6/30/2024

Posted on 06/30/2024 by chick
  • Thunderstorms tore through town one night last week, knocking out our electricity. With neither fan nor AC, the bedroom was hot, and sleep was nearly impossible. The next morning found me sad and grumpy, up early because I couldn’t sleep, attempting to work in the little patch of light coming through my office window, trying to be quiet because Livia was sleeping in my office (her bedroom had been WAY too hot for sleep), and having neither eaten nor had my usual morning beverage, because I couldn’t use the toaster, or the microwave, or the electric kettle, and because I didn’t want to open the refrigerator, which hadn’t run for hours. In this modern world, living without electricity is a challenge (and apparently causes run-on sentences). When the power finally came back on, at about 9:00 a.m., I was incredibly grateful.
  • I got a new work computer last week, not because I wanted one, but because the old one had worn itself out. Many of the company’s programs don’t work on the new operating system, so everything’s jury-rigged in an attempt to replicate the old functionality. I’ve been trying to sort it all out since the new laptop arrived on Thursday, and I’m sorry to report that it’s already brought me to the edge of tears several times. A lot of things just plain don’t function as they’re supposed to. And very little works like it used to, which is hard to adjust to when you’ve been doing things the same particular way for nearly 30 years. Now everything my “autopilot” knows is wrong, and it’s crippling. The work I did on Friday would have taken half as much time on my old laptop.
  • I had my annual physical not too long ago. I wore a mask while I was there, my theory being that the doctor’s office is where all the germs are. At the front desk, they asked about the mask, wondering if I knew that masks were no longer mandatory. And then a nurse asked me about it, too, wondering if I was wearing the mask because I was sick. The questions surprised me. At the doctor’s office, I would have thought masking was still normal enough to go without comment.
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