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This may make air travel better/safer for people using wheelchairs. I don't use one, but I know it's been an issue for those that do. And they're supposed to require accessible lavatories on single-aisle planes.

When I was in college, my electric chair was, just, like, *massive*--one of the main reasons why I never really took to it or, quite frankly, why I don't miss it at all, even though it was Technology Designed To Improve My Life(Never fit right, either, though. Breaking in wheelchairs is apparently not a thing.) Anyway, even with the feeling that I'm driving a tank through the quad, there was always some idiot practically landing in my lap all "I'm sorry....I didn't see you there." Really?! Yeah, that thing that you stare at also moves. I miss the feeling of possibility, but I don't miss college either. If only I could have believed that they did it to get close to my lap.(Not really, TimesUp ladies, but sometimes.)

I read something about a woman who was fed up with people grabbing the handles of her wheelchair and pushing her around so she put spikes or something on the handles and had indignant people grabbing the handles and getting indignant that they got spiked.

I have to admit, using a cane has vastly improved strangers' behavior around me. That and the metal coffin purse.

Speaking of purses, I'm mildly annoyed that you can only take a small clear purse to stadium events these days. Blah blah blah safety, I get it, but they're an aesthetic crime.

I've thought about starting to use a cane - my knees are getting worse and my balance is pretty bad.

Yeah, it's the balance thing, for me. I'm still learning to use mine. I've used one for injuries now and then, in my right hand. But the PT people insist I need to use it in my left, and that takes a lot of practice, a bit of samurai staff moves, some windmilling--oh, sorry, didn't see you there. It doesn't make me walk faster but I am less potentially unsteady on my feet.

Also, if it matters to you, get a pretty one, it's an accessory, like jewelry.

Today's my day off but I just had 3 separate work calls, including a meeting with my boss and 10 other people. Joy. At least I got to the gym earlier?

There's a thing that I know about that is going to make local news and people are going to be very worked up, possibly including congressional pressure, and I'm so glad that I have only a tangential involvement with it. What I do have is the institutional memory, oy. SF-istas, you will probably know it when it hits. You'll be like, "Oh that is what Consuela was talking about!" It'll be a few weeks, I think...

I seem to be fully recovered from covid, except I really didn't exercise for the last 3 weeks. And the weather is not conducive to a nice stressful hike in the woods today. So instead I had a fried egg on avocado toast and piece of leftover cake for lunch. And I think I will sit on the couch and watch some mountain films.