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Feb. 22nd, 2019 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesToday probably came out even, in the end.
Not Quite Good Stuff:
- Microsoft. I updated from Office 2008 and it only took a password reset and two security codes sent to my phone before they'd let me spend money on their products. And Lily would not quit stomping over the keyboard, which annoyed me more than it might usually because Microsoft was annoying me too.
- Brookline Booksmith doesn't take hardcovers for resale, even though I bought them there in the first place.
- My left ankle is giving me Issues again. It gets better when it gets walked on for ten minutes, but those ten minutes suck.
- Lily needs a "kidney diet" and I'll fight to the death to keep her off Hill's prescription whatever, because their crunchies have corn in them and it would be just my luck if Snip liked them. If I can find an equivalent phosphorus/protein ratio somewhere else, somewhere else it is. I still think the vet who put together the 67-page wet food spreadsheet on catinfo.com is an anti-crunchies zealot, but hopefully the information is accurate enough.
- My phone somehow went from 30% battery to 1% in ten minutes, having gone from 85% to 30% in four hours.
- My new passport pictures are of an exhausted fat woman. I know that's what I look like, but it isn't quite what I feel like.
However, Good Stuff:
- Brookline Booksmith gave me $26.40 worth of store credit for most of a tote bag of paperbacks, which I promptly went upstairs and spent on two new paperbacks (The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, which my mother recommended to me ages ago, and The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk, which my Turkish coworker recommended to me yesterday). And I had a mere four hardcovers left over, and the Coolidge Corner library took them.
- Lily's got early kidney disease rather than Do Something About This Yesterday kidney disease, and the one lab number that was high might have been somewhat artificially high because she hadn't drunk a lot of water before the blood got drawn.
- I managed to send the send passport renewal form complete with picture, renewal fee, and old passport off in the mail today. Supposedly it will get to Philadelphia on Tuesday and I might have a new passport by the Friday after next (I think it took a week last time, but I'm assuming a backlog from the government being closed). I could have waited for another couple of months, but I have the time now, so I might as well get it now.
- I got the laundry done today. Now I don't have to think about it for another week.
- I bought myself a subscription to the NY Times crossword.
Not Quite Good Stuff:
- Microsoft. I updated from Office 2008 and it only took a password reset and two security codes sent to my phone before they'd let me spend money on their products. And Lily would not quit stomping over the keyboard, which annoyed me more than it might usually because Microsoft was annoying me too.
- Brookline Booksmith doesn't take hardcovers for resale, even though I bought them there in the first place.
- My left ankle is giving me Issues again. It gets better when it gets walked on for ten minutes, but those ten minutes suck.
- Lily needs a "kidney diet" and I'll fight to the death to keep her off Hill's prescription whatever, because their crunchies have corn in them and it would be just my luck if Snip liked them. If I can find an equivalent phosphorus/protein ratio somewhere else, somewhere else it is. I still think the vet who put together the 67-page wet food spreadsheet on catinfo.com is an anti-crunchies zealot, but hopefully the information is accurate enough.
- My phone somehow went from 30% battery to 1% in ten minutes, having gone from 85% to 30% in four hours.
- My new passport pictures are of an exhausted fat woman. I know that's what I look like, but it isn't quite what I feel like.
However, Good Stuff:
- Brookline Booksmith gave me $26.40 worth of store credit for most of a tote bag of paperbacks, which I promptly went upstairs and spent on two new paperbacks (The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, which my mother recommended to me ages ago, and The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk, which my Turkish coworker recommended to me yesterday). And I had a mere four hardcovers left over, and the Coolidge Corner library took them.
- Lily's got early kidney disease rather than Do Something About This Yesterday kidney disease, and the one lab number that was high might have been somewhat artificially high because she hadn't drunk a lot of water before the blood got drawn.
- I managed to send the send passport renewal form complete with picture, renewal fee, and old passport off in the mail today. Supposedly it will get to Philadelphia on Tuesday and I might have a new passport by the Friday after next (I think it took a week last time, but I'm assuming a backlog from the government being closed). I could have waited for another couple of months, but I have the time now, so I might as well get it now.
- I got the laundry done today. Now I don't have to think about it for another week.
- I bought myself a subscription to the NY Times crossword.
