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Apr. 17th, 2020 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesGrammie's 98th birthday is tomorrow and we're trying to get most of the family on Zoom for it. This is going to be interesting, because the family ranges from "I have a landline" to "I live in Zoom, just send me a link." So far I've gotten roughly 35 emails and no link, because all of my aunts and uncles just hit Reply All about projecting Grammie's laptop through her TV. I wonder if anybody will remember to send out the link.
The grocery list is back to nearly as long as my arm, and I can't go shopping tomorrow because it will take too long and I don't want to Zoom by phone in the grocery store. I don't know why I even put flour on the list, because there ain't any. I have about four cups of flour left, which normally would be enough for what I use it for (mostly dredging meat before I stew it), but if I want to make any kind of bread, I need more flour. I do not want to make cookies, because I don't need cookies around here and my oven heat is too uneven for them to come out well anyway.
I do know why I put TP on the list. I'll need it by mid-May, so I might as well start looking now.
Amazon says my litter locker liners were delivered on Wednesday. I know they weren't delivered before 5:00 on Wednesday, and there was nothing on the porch at 3:00 or 5:30 yesterday either. So either Amazon is confused, or porch pirates got the box. We don't tend to get porch pirates in this neighborhood and the scanner and the cat food were fine last week, so I'm choosing to believe Amazon is confused. If I don't get anything today, I'll believe it was porch pirates, and I hope they were massively disappointed.
SSI thinks I'm an official Specialty Diver, with an official virtual card and everything. I think I won't bother getting the actual card for that. I'm going to wait for the Advanced Open Water card, which means something to most people. I need two more classes and ten more dives for AOW. One of the classes is going to be navigation, and the other should probably be diver stress and rescue, both of which will have to wait until we can congregate again. The navigation I had to do for the Open Water certification consisted of "put a towel over your head and walk 15 steps away from the instructor and come back, via compass course." I'd like a little more than that, because I know that if I hadn't been with a group in Bonaire, I would have had to surface to find the boat again. I don't want to have to do that.
The postdoc programs' CODA reports are about to be my problem. I think I need some lunch before I let them do that.
The grocery list is back to nearly as long as my arm, and I can't go shopping tomorrow because it will take too long and I don't want to Zoom by phone in the grocery store. I don't know why I even put flour on the list, because there ain't any. I have about four cups of flour left, which normally would be enough for what I use it for (mostly dredging meat before I stew it), but if I want to make any kind of bread, I need more flour. I do not want to make cookies, because I don't need cookies around here and my oven heat is too uneven for them to come out well anyway.
I do know why I put TP on the list. I'll need it by mid-May, so I might as well start looking now.
Amazon says my litter locker liners were delivered on Wednesday. I know they weren't delivered before 5:00 on Wednesday, and there was nothing on the porch at 3:00 or 5:30 yesterday either. So either Amazon is confused, or porch pirates got the box. We don't tend to get porch pirates in this neighborhood and the scanner and the cat food were fine last week, so I'm choosing to believe Amazon is confused. If I don't get anything today, I'll believe it was porch pirates, and I hope they were massively disappointed.
SSI thinks I'm an official Specialty Diver, with an official virtual card and everything. I think I won't bother getting the actual card for that. I'm going to wait for the Advanced Open Water card, which means something to most people. I need two more classes and ten more dives for AOW. One of the classes is going to be navigation, and the other should probably be diver stress and rescue, both of which will have to wait until we can congregate again. The navigation I had to do for the Open Water certification consisted of "put a towel over your head and walk 15 steps away from the instructor and come back, via compass course." I'd like a little more than that, because I know that if I hadn't been with a group in Bonaire, I would have had to surface to find the boat again. I don't want to have to do that.
The postdoc programs' CODA reports are about to be my problem. I think I need some lunch before I let them do that.
