at work are -- interesting -- because I'm on the 9th floor.

We only have two stories here. Our elevator has buttons. I have not been in it in, gosh, years? I work on the first floor. The "penthouse" as we call the second floor, is Consumer Relations only, and I haven't even had a reason to pop up there for a visit in ages.

We're on the third floor, but it's a converted warehouse with very high ceilings. So when it comes to stairs it's more like being on the fifth floor. My knees aren't fond of stairs either, so when I have to take them I have a very slow, deliberate progression downward. People behind me have been very patient during fire drills.

We're technically two stories here, but the upstairs only has a rarely used meeting room, our mini photo studio, and storage space. It's accessible by very narrow stairs that turn a corner awkwardly, and apparently by entrances under the eaves if you're raccoon-sized.

We don't have stairs in Florida, but I do here in Otter Lake. I tell myself it is good exercise the dozen times a day I go up and down the stairs. The dog still thinks I am insane and will not consider going up the stairs under any circumstances.

On hold with unemployment. Their automated system has been telling me since Friday that they're too busy to pick up the phone, so I had to play games with the automated menu to get put on hold to maybe talk to a person. So this is fun.

Next, I get to call the neuro and find out why they haven't responded to the prescription request from Monday. One of the reasons I left my previous neuro, of course, was that she was so unresponsive.

Edit: And Brussels Airlines is completely blowing us off on our claim for the missing luggage time.

Well, none of that sounds good, Dana. Very poor batting average, universe.

Okay! I have dealt with all three of those things. Unemployment handled, prescription was sent in this morning, and I got snippy with the airline on Twitter, which is the only thing that's been productive so far.