Walz kind of blindsided me, I was expecting a more prominent pick like Kelly or Shapiro. But I suppose my complete lack of awareness of him means there are no scandals or problematic policy stances waiting to hamstring us in October, and what I've read of his political positions sounds very good. I assume Harris' campaign knows what they're doing.

We found out this weekend that the ankle pain my mom was feeling wasn't arthritis or a pulled muscle, but a fracture of her tibia. She's in a walking boot and I'll be driving her and doing her grocery shopping for the next couple of months. Concerning that it happened without an obvious injury to cause it, but I'll take it over a broken hip any day.

Oh dear, healing ~ma to your mom, Matt.

Lots of healing ~ma to your Mom Matt.

The only things I've heard about Walz is be had a drunk driving arrest in the 90s which led to him getting sober and some of the men who served under him didn't like how he left the National Guard to run for office.

Because 24 years in the Guard isn't enough! They just have to find something to complain about.

Academically this meal pattern is known as "core, fringe, legume" and is the most common meal pattern worldwide!

Definitely going to have to tell my dad this!

The trick, of course, is to keep the reminders up to date and not ignore them.

This is my problem. I only take the one daily pill and if I miss it occasionally it's not terrible, but I am bad about ignoring the notification that it's time to take it. Basically, if I don't take it as soon as I wake up, I probably won't, so I set the reminder for a little after I plan to wake up, but if I wake up early or late that doesn't work out well and noticing the reminder is still there at lunch time when I am in the office and the meds are at home really does not help. Time is just generally a problem for me.

I'm glad they figured out what the fracture is, Matt.

Morning meds, I'm good. Evening meds are a little trickier as I have to take one of the pills with food for it to be effective, but who knows where I'll be eating (or when, honestly). I usually miss evening meds at least once a week. But nothing is make or break for a single miss for me, so I'm fortunate there.

My various vitamins, I keep at my desk, because some of them get gross in the not actually airtight pill containers.

I just composed an email where I avoided ending a sentence with a preposition so my meaning would be clearer and now I feel pretentious

Timelies all!

For prescription meds, I have a 7-day pill box. Every night before getting ready for bed I take my evening and morning meds out of the safe(we put Mr.S's meds and my meds in a safe so he can't get at them) and put them in the pillbox.

There is AC in our bedroom. I was over thinking things but anyway M's cousin came over and switched everything out so it was done by the time I got home. M's mom had dinner done, I got M to eat a little. He's depressed, he seems depressed. I want to make it better but I know I can't make it go away so I can just be there for him.

Tonight we sleep in our bed! We just have to set up some pillows to prop his foot up on.

DH uses a partitioned week's worth of pills inna box. Or a bar. A long skinny plastic partitioned pillbox. It works for him. I have my morning pills near my chair where I spend most mornings having breakfast and tea. I dole them out into my sake cup I've had for literal decades. My evening meds are in the bathroom, so when I've taken the morning ones I take the cup and put the evening meds in it. Useful little vessel, it used to hold paperclips on my desk. The staple puller was in a slightly taller sake cup.

We have a rice cooker, which I love. We do enough for two meals at a time and fridge the second portion. I keep chopped frozen broccoli on hand, and also canned or pouches of tuna and chicken. Rice, add tuna and frozen peas and carrots or chicken and chopped broccoli, and cheese: dinner. I use either rice or spaghetti or Chinese noodles, drain and brown chicken with ginger, onion, garlic, black pepper and paprika, add broth, stir in rice or noodles. Protein, carbs, token veg.