Cruise Day -1: San Diego

Dec. 26th, 2025 21:41
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Woke up at 4:30 AM. Went back to sleep, and woke up at 6 AM. Jet lag strikes! The place that I want to go for breakfast is open, so I'll throw myself together and go there.

Went to the Corner Bakery Cafe. Their pancakes were recommended online, so I had some, and they were very good. I had Bananas Foster pancakes.

The downtown area seems to have a lot of foot traffic. Buses run late. That got me wondering about housing costs, but it’s California, so they’re probably high. Yep.

Had a nice nap. Checked where the cruise port is for tomorrow. It's a 10-minute drive from here, so I can check out a little before 11 and get there in time for boarding. (I'm in the first boarding group, and I want lunch on the ship!)

There's a Chipotle across the street. I looked at their menu though, and it doesn't excite me. I guess that I'll DoorDash. Oh, Cava (Mediterranean restaurant) is open until 10:30.

Yay, I DoorDashed clean socks (and soda). I had been wearing dirty socks. Ugh. Note to self: bring lots of socks next time for the beginning and end of the cruise. (I'm planning to wear sandals through most of it). I'll do laundry once I get on the ship.

I'm trying to get the energy to work on my Medical Journal. I just want to read though. I don't think that ChatGPT will do what I want. I'll try Word.

I got confused as to what time it was. My computer said that it was 4 PM, so I thought that I would have an early dinner. But my computer is on Chicago time. So I had a late lunch. I went to Cava and ordered the Chicken Shawarma Pita. The thing was enormous and messy. I wound up wearing part of it despite strategically placed napkins. It was good though. I had cinnamon pita chips dipped in honey for dessert.

I want to read and maybe nap. The food is knocking me out.

Yikes. My dad and his wife have COVID, and they haven’t had any of the shots. I’m worried.

Overslept my nap. It’s raining out. I’m not sure what to do now. I should get to sleep early because I need to get up early and pack, such as it is. I want to be ready to go at 10:30 AM.

It feels later than it is, not surprisingly. I think that I'll read for a while and get to bed early.

friday

Dec. 26th, 2025 20:27
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Pirates. Inspired (sort of) by one of the Grim Tales tarot cards: Six of Cups.

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This card in the deck didn't look very 6 of cup-ish to me but my drawing came out of it anyway.

Hazel and I went shopping at Walmart early this morning hoping to get back home before freezing rain was supposed to start. Hazel was hoping that they would have a certain jacket but they were out of her size. When we got out of the store there was slippery ice here and there on the parking lot and the car was encased in ice but the roads were okay. It got warmer as the day went on and when I went with Jules when he drove Hazel back to Pittsburgh this afternoon it was a steady rain but not freezing so all was good.

Life returns to normal again now that our xmas party is over and Hazel has gone home. I'd like to get the pin loom baby blanket done that I started for Rowan (a few more squares need woven and then the whole thing needs pieced together) and then I want to start to delve into a new book I received, Mini Amigurumi Animals: 26 Tiny Creatures to Crochet. I've been looking through it and every single little animal looks super cute. I'm so used to doing flat things like blankets I hope I can figure out how to follow the patterns and crochet in 3D to make them. It'll be a challenge I'm sure at first.

automatic renewal

Dec. 26th, 2025 20:09
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With today being Boxing Day, Erica and I decided to tempt fate and go out looking for some bargains. Our first stop was Walgreens. We got there just after noon. By then every sign of Chritmit had been removed and replaced with Valentine’s Day shit. What s disappointment. We ambled over to Target where I was hoping to score some clearance items to slap up on my eBay page. We went to the toy department where they had a 'clearance' sale. All the toys were 15% off. Are you effing joking? 15% is not a clearance it’s a regular sale. Another disappointment. We got home just in time to play bingo in the other building. There were only 10 people there so surely I would win. I did not, but Erica won twice. She won a bottle of hand soap and on the last game, a cover all, a six pack of Sprite while I walked away empty-handed. Yet another disappointment. When we got back to our building, we checked the mail and there was a pink slip indicating we had a box delivered to the other building. I headed back to the office hoping the box was the new pair of Adidas I ordered from eBay. I got there, Douglas dug up my package and it was diabetes supplies. Another disappointment. I am eventually made it home and turned on CNN only to find the “president” had not died yet. The final disappointment of my day. Screw all this I’m going back to bed .

Peopling win-ish

Dec. 26th, 2025 11:11
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As planned, I puzzled. While I was out there, Joan came out and as usual asked a bunch of nosy questions most of which I dodged. And then set on her list of complaints du jour. Top today was that "the IRS will no longer accept checks so I have to get an account but I can't set it up and my daughter tried for hours yesterday and couldn't do it either."

The subtext here - which she actually tried me on last April - is I need you to get on my computer and set up my IRS account. How many ways can I say NO FUCKING WAY EVER????? Her daughter is an attorney. Her grandson is an IT manager for a large bank. And you want to give me your social security number and have me go on your computer and do the job for you? And then, when you forget how to do it, come back and do it all again? Every quarter? Sure, I'm up for that. Not.

And...as I told you last April,Joan, your premise is incorrect. The IRS website - IRS.gov/payments clearly states that while they would like you to set up an account and pay electronically, here are the

Other ways you can pay

Same-day wire — Bank fees may apply
Check or money order — Through U.S. mail
Cash — Through a retail partner and other methods can

So I printed it all out for her - large font. And delivered it.

Nice try, old lady, but you didn't catch me this time.

Plus, in doing that, I that I forgot to attach my printer to the wifi extenders' SSID so that was a whole thing but it's done. And I have quashed Joan's IRS rants. And I did laundry. A good day so far.
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In the olden days (like a few months ago), Biggie only really peed once a day and pooped once a day usually in the mornings. Then he got this bladder issue about the same time as I changed the litter. I thought he was just going to the litter box so frequently to play with the new litter but, turns out, bladder issue. Then we switched foods to fix that to a food he does not love. And, in a stroke of genius, I decided to cut back on his OCD medication (and the vet said ok, so dumb and dumber). So for about a week he was all over the place, in and out of the yarn bins, in and out of my lap, in and out of the litter box, running all over the place always and chewing on shit.

SOOOO back onto the daily OCD meds. And the anxiety calmed right down. But then yesterday, he barely moved. When he did, he was chipper, but he spent all day napping in his bed and only got up a couple of times briefly. And no pee. He ate ok and was alert when he did arouse but still.

This morning, he's his normal Biggie. A nice big pee that was not nearly as nearly looking as previous pees. And he ate and he begged for his treat and then he went back to finish his morning nap. We go back to the vet week after next for retest and I'll be a little less stressed then but still, it's Biggie, so there will always be something.

I was going to skip the pool this morning and I still might. I'm lazy and my skin needs a break.

I did not talk to a single soul yesterday and it was lovely. Tomorrow is volleyball and elbow coffee - lots of souls so I think today, I'll go out and puzzle some - ease my way back into people. But, mostly, I'll do my usual stuff right in my lovely little apartment.

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Dec. 26th, 2025 09:56
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When I opened the watercolour painting kit from my daughter yesterday I commented that I would need a table in the basement, to which she replied that that is a great idea. Later in the day (after we were back from Christmas with her in laws) I told her I was thinking of buying a cheap card table, which would be the perfect size for the space in the basement next to the piano. She told me that I didn't need to buy a table because I could have the small table in the girls' art room that Aria has been using, because there is also a bigger table in there with plenty of room for three, and immediately she brought me down to see if we could move the table then and there. We found that we would need to take the legs off the table (which she had had to do to get it into the room originally), and she went off to find a wrench. Some time passed because I guess she got caught up with doing other things upstairs, but eventually my son in law came down with tools, removed the legs, brought the table out, replaced the legs, and set the table up in the corner.

The best thing about this table is that it's sturdy enough for me to use it as a sewing table as well as a painting and puzzle table. I was worried that a card table wouldn't be strong enough for the sewing machine, so this is great. I won't be able to leave the sewing machine set up permanently, but it's not hard to get it out of its case and set it up on the table as necessary, rather than having to lug it upstairs to the dining table. I've also been able to dig out one of the power strips I brought from home and plug that in and pass the power cord along behind the piano to the table. (It's just long enough.)

friday

Dec. 26th, 2025 03:04
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The little manger scene on the coffee table. At one point Andy wagged his tail and sent everything flying but I set it back up later and took this pic. There was a lot of chaos while people were opening presents and there was wrapping paper all over the place. Andy kept busy ripping it into tinier pieces. Afterwards I thought, why had I been concerned before about getting the house clean and the floors swept? Skye spent the whole day on the couch, getting petted by people. I don't think she'll be here next year at this time so it's good that her last year has a lot of love in it.

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One, Two, Three.

I had a weird pain in my right wrist yesterday. It started in the morning and got worse as the day went on. In a way it was good because it allowed me to ask for help with preparations. It's better now since I've slept a bit. I was exhausted and went to be early last night - 8 pm. Woke up at 1.

Jules gave me a cool tarot deck that I'd been wanting. The Grim Tales deck. Lots of strange images that will be good fodder for future art.
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I had problems getting up this morning, but I think that I got up at 7:30 AM. Had another good breakfast. Great service—I was having problems cutting the pancakes, and a guy showed up with fresh pancakes for me and took the old ones.

Now I need to pack stuff up. Emailed my travel info to my dad. Suitcase packed. Backpack packed except for the stuff that goes in at the last minute (chargers). I’m going to lie down for a little while.

At the airport. Dropped my suitcase off to be checked. It was just under overweight, so I can’t buy anything.

I think that I might buy a meal on the flight. The timing would be right.

Made it to the gate, stopping twice. It was the farthest gate once again. No charger plugs. Or at least, they’re not working. Yay, found a charger that works. I got to the gate so early that they were using it for another flight.

The flight is overbooked. They asked for volunteers to take a later flight for a $1000 voucher. I went up to the podium, although I wasn’t sure how that would work with my checked luggage and the San Diego hotel. But enough people got there before me. I’m on the flight.

Had a large hamburger for dinner. And I slept the rest of the time. Airplane drowsiness strikes again!

In San Diego at the hotel. I want to get some stuff from Walgreens, but it just occurred to me that it’ll be closed. I thought that I ordered two bottles of soda, but just got one. Oh well. I need to order socks from CVS tomorrow.

Had a protein bar. I think that I’m going to go to sleep early because it’s later Chicago time. Not sure about tomorrow. Right now, the idea of going anywhere sounds awful. I’ll see.

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Dec. 25th, 2025 17:57
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We (those of us who are parents) had a nice slow start to the day (the girls got up at about 5 and opened their stockings) but then they went back to their rooms and did quiet things for a while. Most of the adults were in the kitchen/living room by about 8 am, but I suspect that the girls had been playing with Uncle J for a while before that.

Eventually, urged on by impatient girls, we started opening gifts, and not long after that we set off to my son in law's mother's (grammy's) place to spend the afternoon. The main course of lunch was at about 1:30 pm followed by dessert at about 4 pm, with gift opening in between. I received a small water colour painting set from my eldest daughter and two jigsaw puzzles from my youngest daughter. My middle daughter normally sends something that arrives after Christmas.

Because there were 8 of us with the two extras, we took two cars. My daughter and I went in my car and everybody else went in the 7-seater minivan. When we were half way home I suddenly realised I had left my small backpack behind (stashed in an out of the way corner) so we had to go back. Luckily grammy only lives about twelve miles away, so going back didn't take too long.

Now we're home and everything is remarkably quiet. Aria is here in the basement with me playing with a spinning "chair" she was given by her Uncle P (her father's brother). It's a sort of fish-shaped low dish which spins on its base and she is lying on the floor next to it, spinning it, having already spent a lot of time sitting or lying on it and spinning. Violet and Eden are, I think, upstairs with Uncle J. My son in law has taken L to catch her train back to New York because she has to go to work tomorrow.

Tomorrow we're going to my son in law's sister's place which is three times as far away as grammy's, so I will make extra sure I don't forget my backpack when we're leaving there.

the joy of mans desire

Dec. 25th, 2025 13:05
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Hippie Bathday, Jesus C! Murphy Chritmit to all. Unless that ain't yo thang. Then a Happy Rando Thursday to ya, champ.

A lovely Christmas morning

Dec. 25th, 2025 07:46
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I'm sitting here at my table looking out across the trees (I'm on a hill). It's darker than usual today, not light enough yet to see if it's clouds causing the dark but I suspect it is. Thank you, clouds. I love these dark mornings so much. The other night the little chirpy weather girl (still many years away from being a woman) said that this was the longest day of the year and soon we'd have 18 hours of daylight. Shut Up, Bitch. I know she's not wrong but does she have to throw it in my face???

Oh turns out to be clouds and fog. A double gift.

The cats got up before I did and were quite interested in breakfast, ate a bunch of it, and are now back in their closet fast asleep.

I think I'm going to suit up and go for a swim and then come home and enjoy the rest of the day. I have plenty to keep me amused. I have food aplenty. No need for any peopling. A very lovely Christmas.

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My son never smiles

Dec. 25th, 2025 08:17
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He inherited much of his personality from his Mom. He can hilariously funny and is very quick witted but just has maintained the dour demeanor throughout his life which included two marriages (no real causation there, just correlation). But recently every picture I see of him is like this:

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The girl is someone he met a while back who lives four hours from him. They have been friends for a long time but, until recently, he has claimed that it is only friendship.

She travelled to my other son's wedding with him and they continued to NYC for a few days there.  And that was the end of the friendship and the beginning of something more.  

He's going to change jobs, move back to Des Moines, and they are going to share a house.  And I expect to see more pictures of him smiling.

Merry Christmas to me.

Tiramisu Espresso Martini

Dec. 25th, 2025 05:40
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Tiramisu Espresso Martini
Total Time 6 minutes Prep Time 3 minutes Cook Time 3 minutes for 1 serving

Ingredients

1.5 oz vodka
1.5 oz chilled espresso
1 oz Irish cream
1 oz Kahlua coffee liqueur
1 oz amaretto
ice
cocoa powder, for garnish
Ladyfinger cookie, for garnish

Preparation

In a cocktail shaker, add the vodka, espresso, Irish creme, Kahlúa, amaretto, and a handful of ice.
Shake the mixture vigorously for about 15 seconds to chill and combine the ingredients.
Strain the cocktail into a chilled martini glass.
Lightly dust the surface with cocoa powder, and balance a ladyfinger on the rim.
Enjoy!

wednesday

Dec. 24th, 2025 22:03
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Eye.

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Jules and I drove down to Pittsburgh this afternoon and picked Hazel up. Hazel and I have been having a good time hanging out this evening. Laughing, talking. I got her to go through all the mosaic mirrors so she could pick out her favorite. She liked the bright pink one with black ceramic hearts. We were looking through a box of my old books and tarot cards when I took this pic. Now she's gone to bed.

Merry Christmas Eve.

I remember when I was young that they had Mary Martin playing Peter Pan on TV. My mom generated a lot of excitement about the show going to be on that night. I did love it. I believe it was Christmas Eve. I remember lying on the couch, watching the lights on the xmas tree blinking and during the commercials looking out the window at the string of colored lights under the roof edge with the snow falling. I wanted so badly to fly like Peter Pan. At some point in my childhood my dad started to fly me to bed. He'd hold me up high over his head and fly me to my mom, dip me down so I could get a kiss from her while she sat on the couch watching her evening shows (Perry Mason is the main one I remember) and then fly me to my room. I was up near the ceiling the whole way and he dipped me down to get through the doorways. I don't know how long he continued to do this but it must have been enough times to make a definite memory. Now, many times when I dream about flying I dream of flying in the same way up near the ceiling of rooms.

Randoms from today

Dec. 24th, 2025 17:46
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I have this new yarn project in my head that I can't get out of it. It's taking my DK (smaller sized) yarn and chaining it into fat yarn and then knitting or crocheting something with the fat yarn. I don't want to stop making minimonsters yet so I'm hoping that I cannot think of anything I really want made out of fat yarn so that the idea will go away.

My swim this morning was particularly good except the music was not. Turns out I am not only listening to my 6,000 mp3's but all mostly, so far, deleting them. Wtf was I thinking with some of this stuff?? Tomorrow's line up is way better.

I ordered two dinners - beef Wellington, crab cake, baked potato and ginger cookies and turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, a charcuterie selection, and two gingerbread cookies. I put the turkey dinner away for tomorrow. As well as the charcuterie. I ate the beef Wellington which was waaaaay over cooked but did actually have some flavor and the crab cake which had a lovely white sauce on top. I scooped out the baked potato and added a bunch of shit to it and put it back into now 2 twice baked potatoes. I saved the cookies. Oh and I picked up some sushi in the Bistro on the way home.

Tomorrow is a buffet which means seeing people plus the menu isn't all that appealing so I'm just going to eat what I now have which, honestly, is plenty and looks all very delicious.

The cats have been asleep in the closet all damn day. They've each come out once, checked on the food situation and then gone back to sleep there, I'm considering doing a breathing check. Oh, wait, as I type this, here they come out now.

We were supposed to have a ginormous windstorm today but apparently someone canceled it. Just as well, I like my electricity.

For many years now I have wanted my Echo, to chime every 15 minutes like a clock. There have been various work around and tricks to make it happen but none have ever worked well or consistently. i ran a program on my PC for a long time but when I retired the PC, the program went, too. Then, about the time I moved in here, I found an android app that does what I want. It gives me a Big Ben Chime every 15 minutes and bongs out the hour count. I run it off and old phone and it works great but it's never been loud enough to hear throughout the apartment.

This morning I decided to look on Amazon for a small Bluetooth speaker in hopes of getting some volume. I was just starting the search when I realized that my Echo's will all Bluetooth! I have one in the center of the house that has nice volume. I paired it with the phone and it's perfect! What the fuck too me so long to figure this out???? No matter. I'm enjoying the bongs and, with the extra volume I can also have the seconds ticking. It's a lovely sound.

Oh and in other small victories. Apple TV+ let me back in and gave me 3 free months! For some reason last year they locked my account and wouldn't unlock it. I could have called but I just said fuck it instead. I guess they got a little butthurt and changed their minds. They offered 3 free months so I tried again and bingo bango, I'm back in. Til March, then we will divorce again but this time, I'll be the plaintiff.

Time now for some more Shetland.
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Overslept my alarm until 8 AM. I don’t know how long they’re serving breakfast.

Planes are sitting in a line waiting to take off. The view from my hotel window is great entertainment.

Had a nice breakfast. Everything about this hotel is perfection. It’s going to spoil me for other hotels.

I’m tired though. I’m thinking of skipping my downtown trip and staying at the hotel. I want to take a nap. It’s nice having a day in which I can do whatever I want.

Oooh. I was looking at DoorDash trying to get the correct address for the hotel because I need to DoorDash later, and I saw a place with Shrimp Scampi. That sounds delicious!

I had problems falling asleep for my nap because my brain was whirring, but finally did. Now I'm up working on a prompt for my medical journal with ChatGPT, but I need a pad of paper to rough things out. (I'm designing printable planners to sell on etsy.) Something else to get with my DoorDash. Okay, I ordered a bunch of stuff from Walgreens for DoorDash.

Not sure what to do. I’m not hungry yet, but I need the pad of paper to work. I could do two separate DoorDashes.

The DoorDash guy found me with the stuff from Walgreens. He spoke Spanish with very little English, and I was thinking that he’s one of the people whom Trump wants to get rid of. He’s providing a service. I added hand cream to the order at the last minute because my hands are rough. My mom can’t tell me to wear my gloves, so I need to get with it.

When I was bringing the DoorDash stuff upstairs, I noticed that the “grab-and-go” place had grilled cheese on sourdough. That sounded good, so I went back down and got some. I was eating grilled cheese watching planes take off. Life is good :)

I said on Facebook that this reminded me of the time Erik and I went to O’Hare to watch the planes take off, back when you could do that. A security guy did ask us what we were doing, and we explained that we wanted to see the planes take off, and he said that he did something similar when he was young. I guess that an airport is a good place to find airplane-crazy people. (When I was a kid, I could identify all the types of commercial aircraft on sight. I can’t do that now.)

Speaking of the airport, it seems to be quieting down. (Yesterday, it was packed.) I’m hoping that my flight tomorrow won’t be full. (Yes, it is. Drat.)

I saw a guy doing ballet in the hotel lobby. You never know who (or what) you'll see at a hotel.

Ran a draft of my medical journal through ChatGPT, and it mangled part of it. I'm playing a fun game of "how to think like a computer" to modify the prompt. But I didn't expect it to come out right the first time. (Hmm, maybe I could write ChatGPT prompts as a sideline?)

It's time to check in for my flight. I put the cane together, and yes, I can sit on it, but it isn't great as a cane. I'm debating whether to ask for a wheelchair or not. I can probably walk if I can take breaks and sit down for a while. Damn knee. The Wall Street Journal's "Jetway Jesus Miracle" article has got me spooked about asking for help. I definitely am asking the doctor when I see her for physical therapy to work on the knee muscles. I'm trying to figure out how to pay for WiFi, and it looks like I have to do that on the flight itself. I thought about paying with miles, but WiFi isn't very expensive, and I want to save my miles up.

I think that I'll order food around 6 PM. Traffic at the airport is picking up. Also, this hotel seems to be where the pilots stay. Makes sense.

Wow, the food was good (Shrimp Scampi, cheese garlic bread, and cheesecake). Lots of food, and I couldn’t finish it. I’ll finish it tomorrow right before I leave the hotel (I got an extension of the checkout time until 12) so I won’t need to eat at the airport. I’ll have to remember this place (Pasta to Go) for when I come back.

I started yawning around 6 PM. I think that I’ll make it an early night. I seem to be becoming less of a night owl as I get older, although I do seem to have a peak around 5 PM.

Whoops, my card keys stopped working. The desk guy said that it was because I had back-to-back reservations. The key from the first day stopped working. He fixed it. I think that's a sign that I should go to bed soon. I'll get ready for bed and read. I want to get to breakfast really early so that I can eat my pasta later.

The dog boarding place posted a picture of the dogs at the kennel:
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They seem to be sticking together, not surprisingly, because they're friends. I want to give Bella a scritch.

Happy Christmas Eve

Dec. 24th, 2025 15:41
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It's warmer than usual here this Christmas season. 😄 It's more like early spring weather right now than winter weather.
And it's bizarre to still be able to go outside everyday and tromp around in the mud and muck.

 Looking at confused flower bulbs coming up, trees budding, and so much more Spring like behaviour out there.  

It's currently raining outside. 😄
It does not Look like it is Christmas Eve, heading into Christmas...

But, regardless of our strange weather, it's been a pretty laid back holiday season so far here. Hopefully you are having a good holiday season where you are, as well. 💕
 


sideburns for days

Dec. 24th, 2025 18:07
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Woke Up With This Song Rattling In My Brain.

Happy Wok

Dec. 24th, 2025 12:47
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Rather than worry about whether our favorite Chinese restaurant is open tomorrow (or, heaven forbid, actually call around and find out) I decided to order tonight and just put it in the refrigerator to be ready for tomorrow. Chinese food is always better the next day.

Tonight will be pork loin in white gravy, grits and whatever green stuff we have lying around.

Just the four of us. I did not get the four legs any treats so I may have to go to the store and remedy that. Poor planning.

PB this morning was OK. Nothing wrong with it but I played mediocre. I really need to get with the ball machine and/or coaching. Maybe this weekend. I'll ask on Friday if there is a time when things will be quiet enough for me to snag a court and the machine. No telling with kids out and families looking for stuff to do.

It is nearly summer around here. Lovely weather to be out and about. I think we'll end up with the AC on by tomorrow. I don't much mind.  This is what the days look like now.  The tree will dump and start regrowing all at once, I suspect.  

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We got my pension pay today and it was an extra hundred bucks, less taxes. We've been thrifty so our bank and investment accounts are getting larger and with the USAA mutual dump back to me and now this extra and, I guess, SS will go up a bit. So we're losing out to inflation (which does not, of course, actually exist) but are making it up with thrift. And in a bull market all the investments decisions are brilliant.

All in all a decent end to the year. In six months we'll be ahead of where we were before last summer's crappy dental and car spending spree.

I heard back from Nest support and then remembered a similar response from them last year.  They can't find my account.  And they won't be able to.  And this happened last year and they were never able to fix it.  I had to dispute the charge but the card was fine so I never did cancel it.  Now I no longer need the card and have set it so nothing can be charged.  I guess I'll go through the same dispute and then cancel it altogether once the balance is zero.  If I had left myself a memo on the calendar I'd have already cancelled.  The only way Google will ever find the transaction is when it fails next year, I guess.  Won't be my problem.

I just shot myself with my weekly Semaglutide dose.  I'm still losing weight looking forward to the 180's.  I'm 191 or 192 right now.  Somewhere after 180 I'll start looking seriously at the end game.  Meanwhile it is kind of nice to be losing my stomach.  And downright weird to hug Dana.  We are two different people.  



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