I own two pairs of nail scissors. One pair was given to me by my grandmother when I was about 16, and works really well for my fingernails but can't manage my toenails, some of which are thickened and some of which have thick dead skin at the corners. For my toenails I have a much stronger pair of nail scissors with one of the blades serrated on ( Read more... )

This morning I found a way to email the ENT doc I saw two years ago, so I sent off an email about the recent nosebleeds and got a message back from his office a couple of hours later. They had tried to call me on our landline, which I don't answer, but they must have called while I was out for half an hour walking to and from the post office, ( Read more... )

I'm glad this morning is over. I was feeling very stressed about it beforehand, but it all worked quite smoothly in the end. I think I was most stressed about getting there, because it's a route that I've taken wrong turns on more than once before, but today I didn't take a single wrong turn. Once I got to the MVA I had to wait a while, firstly ( Read more... )

Turns out my name is not on the car title after all, although I am listed as the joint owner on the registration documentation, so I have to go to the MVA to get the title reissued in my name. I've got an appointment at the MVA on Tuesday morning.

My printer is doing something weird today: I wanted to print the address to mail off some documents, but when I tried to print the printer just fed the paper through without printing. I tried from a pdf; I tried from a Google document; I tried from an Open Office document, and all did the same thing. I didn't feel like trying to work out the ( Read more... )

The days have all been the same lately; get up in a stuffy house, go for a hot sweaty walk not too long after 6 am, come back, breakfast, shower, and then hunker down inside with the a/c and ceiling fans to try to stay cool for the rest of the day. I do some work for my daughter (usually less than an hour) and then fill the time with reading, ( Read more... )

Another wet day. It was raining fairly heavily and steadily all morning, but seems to have eased off somewhat since lunch time. I guess this is what we're getting as the tail end of the storm that has been battering the parts of the country to our west ( Read more... )