Writing Wrongs

Not seeing my new prescription on the CVS app, I drove there. They had no record of it and suggested I call the doctor. Called, and they said it was sent to Walgreen's, about 3 miles away. WTF? I had shown the doctor my CVS app, nothing about Walgreen's.

Drove to Walgreen's, it's in a bad location, and there's always a line. They did have the drugs. Cost me $1.

Checked the mailbox, stuffed with junk mail.

Home, took out some trash, laundered a bunch of towels.

No one on Twitch worth watching. Today is a major Thai holiday, but there was only one person streaming, and it was too dark to see.

Tivo had Bee Czar, TMZ, Channel 5 and 3 morning news, Court Cam

Very happy so see the Moskva was sunk. Like The Bismarck, only less.

Biden's sister, who has been his campaign manager for life, wrote a book and that got her on MSNBC.

HUGE avocado for breakfast
Mixed nuts and then cole slaw for lunch.
Fried up 3 eggs and had them over two pieces of sourdough for dinner. Berries for dessert.

Channel surfed and found Swamp People. Why?

No plans for tomorrow.

The wind storm was unrelenting, 30 MPH sustained, 70 MPH gusts, seemed to peak around 3 am. No damage to my house, but the office chair on the porch moved a few feet a couple of times, and some neighbor's chair cushion landed on my carport.

The park did a good job of getting the street sweeper out early and often. Lots of handyman vans driving around.

I didn't lose power, which is good because I did 2 loads of laundry.

The comforter is in the closet, and has been replaced by the orange quilt which I like, and so does Spook. We'll see if she joins me in bed tonight.

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American Idol second round of the top 24 was short on talent compared to the first 12. And one of the singers I liked most decided to quit the show after her performance "for personal reasons". Sadder because her family was in the audience.

Also on Tivo:
TMZ, Hot Bench, PTI

Saw on amateur channel 5 this remarkable throwing out the first pitch:



And Gilbert Gottfried has died. I am sad for anyone's death, but am happy his annoying and often gross voice has been stilled.

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Avocado and banana breakfast, but the banana is still on the tray. Junk food for lunch, meatish Swedeballs for dinner.

On Prime, watched the second episode of Feed. Very dark, poorly scripted. On twitch, was a little late following the 4 storm chasers who were streaming.

Just before 5 pm, doctor's office called, they want me to come in tomorrow. Sigh. I really just need antibiotics.

Spent way too much time setting up Outlook on my Pixel phone. GMail sucks for POP accounts. My email server is not forgiving of extra spaces after user names and passwords, and Outlook keeps changing the outgoing server port number to its default.

Tomorrow:
Doctor at 10:30
Maybe hit Albertson's on the way back.

Got an ok night's sleep, still waking up every 90 minutes or so. There's a Pandora station called Study Like A Professor which I play on my Sonos speakers. It's all kinds of soft music played in classical style. Some Bach and Brahms but also Disney tunes and modern love songs played with string quartet and piano orchestrations.

Got up with the 8 am alarm, did my usual morning routine, but forgot the banana and went for a cream puff instead. Avocado was not quite ripe but I ate it anyway.

Tivo had a new program, Louisiana Law replacing Lone Star Law both shows are game wardens. They mostly check for hunting and fishing licenses.

TMZ, Hot Bench, 90 Day Pillow Talk and a new Expedition X.

Switched to Twitch a few times, three storm chasers were streaming.

Watched Tiger Woods' appearance at the Masters. He was far from winning, but he beat about half the field. The final two rounds took their toll. But he got a well deserved standing O from the fans for a valiant effort.

The barbarism in Ukraine continues. I wish we were doing more.

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Had to stop putting out cat food. This morning a family of fat raccoons were fighting over it.

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Took out the garbage bins earlier than usual.
Spook has been lap cat a lot, but also has reclaimed a small orange cloth on the floor by the porch lookout. And she continues to use my sandals as pillows.


Plans for tomorrow:
Call my PCP?
Call the local mobile home repair - probably need releveling.

7 am stumbled to the kitchen for an Hgl test, feeling low. It was the high end of low but there was still a Klondike Bar left, so I sat in the recliner, turned on MSNBC and ate it. Good timing because KBJ, JB and KH were on the White House lawn with about 300 of their closest friends officially going "yee-ha!" about the SCOTUS confirmation. Kind of premature, since she doesn't take office till summer when what's his name retires. Unless Clarence Thomas is impeached first.

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Back to bed for an hour, then meds, computer stuff (watched two cats climbing inside the bush in front of the house), then avocado and banana breakfast. And placed an Albertson's delivery order for noon-ish. Mostly Lean Cuisine and berries. And Klondike bars. And chocolate milk. I have not had any kind of milk in months and I miss it.

Watched some Tivo then settled in for an afternoon on a boat on the Atlantic. Very relaxing/exciting as he pulled in many sharks, including one huge bull shark. The only storm chaser out was doing DoorDash to fund his stream.

MSNBC and CNN were split between SCOTUS and the latest war crime in Ukraine. IMHO it's well past time for direct intervention.

Watched NOVA, a disturbing look at an Alzheimer's research study. Disturbing because I might become like that.

Bee Czar rid a church and a fire house of nests, and it was his birthday, the surprise party surprised him. He was all set to throw his own party when he saw no exidence of one.

Hot Bench again had stupid defendants.
TMZ came up with some major humor.

Topped off the water in the aquarium.
Delivered: medium tip Expo pens to replace the useless thin tip ones.

Washed out the recycleds kitchen trash container after dumping its contents into the bin.

Asked CVS to renew my last UTI antibiotics prescription. Hope my urologist okays it.

Tomorrow:
Tropic - get a male betta and a brine shrimp growing kit.

Last night I ordered KFC wings, cole slaw and thighs to be delivered this morning.

The alarm did not go off because Cox had a service interruption, not sure when it started but did not come back up till 8:30. I checked the router when neither Alexa nor Google responded to commands. Called Cox, their robot confirmed there was an outage.

My bathroom & kitchen lights are manual, so not a huge deal.

Avocado and a banana for breakfast.

Tried to have KFC wings for lunch but after three of them it was like I was in Thailand again. Since when do they douse their "original recipe" wings in sriracha?

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3 pm nails appointment, stopped by the drive-thru ATM to get cash but it was only taking deposits. :-(
Got my nails done, boss was busy so man did the grind-off part. He should not have been working - he has a cold. Boo hiss. Boss took over but it was pretty slow. Just before applying color she ducked out for 20 minutes to finish a waxing in the back room. Oh well, she finished and they look great.



CVS on the way home, got 4 packs of Ghirardelli dark chocolate mint squares, and they finally got Whoppers in stock. But no prescription from urology. Dr. has not called back.

Mailbox was filled with spam.

Home, feeling less than 100%.

Watched 3 episodes of Hot Bench.
Then TMZ
Some CNN and MSNBC Ukraine news.
Part 2 of Ken Burns' Benjamin Franklin. Lots of info I had no idea about. They could have done better with the art work, the faux wood blocks which were made for the show were just plain ugly.

Delivered just in time, a supply of 10 oz Dixie bowls. I used them a lot.

KFC thighs and cole slaw for dinner. The thighs were true original recipe, no sriracha. I bagged and froze the wings, will make soup from them eventually.

Spook was on the bed grooming herself for a couple of minutes, and also did some lap cat time. She likes the new runner but prefers to sit on the floor between it and her porch perch.

Tomorrow:
Sleep late
Update & charge the laptop
Tivo - MAFS, Nova, etc.

Last night I set out a bowl of cat food but the new stray didn't come around as he usually does. I set out a Ring cam pointed at the bowl, and was surprised to see three different cats - and a pigeon.

Watched CNN, but they cut off the SOTUS nomination hearings well before a vote could be taken, and it wasn't until this evening that MSNBC revealed that she will be confirmed.

Garbage bulk collection took away my stuff early, but the bin collections were way late. I think I dragged the bins back around 4 pm.

Twitch was a bust. Fisherman was not on the boat, he was cleaning the snappers and planning to grill them later. The two storm chasers couldn't keep up a signal.

I set up my hummingbird camera and started a feed, ran it till sunset.

American Idol fudged it again. There were at least six contestants who should have been sent home but the panel gave second chances based on past auditions. That's not supposed to be the way it works. But there were a few outstanding and surprise duets.

Spook was on my lap again but knocking stuff off the trays with her tail.

Tomorrow:
Manicure?

 Warmed up some frozen avocados and a couple of waffles for breakfast. Hit by the munchies but all I had handy were nuts & honey and fruit filled wraps. Thought about going shopping but ordered online for tomorrow delivery. Mostly re-ordering the usual. Plus flan.

Watched 90 Day Fiancé Before the 90 Days, Fake Mahogany walked out on idiot Ben, leaving him to find his own way to his flight home. Mike has turned very ugly, now that his hooker girlfriend kicked him out. Jasmine isn't going to milk Gino as much as she wants, and I don't see this surviving her move to the USA. I doubt she will get the visa. Usman just wants to get a green card so he can be an LA rapper. He apparently does no know that another rapper has the handle SoljaBoy. Kim may never see him again, he looks like he wants to return to his ex.

Ukraine crap continues. Russian military are butchers. 

Spent a couple of hours watching the Florida keys fisherman on his boat not catching anything big. Very relaxing .I'm thinking about streaming again.

Did a load of jeans shorts and towels. Ironed all the recently laundered Hawaiian shirts. Felt a little wobbly standing for that long.

Amazon used USPS for my deliveries again, so I had to drive to the mailbox. Pixel back panel protector, foam inserts for the now defunct aqua filter, and a new immersible filter which I assembled and installed. Will see in a week how effective it is. 

Ordered dry erase pens again because the last set was way too fine. Can hardly read it.

Put out food for the new stray, and he eventually came up the ramp and gobbled it up.

berries for lunch. Lean Cuisine & an old lamb chop for dinner.

Paid two medical bills. $25 copay for podiatrist and $150 for the ambulance. 

Tomorrow is garbage night

 7:30 pm had a fever, headache, low energy, so I took some aspirin and my usual bedtime meds and went to bed. Read a short story in the Kindle app, then fired up the scanner app and listened to the King County (WA) scanner, which includes fire, ambulance , police and other safety units. Most of the calls were for Seattle downtown, West Seattle and Magnolia. One of the fire districts has a robocall dispatcher which names the truck #, the address twice but no details. King County radio is a lot more verbose than most, this morning there was a policewoman describing talking with a man who was lying on the sidewalk by a bus stop who asked her to just let him lie and to not point her gun at him (she wasn't). 
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Thursday is laptop update day, and I tried to reinstall the Verify drivers and use the left side USB port, but that didn't work. Seems that the reader is dead. Looking for but not finding an alternative at a reasonable price. No updates were found either.

Tivo time was the usual plus Married At First Sight, in which none of the couples are really ready to commit, but two of them have been brainwashed by "the experts" to think they can make it work. One couple could easily solve the one Big Problem but the producers don't seem to want to go there. The wife is a Thai refugee who grew up in abject poverty, the husband is a technical sales contractor who has been paying for everything despite not having a job at the moment. If he's like most successful tech people, he has a lot of savings, a 401K and an IRA, and doesn't need a job. But wife wants to see him go off to work every day. All he has to do is show her his finances and they would be good. To make life more interesting, she brought her "sister" in for a second opinion. Her sister, Michael, is a Thai ladyboy in clown makeup. Gag me. In Thailand the ladyboys (I've dated a few) look as good as the ladies, maybe better because they dress well and use makeup intelligently.

My old congresscritter Zoe Lofgren has been getting a lot of screen time for calling out the DOJ, especially AG Merrick Garland for dragging their feet on enforcing the Jan. 6th investigation subpoenas. 

Refilled the hummingbird feeder and hung it up. Reminded me I was running out of bedtime chocolates, and it's getting too warm to order from Scharffen-Berger, so I drove out to Ethel M. GPS took me kind of a roundabout way, the trip home also. It's really pretty close to my home. It took a while to get to the showroom, kept getting stuck behind groups who were bunched up for the free samples and on the ramp. I took the stairs, which was not enjoyable.

Bought a box of booze-filled cordials and one of creme filled, and two small boxes of bourbon truffles and finally a bar of 80% single source. Back to the car where I had an insulated shopping bag with two cold packs.

Stopped for mail, a box with anti-moth spray and a lot of spam, including crap from AARP. 

Pulling  into the driveway, the feeder was on the ground, all the nectar spilled out. I had not screwed the cap on well.

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Morning started with Spook coming out from under the bed again. Banana & avocado breakfast. New phone actually did solve the Hgl meter no-pair problem.

News said it rained 1/10th of an inch yesterday. I expected 3/100th.

More rain today but not in my neighborhood yet.
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After putting the chocolates away and eating two of the bourbon truffles, I refilled the feeder and hung it out again.

Tivo time. News,  Below Deck Sailing Yacht mostly showed the crew hunk Gary boinking all the women, And potential crew hunk Tom effing up everything and running the boat aground. He's worse than useless and needs to be fired.

90 Day Single and the pillow talk following it was a summer festival. New & old faces. 

American Idol was the first Hollywood sessions. Toward the end the judges got lazy and passed everyone through. They have not been true to the name - a large number of these people are no "idol" material. It's more like The Voice face to face with the judges.

Sprayed the moth-eaten carpets, which sent Spook running. The front door runner is beyond help, it's a woolen oriental I bought at an auction in  Sunnyvale at least a decade ago. Went online and found a non-moth-food replacement on Wayfair.com.

Delivered was a box of dry-erase markers.

Cloroxed the front door, because cats have been marking it through the screen door, and Spook sniffs it every time I have the door open.

Shrimp and sushi for lunch, snotlickers for dinner with cantaloupe for dessert.

No plans for tomorrow. Except maybe laundry.

Spook was parked on the bath mat on my bedroom floor when I woke up around midnight, then she curled up on the bed next to me until I got out of bed for reals.

 My bedroom waste bag was especially heavy for TMI reasons, and as I was dragging it down the hallway and past the aquarium something happened to make me lose my balance and fall down. Hit my head on the table, scraped my right hand and leg, & broke off a nail. I think I also sprained my right shoulder. There is a small lump on my head. Unlike the last time I fell, this time I was able to get back up.

Took a few minutes in the aquarium view recliner before dragging the garbage bags through the kitchen and into the laundry room.

Did my morning meds routine, grabbed the last banana and sliced an avocado, and poured some cran-pom juice and staged those on the livingroom tray. Caught up on social media & online news.

Parked in the new recliner, had breakfast, watched a little of a CSPAN author's talk on his book about early women aviators, then hit the record button so I could watch some of the Oscars red carpet pre-show. Far too many gowns chose breast exposure over form. 

Strapped on Tevas, got the garbage bags into the bin outside, the drove to Albertson's looking for the grab and go 4-berry containers, but did not see them. Got separate containers of blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries instead. And some cantaloupe. Also more bananas. 

Had to wait outside for a few minutes because there were no carts. Puzzling because there were none in the parking lot cart holders, and not very many shoppers in the store. Someone gifted me with a Walmart cart.

They were out of dark chocolate pudding, but I got milk chocolate as well as lime.

Shrimp, cocktail sauce, lox was on sale, and four assorted Lean Cuisine meals. Pork and veggie pot stickers.

Picked up the mail in the way home - batteries for the Hgl meters and a letter from Humana saying a prescription could not be refilled because they got no response from the prescribing doctor. No name of the drug or the doctor. Humana sucks at communications. 

Home, the battery did not do the trick. The 2nd meter powers up but still won't pair with the phone. Hoping the Pixel phone fixes that.

Channel surfed between NASCAR and news until the oscars started. Set Tivo to record that for 10 minutes longer than scheduled.

About an hour in, watched the recording, 3+ hours. Dune won every techie award plus best score, I call shenanigans because the clips looked pretty ragged. Bottom line for the main awards is it was an anyone can win situation. All the actors were great, all the songs except Beyoncé's were Oscar quality. I did not like that the best movie and best director films are only on streaming platforms. 

And the show ran long. Tivo stopped just before Best Actor was announced. Also, the section where Will Smith punched Kid Rock was garbled - there was a botched attempt to bleep it out. Kid's joke/insult was chopped, and after the punch they muted Will's words. 

Lunch was shrimp, Dinner was pot stickers.

Tomorrow:
Oscars follow-up shows
Call T-Mobile after noon about a Pixel 6.
If I buy one the rest of the day will be setting it up.