Wednesday: another workday in which I got to provide chat support outside of the normal weekend context. Call volume's still high, and after my arrangement yesterday, I had to take calls for the entire time that I wasn't actively covering chat. In the afternoon, Julie had to go out to meet up with her coworkers, and while she was away, John and Mim got into a little scuffle. No real injuries this time; I think Mim's tail might have gotten scratched, and John got some carpet fiber stuck on a claw. After work, I commisserated with both cats for a while before I fell asleep on the living room floor until Julie got home. She hassled me until I got up and had my share of the spaghetti leftovers for dinner. Worked on more descriptions in Moondrop Isle, but tomorrow's the big day for those efforts.
IS THE COUGH STILL HERE? NOT MUCH
Monday: coughing in the shower this morning made my throat hurt a lot, so I called into work to let them know I'd be going to an urgent care facility. I tried going to the one south on Broad, but I didn't make an appointment ahead of time and they wouldn't let anybody with respiratory issues in due to COVID, so Julie made me an appointment at vybe urgent care instead. The walk was alright, but I wound up taking the subway down to Walgreens to get my prescription refilled. Julie tried a new pasta dish for dinner. Pretty sure it had beans or chickpeas in it? Pretty good.
Spent some time today thinking about how the plan had been to start journaling in addition to maintaining this website. I barely feel like I'm keeping up with it, not least since "keeping up with it" is little more than rote recitation of my activities, rather anything more thoughtful or interesting to an outside reader. The idea had been that I'd use a journal to keep track of things that haven't happened yet and then to transcribe the parts worth remembering to the website, but you can already see how that's playing out.
Kind of a related issue, but it has been ONE YEAR since we drove the cats and furniture up to Philadelphia, and I feel like I've lost touch with the sensations that were driving me back then. I need to transcribe my audio recordings...
Sunday: it's day 3 of our trip, driving from the hotel in Columbus to Philadelphia. We wanted to get on the road as quickly as possible, and I thought John had handled the first two legs well enough that we didn't need to sedate him today. This turned out to be an error: he spent most of the trip yowling his displeasure.
After driving the breadth of one and a third states, Dad and I made it to Philadelphia, where we unloaded the cats successfully. (I'd wanted to keep them out of the basement, but I don't know that I was very successful.) We celebrated the conclusion of our drive with my first dinner at the new place: sushi from the grocery store, granola bars, and Dr Pepper.
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Friday: this may have been one of the first zoom parties Scott hosted during the year in which COVID lockdowns started happening in Wichita.
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Sunday: it's Easter, and Julie went to work in the morning, while I went down to Derby in time for the 11:00 church service with the family at Woodlawn. After church we all went out to Sherry and Kendall's house in Clearwater for the traditional family Easter celebration—potluck food, an Easter Egg hunt, a walk around the property (I didn't have casual shoes handy, or I'd have gone), and a couple games of pool. Spoils from the egg hunt included three dollars in quarters, some chocolates, and a $10 gift certificate to the movies.
That evening I got back to the apartment a little bit after Julie, and we cooked some fajita chicken meat and peppers; we ate while watching season six of The Office, which we'd apparently forgotten that we'd purchased a couple months back.
Saturday: decided to try to keep our shopping budget under $50. I didn't report whether we were successful.
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