ELSEWHERE

Fucked up my shoulderblade again somehow, this is one of my least favourite body parts to fuck up

Slept a lot today and still tired, so I plan on going to sleep early-ish. Tomorrow I need to follow through on calling doctor, still anxious about it. Still poking at learning javascript, I've moved from one method to a different one because the first one frustrated me by locking some content behind a paywall -- how am I supposed to learn anything if I can't access parts of the lessons? But I've been swapping back and forth between a course, and youtube or generic internet™ when my focus starts to wander. Still don't know enough to decide how I want to make Homebound

Beat the main game content of Fable last night and just started the additional content when I turned it off

Gonna go lay down in a few minutes, I think

oof ouch owie my bones

Pain kept me from sleeping much, naturally, and since I didn't sleep well I also didn't end up calling the doctor. Wrist also hurts, and my ear is bothering me, but mostly it's my back.

Also getting a migraine now.

Oz was difficult to pill again today, to the level that I'm bleeding after trying to make her take it. Lee is going to call the vet and ask if it would be okay to grind the pills up and give them to her mixed into food, but she might not eat it even if that's allowed. Maybe there's a liquid medicine she could take instead, or something. If nothing else changes I need to start picking it up from the vet myself and get her back on the first pills, I can't keep doing these new ones. Assuming of course that it's a difference in pharmacy and not manufacture, which would suck.

Bed early again, definitely, but in the meantime I'm going to go zone out.

Feeling much better already, hopefully that continues

i kiss the baby top of her head

We got permission to grind up Oz's pills, so I've been doing that for a few days and it's been working very well -- she doesn't notice the taste of it at all. I am a little worried it's not as effective, but I'll keep keeping an eye on her and at some point the vet will check her levels either way.

I called the doctor's office today, now I wait to find out whether or not the doctor will agree to write the letter. My prediction is that he'll want me to come in so he can talk to me about it in person

Still working my way through the javascript lessons, per the code I wrote to keep track of my progress:

 
But I'm pretty braindead today and can tell that I'm not really internalising the information and won't be able to remember it properly later. So I'm not doing any more of that tonight

I've started a notes file for yet another project I want to work on, I have several percolating now that are all waiting for something-or-another to be able to properly work on them, like input from other people, or a skill I need to develop first, or something I need to buy to be able to do it.

Might go read for a while, or something. Certainly need to eat something, but then just kill time until bed

COVID continues to get to me. I am so god damn tired of all of this

We're up to 3 deaths per day in the community, again. This is acceptable, I suppose, acceptable losses. They must be old or disabled and that's okay.

I was looking up Spanish Flu and the way that ended is just, the virus mutated into one that was less fatal and didn't spread as well. We didn't defeat it or anything, it just died out on its own. I'm supposing that's probably what we're going to have to wait for with COVID, too. Complete chance.

So nice to not have $200-300 siphoned off my income to go to vet bills every month

My routine right now is (roughly):
-sleep in too late
-listen to a podcast and eat "breakfast"
-hang out with Lee, eat dinner, hang out with Lee
-do a few javascript lessons
-play Cities: Skylines while listening to youtubes until bedtime
-listen to a podcast/read before going to sleep

It's not terrible! There are definitely things I could improve on, like the sleeping too much part, and I definitely need to work a few more things into my evenings. I also need to work on actually getting into bed on time. But this could absolutely be worse.

As mentioned I've been playing Cities: Skylines again -- I've started a new city to just kind of, practice running a city with. I eventually want to work on making a Snowtown again, but I want to do that when I have the skills to do it well. So I loaded up the redwoods map and named my new town Arcadia -- I'm at a population of 2800 and it's going pretty well. Finally got public transportation, just waiting for offices and high-density housing. But due to the pacing it's a good game to just kind of let run for a while every so often, so it doesn't actually take up all of my time while I'm playing it.

As for javascript, I am now 12% done with the course, and I made it also calculate about how long it'll take me to get through all the lessons at a given pace -- four lessons a day will take 2.5 months, which is my goal. I've just learned the basics about arrays and I think tomorrow I get into objects.

 
There's some house stress while we get ready for Lee to be out of commission for a while, but that also is going pretty smoothly. I worry, of course, but there's not a lot I can personally do about any of it

I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday to talk about getting that excuse from jury duty. Nervous about that, but also not a lot I can do about it. Dad called today to catch up, it's been a while since we talked. Not a lot to report there, but he might see about finding a way to see me while I'm in that part of the city for the appointment.

But speaking of going to bed on time, I'm going to go do that, and hopefully be asleep before five for once

I've been having thoughts about getting a kitten within the next couple-few years. I want to get one before Oz stops being young, so she can keep up with it and so it can learn some things from her. Oz is not great with other cats, but I actually think she'd respond well to a kitten (she gets Very interested in kitten noises from my computer, in a different way from how she reacts to adult cat noises) and it would be a chance for her to establish a friendship with it early on, which would be nice. The main complication is food -- Oz is on a medicated diet, and she has a history of food insecurity that is currently under control and that I don't want to aggravate. So keeping her food and the kitten food separate would be an issue, and I need to think of how to go about that.

But I'm also not thinking about any of this seriously until after the upcoming @Sorcyress trip/visit -- I'm taking the train up to Tahoe while they're going to be there, then we're both taking the train back to Sacramento. And that will naturally involve being away from home for a tick, so no kittens until at least after that happens, and more realistically it'll still not happen any time soon after that.