daily update, Tuesday May 26
May. 26th, 2020 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThings done today:
1. Bought groceries, which included picking up my Celexa renewal (yay storebought serotonin!) and some vegetable seeds.
2. Bought 2 cubic feet of potting soil plus a refill of my 3-in-1 fungicide/insecticide/miticide spray. While at Agway, I ran into one of my old smoke shop coworkers whom I haven't seen in years. We both apparently had the same reaction upon first seeing each other -- "I feel like I should know this person, but I cannot place them, ack!" -- but he dredged up my name first after which I was like, "Oh right! You! How have you been?" and we chatted a little before he had to go help another customer.
3. Put away the laundry that had been air-drying since yesterday.
4. Arranged phone calls with Cat and Susan, and agreed with Nick to arrange one next week since this week is when he's officially moving out of his apartment and into his new house. (Yay house!)
5. Wrote ~525 words of the Doctor Who/Magnus Archives crossover. Some are totally new, but a bunch were also me going back to rework some stuff to bring it into line with my new plot now that I've figured out the source of the problem and how Rose and Jon are going to fix it.
6. INSTALLED MY AIR CONDITIONER. [link goes to Tumblr photo]
It occurred to me, after complaining about how it requires three hands to install my AC (because my windows are evil), that possibly I could simulate one of those hands with, alternately, a pressure bar to hold up the windowpane and a chair to hold up the AC. It took a bit of finagling, and I damn near smashed my fingers while lowering the windowpane (not an inherent flaw in the process; I just grabbed the wrong spot), but I did it!
And now I am no longer at risk of melting into a gloopy puddle of hydrocarbons and water from the current heatwave. \o/
(If you're wondering about the cardboard nailed to the windowsill, that's something I jerry-rigged several years ago to tilt the AC back the tiny fraction of a inch necessary to make the drainage system actually work. Like I said, my windows are evil.)
7. Got everything set up to repair the lid of my toilet tank tomorrow. It was broken-and-badly-repaired when I moved in, and after 10+ years whatever glue the previous tenant used gave up the ghost. So I'm going to glue the loose pieces back again, and this time try to fill in the gaps with sealant for extra support.
8. Acquired my Uncle Bill's new address so I could re-send his card, which was returned to me. I'd completely forgotten he and Aunt Carol had moved. Also wrote and mailed a card to Cat's mother, who has been rather isolated due to pandemic restrictions.
9. Found yet another dead mouse in my kitchen sink cupboard. *sigh* Disposed of it in the brush pile.
And now I am going to bed, because my current plan is to get up early-ish in the morning and do some serious gardening before the weather becomes unbearable.
...
There are reasons I say you would have to pay me at least a million dollars a year to move anywhere south of Philadelphia!
1. Bought groceries, which included picking up my Celexa renewal (yay storebought serotonin!) and some vegetable seeds.
2. Bought 2 cubic feet of potting soil plus a refill of my 3-in-1 fungicide/insecticide/miticide spray. While at Agway, I ran into one of my old smoke shop coworkers whom I haven't seen in years. We both apparently had the same reaction upon first seeing each other -- "I feel like I should know this person, but I cannot place them, ack!" -- but he dredged up my name first after which I was like, "Oh right! You! How have you been?" and we chatted a little before he had to go help another customer.
3. Put away the laundry that had been air-drying since yesterday.
4. Arranged phone calls with Cat and Susan, and agreed with Nick to arrange one next week since this week is when he's officially moving out of his apartment and into his new house. (Yay house!)
5. Wrote ~525 words of the Doctor Who/Magnus Archives crossover. Some are totally new, but a bunch were also me going back to rework some stuff to bring it into line with my new plot now that I've figured out the source of the problem and how Rose and Jon are going to fix it.
6. INSTALLED MY AIR CONDITIONER. [link goes to Tumblr photo]
It occurred to me, after complaining about how it requires three hands to install my AC (because my windows are evil), that possibly I could simulate one of those hands with, alternately, a pressure bar to hold up the windowpane and a chair to hold up the AC. It took a bit of finagling, and I damn near smashed my fingers while lowering the windowpane (not an inherent flaw in the process; I just grabbed the wrong spot), but I did it!
And now I am no longer at risk of melting into a gloopy puddle of hydrocarbons and water from the current heatwave. \o/
(If you're wondering about the cardboard nailed to the windowsill, that's something I jerry-rigged several years ago to tilt the AC back the tiny fraction of a inch necessary to make the drainage system actually work. Like I said, my windows are evil.)
7. Got everything set up to repair the lid of my toilet tank tomorrow. It was broken-and-badly-repaired when I moved in, and after 10+ years whatever glue the previous tenant used gave up the ghost. So I'm going to glue the loose pieces back again, and this time try to fill in the gaps with sealant for extra support.
8. Acquired my Uncle Bill's new address so I could re-send his card, which was returned to me. I'd completely forgotten he and Aunt Carol had moved. Also wrote and mailed a card to Cat's mother, who has been rather isolated due to pandemic restrictions.
9. Found yet another dead mouse in my kitchen sink cupboard. *sigh* Disposed of it in the brush pile.
And now I am going to bed, because my current plan is to get up early-ish in the morning and do some serious gardening before the weather becomes unbearable.
...
There are reasons I say you would have to pay me at least a million dollars a year to move anywhere south of Philadelphia!
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Date: 2020-05-27 11:44 pm (UTC)The heat is supposed to break this weekend -- I hope your dog is okay until then!
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