I hope the weather doesn't make your to do list too challenging, Hec. It's pouring over here, just hearing the rain on the roof is making me want to go to sleep.

Surgery~ma, with an extra dose of getting the stuff done ~ma.

It's pouring over here, just hearing the rain on the roof is making me want to go to sleep.

There is hardly anything better for putting me into a sleep state.

They are testing the fire alarm system in the building, and it is horrible. They don't have an alarm as such but super loud MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE THERE HAS BEEN AN EMERGENCY REPORTED IN THE BUILDING PLEASE EVACUATE THE BUILDING BY THE NEAREST EXIT DO NOT USE THE ELEVATORS - repeated about 20 times already. LOUD I really hope testing an alarm isn't next.

Skinner is not pleased, and neither am I. Also, how many times can they repeat this message. Sigh.

eta: it has been repeating for about 20 minutes now. No end in sight. I think they are going to every unit to make sure we don't have the sprinklers or speakers blocked. They came to me already. I think there are maybe 80 units? Okay, over, I think. It was a full half hour.

I hope the weather doesn't make your to do list too challenging, Hec. It's pouring over here, just hearing the rain on the roof is making me want to go to sleep.

Drove Matilda to school because it was raining hard.

Then swooped around the corner to PetSmart and sat in the car for five minutes until it opened at 9am.

Got Piggy kibble.

Cut through the Breezeway and down into Target and got a Latte and egg sandwich at Starbucks.

Back up to the car and drove in the rain to the UCSF Walgreens on Parnassus.

There's never any parking there but I thought I would chance it.

There was no parking there. Parked down the hill a few blocks away.

Trudged up in the rain to the Pharmacy to collect prescriptions for both JZ and Matilda.

They were not ready. Half hour. Cooled my heels in the food court at a table, came back and after much palaver left with my drugs.

Back home. Moved laundry to dryer.

Showered. JZ finished card so I could send out package, and now I'm ready to go out into the rain again to the PO to get this thing in the mail.

When I come back, I'll bring up laundry, and THEN I'll do some dishes before I go to have them carve a new hole in my shoulder.

The last one has gone from the size of a fifty cent piece to a nickel. I don't know what will happen with this one. Maybe stitches.

Good luck with the surgery, David.

Good luck with the surgery, David.

Thanks. It's nothing really. Lidocaine, snip snip, stitch stich.

What's more stressful is that Cedars Sinai just called to say that MAYBE they wouldn't be ready for us to start this Friday after all. They were trying but it wasn't all together yet.

We're getting on a plane on Thursday! Tickets bought, hotel booked! Matilda sitting lined up!

And NOW you tell us you maybe won't be ready until next week? Do they not grasp how stressful that makes it? I would've welcomed another week off before we started. They should've done that from the beginning.

Gah.

Oh dear, David. I do hope you get a call soon that says they are ready for you. Also, may the snip snip, stitch stitch go easily.

Best wishes with the Surgery, Hec.

I've been asking ChatGPT questions and the answers are really underwhelming. It reminds me of when I used GitHub's co-pilot for awhile. It was kinda meh. Maybe I'm just bad at picking questions to ask.

Aw, Hecubus...hoping life clears your plate soon.