Everything took too long
Mar. 11th, 2026 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoSo I drove down to Las Vegas on Tuesday after spending a couple of hours on a massive return, stopped at the Skye Canyon McD's for baseball and burgers (beat the Red Sox two out of three) and eventually arrived at the Stratosphere early enough to knock out some blogging before I went to bed and slept most of the way through the night.
Got up, packed up, hit the McD's on Sahara & Paradise for breakfast, and was only a couple minutes late for my wound care appointment. Dr. Lal was very happy with the progress and strongly recommended that I call the lymphedema clinic and ask for more farrowwraps, since the Velcro on all but one of mine has died. I also took the time to stop by the VSO office where a helpful gent from the state veteran service department filed my claim for unemployability, which I have a good chance of getting since I haven't had full-time work since 2018 and my rating is at 60% already. If it's approved, my rating will go to 100% with a consequent boost in the VA disability pay, maybe as much as $4k a month before the deductions I have in place for insurance.
After that, I hit the Maverik on Tropical for E15 ($4.05 with Nitro, alas), an iced coffee, muffins, a burrito, and a couple bottles of Diet Coke, and after eating the burrito and one of the muffins I went back to the Stratosphere to get my hat, which I'd forgotten since it fell behind the desk last night and I overlooked it in the morning. The Strat was short of security people, so it took a while to get someone to take me up to the room and retrieve he errant hat.
Next on the checklist was getting the oil changed in the Kia, which I did at the Jiffy Lube on Craig & Decatur near the Sonic, where I got fluids and a pretzel after the oil. One stop at the Arby's on Rancho later, I was headed home. Managed not to stop anywhere along the way and finally got home a little after 2015. Finished the huge return I've been working on for most of the week, and now I'm going to call it a night.
Got up, packed up, hit the McD's on Sahara & Paradise for breakfast, and was only a couple minutes late for my wound care appointment. Dr. Lal was very happy with the progress and strongly recommended that I call the lymphedema clinic and ask for more farrowwraps, since the Velcro on all but one of mine has died. I also took the time to stop by the VSO office where a helpful gent from the state veteran service department filed my claim for unemployability, which I have a good chance of getting since I haven't had full-time work since 2018 and my rating is at 60% already. If it's approved, my rating will go to 100% with a consequent boost in the VA disability pay, maybe as much as $4k a month before the deductions I have in place for insurance.
After that, I hit the Maverik on Tropical for E15 ($4.05 with Nitro, alas), an iced coffee, muffins, a burrito, and a couple bottles of Diet Coke, and after eating the burrito and one of the muffins I went back to the Stratosphere to get my hat, which I'd forgotten since it fell behind the desk last night and I overlooked it in the morning. The Strat was short of security people, so it took a while to get someone to take me up to the room and retrieve he errant hat.
Next on the checklist was getting the oil changed in the Kia, which I did at the Jiffy Lube on Craig & Decatur near the Sonic, where I got fluids and a pretzel after the oil. One stop at the Arby's on Rancho later, I was headed home. Managed not to stop anywhere along the way and finally got home a little after 2015. Finished the huge return I've been working on for most of the week, and now I'm going to call it a night.
