Daily Doings at the Line of Death Bar & Grill

I had my follow up appointment with the opthalmologist today. Everything appears to be progressing well and Z'hadum (my name for the giant floater) is getting smaller and thinner as it is slowly getting absorbed. I've got another follow up scheduled in two months, by which time I hope there is a whole lot less of Z'hadum hanging around.

The problem, of course, is that as the floater gets smaller, it becomes lighter and more mobile, so it spends more time drifting across my field of view. But it's getting better and that's what counts.

We apparently got around four inches of snow, which Julie has shoveled off the driveway. The cold means that the salt that is hitting the roads is not nearly as effective as you might hope, so things are very slick around here. This was slightly important when I ran out for lunch, but got to be a whole lot more important later in the day.

Julie noticed that her computer was misbehaving again and asked if I could blow the dust out of it. Since Gretchen gifted me with a fine blower fan for just this purpose, I said I'd be happy to if she brought it upstairs, but then it decided to shut down from overheating before then.

Ok. There was some initial confusion about what fan was having the problem before Julie made it clear that the CPU's heatsink fan had given up the ghost. Oh. I had replacement case fans that I'd picked up at an earlier date, but I don't have a replacement for a CPU heatsink. If we were having good weather, I'd have just shot down to Micro Center to pick up a replacement, but I was positively not making this trip on these roads. And unfortunately, the replacement I ordered from Amazon won't be here until Tuesday, assuming that there are no weather delays.

But we have a computer in the dining room too and everything Julie wanted to be doing was on line, so we were able to get her set up on that machine and she is happily tapping away. Well, except for the fact that there's a noticeable hum when her headphones are plugged into the speakers, because she's listening at a very low volume. There's nothing trivial to be done about that, so here we are. (I checked obvious things with no luck.)

Calvin the Dog picked today to have two separate "accidents" in the house; one of each kind. This was especially annoying, because accident number two (of number two) was right after we had let him back in. *grumble*

On the better news front, the Seahawks beat the Rams. :)

It was frigid cold here today, -3 degrees when I ran out for lunch and to the pharmacy. I was the only one to leave the house today, not counting the excursions that the dogs made into the back yard and Julie's trip out to grab the trash cans and put them away.

It is supposed to be equally cold tonight, warming up slightly tomorrow. With snow.

*sigh*

I think I will find things to do around the house tomorrow.

Ruby continues to bully Calvin. This has Calvin spooked to the point where he does not want to come in when the two dogs should be coming in from the back yard. Ruby trots in. Calvin sits outside on the porch.

If the weather were better, this would not be so much of a problem. I can usually get Calvin to come in, although there have been cases where I have had to pick him up by his harness like he is a four-legged suitcase and lift him over the threshold. This is not infrequently followed by Ruby coming over to bark at him as Calvin assumes a submissive position.

The weather is *not* better. It was close to freezing today, but tomorrow night, it is supposed to get down to -12 degrees around here, then rise to a balmy -6 degrees on Friday. This makes standing there with the back door hanging open, well, suboptimal.

The dogs and I are going to have a discussion about this.

I spent some time working on the Dodeka taxes today and I am awesomely close to done. I have a few more things to compute and a bit more data to track down, but the mess is almost sorted out.

Yay, me!

I managed to do four loads of laundry today, along with filing the Illinois Sales Taxes. This was pretty much enough to take the starch out of me (no pun intended), so I crawled into bed for a two hour nap before dinner.

I foresee more sleep in my future shortly.

I have a weekend coming up (three-day!) with nothing scheduled but laundry. This improves the chances that I can catch up on some of the other things that I need to do.

We'll see how that goes. :)