Askye, I love that dress!

Sorry about the goo, Jessica.

What odd tech issues, Hec. Did you inadvertently enable child protection on your router?

I’m glad the Carolina coast is treating you well, Steph.

I have tomorrow off, but mostly that means I’ll be doing things that need to happen between 9 and 5 on a weekday, without burning PTO. I’m glad I can, but it’s not entirely restful.

It was weird this morning seeing this illustration show up in my Tumblr feed, when I took the photo it was based on.

Separately, can you please send some onerosity~ma my way? I need to renew my prescriptions (bp meds and a statin), so I went to my doctor’s app to click on the Renew Prescription button, but it came back and said, “You have no medications on file”.

Do I:

a. Try to navigate my doctor’s phone tree, which keeps *insisting* I can renew my prescriptions through the app, and has a difficult time taking no for an answer,

b. Go to my pharmacy and try to get them to ping my doctor for a renewal,

c. Show up at my doctor’s practice in person, and complain to the desk nurse?

I'd go with C, Tom. Phone trees make me nuts and the office might not respond to the pharmacy request.

I've been remarkably productive the last few days. Let's hope it lasts.

This morning one of my friends at the dog park pretty much talked me into not going for the knee surgery, at least yet. Jim walks many miles a day to and from the dog park, plus more walking while there. He does this mostly for his heart, and he is super thin, in a healthy way. He's somewhere in his late 60s and has had bone-on-bone in both knees since his 30s, possibly from a combination of being a boat captain and heredity. We've discussed it before, but he swears the horrific pain from when he first had knee issues was completely resolved decades ago through exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee, particularly walking. And losing any excess weight. No, the cartilage never grows back, but the surrounding muscles take on the burden. Walking on the beach in particular is helpful because it is all leg muscle work in the deep sand.

I would start with your pharmacy.

No advice, I am bad at all that, but all kinds of ~ma, Tom

The tumblr thing is wild! Wow!

I am working at Panera because it is close to the garage I am taking my car to at 11 and the library is closed for the holiday so this is a good option for free wifi. I wonder if anyone on my Zoom calls will notice...

Pharmacy sent a request to the doctor. We’ll see how this goes.

Good luck with the pharmacy/doctor. I am ever so grateful when the online systems work so I don’t have to call anyone.

Why did I have crazy stress dreams all night that I was going on a trip and hadn’t packed appropriately and was late for leaving for the airport and kept trying to go back and re-pack and make sure I had the things I needed, but kept somehow getting turned around then the realizing I needed/wanted different things (at one point I was convinced I was going on a work trip and had packed something appropriate but then my brain said I was going to a conservative Muslim country and needed to find different more covering clothing?? wtf?). I have no idea where that came from. I am not going on any trips soon.

I am however going to the heated rivalry marathon in the theater this weekend. Hoping they allow you to leave and come back so maybe I skip one or two episodes and go get dinner?? It starts at 3pm!

I don’t think you will need modest clothing for the Heated Rivalry marathon, at least. I hope you can get the meal worked out - I can’t remember how that was handled for the LOtR back in the day, I feel like we got pizza included in the ticket or something? Man, that was a long time ago now.

I’m getting new brake lights installed and really enjoying having a full hour blocked out on my work calendar. Work feels like a lot of work this week.

Movie marathons need food delivered to your seat or a concessions/bathroom break built in.

Argh, I left my phone in the Lyft! Fanfuckingtastic