long and unproductive weekend
due to being sick most of it. :P
I'm glad I didn't go to my parents' Friday night as a fever hit and I spent the night on the couch watching the Royals beat the Rangers, shivering under a wool shawl, heavy blanket, slippers and cat. It was 100 degrees outside...
Yeah.
Woke up feeling fine on Saturday so went to market where the happy of the day was that the big peaches were back. I mean, really, there are apples smaller than these things. I'm letting them ripen a few more days.
Then I ran some errands including switching out the DVR for a new model/brand. The HD still doesn't work. My guess? Crappy ancient physical cable lines (there's been cable in the house since 1977). I can't really get a tech out until enough of the back yard is cleared out that he can get to the box. If the deck was stable I could send him out the back door but the last thing I need is a liability suit for some guy crashing four feet down through rotten boards. Dad will have to live without the first KU football game in HD; hopefully by the first of November and basketball season I'll have it working. (Six pre-conference bb games and at least one football will be shown on a channel that dad and Dish Network doesn't get).
And hopefully this DVR won't reboot itself randomly and lose everything. At least, since I knew I was getting rid of it, I made a list of the series I had set up to record so I could just enter them back in.
Then I ran to the grocery.
After lunch I read some fanfic, started working on the storage room, and had more stomach icks. By evening, the fever was back. This time I was shaking so hard I went looking for the heating pad and couldn't find it (damn cleaning up--except it was in plain sight in my bedroom, but whatever). I ended up with the above on me plus a sweater and a second cat. Finally stopped shivering around 9:00 about the time I gave up on the Chiefs game as they were sucking. When the second string QB came in and almost immediately threw and interception I switched over to the Royals which I was recording.
The Royals won.
I also read the article in SI which was quite good.
I didn't sleep well. That time of month also started which may be the reason for the headaches and stomach icks, possibly the fevers. Hell if I know. I'm almost fifty, this is ridiculous.
Sunday I felt better again, though kind of achy from all the shivering the night before. The solo at church went well except for me screwing up one line. Oh well. My father came just to hear me sing and then left. On a service on how to mitigate global warming him driving his gas guzzling truck 40 minutes round trip (plus mom driving separately) just to hear me sing was probably not a good thing.
No stomach icks but cramps whicb wiped out my appetite for most of the day. I actually used the heating pad. It's 100 degrees outside.
Today's happy is that Teen Wolf was on a whole day early. :) Oh, and also the person who does the naughty on TW did it yesterday for the last two eps which were the two I lost on the DVR that went back to the cable company.
Sadly, the Royals lost. Also sadly I had no energy to write anything all weekend including the fullmoon ficlet I actually had plotted out in my head.
I did discover that the last ep of Haven I missed at the end of last season is again available on syfy.com so I hope to get that watched tomorrow at lunch. I have the two Falling Skies to watch plus tonight's tv as well as last week's Under the Dome which is hopefully finally available on Amazon Prime.
Oh, and watched this John Simms show on BBC America from last night, Intruders. Did anyone else watch it and is completely confused? I'll give the second ep a shot this Saturday but if it doesn't start making since, I dunno.
Finally, am I the last person in fandom to know that Dylan O'Brien is the star of Maze Runner? I'm sure my nephew's read the book.
Royals play the Yankees in a make up game tomorrow night at home. They're apparently honoring Jeter beforehand and encouraging fans to be in their seats before six. I'm sorry, we have long memories. it doesn't matter how nice a guy he is, Royals fans have despised the Yankees for well over three decades. How many pennants did we lose to them in the '70s and early '80s? Not to mention the pine tar incident. Even our announcers today who mentioned all this said they doubted ticket holders would be rushing to the stadium a few minutes early.
In final words. Peter. Still not 100% evil. :)
And, Melissa is so Stiles' honorary mom.
I'm glad I didn't go to my parents' Friday night as a fever hit and I spent the night on the couch watching the Royals beat the Rangers, shivering under a wool shawl, heavy blanket, slippers and cat. It was 100 degrees outside...
Yeah.
Woke up feeling fine on Saturday so went to market where the happy of the day was that the big peaches were back. I mean, really, there are apples smaller than these things. I'm letting them ripen a few more days.
Then I ran some errands including switching out the DVR for a new model/brand. The HD still doesn't work. My guess? Crappy ancient physical cable lines (there's been cable in the house since 1977). I can't really get a tech out until enough of the back yard is cleared out that he can get to the box. If the deck was stable I could send him out the back door but the last thing I need is a liability suit for some guy crashing four feet down through rotten boards. Dad will have to live without the first KU football game in HD; hopefully by the first of November and basketball season I'll have it working. (Six pre-conference bb games and at least one football will be shown on a channel that dad and Dish Network doesn't get).
And hopefully this DVR won't reboot itself randomly and lose everything. At least, since I knew I was getting rid of it, I made a list of the series I had set up to record so I could just enter them back in.
Then I ran to the grocery.
After lunch I read some fanfic, started working on the storage room, and had more stomach icks. By evening, the fever was back. This time I was shaking so hard I went looking for the heating pad and couldn't find it (damn cleaning up--except it was in plain sight in my bedroom, but whatever). I ended up with the above on me plus a sweater and a second cat. Finally stopped shivering around 9:00 about the time I gave up on the Chiefs game as they were sucking. When the second string QB came in and almost immediately threw and interception I switched over to the Royals which I was recording.
The Royals won.
I also read the article in SI which was quite good.
I didn't sleep well. That time of month also started which may be the reason for the headaches and stomach icks, possibly the fevers. Hell if I know. I'm almost fifty, this is ridiculous.
Sunday I felt better again, though kind of achy from all the shivering the night before. The solo at church went well except for me screwing up one line. Oh well. My father came just to hear me sing and then left. On a service on how to mitigate global warming him driving his gas guzzling truck 40 minutes round trip (plus mom driving separately) just to hear me sing was probably not a good thing.
No stomach icks but cramps whicb wiped out my appetite for most of the day. I actually used the heating pad. It's 100 degrees outside.
Today's happy is that Teen Wolf was on a whole day early. :) Oh, and also the person who does the naughty on TW did it yesterday for the last two eps which were the two I lost on the DVR that went back to the cable company.
Sadly, the Royals lost. Also sadly I had no energy to write anything all weekend including the fullmoon ficlet I actually had plotted out in my head.
I did discover that the last ep of Haven I missed at the end of last season is again available on syfy.com so I hope to get that watched tomorrow at lunch. I have the two Falling Skies to watch plus tonight's tv as well as last week's Under the Dome which is hopefully finally available on Amazon Prime.
Oh, and watched this John Simms show on BBC America from last night, Intruders. Did anyone else watch it and is completely confused? I'll give the second ep a shot this Saturday but if it doesn't start making since, I dunno.
Finally, am I the last person in fandom to know that Dylan O'Brien is the star of Maze Runner? I'm sure my nephew's read the book.
Royals play the Yankees in a make up game tomorrow night at home. They're apparently honoring Jeter beforehand and encouraging fans to be in their seats before six. I'm sorry, we have long memories. it doesn't matter how nice a guy he is, Royals fans have despised the Yankees for well over three decades. How many pennants did we lose to them in the '70s and early '80s? Not to mention the pine tar incident. Even our announcers today who mentioned all this said they doubted ticket holders would be rushing to the stadium a few minutes early.
In final words. Peter. Still not 100% evil. :)
And, Melissa is so Stiles' honorary mom.