I know it's a long shot, anyone here do medical billing to Medicare? I'm back on my bullshit of resolving denials. please repost.

Sigh.

I loved that song. So dark. (Bluesky, home of those who were Gashlycrumb Tinies in previous lives.)

Current Gabi status: Sitting on the stairs very sleepily, patiently listening to me tell her how bummed my mother was that Gabi did not run up and squeak at her when she was here this afternoon. ("Sometimes that girl is conked out HARD, Mom. I'm sorry.")

Please give this a look to help people kidnapped by ICE and shipped to jails in Nebraska.

For the first time a Flemish company has been prosecuted and found guilty of the transit of US weapons to Saudi Arabia, to whom weapon exports are banned under Flemish law.

Listening to episode 433 of Ben Franklin's World. It's really cool and I'm grateful my brain is letting me listen and not doing its "But I don't like sounds right now!" troublemaking. benfranklinsworld.com?p=10141

I thought I was trapped under a cat, but it seems to be a big-eared ferret or a furry eel. 🤔

I haven't watched any of the Olympics yet, but I think tomorrow I might find some figure skating videos. That sounds fun. Right now, though, it's time for a nap. Current falling-asleep reading is a hoopla loan, "A Field Guide to Murder" by Michelle L. Cullen, narrated by Eric Fox and Shaina...

"Okay. I'm almost caught up. I did the 10 p.m. dry meds." "Dry meds? 🤨" "I... know what I meant." "Dry meds."

Flower fields have been spreading around Anza-Borrego. After 38 days without precipitation and 80F+ weather, these plants will welcome the rain which we will hopefully get next week (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Hadn't heard about this. Gallego saying there should be a general strike if there election interference. Not sure I expected that from him. Belle of the Ranch 3m25s youtu.be/rea6B-_arjM?...

It's okay Discord says they'll use your data to see if you can skip the age verification photos, based on things like your played games, so if you've ever played a Myst game you're safe

I listened to an episode of Ben Franklin's World about slavery in California last night. Or early this morning. It was very good, but maybe slightly too tough of a listen for me right now. I've been having dreams that are really mixed up, with some fun things, some gross things, and way too...

Alrighty, I've spent my SNAP money for the month. At least half of it on cheese. I still need coffee and tapioca starch and stuff, but I have a gift card I can use when I can physically go to Meijer. Whenever that is.

In Canada, those involve catching and riding meese! (Oh no, I've forgotten the rest of the details my Manitoba friend and I made up. 😢)

Huh! Interesting that the sports clusters aren't Chicago.

I've never been to St Louis and have nothing against it, so I find it kind of hilarious that I'm mentally telling a character to dump her fiancé because he wants to move there. "You have three days to decide? To move in just months?! To St Louis?!?! He's gotta go, dude. Sorry."

My mother replaced my store eggs that were in the old fridge with 2 dozen eggs from the neighbor boy's chickens. That's very cool! But I don't know safe handling for neighbor chicken eggs, lol.

Started to reply to someone having an "I'm worthless and want to drop out and not finish my degree" moment on reddit. It's always a sketchy business for me to respond to those things. I don't come down very strongly on the "You can do it!" side of things. I come down on the "Do you enjoy...

Tonight's letter was full of info new to me.

New Gabi nickname: Gabshepsut.

After at least of month of meaning to do it, I have finally remade my C-R box with new filters. Gabi was not a very good supervisor. It's all somewhat askew. It'll work, though. I used plenty of duct tape. What a silly pic for her to look so pretty. 😄

Coyote amongst desert dandelion/phacelia flowers Borrego Valley this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The new fridge is here. Everything went smoothly. My stomach is thrown off and some of my toes think they got hurt, but I'm going to take a nap and I think I will probably feel okay to run in a store and grab some Ghosts and other cold drinks later. The last couple days were a bit rough,

The delivery window for the new fridge is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow. I think everything's ready. Path cleared, etc. My mother felt the need to clean the old fridge, scrub things, vacuum, etc. Me, I moved a few things, bashed my left foot into my office chair, got my left hip out of place, and...

I feel a little bit better. At least, I took a nap and now I feel like I cam breathe normally again. I also have a gluten-free pizza in the oven. My mother found a fridge for like $650 at Lowes and they can deliver it on Friday. I am intensely relieved that she didn't have to spend more.

I do not currently have a vehicle to go get stuff. My mother has loaned my sister the Escape for however long because my brother-in-law hasn't got my sister's car running yet. God fucking damn it, what was my point? I just sent a check for the sump pump to the plumbers 3 months late,

Instead of getting me ice so I could store things in a cooler here, my mother loaded everything from my fridge she thought was "okay" and took it to her house. Like...

I just took blueberry-lemon ice cream out of my freezer. It was not frozen. I guess I wasn't imagining it or being broken somehow when I thought my can of Pepsi Zero wasn't cold last night. Well. I don't know where to start. I guess I'm going to sleep and order a cooler when I get up.

In about 20 minutes!

I finished "The Weight of Blood" (by Tiffany D. Jackson) yesterday. It was pretty good! I'm still confused about how the graduating class was so big, though. I borrowed several more books, but the 2 important ones are Premee Mohamed's "The Butcher of the Forest" and... #BookSky

Oof. Did a few alt text before coffee and bust my brain.

I'm gonna try to catch this NIU stream tonight. Oh, I could put a link to the program here for myself. Let's see... Harold Meltzer: Aqua Mozart: String Quartet in B-flat Major, KV 589 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10, with guest Zachary Good www.youtube.com/live/zqkwfmb...

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

This was mesmerizing! 7:48 Elam Rotem 0:00​ The voice of my beloved / קוֹל דּוֹדִי (Song of Songs 2:9-13) 4:02​ Set me as a seal upon your heart / שִׂימֵנִי כַחוֹתָם עַל לִבֶּךָ (Song of Songs 8:6-7) Recorded on 16th June 2024 at the Synagogue of Basel youtu.be/qqrmkdN68w0?...

I would really like some sort of garlicky, creamy pasta, but it's time for horrifying prom night and a nap.

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I shouldn't really play my phone games right now, 'cause my right-hand fingers are kind of angry I took them outside in the cold. But it looks like I don't actually have the patience to put on this new sparkly dark blue nail polish without making a mess. Oops.

like 98% of photos praising outfits at the Grammys have zero alt text so that’s cool

Like "chapel"?! Not like "chapelle"?! Good grief.

Desert lily on wash edge in Borrego Badlands this morning. Desert verbena/brown-eyed primrose flower on hillside in background (Photo: Sicco Rood).

An important piece on Springfield, Ohio, from @timothysnyder.bsky.social Any folks from there on Bluesky who I should follow?

Maybe for later.

Hahahaha! Omg, y'all should've seen me when I ran into that town's name while doing my Adopt A Mama Cat FB page.

It has nothing to do with my cat Momo, but I just saw a video of one of SLOKR's kittens in their forever home. The kids named the new kitty Momotaro, Momo for short. Because of a story with... a peach? Sigh. I forgot already. Anyway. I teared up. The world needs lots of Momos.

Only problem with starting the morning with an Ella Fitzgerald shuffle is that I forgot about Christmas songs and had to go for a sleigh ride.

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