theodosia: (ckr & kid)
theodosia ([personal profile] theodosia) wrote2009-01-23 07:32 am
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Jan 22 -- I'll Sleep When I'm... Oh, Wait.

From my current Twitter stream:

  • 07:35 got the garbage out. TAKE THAT, THE MAN111!!! #
  • 07:38 Watching: Wordle - My Resume -- because how can something so dry look so fun? tinyurl.com/d3quyf #
  • 07:54 Looking at: Obama Action Figure! as you always thought he'd look vs Vader! Thanks @tzikeh! tinyurl.com/83fjrg #
  • 09:25 tinyurl.com/cp9fn4 #
  • 10:32 is packing like a mad packing thing that packs madly #
  • 10:43 is finally ready to LEAVE. See you in PA #
  • 20:32 Arrived in PA around 6:30 -- good run up. Mom is doing OK, though still needs some help. #
  • 21:27 watching Supernatural, Castro Convertible is set up and waiting for sleepytime. #
  • 22:40 I'm just this side of being too tired to sleep. Going to give it a try, though. #
  • 02:45 ...all I needed -- a touch of insomnia. Too late to take a sleeping pill, though. #


I was indeed too tired and too wired to sleep well. I'd got a prescription from my doctor for Flexeril during my visit just before taking off to PA, but couldn't stop to get it filled in my haste to get on the road, and didn't want to run around yesterday evening about it either.

The appointment went well, they wanted a urine sample, but being as the stone was teensy and passed, there's not much they can do other than see if my mineral content is off or whatnot. I still will have to have a complete physical, which is about 2 years overdue.

The drive down to PA was as excellent as they get, no slowdowns in CT, and I went over the Tappan Zee without a problem, either. This time I set the Tom Tom to go to Oakland NJ which is too far north for the George Washington Bridge to be practical even in the GPS's strange reality. Once over the Tappan Zee, I shifted the destination to Warminster and got a reasonable route via the NJ Turnpike... where there were a couple rolling slowdowns as we hit rush hour, but for the most part was swift going. So it was just about a 6 hour drive, at least if you start off in the Back Bay two blocks from the Mass Pike entrance.

Mom is doing well enough -- still way back from where she was in October, but up and moving with her oxygen on and determined to Do Stuff like make her own coffee. I'm somewhere between the usefulness of a second versus a third wheel. That's me, the Human Sidecar.