Crap. A replacement charging cable showed up so I have plugged my phone in and I'm not getting the red battery charging screen. Dammit.

Maybe I am being impatient.

T sometimes if it’s really dead it takes a few minutes and/or attempting to restart before the battery icon shows up? Fingers crossed for you.

Yeah, I also just plugged it into a USB port on my laptop so I'll try leaving it plugged into the wall for a while before I get really worried

Fingers crossed, -t.

About to go to bring in some Chinese food for tonight. Yum.

I have seven boxes packed now, and I've secured a mover for the 25th. Oh, and I scheduled my change of address with the post office. Progress. I've also decided not to sweat it about the food left -- we are moving 15 minutes away; I can take it with us, duh.

Very exciting, JenP!

Oh huh...I have been avoiding political news out of self-preservation, so I did not know about the golden statue at CPAC. Now I know it was co-designed by a Mexican who was never mentioned, made in China, cost $15 million, and based on a bobblehead.

I really need dual citizenship.

How are those true facts about the world I live in?

So bizarre.

I’m planning to keep it a living document and add songs that make me think of her and/or wish I could play for her. I like to think they have Spotify in The Good Place.

This is such a beautiful thought.

Washington has finally updated its schedule for when they expect to expand vaccine access to all of us in group 1b3. My cohort (50 and up, comorbidities) is estimated to start on 4/12, and Dylan's (16-49, comorbidities) on 4/26. I'm feeling better about life than I was at the beginning of the week just because maybe that actually is light at the end of the tunnel rather than an oncoming train.

I do still wonder how long it'll be until we can sing in groups again. Can I hope for Messiah singalongs this December, or will that still be too risky?

Ohio is so fucking slow with the vaccine rollout.

I saw Awesome Doctor today for a post-Covid checkup, and he listened to my lungs and heart and cleared me to resume exercising. He's switching my blood pressure meds to a totally different class because I'm having some tachycardia, which my current BP meds are known to cause. The bonus is that the new BP med is, in addition to lowering BP, supposed to help with both social anxiety (for real) and migraines. That'll be nice. (Though I told Awesome Doctor that there is no dose high enough to deal with *my* social anxiety. He told me to take my meds with a glass of whiskey. This is why I call him "Awesome Doctor.") (Then he said "Uh, to be clear, I was kidding; don't actually take your meds with whiskey." "You know, I was in fact aware of that," I said. "See, you're cool like that," he said.)

I stan y'all's Awesome Doctor Cool Patient vibe