Hurray! I'm in SHIP MODE!

[annathepiper]

The last few days in review...


+/-0: Gah. I have to work this weekend, possibly both days. I needed to work extra anyway, due to having to take yesterday off because of thermonuclear levels of stress (i.e., enough to make me exhausted and ill and not fit to be in a work situation lest I rip somebody's head off), but it turns out we're going into ship mode anyway. So I should be able to make up the missed time and get extra besides. The only questions will be whether I'm going to have any brainpower left over for writing, and whether I will be remotely fit to be social for poker at wrog's and emmacrew's house tomorrow night.

+/-0.5: I was going to work late tonight too, anyway, to offset getting in late on Tuesday morning because of my dental appointment. Gah. It's been quite a week.



-1: So somebody had an extra heaping helping of Asshole Flakes on his cereal this morning. I didn't actually see what happened, but on the 545 (for those of you reading along at home, that's the second of the two busses I take in the morning), I heard this guy suddenly and loudly call a woman a 'bitch' and start accusing her of shoving him and bumping into him. I caught him saying something snide to her about how she wasn't in her living room. A couple of other passengers tried to calm him down, but it didn't seem to accomplish anything except to make him subside into a sullen silence. When I got off the bus, I saw the woman talking to the driver and tensely lodging a complaint. I don't know what happens when almost-fights break out on a bus, or what your responsibilities are as a bus driver if a couple of your passengers start having a conflict, but it can't be pleasant to have to deal with that.



-2: This morning's weather was absolutely craptastic, rainy and windy and chilly. About the only weather I really don't like walking in; it requires me to actually bother to bring an umbrella with me, since wind + rain means I can't do the usual Seattle-area-resident trick of ignoring the rain. And since I've stopped carrying a backpack with me on most days, it's an extra thing I have to remember I have with me, which means I run the risk of losing it unless I make the effort to remember where I put it down.



+3: So I got this medical bill earlier this week, and it really rather fruck me out because it was for the biopsy I had done back on 6/23. And it was for SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. Given that Dara and I are already antsy about our financial situation right now as well as the current state of our health insurance, such a bill was about the last thing I want to see arriving in the mail right now, and that's even past rejection letters. Plus, the last time we had to argue about medical bills was with the University of Washington Medical Center, which was a major pain in the ass.

However, this wound up working out all right. It turned out that as of when I had the biopsy done, we hadn't been on our current insurance (MSA) long enough, so they had a pending "pre-existing coverage" investigation going on, so they turned down that claim till that got resolved. Apparently all they needed was for solarbird and me to fax them proof of prior coverage, which Dara did. This let them go ahead and re-process the claim, and both they and Swedish Medical Center said they didn't need anything further from me. All three of the folks I spoke to were polite, clueful, and on the ball. Which was a major relief.



+4: As Dara has posted in the past, we were having an issue with our ISP having some sort of weird checksum thing going on which was interfering with our ability to do downloads of any size. And it wasn't just us, either; it was also affecting kathrynt and llachglin over at the Burning Hand. Apparently, though, this has now been fixed, because we're suddenly able to do larger downloads without a hitch now. Yay!



+5: Dara and I met up with the aforementioned Kathryn at Third Place Books yesterday, just for the sake of getting out of the house and having a bit of cake and hot cocoa and chatting with the fabulous Q. I'm glad I did... I needed the walk. And when I'm stressed, being able to look at the lake is soothing. We had a great conversation all about movies, and why The DaVinci Code is just NOT a good book, and why the folks who made Lord of the Rings have apparently had the most amazing experience in movie-making in some time. Dara and I really need to watch the extended Return of the King as soon as possible, though I'm not sure if we'll be able to this weekend due to the aforementioned overtime.

And we haven't watched ANY of the extras yet. We keep buying special-edition DVDs and not watching the extras; go fig. It apparently requires shirtless, wet Russell Crowe to get me to look at the extras as soon as I get a DVD set (see: Master and Commander).

Comments

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

If you don't watch any other extras from RotK EE, do watch the documentary about Cameron Duncan and how he was the inspiration for the song "Into the West" which is located on the 4th disc. The whole thing is emotional.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

but do that with tissues handy.

[annathepiper]

See the comment I left for wildshadowstar. :)

[annathepiper]

Thanks for the warning! Yeah, I heard about this briefly. But I will definitely watch all of the extras at some point on all three movies; it'll just take me a while, is all. ;)