Ah, just caught up after... a week or so? But I forgot to meara. I did have many head comments of support and amusement, though, fwiw.

I had a nice weekend -- a friend invited me to a chamber music concert, which was lovely. Then, on Sunday, drove up to Philly to see my niece conduct her first professional choir choral concert - she put together such a fabulous program, mixing contemporary and older works. It was really fabulous! So proud of her.

Loved seeing the pictures of the freshmen senators today.

SHOW US THE DOGS YOU CANADIAN COWARDS

Please I may die beforehand But in good news I start chemo on Friday snd also have a stove.

If the midterms end up arresting the country's power dive past the Tidy Bowl man I'm willing to put up with a lot of inconvenience and annoyance to balance the scales. I already did my part today by getting a molar drilled for a new crown and being told not to chew with the temporary for the next two weeks, until a few days after my family's Thanksgiving get-together.

Timelies all!

We went up to New Hampshire to get Mr. S enrolled in his new school. He seemed excited to be there. Unfortunately he hadn't taken Concerta in a couple days(The facility in Texas would not include it in the meds they gave the transport people since they weren't medical professionals) so he was easily distracted. We flew up Sunday evening and back yesterday evening.

Alas, the progesterone I'm taking at night has not helped with sleeping through the night. I've tried a variety of sleep med combinations and I still wake up a couple of times in the 4-6 am time frame.(I have no problem falling asleep, just staying asleep)

Askye, I love that dress!

Sorry about the goo, Jessica.

What odd tech issues, Hec. Did you inadvertently enable child protection on your router?

I’m glad the Carolina coast is treating you well, Steph.

I have tomorrow off, but mostly that means I’ll be doing things that need to happen between 9 and 5 on a weekday, without burning PTO. I’m glad I can, but it’s not entirely restful.

It was weird this morning seeing this illustration show up in my Tumblr feed, when I took the photo it was based on.

Separately, can you please send some onerosity~ma my way? I need to renew my prescriptions (bp meds and a statin), so I went to my doctor’s app to click on the Renew Prescription button, but it came back and said, “You have no medications on file”.

Do I:

a. Try to navigate my doctor’s phone tree, which keeps *insisting* I can renew my prescriptions through the app, and has a difficult time taking no for an answer,

b. Go to my pharmacy and try to get them to ping my doctor for a renewal,

c. Show up at my doctor’s practice in person, and complain to the desk nurse?

I'd go with C, Tom. Phone trees make me nuts and the office might not respond to the pharmacy request.

I've been remarkably productive the last few days. Let's hope it lasts.

This morning one of my friends at the dog park pretty much talked me into not going for the knee surgery, at least yet. Jim walks many miles a day to and from the dog park, plus more walking while there. He does this mostly for his heart, and he is super thin, in a healthy way. He's somewhere in his late 60s and has had bone-on-bone in both knees since his 30s, possibly from a combination of being a boat captain and heredity. We've discussed it before, but he swears the horrific pain from when he first had knee issues was completely resolved decades ago through exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee, particularly walking. And losing any excess weight. No, the cartilage never grows back, but the surrounding muscles take on the burden. Walking on the beach in particular is helpful because it is all leg muscle work in the deep sand.

I would start with your pharmacy.

No advice, I am bad at all that, but all kinds of ~ma, Tom

The tumblr thing is wild! Wow!

I am working at Panera because it is close to the garage I am taking my car to at 11 and the library is closed for the holiday so this is a good option for free wifi. I wonder if anyone on my Zoom calls will notice...

Pharmacy sent a request to the doctor. We’ll see how this goes.