Just realized it’s been exactly 6 months since I was last in the office.
And then realized it was actually 7.
healthcare
Gotta love how the ambulance bill got here while my arm’s still healing from the IV. 😬
It turns out migraines can temporarily scramble your ability to process language. I ended up getting an emergency CT scan and MRI last week because it looked like a stroke or something.
I get the visual distortions with migraine auras, but I’d never had anything like this.
Fortunately the aphasia cleared up sometime during the night, and the next morning I was able to actually form sentences again.
Overheard: “Alexa, tell ____ I’m not talking to her!”
Overheard: “Alexa, tell ____ I’m not talking to her!”
uspol
Saw a giant (6ft?) banner on someone’s corner yard this morning:
BIDEN
ACCEPTABLE UNDER
THE CIRCUMSTANCES
And I realized…I honestly couldn’t tell which direction they were approaching it from.
Why do I still have this?
Wow, I picked a weird couple of days to spend in the hospital without a …
Wow, I picked a weird couple of days to spend in the hospital without a phone charger.
health (-/+)
I don’t recommend finishing a dungeon crawler game while the beginnings of a migraine aura are hitting, though the random blind spots did make for an…interesting variation game play.
Kid’s been doing some clay sculpting.
Saw a pickup driving with the gas pump handle and hose still attached. They were …
Saw a pickup driving with the gas pump handle and hose still attached. They were in the left turn lane, I hope prepping a U-turn to head back to the station.
Silk floss tree
Looks like a seedling left over from the previous landscaping trees, which were some form of silk floss. Pink flowers, bulging trunks with spikes, and so on. I don’t remember how long ago they tore them out, because my sense of time is totally messed up this year, but they’ve been replaced with what look like pepper trees.
Not sure if I should mark it cultivated or not, since it wasn’t planted deliberately.
Nooooooooooooo!
Do not taunt the Electrode.
A Welsh village’s broadband service went down at 7am every morning for over a year. …
A Welsh village’s broadband service went down at 7am every morning for over a year. They finally tracked it down to electrical interference from a single old TV set whose owner switched it on every morning to watch the news. The “mortified” owner agreed to stop using it immediately, and the problem hasn’t happened again.
Facebook suspends 200 indigenous and environmental activists’ accounts just before their online anti-pipeline protest, claims it was an automated mistake. Suuuuure…
Facebook suspends 200 indigenous and environmental activists’ accounts just before their online anti-pipeline protest, claims it was an automated mistake. Suuuuure…
Gee, nothing creepy about that: “Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house”
Gee, nothing creepy about that:
“Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house”
😬
Youtuber: Do not stare into these lasers at close range. Me: Don’t stare into *any* lasers…
Youtuber: Do not stare into these lasers at close range.
Me: Don’t stare into *any* lasers at close range.
Or any range.
OK, unless you’re getting Lasik.
Covid news, Africa (+)
Wow. Comparing these numbers for an *entire continent* to the numbers in the US alone is amazing: “Slightly more than 34,000 deaths have been confirmed on the continent of 1.3 billion people….Africa is doing a lot of things right the rest of the world isn’t”
Finally decided to stop postponing my dentist appointments and get it over with. They were running late so I had some time to spend outside and encountered some of their small neighbors
Finally decided to stop postponing my dentist appointments and get it over with. They were running late so I had some time to spend outside and encountered some of their small neighbors.
Western Fence Lizard (missing tail)
I was in the area because my dentist is there and I decided it was …
I was in the area because my dentist is there and I decided it was time to stop postponing the appointments. It was also my first drive on the freeway since March and my first time out of the county since March.