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Update on the A/C situation?

They did not send me the credit by email today as promised, so apparently I have to bug them again on Tuesday. The A/C service & installation is closed on Monday.

After I finished with the A/C service person, and called PC Richards - who promised to send me the credit email today (they didn't - liars), so that I could contact the showroom by phone or in person to get a new A/C with the credit applied, I made lunch.

Or tried to.

See? On Friday after the Doc appointment - I got Lobster Bisque from Trader Joes. It was Gluten Free ( a rarity) and had chunks of lobster meat. I thought about not getting it - but chose to do so. It was about $4.49.

Anyhow, today, I read the instructions, and heat it up in the microwave, which is located above my stove - for about 2-3 minutes. So far, so good, right? It's bubbling and hot. I use minutes to take it out. It's wobbly.
I peel off the rest of the plastic cover, and decide to pour it into another bowl on the stove top. I've a new electric stove top that's glass with the burners below it. (Easier to clean but the oven and stove take forever to heat up or cool down, however - heat is not transferred to the apt.)

In the midst of attempting to pour this very hot container of soup, my hand shook, and the soup splashed up at me burning my hand, I jump back instinctively - and ...soup ends up all over the stove top, cascading down the front of the oven and onto the floor. The palm of my right hand is burning (it's red), as is the back of my left hand (red too). I thrust it under the faucet. Clean off the soup from the bottom front of my top and the right pants leg. Hand still burning, I hunt something to put on it. All I can find is Aloe Vera gell (which I'd gotten for sunburn). Apparently that was the right thing to do?

Took a while for the burning on my palm to clear up enough to clean the stove, the front of the oven, and the floor.

Then I checked my email, no notice from PC Richards.

I made a cesar salad and ate it for lunch. Then took off to the pharmacy to pick up the new meds and Freestyle Libre Sensor, which was ready for me.
And went grocery shopping. Showed the burned palm to the pharmacist - who advised aloe vera not neosporin. So I didn't buy the neosporin (I've plenty of aloe vera at home and had already applied it).

Note to self: Don't heat soup in the microwave do it on the stove top in a pot. Also don't transfer anything hot from a hot plastic bowl into another bowl on the stove top. Wait until it cools, and do it over a sink if possible.

While waiting for a guy to get something opened up on the medicine aisle - the guy (in his baseball cap) and I had the following conversation.

Me: Yeah they have to lock everything up, because people steal them.
Baseball Cap: Makes it more expensive for the rest of us, and hurts everyone. Drugs should be free.
Me: Yeah. Be nice.
Baseball Cap: Everything should be free including garbage removal -
Me: Well, maybe no - I mean people do need to be paid for services -
Baseball Cap: You think people should be paid to remove garbage?
Me: Well, should people be paid for playing baseball?
He got upset with me and that was the end of the conversation.
I need to learn not to argue with folks and just lie.

But it does annoy me to no end that folks are willing to pay oodles of money for entertainment or spectator sporting events but not for necessary services they take for granted, such as garbage removal, medical pills, transportation, road repair, etc. (Although my garbage removal charge is incorporated in my rent.)

Came home. Unpacked the groceries. Put more aloe vera on my palm. Took recycables and garbage down to the basement.

This that and the other thingamig

1. While on Threads this week - I discovered...that apparently someone went after and attacked David Tennant.

Who would go after David Tennant? He's a sweetheart. Be like attacking a puppy dog? Seems insane.

So...I looked it up. David Tennant vs. well UK Conservative Transphobes

Sigh.

Tennant has a non-binary child. He's an actor who has a right to his opinion. He's not a politician making policy for others. And he's advocating for the rights of his child and others. I applaud him for that.
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2. Speaking of flawed humans specifically writers with huge fan followings, and unfortunately toxic behavior patterns, I did an online survey on Whedon's shows today via the Association of Buffy Studies. It kept asking me if I associated certain actors with Whedon shows - but alas was Dollhouse, Firefly and I think Nevers heavy on the actors - because I had no clue who a lot of them were. Who is Clark Gregg? He sounds familiar?
It also asked if Whedon's behavior influenced me in regards to his fictional content?

Yes and no. Or I don't have a simple response to that, any more than I do to Rowling's fictional content - that I read prior to discovering she's a transphobic bully.
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3. Hand feels better. Aloe Vera Gel is a miracle worker. Highly recommend. Blisters are pretty much non-existent now, and the redness has gone away. Aloe Vera and cold water - nothing else. (I'm kind of lucky I had nothing else, except for five different brands of Aloe Vera Gel. I got a lot of it to make my own hand sanitizer, also for sunburn.)

Also found a chai tumeric ginger latte tea mix that you just add hot water too. Helps greatly with digestion. Along with Physillium Husk and Miralax for IBS-C.

4. Television

Found two shows to watch:

* Acolyte -Disney + which reminds me a little of Andor. Like Andor - it takes place before Star Wars. This one takes place before Phantom Menace. Only drawback is it does rest on a rather cliche plot device - the evil twin. But I adore the lead actress in the role. And she's doing a good job of playing dual roles.

I'll probably like it better than most. I like the Star Wars world, and actually love the television series and films that have zip to do with the original three films or the Skywalker/Vader Legacy. My favorites are Andor, Rogue One, and Mandalorian...I've not tried Akoshka, or Rebels. And the Clone Wars - I watched the cartoon version, not the Lucas one.

* The Bear - Hulu (or Disney +) - which is a half-hour comedy (feels more like a Dramedy since I don't laugh during it) about a chef trying to create a fancy restaurant out of his family owned restaurant in Chicago.
It's a workplace comedy/drama. I love it. Season 3 just dropped.

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Tried House of Dragon S2 - my difficulty with it is the subject matter, which is the same difficulty I have with Dune, which I outgrew about sixteen years ago? Just not in the mood for either.

5.) I'm flirting with horror. But I'm wise enough not to watch it at night before bed. I have enough difficulty sleeping as is, I do not need help. I have a love/hate relationship with horror films. Considering trying MidSommer, Hereditary, Talk to Me, and Babanook. Also, maybe, The Witch, which my brother loves and tried to show me once.

Oh, there are a few intriguing horror movies coming out...Longlegs...looks intriguing. It's kind of Silence of the Lambs meets the occult meets well puppetry?

6. The tower fan is actually keeping my apartment cool. Amazing that. I may not require a portable A/C in the living room, and just replacing the one in the bedroom will suffice. Also, I can just get another window A/C since this was PC Richards faulty A/C not the apartment or my fault.

7. Books

Saw a meme about memorable books off the top of your head. And I realized all mine were made into movies or television shows. Which means my memory is very visual? I'm sure I can think of a few memorable ones that haven't? Or have, and I've not seen the movie?

So, below is a list of books that weren't made into films or I've not seen the films, but were memorable. In other words - if it was made into a film or television show - I didn't see it, or it wasn't made into one.
( books I've found memorable off the top of my head that either weren't made into films or I didn't see the film )

At the grocery store today - a young woman had a library book. She was in front of me at the checkout line. And there was this lovely library book sitting there on the conveyor book at Met Fresh, while she put down her food from the cart.

Me: I'm trying figure out what book you've got there? I'm curious?
Young Woman (she had a blond braid, blue eyes, fresh faced with freckles, no makeup, mid-late twenties, about average weight and height): It's about two people who develop a video game.
Me: Oh cool. Is it non-fiction.
YW: No, fictional. It's really good. I'm not that far - but so far I'm really enjoying it. And I really like having a real book in my hands.

Gives me hope for the future. E-books are slowly getting on my nerves, in that I have no idea how far I truly am in them and can't scan ahead to see if it gets better or flip back to figure something out. Or look at the cover. On the other hand? It's nice to read a book privately without someone seeing what you are reading - particularly on subways. Although, I've had some interesting conversations about books I was reading on the subway. I miss the days in which everyone was reading books, magazines and the paper as opposed to cell phones. I rarely even see an e-book. Just people on phones. It's sad.

Anyhow, found the book she had. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - it was the 2022 winner of the Good Reads Choice Awards apparently.
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Kind of reminds me of Halt Catch Fire in a way.

I love books. I like books more than people. I think it's because they are easier to connect to? No rejection from a book. You can escape into their worlds. Be in another person's head. Rage. Feel. Whatever.

Everyone needs a safe space, I suppose. Mine has always been books.