(oh, and people. Please remember that I'm on 4-5 hours of not so great sleep at night for almost 3 weeks now, and the days are filled with stress. Bad logic and even worse, bad grammar might occur every now and then. War-life balance).

You *may* be a lizard.

Intriguing Halloween possibilities....

Or you're getting the extreme exfoliating experience.

They're all Schrodinger's contractor, I think.

Shir, that's fine. We're happy to see your pixels (and Nilly's). Any unexpected arrangement thereof is only to be expected.

Hec, I hope the dermatology stuff settles down soon.

Hec, I hope the dermatology stuff settles down soon.

I very gently exfoliated with a wash cloth and cleanser in the shower and took off a bunch of the dead skin flakes.

The new lizard emerges.

Then EM vacuumed after she got here so everything I had shed is also cleaned up.

Good news about JZ's autopays: She seems to have set a lot of them up as direct charges to our checking account rather than through her card. That was smart.

Bad news about JZ's autopays: She set a bunch of them up with her work email address and work phone number, both of which are discontinued. So when I try to change them it sends the stupid verification PIN going off to somewhere that doesn't exist and I can't access it.

We did determine that PGE is charging through to our checking account so the power won't be turned off November 1st.

Xfinity was a nightmare loop of being in the account and then getting kicked when I tried to review the billing, complicated by us having two accounts: one for our old apartment, and a separate one for the new house. Which was further complicated by Emmett & Kalena setting it up when they moved into the Garden Apartment which has its own address (152 Shrader) and also the aforementioned work email mishegas.

I was able to confirm though that the old apartment account went directly to the checking account, so I'm hoping that the new account was set up that way as well. Otherwise I'm going to have to fight with a phone tree which is nobody's idea of a good time.

ION, I'm flying my niece out to see us next week for four days. I'm flying her first class on short notice and I don't even care that it's going to cost.

I have made progress, though, so that all the financial accounts are transferred over to me, and have initiated the series of changes through UC Retirement which will make me the lead member on our health insurance and line up pension payments and life insurance.

So you just keep scratching at the big pile of impossibility and you get one or two fixed at a time and eventually you push through.

Hec, again, you're a mentch.

I learned today that one of my favorite musicians, along with his wife and their kid somehow and miraculously survived. Other houses surrounding theirs were not so lucky. They were in the kibbutz closest to the music festival.

All of these are very, very bizzare and violet days.

Very glad that today's meeting is over. outcomes may be important, eventually, but it doesn't make every chapter interesting, I'll tell you that much. ETA: Shir, glad you got a little good news. Hec, good for you for plugging away.

Well it took 4 weeks, but tomorrow we get official word that my boss is out and not returning. One of the Deputies (that I like and work well with) will be acting Director while a search goes on.

The person over my now ex-boss is still big mad at us and still a person that can be a pain, but the hope is that in 3-4 weeks I can get the promotion my boss blocked and be out of the Director’s office and therefore the line of fire.

Timelies all!

Happy birthday Fiona!

Tomorrow I fly to Ohio for OVFF. Gary and Mr. S fly out Saturday morning(in hopes that a daytime flight will be less fraught) We all fly back Sunday evening.