USPS Lied again. Delivery WTF. Drugs are working finally

USPS informed delivery email twice this week said stamps I ordered were being delivered that day. They lied. Stamps needed to mail calendars.

Just started the calendar project, have a cover Photoshopped.

56 candidate photos uploaded to Flickr, please vote for up to 12 of your favorites. The dragonfly and the mantis will be in there, and probably the bee. Some tweaking of contrast and brightness will be done on the finalists as needed. The white space at the bottom is for captions.

I keep thinking I need a haircut, but it's cold out, so no. I should get my nails done though. 

Ma'am spent most of the night in bed with me, and with the drugs finally starting to work there were only 4 pit stops, not one an hour.

Last night I made a mistake in my meds, I took the morning dose instead of the night dose. Not a huge deal because only 2 night drugs are different, both can be taken at any time. I just got more vitamins than usual.  Reloaded all the pill boxes (needed to do that tomorrow anyway). 

Ran TurboTax to see what I would owe if I withdrew $ from my IRA, but Congress hasn't finalized how they will deal with that so the program won't let me enter a number. Grrr. Without the withdrawal I owe nothing and get a refund of all the Social Security withholding I paid.

Stray cats don't like the kibble if there's canned food. But a very dirty raccoon does. Mud all over the feeder, which was knocked into the driveway again. And mud in the water dish. I have a ton of 9 lives cans, on sale at Chewy. Put one out for my cats, they nibbled but are not too interested.

Spook makes some rude noises at Ma'am from time to time, but always ends up backing away,  especially if I am watching. They spent the day in sight of each other but mostly Ma'am on the top of the tree in the livingroom and Spook on the guard platform by the porch windows.

Amazon delivered the Peace Corps flag and the mounting rings, so I put that on a pole and slid it into the holder on the carport side. USA flag is on the porch side. Across the street neighbor has USA flag on one side and an Army flag on the carport side.

Biden is now officially over the top in electoral college votes so I will take down my Biden/Harris sign.

Watched a stream on Twitch, twitch.tv/AllisonBWild, she unfolded her portable kayak and launched it where there are manatees. A whole family of them surfaced around her. One storm chaser found some snow to drive through. I expected more to be out but no. I streamed, but no one showed up. I think I'll give it a rest on weekends.

Need to get my nails done, but they are closed Sundays. Maybe find a different place.

Ordered pizza hut, 5 personal pan pizzas, ate one for lunch and one for dinner. Brownies & mini cinnabons for dessert. Delivery guy did not understand contact-less. He seemed like he expected a tip, but I'd already tipped during the ordering process.

Changed Spook's litterbox

Plans for tomorrow:
Maybe call Miki
Nails?
Watch football
Caption and upload the calendar pix I know I will be using
Iron the Hawaiian shirts & hang up the t-shirts

Cat fight, Football, ironed the Hawaian shirts and hung up all the T's and button downs

The stray cats do not like the 9 Lives "tender morsels" caned food and neither do Spook and Ma'am. The strays have been fed too well I think. I'll be less generous.

Got a lot of shots of the gold cat, who struggled to get those morsels out of the dish, for half an hour.

But today was calendar day. Yesterday I built a cover page and uploaded 56 pix to Flickr and asked people to choose their favorites. Only one photo got more than one vote, and I like it too so it's in. I was surprised how many quality photos I had. At the last minute I realized that the first "this is a calendar photo" that I took this year was not in the final cut, so I removed a cute one of Heidi and put that in its place.

Printing Centers USA has an easy to use calendar builder. The trick is to size each image to 3300 x 2200 @ 300 dpi, and add 350 pixels of white space at the bottom, for a total size of 3300 x 2550. I use Photoshop to write captions in the white space, because their caption feature is not optimal. I also use the events widget to remove spurious holidays (grandparents' day, Columbus day) and add Jewish and Thai holidays. I also remove the time zone map from the last inside page and drag and drop my photos onto the preview page which makes up the back cover.

That all was pretty intense so I relaxed watching NFL games in FF (which mutes the audio). Raiders missed losing to the 0-11 Jets by 5 seconds and a lucky throw. KC won but did not look like a championship offense against Denver. Rams squeaked by AZ, Green Bay crushed Philly.

Got off my butt and took a load of shirts out of the dryer. I set up he ironing board and ironed a month or two's Hawaiian shirts, hung up T-shirts which were in a pile on a bedroom chair, and hung up the laundered shirts. Ma'am explored the bedroom closet while I did that.

Got out my chip reader and found Ma'am's microchip number. A search says her registered name is April M. Or maybe that's her last owner's name. Next week I expect The Animal Foundation to send me her paperwork. I need to text Miki and invite her over.

Intense cat fight when Ma'am was eating Spook's Sheba food. Ma'am sheltered under the microwave cart, and they had at it for a couple of minutes, almost unplugging the water fountain. As usual, no one was hurt and Spook retreated after she made her point. Later that same day Ma'am finished the Sheba food. ;-)

Another day with both of them spending most of the time in their usual perches - Ma'am on the top of the livingroom tree, Spook on top of the platform by the porch windows.

Took out the garbage. Removed the top container from the strays' food tower and filled the bowl with kibble. The container gets whacked by raccoons, and is in the way of photo ops. Also put more morsels in the wet food dish and checked the water bowl.

My last trip to the bedroom, Ma'am hid under the bed, Spook was lying in wait. Minor rude noises but no fighting.

Deleted all the calendar photos from Flickr, since they are all elsewhere on the site, and the uploads are too big (I usually post 1/4 size there to foil thieves).

Lunch was Pizza Hut Hershey's brownies, an emergency measure because I forgot to eat and was having a low blood sugar moment. Dinner: Salad, a personal pan pizza and the last of a container of mint chip ice cream.

Plans for tomorrow:
Call about a manicure appointment
Call the denture clinic to see about a repair
MNF
BASFA Zoom meeting
Maybe stream
Text Miki