Home again and exhausted
Aug. 20th, 2024 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoTwo mornings of getting up at 0600 after driving down to the Stratosphere Sunday afternoon have kicked my ass good and hard. Having to detour into Pahrump for gas, fluids, and stationery at the Walmart didn't help, and by the time I got home I was seriously tempted to punt the blogging, unpack, and crash...but the notion of having to cope with today's blogging on top of Monday's did not appeal. So I did an abbreviated post to catch up on all the Substackery and other high-priority stuff.
Monday's trip to the VA resulted in a slight change to my prescription; apparently the astigmatism is a little worse and I'm developing cataracts, which aren't affecting my vision. Yet. Dr. Lal was happy with the progress on the wounds, and they wrapped them up good and tight. I went home by way of the Sonic where I got fluids, a chili dog, and a double cheeseburger (since both the latter were on the $1.99 menu) before heading back to the Stratosphere. My eyes were still aching from being dilated, so I went back to bed for an hour or so, after which I played a lot of Azur Lane, cashed in some of my McD's rewards points for dinner, and instead of blogging spent some time on Nationalist China in HOI4. Sun Li-Jen is so far holding out nicely in the north with his big fat square divisions, which now have artillery, engineers, and will soon have flak guns. I did attempt to hold off the Eastern Pirate Devils with diplomacy, which bought me a couple of years after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and have actually managed to lay some mines in the Yellow Sea to make the EPD Navy suffer before they sank most of my Navy. Am now researching submarines.
Since the Angels were on autopilot I played them Monday afternoon while letting missions repeat in AL. Lost two of three, with the lone win coming in Game 3 for Jim Kaat.
Today's visit to the NNSS went pretty well, though I could have saved myself the stop at Albertson's on the way since they didn't have any chicken salad and the sub I picked up will probably last me 2-3 days because it is hueg like XBox. The RWAP observation was pretty unexciting: yes, these are the metal bars they're cutting up, yes, they're going into this container (which looks like a squared-off demo dumpster with a liner), and the people that actually work for Navarro and EM seemed happy with the related paperwork, of which there was a massive quantity. We should probably make these observations mandatory for high school kids so there's no doubt in anyone's mind that we are being super careful with even the low-level radioactive waste, never mind the highly radioactive long-lasting transuranic waste. Anyhow, we were done with all that by noon, and since I was the only one who brought lunch, we all went back to the canteen, where I had a chicken bacon & cheese sandwich and a bowl of their excellent chili. Then it was off to Pahrump, as previously mentioned.
Think I'll spend the rest of the week doing as little as possible while preparing for the upcoming apartment inspection. So much trash to haul out.
Monday's trip to the VA resulted in a slight change to my prescription; apparently the astigmatism is a little worse and I'm developing cataracts, which aren't affecting my vision. Yet. Dr. Lal was happy with the progress on the wounds, and they wrapped them up good and tight. I went home by way of the Sonic where I got fluids, a chili dog, and a double cheeseburger (since both the latter were on the $1.99 menu) before heading back to the Stratosphere. My eyes were still aching from being dilated, so I went back to bed for an hour or so, after which I played a lot of Azur Lane, cashed in some of my McD's rewards points for dinner, and instead of blogging spent some time on Nationalist China in HOI4. Sun Li-Jen is so far holding out nicely in the north with his big fat square divisions, which now have artillery, engineers, and will soon have flak guns. I did attempt to hold off the Eastern Pirate Devils with diplomacy, which bought me a couple of years after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and have actually managed to lay some mines in the Yellow Sea to make the EPD Navy suffer before they sank most of my Navy. Am now researching submarines.
Since the Angels were on autopilot I played them Monday afternoon while letting missions repeat in AL. Lost two of three, with the lone win coming in Game 3 for Jim Kaat.
Today's visit to the NNSS went pretty well, though I could have saved myself the stop at Albertson's on the way since they didn't have any chicken salad and the sub I picked up will probably last me 2-3 days because it is hueg like XBox. The RWAP observation was pretty unexciting: yes, these are the metal bars they're cutting up, yes, they're going into this container (which looks like a squared-off demo dumpster with a liner), and the people that actually work for Navarro and EM seemed happy with the related paperwork, of which there was a massive quantity. We should probably make these observations mandatory for high school kids so there's no doubt in anyone's mind that we are being super careful with even the low-level radioactive waste, never mind the highly radioactive long-lasting transuranic waste. Anyhow, we were done with all that by noon, and since I was the only one who brought lunch, we all went back to the canteen, where I had a chicken bacon & cheese sandwich and a bowl of their excellent chili. Then it was off to Pahrump, as previously mentioned.
Think I'll spend the rest of the week doing as little as possible while preparing for the upcoming apartment inspection. So much trash to haul out.
