Grateful to get the in-person updates from Israel. Keeps everything on a human scale, and, of course, it's reassuring to know our beloved humans are okay.

I plan to be there for the memorial in May.

You made the right choice coming to see her while she was still alive. She was so happy to see you.

I'm also so glad we had the Zoom call, though in retrospect, we should have done it a bit earlier. Still, she heard everybody and that's what mattered.

I'm still recovering from my dermatological procedure on Friday. The immediate effect was just Bad Sunburn and I felt well enough to go to an Oktoberfest cookout on Friday and Misfit Cabaret on Saturday night.

But last night my face turned beet red and was hurting as much as it did immediately post-procedure, and I woke up this morning with my eyes swollen shut and my whole face puffy. After much icing my eyes have opened up more but I'm still sporting a hideous puff face.

I just have to go to the bank and PO today, so I'm just going to keep things simple today.

By normal standards this would be a pretty rough month physically and emotionally but my graph line is slowly ascending from August and September.

After much icing my eyes have opened up more but I'm still sporting a hideous puff face.

Would ibuprofen help? You've probably already thought of that. It always helps when I get a sunburn, so I wondered if this is a similar situation.

I have just read nearly a week's worth of posts, so I'm caught up but technically "working" so can't meara. Just know I'm glad to hear from everyone who's checked in (just now recognizing the irony of posting that as such a sporadic poster my ownself), and wishing the best for everyone's family, health, and (I almost want to cry as I type the words) war-zone situations.

In mememe news, I spent a large part of this past weekend at a Dr Who convention. I'm still very exhausted a lot of the time so I might have been tempted to skip, but I'm on the committee and co-chair of the Friday night event (Pub Quiz). I wasn't going to screw my co-chair into having to do everything theirself, so I pushed through the tired to get our stuff done - and once you've managed to get your shit together to run an event on Friday night, just showing up on Saturday & Sunday isn't quite so overwhelming an idea. People here seemed very pleased to hear that I'm recovered enough to make it to a Con, even if it was for less time than usual (and I definitely didn't help on the manual labor side of things like I usually do!), so I thought you guys might be pleased to hear that update as well. I was pretty tired last night and slept Very Well, as you might imagine, but feeling pretty okay physically today. And definitely glad to have gone and seen everybody and re-connected and got in a ton of socializing that I hadn't realized I was really missing.

More scans and tests and etc. this week and next. I will update as I get info. For now, I'm going with "no news is good news" as my motto.

Would ibuprofen help?

On Not-A-Doctor Teppy's advice, I just took two.

Not-A-Doctor Teppy

But also Extremely-Pale Teppy, who burns even when she doesn't mean to (never mind certain husbands who shall remain unnamed who managed to not adequately put sunscreen on my back, leading to one hell of a sunburn). Hooray for ibuprofen, I say!

I just took two.

I hope it helps!

Epic - so glad to hear you were out and about and doing whovian things.

I just had my physical and nothing major is of issue, but blood pressure is up and weight is a new milestone and not the good kind. I’m not beating myself up, but I need to get this under control.

Aw, heck, Hec, you need some slack somewhere. Ibuprofen should work, but I personally don't take as much as I used to because taking it a lot kind of messed with my stomach. Kind of a Monday, here. Kind of thinking of quitting all the Zooms I end up signed up for. If something more compelling would ever happen for me, I swear I would.(even knowing that some of it Might Be Important Someday. Of course they said the same thing about my education and...(Gestures in benefits recipient) that bet didn't exactly pay off big.

That is good to hear, Epic! So glad you are able to do some fun stuff!

For those of you still playing along at home re: work place drama. It’s been a month since we aired department grievances and 3 weeks since Department was told boss was on Admin leave. No resolution, no meeting called with us.

That seems like a long time. Is there a temporary boss?