We can hope. Anyway, I have a slew of doctor's appointments coming up. I knew it was coming, but I hate that I even need to have these in the first place.
Just got done with closing on the new house and I am absolutely over the moon!! Me and the gf finally have a place of our own!!!!
Congrats. >^_^< My boss deals with real estate closings, among other things. Before they begin, the necessary funds need to be wired to his business account. I'm constantly hearing tales from him of how some lenders for some reason or other do not follow the very basic instructions, and thus the funds don't become available until he gets everything straightened out. He's had to get the closings postponed on a few occasions because of that tendency. People, sometimes...
Indeed. Fortunately, my aunt works part time in real estate and recommended all the right people. We had a lot working in our favor.
There's a couple of old apartment buildings a couple blocks away from where I live, and I walk past them regularly when I go to and from work. I was on my way home this afternoon, just walking on the other side of the street, and some guy was screaming, and I mean SCREAMING, profanities at some toy or other. Then after he was done, he changed topics at the same volume and bellowed something about it being illegal to get angry. I didn't look at him the whole time, I just kept on going. I didn't look back until I was at least a block away and the street had gone quiet, and I didn't see any sign of him then. I have no idea what was wrong with that guy. All I know is that I'm going to take an alternate route to and from work for a while.
there is a lot of hidden lore if you did into the archives a time capsule of the entropic beginnings of the fandom it's like peering into deep space to look backwards in time and observe the beginnings of the universe
So, a bit of annoyance I wanted to share. I was walking back to work after lunch. I have to go across Main Street to get there. At the intersection, there were two cars. The first one was turning left, business as usual. The driver for the one behind it decided not to wait; while the first car was still in the lane, the second drove around it on the right in order to keep going straight. If I had started to go across like I was planning to at that moment, it would've hit me. Feels to me like a lot of people in this town shouldn't have access to a vehicle. They drive like their destination's going to sprout legs, pull itself off its foundations, and wander off. No patience at all.
Going to say I'm a little bit nervous about this. I went to the local medical center yesterday for a follow-up dermatology opponent, and to boil the situation down, there was something on my nose they didn't particularly like. So they scraped off part of my nose (have to rotate bandages and apply ointment for about a week, and even then it's going to scar) and sent it off for testing. They'll let me know next week if what they saw is a sign of skin cancer or not. I hope it isn't; I consider myself fortunate enough to have dodged any real life-threatening stuff up until now, such as major physical injuries or illnesses (including COVID-19), but anything can change. And time can always run out.
An update to my previous post: the medical center got back to me on Friday, and they confirmed that I'm not in danger from skin cancer. So, yeah; I'm a bit more enthused about that.
Back when I was growing up in Michigan, there was this friend of our family who was a terrific artist. One of the paintings hanging in our house is of the home that my mom spent her childhood in. Mom was telling me earlier that whenever she looked at the painting, it was like she was standing across the street looking at her old home in person again. (The house isn't there anymore; it's just a parking lot now.) I found out today that the person who had painted it passed away last month. My parents and I viewed the memorial service over Zoom. ...I've never been good at dealing with this sort of thing. I have to go now.
