Daily Check-in

[starwatcher]

 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, August 11th, to midnight on Thursday, August 12th (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #26019 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 36

How are you doing?

I am OK.
28 (80.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
7 (20.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
12 (34.3%)

One other person.
17 (48.6%)

More than one other person.
6 (17.1%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

I visited my niece in the mountains today -- Ruidoso. On my way out of town, saw a herd of elk by the side of the road, one cow right on the verge eating tree leaves. No pics; it was raining a deluge, traffic backed up, and the pull-off was [a] on the other side of the road and [b] already full with three vehicles. But I have the memory. <g>
 

Comments

[lilysea]

Worried about a Dr's appt today

- the actual process of getting there - I've been having dizziness, will the drive make me motion sick?
will the wheelchair taxi there turn up? the taxi home?

- what the cause of my new symptoms is, what if it's serious

- how exhausted I will be when I get home

[starwatcher]

I'm so sorry to hear that. Sending sympathy -- wish I could do more -- and hope it goes smoothly.

[twistedchick]

I hope it goes well.

[harpers_child]

I hope the drive goes well for you. Fingers crossed that your dizziness is simple to solve.

[lilysea]

Thanks

It's not just dizziness

I'm also having

intermittent hand/finger tremors

intermittent arm/shoulder shuddering

[harpers_child]

Sympathies. I pinched something in the last few days and keep getting "touched a live wire" shocks down my right arm randomly. (I know what my medical fuckery is and what the duration has to be for worry.) I hope your doctor figures out what's going on quickly and that it's fixable.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Frustrated that I don't foresee being able to going to the movies and yet they are being 'offered'.

Disappointed that "just in time" was transferred from stuff inputs onto labor; oddly people have to eat etc regardless.

I really hate websites that can't skip loading pictures and thus take you away from where you're reading ; not everyone has as much bandwidth.

[starwatcher]

Similar situation here. Movies and restaurants are completely open... but my county is <50% vaxed, and cases are spiking; I don't dare do more than grab takeout.

I also hate extraneous pics. Have you tried using Firefox as a browser? It has a 'reader view' for most websites. (page-icon at the end of the URL, but not every site) When you click it, only the text part of the page loads. Some pics, if relevant to the story, but not ads or other distractions.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I do use Firefox, but I'm not savvy to optimizing my learning curve/infrastructure--I just want it easy to set the browser to do the lifting.

I don't hotlink, and I have limited time for clearing out the escalated 'game of chicken' regarding my attention.

The other part isn't so dire, but everything is ever changing and I've no patience for figuring out the odds. I'll do without such things until I can judge I'm not impeding getting this under control.

[starwatcher]

I also prefer easy. Fortunately, this bit of Firefox is.

If you look at the address line from left to right, there's some icons, the https://address, then a tiny little 'page' icon. (A rectangle border, with 3 horizontal lines in the 'box'.) Just click that to get 'reader view'. It will show only the text of whatever article you're reading -- no comments or other extraneous stuff. It's very handy, especially for reading pages with eye-bleeding colors. And when you want to get out of it, just click the 'page' icon again.

but everything is ever changing and I've no patience for figuring out the odds.

Yeah, all we can do is our best.