QOTD

[susandennis]

Change is abundant now, in every walk of life. And if you don’t embrace it, you get stuck in the mud.

This is kind of always true but was said last week by the manager of the Oakland A's baseball team - Bob Melvin. (He is one of the many failed former managers of the Mariners. I liked him then. He was also once on House Hunters.)

Baseball is deciding what's the what right now. It looks like the stupid stuff - 7 inning double headers and starting extra innings with a guy on second - are staying around for this year. The smart stuff, like universal designated hitters, is still on the table. And the fans in the stands is going to be like the 2020 playoffs - small pods of people separated by space. And, not me.

Oh well. My next decision is cable TV. Will I shell out the extra $80 a month that it costs me to watch the games on TV? Actually, maybe, not. But, maybe.

I finally heard from my CPA today. He uses a 200 year old exe that requires a Windows PC. Thankfully, I still have one. The only other thing I need it for is PDF layers. Adobe only makes that function available on Windows and Macs and it's what I use to print out sewing patterns. Everything else in my world is happy on a chromebook. Including me.

So anyway. Taxes. Today's email only tells me that the CPA is alive and still working so I don't have to track down a new one. He's done my taxes now about 15 years. I do not want to have to break in a newbie. All of my investments are with Ameriprise which does not issue tax documents until Feb 15. So now it's a wait.

I am not an outside person. Fresh air and sunshine mean bugs and sweat to me and other unpleasant discomforts. If I never had to go outside again, I'd be fine with that.

My brother posted this morning that he was going to take the dogs for a walk and due to the shit in air and on the trees and grass in Texas, he was taking 10 tissues with him. Ha. I thought. I go through 10 tissues with my first cup of coffee in the morning.

My nose has always run. It runs when I eat (doesn't have to even be hot food). Some days it runs marathons and some days sprints. I've tried all of the drowsy and non drowsy allergy medicines. I'm not trying... again... Flonase. I don't think it's working, but my data is spotty and irregularly collected. I think, maybe, my brother is on to something... I should count tissues. I can do that.

Our COVID-19 numbers here suck again. Too many positives, too many hospitalizations, too many deaths, not enough vaccine. Every Friday now, they update the numbers and tweak the rules. The updates yesterday were not good so rules are still - no indoor dining and really restricted everything else.

Yesterday, when I went to pick up my food, I saw they had reset up one one of the dining tables in a corner and a little girl - probably 10 - was using it as a school room. Kind of a picture of the times.

Ok time now for me to get on with my day which promises to be like the others. Stress free and fine.

Comments

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Every morning I give Zoe two Zyrtec and an Apoquil. Both for her allergies and it works pretty well. Her eyes run and she sneezes some but it is controlled. I roll them in a ball made up of a quarter slice of American cheese. At the same time I give Toby half a Zyrtec also in cheese and I take one Zyrtec myself. No cheese for me. This is the first thing I do every morning. And then I do my Flonase.

So we're all covered. Gotta love Texas.

A year or two ago when I visited you in Seattle I noticed that it was just as bad (today is not) with mold. Seattle does not have cedar but makes up for it somehow.

[legalmoose]

If it's after you eat, it's probably some variation of reflux. *shrug* I get the same thing, every time I eat (and frequently with my morning coffee).

[susandennis]

it's usually in the middle of eating but also the rest of the day. so annoying.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

My brother posted this morning that he was going to take the dogs for a walk and due to the shit in air and on the trees and grass in Texas, he was taking 10 tissues with him. Ha. I thought. I go through 10 tissues with my first cup of coffee in the morning.
OMG, the Texas Panhandle is a horrible place for allergies.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

I have that morning tissue thing from February to September.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

My nose is as unruly as yours, it runs all the time

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to no longer be paying the cable company for TV. I pay for some streaming subscriptions and use some subscriptions paid for by others, in trade for some of mine. My parents even let me use their FiOS sign-in to watch a few things live that I otherwise wouldn't be able to, including sports. Maybe bill_schubert would hook you up! I would, if I still had a cable account I could share.

Are there virtual machine programs for Chromebooks that would let you run Windows in a window? When I occasionally need to run something in Windows I can do so on my Mac very easily.

And, I sympathize on the allergies! I take loratadine daily but bring out the big guns -- fexofenadine -- for the worst stretches. I'd use that daily if it weren't so much more expensive!

[susandennis]

My issue is getting the Mariners games on TV. Bill has no access to those games to share.

Yes there is a very convoluted way to run windows on a chromebook but Adobe still does not let you print layers from it.