Four people FROM THE SAME COMPANY have called for my husband since 8:30AM about a contract job which is clearly poisonous and cursed. It's been posted and re-posted for years, and every time it gets re-posted, the phone rings for days. It's not usually four people from the same company, though. Husband, of course, is asleep. The next person from that company who calls is going to get the brunt of my irritation.

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feel like I know a little too much about Jerry Springer. He was a dumpster fire, but he was *our* dumpster fire.

As dumpster fires go he seems kinda homey and “just folks.” Not out to set the world on (dumpster) fire, just him being him.

My yard is a mess of invasive mustard, local mustard, grasses and wildflowers. I pulled a lot of the invasive mustard a few weeks ago but left a bit because it was the first thing blooming and was covered in hungry bees. Once everything else came up, time to get the mustard out.

Sigh… David Fury singing in your yard - always such a welcome sign of spring.

And! Fifty years ago this very day I married for the first time. RIP Bob. You may not have been the best, but you were the first and we had a dozen years I don't regret. We stayed friends until he passed away. He's been gone 18 years, and divorced about 40 years, but I think of him from time to time. So brilliant, and so flawed. Ah, humans can be complex.

If someday someone raises a glass and calls Ronald Reagan an ass hole in my memory I’ll have done one thing right.

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David Fury singing in your yard - always such a welcome sign of spring.

Bwahahaha! Took me a minute to remember what you were talking about. Those synaptic pathways have not been used much lately. Nice to fire them up.

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If someday someone raises a glass and calls Ronald Reagan an ass hole in my memory I’ll have done one thing right.

Good times. Good times.

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I feel like I know a little too much about Jerry Springer. He was a dumpster fire, but he was *our* dumpster fire.

This is EXACTLY how all my Cincy relatives feel about him.

I went back and looked through things and it wasn't as hopeless as I thought.

Oh good, that's a relief.

Last day at my current/old job! I had one last knowledge share meeting this morning and have spent most of the rest of my time leaving Slack channels and unsubscribing from internal email lists. Right now I am feeling very Friday No Lunch Options about all of the food in my fridge but also not in the mood to put on outside pants and solve the problem.

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Grrrr.

FedEx has sent my monthly Rx resupply to New Hampshire.

I still have a week's supply on hand, so I'm not desperate, but the hitch is annoying. It's not like it's a one-digit difference in the ZIP code sort of error, more like they put the package on the wrong plane entirely.

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New Hampshire needs to get its mitts off your drugs, dcp.

I'm glad you're having a fairly good time with the siblings, Laura!

And I'm glad your stuff isn't completely messed up, askye.

I'm making use of the local Buy Nothing group to get rid of a bunch of missmatched glasses and cups that have been lingering, rarely used, in my cupboards. I went and helped strip the rapidly cooling corpse of Bloodbath and Beyond earlier this week and scored some nice glasses, so I needed the space. The FB Buy Nothing group has been pretty good, except for the one person who messaged me a few days later asking for $350. (And that's the story of how I learned how to make FB blocking work for me.) But mostly, my unwanted stuff goes away and presumably makes some stranger reasonably happy.

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Fuck. Treatment cancelled today and our schedule just blew up in our faces.

JZ was feeling queasy when we arrived and she hadn't had a BM for a few days. They wanted to be extra careful so they took an x-ray.

Then she threw up into a bag in a wheelchair on her way to the x-ray. And then she felt better.

X-Ray showed nothing different from previous CT scans (so no worse than the original diagnosis) but they're worried about a partial obstruction and don't want to go forward with the treatment (either the chemo or the clinical study meds).

Now she's got an enema plus imaging scheduled for today to try to clear her out. But they can't renew the treatment until Monday.

Emmett has volunteered to cover Monday through Wednesday so we can stay on-turn with our treatment plan (which we want because the blood work shows the study meds are helping).

But now I'm in a limbo state where I haven't had anything confirmed from the doctor or the trial coordinator to pull the trigger on cancelling our flight on Sunday, booking new tix for Wednesday and extending our stay at the hotel.

And today was going to be a short easy day in comparison to the first two trips with ten hour days of clinical blood draws.

This whole thing is hard enough without extra complications. It's so hard to line all the elements up and then it's all fucked on this trip.

If she had pooped yesterday we wouldn't have doubled the length of this trip. (And she tried with a suppository, so....).

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Oh no! I'm so sorry. Getting that all smoothed out ~ma!

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Oh no, I'm sorry to hear all of that!

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