Baltimore is shutting down all indoor and outdoor dining starting Fri at 5 and reducing gathering #s and occupancy #s.

Doesn't affect me at all, but going to make sure I order out at least twice a week (I usually order 1.5 or 2 meals when I order).

The numbers are going to be grim through Feb, I think.

Timelies all!

Today was not a great day for Mr. S. Started with a meltdown over breakfast, and ended up with me sitting in his room for most of the afternoon with my tablet, which he grabbed for "one jewel game" and played around with a bunch of stuff for a long while.

books for a soon-to-be 2 year old, please?

Stella Luna Where Is My Cow?

And I feel that The Gashlycrumb Tinies is an excellent read-aloud book for small children, but I'm biased.

ION: Workflow diagrams, motherfucker! Have you heard of them?! G-D I miss waterfall software development. This agile nonsense doesn't work for anyone but developers, and even then it's hit or miss.

I feel you on Kaiser docs, juliana. I feel like their whole system limits dr-patient interaction to my detriment. But they have all my records, when I had different insurance and a different doctor my PCP had trouble finding out what happened at my ER visits, so that wasn't good either.

Yeah, I'm going to miss the all-in-one aspect of the Kaiser clinics, but maybe I'll get a doctor who, when I tell her that I have a paradoxical reaction to most medications, won't say, "That's really rare. So, we're going to start you on [medication that I just said I have a paradoxical reaction to], and we'll adjust if needed." Or, my favorite, "I know you said you think you need to see a podiatrist, but I need to see you first." And then promptly send me to the podiatrist after a 5-minute exam. Or! My favorite! After I tell her that both of my parents have/had thyroid issues, and that it took my mom TEN YEARS to be diagnosed with hypothyroidism (since she has a weird form), only order the basic thyroid test and say, "Well, your numbers are fine, if low, so I don't need to see the other test (that is the one that finally allowed my mother to get diagnosed)."

Okay, perhaps I'm angrier about this than I thought. But no wonder I don't want to deal with finding a new doctor - I'm too afraid I'm going to relive all of that.

books for a soon-to-be 2 year old, please?

Sandra Boynton anything, really. But especially Perfect Piggies.

Sheryl, I'm sorry about Mr. S's no good very bad day.

Strops, ltc loves The Gashlycrumb Tinies. The one time she asked my mother to read it to her, mom was so horrified.

ltc loves The Gashlycrumb Tinies.

That's my girl.

Ugh, juliana, that is an accumulation of awful, for sure. Finding a new doctor is hard and stressful, I hope a good one falls into your lap, somehow.

Ooh, Stella Luna! There’s a 25th anniversary edition.

I was going to ruminate about what comfort food I could make myself for Christmas, but I got a notice on my door that they're going to do apartment inspections, possibly as soon as Friday. So I need to call and ask when my building actually is going to be inspected (dude, giving me a building letter code that doesn't correspond to the actual building number is not helpful) and what the COVID-19 protocols are. Because the letter DID NOT SAY. ANYTHING. ABOUT COVID. Like, I assume that they will be masked and expect me to be masked, but some actual guidelines would be nice.

I recognize that they'll probably be in my apartment for 5-10 minutes, but I work from home and I am On-Call this week, I can't work from anywhere else what with the pandemic, I have no control over when I will be expected to respond urgently to an issue, and I can't allow a random maintenance person to see or hear anything confidential WHILE they are in my apartment. Also now I fucking have to clean, not that my apartment's a huge mess or anything, but I am Midwestern and this is What We Do.