to.done yesterday

( my 'things done' list from yesterday )

See Trying Not to Fail for why I'm doing this.

Better than yesterday, anyhow

Not a whole lot done, all things considered, but I think more work (at any rate) than yesterday. The trick of keeping track and posting a "done" list for the day seems to be working for the moment. Eventually I expect it'll get onerous. Hopefully not until after I stop needing the crutch. We'll see.

Got a call from mangoavenger around lunchtime; it was raining when I tried to go walkies, so I took the phone into my car instead. Always fun, though a little surprising, to get a phone call from her.

Interesting observation: the odd rash on my lower legs, that starts just at the top of my socks and goes up about 9 inches, came back over the last couple of days. It had been nearly gone when I got back from Seattle. Something in the carpet at work? I tried tucking my pants legs into my socks today, and it seemed to help. They're cleaning the carpets over the weekend; depending on what I'm allergic to that could be either good or bad. We'll see.

And Colleen managed to get our astronomical cell phone bill from last month chopped down by $400 -- more than half. Loud cheers. Basically they retroactively put us on a more reasonable plan. Whatever works. There are a few more adjustments to come; AT&T has a plan that lets you put your cell phone and landline on the same bill: it gives you free calls to any AT&T phone.

On the other hand, I still have at least one bill to pay tonight, and I haven't done much toward getting email working -- it's just piling up in my inbox at rahul.net. We'll see whether any of that gets done before the end of the weekend.

Colleen: two steps forward...

Colleen is still eating people food -- we went out to Red Lobster tonight as a belated anniversary dinner. We dumped the last of the bags of TPN swill yesterday. We still have to flush the PICC lines twice a day; Marty's been handling the afternoon flush on weekdays. It's pretty quick and easy, though, now that it's gotten to be routine.

There's been a little drainage from the fistula, but it's not connected to her intestine anymore, just draining what appear to be some pockets of infection. :(

She got her surgery moved up a day -- whee! Rather have an extra week, but we'll take whatever we can get.