a few days
So the next day I tried using the voice to text on my phone keyboard. This is what I got - I've broken it up with punctuation, because apparently I don't talk with any. (As this is the first time I've used it, I don't know how to put punctuation in while talking.)
So this is an attempt to use voice to text: I was up at 5:00. I was up at 6:00. I was up at 7:00. I was up at 8:00. All of these were too early to call the dentist. Well, 8 probably wasn't, but since I was hoping for an appointment in the afternoon when people woke up, I didn't call. I wasn't up again till 10:00, and finally I called the dentist. (for the filling that fell out the day before). Surprise, they could take me right away! ("Can you be here in 25 minutes?") Fortunately, I could hear the Elder Child moving around downstairs, starting to get ready for work at noon, and when I called down he said ok. I had him drop me off at the dentist, and told him to go get food, because I expected it to take at least an hour. Sure enough, almost exactly an hour later, I was ready to get picked up. The dentist saw no decay, and just did a bit of scraping to get off some plaque that had gotten under the filling. (For a while now, I've been ignoring (due to covid and immune diseases) the fact that it felt like that tooth had had some enamel break off. It's the largest filling in my mouth. (And, apparently, it's multiple fillings in different parts of the same tooth. Apparently, what actually happened is that the filling had shifted, and what I thought was the tooth having departed, was the filling sticking out toward the inside of my mouth.) But apparently it wasn't awful, and the main reason he gave me some novocaine is that I'm REALLY REACTIVE to the sound and smell and sensation of drilling.
(note: the last half of that para is me typing while here, not that I talked all that in.)
He put a new filling in. Now, this is the tooth that, a few years ago, it took like 8 tries over 9 months ish, to get a filling to *stay* in. Unfortunately, as it's the very last tooth on that side, it's incredibly difficult to do the work for a crown or a root canal. Thus, if we can't get it to stick, he recommends taking the tooth out. So after I got to the ground floor of the office building I poked in discord, and about 15 minutes later the Younger Child said "Let me know when you're done" via sms. (Apparently, my discord message came through while Elder Child was quickly eating and waking Younger Child up, and thus wasn't seen.) Younger Child came and fetched me home and FINALLY I had some food (thank God I could have food it was peanut butter and jelly I ate two of them).
When my mom died, in going through her stuff, I found a record of an account that she'd made, at the time I believe it was called 'in care of' or something, for a minor child. I think I might have started the process of getting it in my name - which should have happened when I was 18! - and then it fell off my radar. They'd send 'this is how your account is doing' updates to that address, and since I have friends as tenants in that house they'd periodically deliver it to me and I'd toss it in a box. A few weeks ago there was a company name I didn't recognize, and I opened the mail this time, and it was a 'btw, the minor is certainly an adult by now and should really resolve this." So I called the company, and found out that they'd have to send me paperwork which would have to be stamped by a bank ("Medallion Guaranty"). Since I was downstairs, I opened the Very Large envelope, and saw forms that I couldn't immediately tell how to fill out. So I called the company, and someone helpfully went over it on the phone with me. Our local bank didn't require a appointment to walk in! Got there around 2:30 pm, and went in with the scooter so the Younger Child could take the 'check engine light is on' car to see what that meant. I also had 2 checks from my house/car insurance company that they claimed I had sent me because they said I hadn't actually cashed the previous ones. (Which I thought I had, but I don't have records of it and I decided not to argue) so that was another $1100 into the bank. However, the mechanic was too busy, and Younger Child came back while I was still getting things signed. I wasn a little disappointed, as this meant that I didn't get to have a minor adventure of driving the scooter home, but not awful - I'll note that I could have sent him home and taken the scooter home anyway.
But we stopped at the local chain convenience store and got sandwiches. Upon arriving home, I found a letter from the town's zoning department, which has decided that my grass is too long and that one of the cars in the driveway is "unregistered, uninspected, and disabled" which is only partly true. This is minor aggravation at best, but the letter was dated the 23rd, sent on the 26th, and I received it on the 28th, and it claims I have 3 days from the date of the letter to respond or else it's considered final, with upwards of $1000 fine. I called them up and got a person that was the wrong department and they forwarded me to the correct department which, of course, sent me to voicemail. I found out on Saturday that they had called back within a half hour, but my phone never rang. (This is one reason I really do NOT like the 'notched' top of the phone, because it hides half the notification icons. Yeah, it has a little dot that shows there are more, but seriously, that little dot is really not obtrusive enough.
And I just remembered that last bit now, at 7pm. So I guess I call tomorrow.
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The rest of last week was mostly boring. I got very cranky about having my query for dinner be unnnoticed for 45 minutes on Friday, so I ordered myself some sushi and let the kids fend for themselves. Friday would have been the 32nd Wedding anniversary, so that's a thing. Saturday, spent a few hours playing D&D on zoom, Sunday played WoW, and then tried to recover my Second Life account, as someone on one of the wow discord servers I'm on is a maker there, and offered to fund me some new infrastructure stuff that I didn't want to deal with when I found out a few years ago when I last thought about showing up there again. While I had accurately remembered the password for the email account I was using for Second Life, I didn't remember the password for the SL account itself. Their password recovery offered "Give us the first names of these three friends of yours." and I'm like bwahahaha I have no clue - and "What is the amount in USD that we last charged to your paypal or credit card." That was, at best, early 2017 (which is when I logged in last) and more likely back in 2014, and paypal doesn't keep the records that far back. (I might have them. SOmewhere. On a hard drive. That I was using in 2015. ....) I put in a ticket (at 3am my time) and haven't heard back yet. :(
Today I did... not much. Talked the kids into dealing with taking the fan out of the roof and closing that up, and closing, in turn, the hatch from the bathroom to the attic. We never did get the roof fan functioning. *sigh* Made sure all the storm windows were down (the ones that exist), and Younger Child did a bit of cleaning around the small ceramic heater I have in my room so I can use it. Unfortunately, the tiny fan heaters I got for the hobby room are making unhappy-fan noises, so I need to figure out if that's Disaster!don't!use! or 'yawn, i need to wake up'.
I also FINALLY found a useful contact point for the maker of my keyboard, to find out what its equivalent in mechanical switches would be, because i have a mechanical keyboard on KS that I get to choose the switches for, and I wanted to have it as close to this as possible because I like this keyboard. (I intend the KS one to be for the laptop that I hate the keyboard on, so I don't have the use the folding keyboard I got very happily last year that has started doublebouncing keys. I'll probably still use the folding one for travel, because space, but I'd like a better one for home.) And then, having found out what "mechanical-like switches" were, and that the newer term is "mem-chanical", I spent an hour or so poking around the net finding out wtf memchanical is, and figuring out what the equivalent in actual-mechanical is likely to be, so I can finally fill out the form (that's due tomorrow) to tell the KS campaign folks what switches I want.
And then I wrote this. We haven't gotten the car checked yet, and some friends in Massachussetts have been mentioning, on the discord server, various news items about states prepping for problems with the elections, so that's a thing. :/
Yee. Haw. Onward. This entry was originally posted at https://khatru.dreamwidth.org/20482.html. You can comment here, or there using OpenID. There are
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So this is an attempt to use voice to text: I was up at 5:00. I was up at 6:00. I was up at 7:00. I was up at 8:00. All of these were too early to call the dentist. Well, 8 probably wasn't, but since I was hoping for an appointment in the afternoon when people woke up, I didn't call. I wasn't up again till 10:00, and finally I called the dentist. (for the filling that fell out the day before). Surprise, they could take me right away! ("Can you be here in 25 minutes?") Fortunately, I could hear the Elder Child moving around downstairs, starting to get ready for work at noon, and when I called down he said ok. I had him drop me off at the dentist, and told him to go get food, because I expected it to take at least an hour. Sure enough, almost exactly an hour later, I was ready to get picked up. The dentist saw no decay, and just did a bit of scraping to get off some plaque that had gotten under the filling. (For a while now, I've been ignoring (due to covid and immune diseases) the fact that it felt like that tooth had had some enamel break off. It's the largest filling in my mouth. (And, apparently, it's multiple fillings in different parts of the same tooth. Apparently, what actually happened is that the filling had shifted, and what I thought was the tooth having departed, was the filling sticking out toward the inside of my mouth.) But apparently it wasn't awful, and the main reason he gave me some novocaine is that I'm REALLY REACTIVE to the sound and smell and sensation of drilling.
(note: the last half of that para is me typing while here, not that I talked all that in.)
He put a new filling in. Now, this is the tooth that, a few years ago, it took like 8 tries over 9 months ish, to get a filling to *stay* in. Unfortunately, as it's the very last tooth on that side, it's incredibly difficult to do the work for a crown or a root canal. Thus, if we can't get it to stick, he recommends taking the tooth out. So after I got to the ground floor of the office building I poked in discord, and about 15 minutes later the Younger Child said "Let me know when you're done" via sms. (Apparently, my discord message came through while Elder Child was quickly eating and waking Younger Child up, and thus wasn't seen.) Younger Child came and fetched me home and FINALLY I had some food (thank God I could have food it was peanut butter and jelly I ate two of them).
When my mom died, in going through her stuff, I found a record of an account that she'd made, at the time I believe it was called 'in care of' or something, for a minor child. I think I might have started the process of getting it in my name - which should have happened when I was 18! - and then it fell off my radar. They'd send 'this is how your account is doing' updates to that address, and since I have friends as tenants in that house they'd periodically deliver it to me and I'd toss it in a box. A few weeks ago there was a company name I didn't recognize, and I opened the mail this time, and it was a 'btw, the minor is certainly an adult by now and should really resolve this." So I called the company, and found out that they'd have to send me paperwork which would have to be stamped by a bank ("Medallion Guaranty"). Since I was downstairs, I opened the Very Large envelope, and saw forms that I couldn't immediately tell how to fill out. So I called the company, and someone helpfully went over it on the phone with me. Our local bank didn't require a appointment to walk in! Got there around 2:30 pm, and went in with the scooter so the Younger Child could take the 'check engine light is on' car to see what that meant. I also had 2 checks from my house/car insurance company that they claimed I had sent me because they said I hadn't actually cashed the previous ones. (Which I thought I had, but I don't have records of it and I decided not to argue) so that was another $1100 into the bank. However, the mechanic was too busy, and Younger Child came back while I was still getting things signed. I wasn a little disappointed, as this meant that I didn't get to have a minor adventure of driving the scooter home, but not awful - I'll note that I could have sent him home and taken the scooter home anyway.
But we stopped at the local chain convenience store and got sandwiches. Upon arriving home, I found a letter from the town's zoning department, which has decided that my grass is too long and that one of the cars in the driveway is "unregistered, uninspected, and disabled" which is only partly true. This is minor aggravation at best, but the letter was dated the 23rd, sent on the 26th, and I received it on the 28th, and it claims I have 3 days from the date of the letter to respond or else it's considered final, with upwards of $1000 fine. I called them up and got a person that was the wrong department and they forwarded me to the correct department which, of course, sent me to voicemail. I found out on Saturday that they had called back within a half hour, but my phone never rang. (This is one reason I really do NOT like the 'notched' top of the phone, because it hides half the notification icons. Yeah, it has a little dot that shows there are more, but seriously, that little dot is really not obtrusive enough.
And I just remembered that last bit now, at 7pm. So I guess I call tomorrow.
-----
The rest of last week was mostly boring. I got very cranky about having my query for dinner be unnnoticed for 45 minutes on Friday, so I ordered myself some sushi and let the kids fend for themselves. Friday would have been the 32nd Wedding anniversary, so that's a thing. Saturday, spent a few hours playing D&D on zoom, Sunday played WoW, and then tried to recover my Second Life account, as someone on one of the wow discord servers I'm on is a maker there, and offered to fund me some new infrastructure stuff that I didn't want to deal with when I found out a few years ago when I last thought about showing up there again. While I had accurately remembered the password for the email account I was using for Second Life, I didn't remember the password for the SL account itself. Their password recovery offered "Give us the first names of these three friends of yours." and I'm like bwahahaha I have no clue - and "What is the amount in USD that we last charged to your paypal or credit card." That was, at best, early 2017 (which is when I logged in last) and more likely back in 2014, and paypal doesn't keep the records that far back. (I might have them. SOmewhere. On a hard drive. That I was using in 2015. ....) I put in a ticket (at 3am my time) and haven't heard back yet. :(
Today I did... not much. Talked the kids into dealing with taking the fan out of the roof and closing that up, and closing, in turn, the hatch from the bathroom to the attic. We never did get the roof fan functioning. *sigh* Made sure all the storm windows were down (the ones that exist), and Younger Child did a bit of cleaning around the small ceramic heater I have in my room so I can use it. Unfortunately, the tiny fan heaters I got for the hobby room are making unhappy-fan noises, so I need to figure out if that's Disaster!don't!use! or 'yawn, i need to wake up'.
I also FINALLY found a useful contact point for the maker of my keyboard, to find out what its equivalent in mechanical switches would be, because i have a mechanical keyboard on KS that I get to choose the switches for, and I wanted to have it as close to this as possible because I like this keyboard. (I intend the KS one to be for the laptop that I hate the keyboard on, so I don't have the use the folding keyboard I got very happily last year that has started doublebouncing keys. I'll probably still use the folding one for travel, because space, but I'd like a better one for home.) And then, having found out what "mechanical-like switches" were, and that the newer term is "mem-chanical", I spent an hour or so poking around the net finding out wtf memchanical is, and figuring out what the equivalent in actual-mechanical is likely to be, so I can finally fill out the form (that's due tomorrow) to tell the KS campaign folks what switches I want.
And then I wrote this. We haven't gotten the car checked yet, and some friends in Massachussetts have been mentioning, on the discord server, various news items about states prepping for problems with the elections, so that's a thing. :/
Yee. Haw. Onward. This entry was originally posted at https://khatru.dreamwidth.org/20482.html. You can comment here, or there using OpenID. There are
comments there. Hopefully this is doing the right thing.