Wednesday

Swimming was back to normal today. The regulars were there and so was my swimming mojo. I'm listening to a book about the First Ladies since Jackie Kennedy. It's fairly interesting - enough to keep me swimming.

My new sim card arrives today. I'll be switching from T-Mobil to Google's Project Fi. Here's hoping for smooth sailing. I'm interested to see it in operation.

I did not wash dishes or clean the kitchen before I went to bed last night. And it is a mess. I need to tackle it before I do else today. Which is why I have not started doing anything else today.

The whacko woman down the hall and her decidedly unwhacko architect husband have put their condo on the market. It's one of the smaller ones but with some nice finishes. I really like how they did their kitchen. This building is divided in half. The east side units (my side) all have a full bath and a half bath. The west side units don't have the half bath but do have large walk in closets. While I love my half bath, I do lust after their closets.

I also love that their realtor snapped the pictures on the snow day and then took extras of the snow in the neighborhood. Really pretty.

I watched the Good Fight last night and know, I'd enjoy the rest of it if I didn't have to pay CBS to watch it. I'm really enjoying a new silly sit com called Superior Donuts and, of course, Imposters. I watched the pilot of Doubt and think it could go either way. But soon baseball will eclipse all of it and take over the TV most nights.

Time to get to the chores.

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Fee Fi Fo Fum

My sim card arrived and getting it going has been a little anti climatic so far. ljtourist happened to text me shortly after it was all set up so I know texting works. I used one of those 'call me' websites to ensure it's ringing the right number. My T-Mobile sim is now in my backup phone and it's still connected to the now Project Fi number which is handy. Plus, in a week and a half when I'll be without electricity (and so internet) for 6 hours, I'll have plenty of T-Mobile cell data to burn up since it's paid for a good for 3 more weeks. So far... plan is working!

I've had a not very good breathing day. A couple of times while I was swimming I thought I wasn't getting a good enough big breath on the turns. When I got home, I was coughing - the dry, can't really breathe cough. I popped a magic pill that helped but still it wasn't good. So I went to find my albuterol inhaler. It's been so long since I needed to use it, I have totally lost it. (Donated to Goodwill???) Fortunately, I had a never used one in my drug stash. With an expired date of next July so whew. That really helped. But I wasn't comfortable heading out on a walk so I didn't. I feel better this afternoon and can almost drag a deep breath without coughing.

I think I'm going to use that inhaler tomorrow before I swim and see how that feels.

I just read on Twitter that someone named Bernard Coleman was working on the Uber harassment deal. My first friend to die from AIDS was named Bernard Coleman. It was 1985 and we actually didn't even know what AIDS was yet and that he died of some kind of mystery illness at age 25. I'm pretty sure he suspected was somehow tied to his being gay. He was mostly still in the closet. It was and still is one of the saddest things I've ever experienced. He never had a chance to be an open, joyful, happy adult.

Oh. I just remembered to test the tethering with the Fi phone. Set the phone up as a hot spot. Set the laptop to the phone's network. Easy peasy 22 up and 17 down. Not too damn bad! T-Mobile is 12 up and 9 down which also is doable. So I really am covered. Nice.

Fruit of the jour.