So there’s this, and this, and this …

[aadler]

Ever since Susan left for her three years in California, I’ve been seeing a counselor at the local vet center. With the hours on my new job trending all over the place, our recent meeting schedule has been a lot more haphazard. I can’t always remember which things happened when since our last appointment (as in, is this something new, or was it covered already?), and I started keeping a list of what was going on and emailing it to her (the counselor) in advance so I wouldn’t have to call it up on the spot.

Later, it occurred to me that the same list might make a decent conversation helper during those times when Susan and I do our weekly Skype get-together.

And, most recently of all, I realized that it could also serve for occasional LJ posts.

So this is what happened today:

I wore blue jeans to work. (This actually is an event. My last job didn’t allow jeans, so I spent three-plus years getting used to khaki and nothing else.)

I got a desktop stand to raise my monitors at work to something closer to eye-level. My distance vision is fair, my close vision good enough, but mid-range was a problem. The stand not only lifts the monitors, there’s space under it for a keyboard, so I can get them closer. That’s going to help a lot.

Susan already bought her plane tickets for the trip to Shenzhen for Chinese New Year. I spoke to the folks at work about taking some of the same time off (only some; Susan got a full three weeks off work, but I can’t ask for more than two even if it’s three months from now). I was told the time would be approved when I showed them my tickets. It’ll be another paycheck or two before I can afford that, but it’s nice to know there’s no problem.

I’d been receiving frequent official postcards notifying me of a recall for a component of the ‘new’ car I bought last year. I finally called about that. They’ll do a free replacement next week … and it covers not only the air-bag problem that was the main subject of the notices, but also irregularities in the electronic control module that — I hadn’t known — contributed to issues I’ve been having with warning lights and lurching shifts of the transmission. Saying it again (my favorite part): it’s free.

I got home, said a Rosary, ran on the treadmill till I couldn’t run any more. That didn’t take long, but if I do it every day, it’ll gradually have an effect.

In other news (this wasn’t today, but earlier this month), my Irish son-in-law has a new job, and he and sroni have moved to Cork.

So let’s see how this day-to-day thing keeps going.

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[aadler]

Turns out to be pretty convenient, all right.