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Ash Humpday
Mar. 2nd, 2022 10:03 pmThe things you learn playing Tivo recordings of early morning Las Vegas newscasts. There is a church which offers drive-through ashings. The minister will give a short talk on the significance of the day, and draw a cross in ashes on your forehead.
Earbuds from Amazon arrived yesterday but the ones from Best Buy today are better. But neither set stays in my ear no matter the tips I use. The headphones are more comfortable.
Called the plumber, the nice lady said they can do the work, but I need to buy the parts and call for an estimate after I get them. I'd already identified a garbage disposal on Home Depot, but was overwhelmed by the variety and range of prices of kitchen faucets. Ordered a Delta.
Got a return call from State Farm, turns out they can't quote a price less than a month in advance. But they said they can bundle my homeowner's and auto. They will call me around the last week of April.
Took the CO2 cartridges, a survey from the health care people and a calendar for a FB friend who should have been on my list but wasn't, drove to the PO and mailed them. Thought about getting a car wash but traffic was backed up in that direction. Forgot to stop at CVS for Ghirardelli dark chocolate mint squares (my bedtime treat) so I ordered some on DoorDash, but from Walgreen's since CVS was out of stock.
Shrimp with cocktail sauce, followed by herring in sour cream, then half a pound of strawberries for lunch. Nibbled on Pringles with French onion dip.
The new recliner is wonderful. It has several positions which are good for watching TV with my legs way up, and with them just normally on the leg rest, or feet on the ground for eating off the TV tray, and it will actually tilt forward and tilt the backrest forward to push me out in a standing position. Spook would like to use it as a scratching post, but also has figured put how to climb onto my lap and across to the side table. She also parks herself on the floor to the right of the recliner.
Got tired of looking at the very dirty livingroom rug, and took out the vacuum cleaner. After a minute it sounded like it had burst a vessel, so I opened up the cannister, and spent most of an hour prying dirt clumps out of parts of the input area which have been clogged and compacted. Once that was done it was able to clean the rug. I'll have to remember to empty the cannister regularly. That was a lot of exercise.
Watching MSNBC, the 11th Hour (formerly Brian Wilson's show) they interviewed Garry Kasperov who is now the chairman of the Human Rights Foundation. No mention was made that he is a chess grand master, world champion from 1985–2000. Wilson probably would have mentioned it, but his newbie replacement may not even know who he was. That was 22 years ago, when he was a bona fide Russian Oligarch.
On CNN Anderson Cooper is in Ukraine. It's been a while but what got him his job was his war zone reporting. Blitzer, OTOH, was a hostage of Saddam for a while - he's staying stateside.
Finished the sashimi for dinner, and the rest of the pound of strawberries.
Delivered: some plants for the aquarium. Unfortunately, except for the Java moss, they are all rooted, so I went back online and ordered some floating plants. The moss floats on the bottom of the tank.
Tomorrow:
10:30 tele-meeting with the nephrologist from Henderson Hospital. They said they would email me a link shortly before.
High frequency scanner due to be delivered.
And maybe size 11-12 slippers to replace the size 13s which are too big now that the edema is reduced.
Earbuds from Amazon arrived yesterday but the ones from Best Buy today are better. But neither set stays in my ear no matter the tips I use. The headphones are more comfortable.
Called the plumber, the nice lady said they can do the work, but I need to buy the parts and call for an estimate after I get them. I'd already identified a garbage disposal on Home Depot, but was overwhelmed by the variety and range of prices of kitchen faucets. Ordered a Delta.
Got a return call from State Farm, turns out they can't quote a price less than a month in advance. But they said they can bundle my homeowner's and auto. They will call me around the last week of April.
Took the CO2 cartridges, a survey from the health care people and a calendar for a FB friend who should have been on my list but wasn't, drove to the PO and mailed them. Thought about getting a car wash but traffic was backed up in that direction. Forgot to stop at CVS for Ghirardelli dark chocolate mint squares (my bedtime treat) so I ordered some on DoorDash, but from Walgreen's since CVS was out of stock.
Shrimp with cocktail sauce, followed by herring in sour cream, then half a pound of strawberries for lunch. Nibbled on Pringles with French onion dip.
The new recliner is wonderful. It has several positions which are good for watching TV with my legs way up, and with them just normally on the leg rest, or feet on the ground for eating off the TV tray, and it will actually tilt forward and tilt the backrest forward to push me out in a standing position. Spook would like to use it as a scratching post, but also has figured put how to climb onto my lap and across to the side table. She also parks herself on the floor to the right of the recliner.
Got tired of looking at the very dirty livingroom rug, and took out the vacuum cleaner. After a minute it sounded like it had burst a vessel, so I opened up the cannister, and spent most of an hour prying dirt clumps out of parts of the input area which have been clogged and compacted. Once that was done it was able to clean the rug. I'll have to remember to empty the cannister regularly. That was a lot of exercise.
Watching MSNBC, the 11th Hour (formerly Brian Wilson's show) they interviewed Garry Kasperov who is now the chairman of the Human Rights Foundation. No mention was made that he is a chess grand master, world champion from 1985–2000. Wilson probably would have mentioned it, but his newbie replacement may not even know who he was. That was 22 years ago, when he was a bona fide Russian Oligarch.
On CNN Anderson Cooper is in Ukraine. It's been a while but what got him his job was his war zone reporting. Blitzer, OTOH, was a hostage of Saddam for a while - he's staying stateside.
Finished the sashimi for dinner, and the rest of the pound of strawberries.
Delivered: some plants for the aquarium. Unfortunately, except for the Java moss, they are all rooted, so I went back online and ordered some floating plants. The moss floats on the bottom of the tank.
Tomorrow:
10:30 tele-meeting with the nephrologist from Henderson Hospital. They said they would email me a link shortly before.
High frequency scanner due to be delivered.
And maybe size 11-12 slippers to replace the size 13s which are too big now that the edema is reduced.
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