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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

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Mar. 14th, 2026 12:00 pm
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Some of my friends are coming over tomorrow so I've got peanut butter brownies in the oven right now.

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Mar. 13th, 2026 12:26 pm
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I watched Casablanca this morning, that's such a good movie! They don't make them like that anymore.
The pills they gave me don't seem to be working, I still have the same pain and I've heard muscle relaxants are supposed to work fast. I'm been taking them since yesterday afternoon, and on top of that you're not supposed to drink while you're taking them so I'm not sure what to do when St. Patrick's Day happens (other than watch Father Ted. I love Father Ted, it's hilarious!)

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Mar. 12th, 2026 03:52 pm
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I had the blood work done this morning and got some pills at the pharmacy this afternoon. I just hope it isn't like when I first got arthritis and they put me on meds and then the arthrtis came right the fuck back and the stupid doctor didn't bother telling me that was going to happen. (she KNEW the meds she gave me at the time were just supposed to temporarily relieve the symptoms but chose to allow me to think it was some sort of cure. Thank fuck I'm not going to her anymore.) It also occurred to me I may have gotten that pain from using my cane on the wrong side so I switched to see if that helps.
Two very good surprises. I got a call from L. last night and we went out and had a good time and I don't have to pay my electric bill this month because the check was late last month so I paid it over the phone and they gave me a double credit.

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Mar. 11th, 2026 12:32 pm
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I have to go get an ultrasound today and I talked to the lab guys on the phone and am getting blood work done tomorrow. I have a nasty feeling this is not going to turn out to be something minor.

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Mar. 10th, 2026 04:06 pm
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They had me take X rays at the doctor and tomorrow I have to do an ultrasound and it's one of those deals where they starve you beforehand. Ugghh. At least Uber will pick me up and take me back home afterwards. I haven't heard back about the results of the X rays yet and I'm too tired to walk to the pharmacy to get the muscle relaxants.

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Mar. 9th, 2026 03:38 pm
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Had some Assam tea. For the past few days I've had this pain in my side that's really bothering me, I made a doctor's appointment for tomorrow. I just hope whatever it is isn't something that is going to fuck up things to the degree that the business with my leg has. Walking and carrying things is just so fucking hard now. I had to do laundry, take out the garbage and go to the drugstore and pick up only a few things at the grocery and it wipes me out, and getting lots of groceries messes me up even more.

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Mar. 8th, 2026 07:06 pm
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Had an interesting and fun weekend. Two of my neighbors I like showed up to the apt bldg party, I hung out at some friends' new house Saturday and another friend of mine and I went to my favorite hero sandwich place for lunch and then went to the Japanese tea garden.

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Mar. 6th, 2026 11:40 am
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Haven't heard from L. in almost a week.
They're having another one of those deals in my bldg, might as well get some free food out of it. I notice the people in the bldg who I'm actually good friends with never go to these things. At least I am seeing some of my real friends this weekend.

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Mar. 5th, 2026 01:39 pm
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The singer and piano player I heard last night were just great!
One thing last night that was not great was the entire electronic card payment system on Bart screwed up so nobody could put more money on those cards, and for those of you reading this who are not from the bay area, all the buses and stuff use those cards, not just Bart. I called their office this morning and the people I talked to weren't even aware there was a problem, so who knows when this is gonna get fixed, in the meantime I only have 2 dollars left on my card which isn't even enough to get on the damn bus.

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Mar. 4th, 2026 01:05 pm
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Having some orange blossom tea and looking forward to several things, listening to somebody play piano tonight, seeing some friends over the weekend and another friend's awesome birthday party on the 22nd.

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Mar. 3rd, 2026 10:50 am
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Waiting for the bug guy.

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Mar. 2nd, 2026 08:49 am
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Some idiot pulled the fire alarm at about 5 this morning so I have a headache. Today I have to reestablish my credit card info with my internet and phone accounts, pay my rent, make an appointment regarding the damn rent raise and take out the garbage. It's a little too early right now to do any of that.

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Mar. 1st, 2026 03:41 pm
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Finally got my new credit card!
Had a great time with my friends at dinner last night except when I was trying to leave the restaurant and some man would not move his baby out of the way, it was a very narrow passage between two tables and I do not think he should be letting the baby block it like that.
Apparently at about 5 this morning I was dead asleep when L. texted me asking me to call before going over to their house. I called her a little after one in the afternoon and she never answered the phone so I assumed she was still asleep (I hadn't even known in advance that she was coming back today) and left a message and didn't go to her house. I have not heard back from her.
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