Done Since 2020-07-05

I have no idea how to summarize this week. None.

Apparently I have a 35-year-old son. How the fsck did that happen? (I know, one day at a time. That's not helpful.)

Colleen had a (video) gastroenterology appointment Wednesday. The doctor saw that she was taking magnesium supplements and said that diarrhea is a common side effect. Stopped that and it seems to be helping, although she'll have to get bloodwork done to make sure that she isn't deficient, which is why she was taking it in the first place. (OTGH I was following the dosage on the bottle, which given that it's a supplement could well be nonsensical.) Over the course of the last week or so she seems to have been getting weaker. Not sure what's up with that either, and it's worrisome.)

Fun article in the NY Times to the effect that taking over and refurbishing somebody's old electronic device was like rescuing an abandoned pet. Given that I have six refurbished laptops and netbooks within arm's reach at the moment, that's a good way of looking at it.

N suggested that I get back into therapy, for support. I suspect that "support" may be one of those psychological words like "boundaries" that I don't really understand. But I've started looking at BetterHelp.com as a possibility anyway. It seems to be purely about connecting with professional therapists, and gives you the options of text messaging, real-time chat, phone, and video. Unlike 7cups, which started out as peer counseling, with professional therapy via asynchronous (only) text messaging added as an afterthought.

But I still don't have any idea how to make good use of therapy. Or what I should expect to get out of it, let alone how to tell whether or not I'm getting it. Or how to select a therapist in the first place. BetterHelp has software that attempts to match you up with a therapist based on your needs, but I think I'd need to have a better idea of what my needs are first.

Our local filk con, Conflikt, has announced that they're going online for January 2021. Ouch! Probably prudent, though.

I am not optiimistic right now.

( Notes & links, as usual )