Letting you know I am good, but very sleepy. More detail tomorrow

Excellent news! Heal up.

Barkeep! A round of estradiol for my friends!

{checks weather} It's going to be a blistering 78 today in San Francisco, with clear blue skies.

I cleaned the Guinea Pig cage and replaced my shower curtain in the last two days and I'm pretty sure I deserve an EGOT for that.

In lieu of which I'm going to eat a very fancy blackberry hazelnut Danish.

The boys won their soccer game in snow flurries. We had No Kings protesters in front of the school on the way! I am off to Old Forge for their protest at 2 today. They are only doing an hour because of the cold. I'll have pictures of us all bundled up later. I love the tiny community gatherings.

Back from the protest. We had 35 show up in the chilly town center. Full sunshine though so it was very pleasant.

Thought I was gonna do a virtual one, but I missed it.Which was kind of frustrating, but virtual protest doesn't feel the same anyway, so, whatever. Made some volunteer-finding calls for Dr. Shah, but nobody in Arizona picks up so...they didn't now, either.(See, this is where I feel like a failure as a crip as well as a Resistance fighter, because , while I do push through a lot and all that--Mom and I talked the other day about how we do stuff the hard, stubborn way even if we find an easier one, because it doesn't occur to us to find one cause sometimes there isn't) but, anyway, the part of winning out because I dig deep happens SO MUCH LESS than the mythology says it ought to, even if I did have special, inspiring skills to bring to the table. I usually don't even get that far. Which is kind of like I have one job, that I'm bad at, and maybe my deodorant doesn't work either. but that's not why I hate their AI assistants.

But I haven't vomited in a couple weeks now so things are a bit better even if I don't qualify for the Highway To Heaven reboot. ETA: That is still the most benignly ableist show I've ever seen...if I were going to give a presentation about discriminating without being actively mean, I'd use it. And I watched at all the time anyway, because at least it actively featured the halt and lame(And young helen Hunt dying of Leukemia that she could probably fake-survive now) The other rep was like, Cousin Geri and Arnold Jackson's big mouthed friend.

The weather changed and I'm having more food at lunch and a little at dinner. Which also makes breakfast more appealing too.

I will literally be going to the seaside for my health! Fucking FINALLY.

I hope you get to lounge around in a cure chair for maximum Victorian languidness.

Sophia, good to see your pixels!

It's not snowing here but it is chilly. Moreso because I refuse to turn the heat on this early in the fall and so my house is a nice frigid 60 inside. I am wearing my coziest hoodie and a lap blanket.

I hope you get to lounge around in a cure chair for maximum Victorian languidness.

There are beach loungers, but that's about as close as I'll get. But I can improvise.

Since it's November, we will not be getting in the ocean, but we are packing swimsuits because the hotel we're staying in on the drive down and on the drive back home* has a hot tub.

*(It's a really easy 10-hour drive straight through, but my surgeon was like, look, you'll be less than 2 months out from surgery on your spine. Can you possibly make the drive shorter for your own good? And I do love the breakfast bar at Holiday Inn Express, so we're driving halfway, staying in Asheville, and then driving the rest of the way the next day, and reversing it on the way home.)

I don’t know that I’ve ever been to Asheville but for some reason I feel positive towards it

And I do love the breakfast bar at Holiday Inn Express

So you're a fan of do-it-yourself waffles, cereal out of bubblegum machines, wet eggs and sausages that go spurt? [link]