Good friends, man.

Indeed! It's wonderful that you have been able to stay connected.

Timelies all!

Just got back from following Mr. S around as he rode his bike. It's a bit hot out there, and I am quite sweaty.

I have been pressure washing years of grunge off the deck (which is also the front porch). It was black and dark green with mold and I-don’t-know-what-all and is now looking like actual wood. Love using the pressure washer, which is loud and powerful and makes all the yuck disappear.

I actually like watching pressure washing videos on YouTube to chill out sometimes, so it’s extra fun doing it myself.

I actually like watching pressure washing videos on YouTube to chill out sometimes, so it’s extra fun doing it myself.

I am here to remind people that there's a powerwashing simulator you can play called...wait for it...PowerWash Simulator.

Edit: And it's coming out of beta on July 14, when the price will go up.

I wanted to do something.. but I have mostly felt like sleeping today. I think that is kind of normal considering. I've been frustrated because I've been to tired or feeling to fuzzy headed to do anything creative but I finally did a little bit today.

Had an argument about taking the trash to the road. I said I'd do it and I have been but my feeling is it's better to wait until closer to the end of the night and make sure it's all in the bins and then take them to the road. M's mom feels like they should be out ...I don't know know when, maybe before she gets back from church? So I was going to do it but she did before I could and kind of made an issue out of it. I guess I should just take it out earlier but I'm pretty sure she'd find something to complain about anyway. next week I may get up and take the trash out at like 6 am and see what she ends up saying.

Mom was supposed to come down last week , but she wasn't feeling well. Then today she said she wasn't feeling great (different reason). I have Wed off so M and I are going to go up and see her.

I still haven't found my worker's comp check from last week so I have to email the adjuster dude and tell him that there is another check I've misplaced/threw away. ... I think I accidentally threw it out instead of hte junk mail last tuesday. This week I'm going to deposit it immediately. I use my phone app so I don't have any excuse not to do it right away.

My aunt's wake was 2-5 yesterday and today, so that was most of my weekend. A nice Zoom with old friends last night, out to dinner with fam both nights. I can only imagine how exhausted my aunt (who's wife died) is tonight.

Those all sounds like good weekends! It was pride this weekend, but felt a little underwhelming? Not sure why. I went out Friday night until almost midnight, Saturday hosted brunch which was great, and then did some walking around the street fair and hanging out with friends, home for a bit of rest, and then dancing, where I got v drunk and after a couple hours wandering the block party drinking water and starting to already feel hungover, went home. Slept in a bit this morning and then met friends for a while at the block party. Maybe I should’ve gone to the parade or the main festival? May still go back to the block party in a bit, it’s very hot out today.

I figure after this weekend if I don’t get covid it’ll be a miracle.

My sister is visiting for a couple of days, so I took her around Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park then to the California Academy of Sciences. Afterward we grabbed burritos and did some shopping. We'll do Alcatraz tomorrow.

My long Covid-related fatigue has been kicking my ass lately, to the point where, if I do anything outside my usual routine, I am wiped out for the next 2-3 days. (And by "outside my usual routine", I mean even something like going to my mom's for dinner, which involved sitting and eating, which don't require high levels of exertion, and certainly shouldn't make a person tired the next day, much less the next 2-3 days.) So I saw the nurse practitioner at Awesome Doctor's office on Friday, to see what, if anything, I can do about this. We talked for a while (she also had Covid twice, so she was entirely on my wavelength for some of my concerns), and the first step was to draw blood for a CBC, iron level, B12 level, and vitamin D level.

Lab results show up basically the same day in MyChart, so Friday evening I saw that pretty much everything is normal except my vitamin D level is so low that it's classified as "severe deficiency," so I assume that Awesome Nurse Practitioner will call me or send a message through MyChart tomorrow about the sky-high dose of vitamin D supplementation I'll need.

All the reading I did on vitamin D deficiency this weekend made me realize 2 things: (1) I have almost every symptom of vitamin D deficiency except bone pain and hair loss. I had no idea it could fuck you up so much. (2) The crushing fatigue might not be from long Covid; it might just be from the vitamin D deficiency. That would be fantastic, because it's a relatively simple fix.

Also, Tim told me my vitamin D level is so low because I'm a vampire who never goes outside. I bit his neck in retaliation.