The trick is to learn the protocol and find ways to help the flow rather than hinder it.

Not cool to have to expend limited energy resources on these efforts.

I'm at my sister's house. I'm the young healthy one here so I keep extra busy. Also, driving over alligator alley yesterday resulted in lots of bugs on the front of DH's car. I tried to get them off, but wasn't real successful. He said they should come off easily with all his wax and sealing stuff on the vehicle, but maybe easy for him and easy for me are not the same.

We drove down the beach road to look at the recovery progress from Hurricane Ian. Pretty much all of the older beach homes are just gone. Only the ones built in recent years survived. All the condos were standing, but were empty so maybe they have structural damage or just still too much to fix. All the vegetation, trees and so forth on the inland side of the road was dead. Maybe from the salt water intrusion? Mostly the debris is gone from all the destroyed buildings, but still a whole lot of repairs needed on those that survived. A lot more empty lots.

In exciting local news, the latest report on the giant seaweed mass headed our way shows it is 5000 miles long and weighs 3 million tons. They will clean the beach in the city, but mangrove areas like the keys are going to stink horribly. Our beach will too, but to a lesser extent, maybe? This may help me decide when to head north for the summer.

Laura I read that and was like “but surely by the time summer is here….oh shit, it’s May” I am not ready.

I don't want to be a nudge with the nurses and the coordinator and the doctor

You absolutely have to be an advocate and making sure that JZ's health is the priority (and yours) and that means making noise and double checking things. There are ways to do this without being rude or overbearing and I know you'll figure it out.

Laura, I'm so glad that my section of the beach seems to have been spared the seaweed monstrosity but fleeing up North for the summer sounds like a good plan.

I messed up. I came home and had a check from worker's comp and deposited it and picked the free wait 3 days before you get it option. And then I had a notification about money deposit and I went and checked and since the banking app has changed for some reason I thought the mobile deposit was the direct deposit and promptly forgot about thigns until I checked my account today.

So now I've had to email the lawyer and say --oops I made a mistake and I haven't gotten any thing direct deposit from worker's comp even though this should have all been cleared up when I was in Florida. It doesn't seem that direct deposit means I get my money any faster. I also haven't heard anything about the dr's note for more hours. It's been about a year and a half of this fuckery.

And I do like slinging gin for the greater good.

I just needed to see that sentence again; it's so delightful!

Last night an all-new experience: woke up shivering and soaking wet, having just suffered a full-body sweat that soaked through my PJs and the comforter and the mattress. No other bodily fluids, no flop-sweat stink, just water shooting out of every pore. I've had occasional night sweats before, but never this bad.

Mid-morning now, airing everything out now and wearing a soft long-sleeved top snagged from Nordstrom Rack yesterday, getting ready for another trip to Nordstrom Rack for new PJs and maybe sweatpants. The shirt I'm wearing isn't my style at all, but it is exactly the kind of thing my oldest friend would wear and I find that comforting, like she's here with me now (instead of in London where she actually is now, how dare she).

Almost done with Men At Arms and sad to have it nearly over; will next read a Roz Chast graphic memoir and an Edward Eager. What are other folks reading? Including fic?

While in SF I decided maaaaaybe it was time to check out this Lois McMaster Bujold person and that has been keeping me in reading material for some time to come (although my library is missing a big chunk from the Vorkosigan books so I switched to the Five Gods stuff). I also devoured Naomi Novik's Scholomance series.

(This is a response to JZ, not random non sequiturs like in another ten months I'll show up and tell you all my favorite bus.)

Edit: Favorite bugs. My favorite bus is the 22.

I want to read this book: A Typical Day for a Protagonist in a Young Adult Fantasy Book

The 22 is pretty awesome. There aren't that many buses crossing the city north to south and doing a decent job, but the 22 gets it done.

I definitely will have a look at Bujold, and I think David may have some Novik floating around the house (the house! not shorthand for the apartment, but the actual house!).

I actually left behind the Bujold (Barrayar) because I had finished it before I left. Hec may have done something with it (I had a vague idea that it could go back to Borderlands as though it never left), but if not it may still be sitting in the apartment! It's sort of the second book (or third, but...eh), but I had no trouble with it as my entry point.

having just suffered a full-body sweat

No fun.

The most important thing to do after that is re-hydrate.