Today was... not good ( Read more... )

I could be writing in my many WIPs but instead lately have been mostly contributing fic titles to the group document for a Prodigal Son "trash" group on Discord. (The "interference" headaches making it hard to think longform and forcing me to go to sleep haven't been helping me either ( Read more... )

( breaking in a new primary care doctor )

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I'm still in more pain than usual, having to spend a lot of yesterday and today in bed, and it may soon get worse because the cost of my Botox injections for my head, neck, and shoulders has jumped so high that Medicare is no longer willing to cover them. My neurologist's office is trying to get something going with a "specialized pharmacy" (their ( Read more... )

I'm not having much trouble with Windows 10 but Notepad ++ and Filezilla aren't as easy to intelligibly look at and use as my Arachnophilia and last FTP program were. I'm no longer so naïve as to think that a newer program/technology automatically equals an easier or better experience for the user ( Read more... )

( cut for dental horror )

I'm very ticked that they changed my check-in time for my surgery from noon to 5:45 am and only today, the afternoon before the procedure, left a message on my landline at 3:45 pm to let me know. I got home at 6:30 pm and by then their office was no longer answering phones ( Read more... )

I took the subway into Manhattan today, by day, to look at window displays and the Channel Gardens' fountains at Rockefeller Center only to be disappointed in both, but I found other ways to make the trip worth it.

First, most of the stores I shoot had their windows in progress and curtained off, and what was visible was mostly boring and basic. ( Read more... )

My car insurance rate went up by $10 a month! "New York law enforcement" and "premium installment charge"? Wtf? A year ago my rate went up by $5 a month, also from a NY-related fee! I foresee myself giving GEICO a call in the near future ( Read more... )