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I'm going to head out to my parents' house in a little bit here, and spend a chunk of the day out there, getting their mail and sorting through things and taking care of the place. I'd intended to go to the Gardens first but I woke this morning feeling very stressed, and discarding that idea makes me less stressed - I think because it takes time pressure off the day. I'm not sure if I'll want to go to the Gardens this weekend at all, but if I do, I can do it tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I won't have so much to get done.
On the way back from my parents' house today, I need to do some shopping. I've got a list. There is not much on it - we still have plenty of any number of things - but I need a couple items, and the bland microwave meals I use for work lunches, since I plan to go into the office next week. Not sure yet if I will work full days - work is being very accommodating about 'take as much time as you need' but at the same time, I don't have a ton of stuff that must be done right at this moment, and I think being around other people and being busy may actually be a good thing right now. If I end up having to take a walk and cry a bit at some point, I can do that. I also need to get my allergy shots - I've almost gone a month, so they'd have to step me back if I let it go longer. I'd rather not do that. (One will have to step back anyway, due to a reaction last time, but not all three.) I want to go in for that because the shots are two blocks from the office, and also I like being around people for a few hours afterward just so I know I won't be alone if I have an improbably bad systemic reaction, and someone can call 911 in that case. (Odds: pretty much zero. However, it's much easier on my nerves to know that there're people around if it does happen, however unlikely. Sad, innit?)
I still owe a letter to one person that was on Dad's "please tell these people" list (the only one I couldn't reach by phone or email - I have only a physical address), and several letters to people who weren't but were in his address book and appear to be family or friends, or people who weren't on his "please tell these people" list but have sent cards, letters, etc. to him after Mom's death. It seems rude not to explain why he will never thank them.... Anyway, I am going to work up one generic message and that I can email or print as needed.
I'm not sure what to do about his former coworkers. Some already know because of who was on his notification list, but I see others there who have left the company (according to his notes) but that he still had contact info for. Often only a phone number. The people on his primary contact list, if I had a number for them, I called. I'm not sure if I should bother the people he didn't put on there - and I'm not sure how many of those conversations I want to have, either. I recognize some of the names from when I was a child, though, people he spoke of in a friendly fashion. I assume they hadn't spoken as much in recent years, after he retired and/or they moved on, yet they were still in his contacts and presumably might wish to know.
Basta is moving better this morning. Based on what the vet told me, that shouldn't be from the shot - it should take a couple days for it to hit. Huh.
Anyway, I'm off for however long I am out there. I will likely be back home in the evening and doing some of the contact letter-writing prep stuff. And then I may scan stuff. I'd like to play World of Warcraft and veg out for a time, except I've made an error - all the scanning and everything else is on the same machine that primarily runs WoW. So, I either have to get the patch onto my laptop (which I rarely play on, and which has thus not received the last major patch - aie!) or I have to shut down a BUNCH of programs I've got up on the desktop, because trust me, between GIMP (twice), five IE windows with I'm not sure how many tabs, the juploadr for Flickr, Eudora, and an OpenOffice document, that machine is not really likely to enjoy running WoW right now.
Oh well. I'll figure that out tonight. Actually, lemme see if Scott wants to do anything significant on the 'net today. If not, I can set the laptop patching while I'm out.
On the way back from my parents' house today, I need to do some shopping. I've got a list. There is not much on it - we still have plenty of any number of things - but I need a couple items, and the bland microwave meals I use for work lunches, since I plan to go into the office next week. Not sure yet if I will work full days - work is being very accommodating about 'take as much time as you need' but at the same time, I don't have a ton of stuff that must be done right at this moment, and I think being around other people and being busy may actually be a good thing right now. If I end up having to take a walk and cry a bit at some point, I can do that. I also need to get my allergy shots - I've almost gone a month, so they'd have to step me back if I let it go longer. I'd rather not do that. (One will have to step back anyway, due to a reaction last time, but not all three.) I want to go in for that because the shots are two blocks from the office, and also I like being around people for a few hours afterward just so I know I won't be alone if I have an improbably bad systemic reaction, and someone can call 911 in that case. (Odds: pretty much zero. However, it's much easier on my nerves to know that there're people around if it does happen, however unlikely. Sad, innit?)
I still owe a letter to one person that was on Dad's "please tell these people" list (the only one I couldn't reach by phone or email - I have only a physical address), and several letters to people who weren't but were in his address book and appear to be family or friends, or people who weren't on his "please tell these people" list but have sent cards, letters, etc. to him after Mom's death. It seems rude not to explain why he will never thank them.... Anyway, I am going to work up one generic message and that I can email or print as needed.
I'm not sure what to do about his former coworkers. Some already know because of who was on his notification list, but I see others there who have left the company (according to his notes) but that he still had contact info for. Often only a phone number. The people on his primary contact list, if I had a number for them, I called. I'm not sure if I should bother the people he didn't put on there - and I'm not sure how many of those conversations I want to have, either. I recognize some of the names from when I was a child, though, people he spoke of in a friendly fashion. I assume they hadn't spoken as much in recent years, after he retired and/or they moved on, yet they were still in his contacts and presumably might wish to know.
Basta is moving better this morning. Based on what the vet told me, that shouldn't be from the shot - it should take a couple days for it to hit. Huh.
Anyway, I'm off for however long I am out there. I will likely be back home in the evening and doing some of the contact letter-writing prep stuff. And then I may scan stuff. I'd like to play World of Warcraft and veg out for a time, except I've made an error - all the scanning and everything else is on the same machine that primarily runs WoW. So, I either have to get the patch onto my laptop (which I rarely play on, and which has thus not received the last major patch - aie!) or I have to shut down a BUNCH of programs I've got up on the desktop, because trust me, between GIMP (twice), five IE windows with I'm not sure how many tabs, the juploadr for Flickr, Eudora, and an OpenOffice document, that machine is not really likely to enjoy running WoW right now.
Oh well. I'll figure that out tonight. Actually, lemme see if Scott wants to do anything significant on the 'net today. If not, I can set the laptop patching while I'm out.
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Also, for the WoW, if you just copy over all the files in %\World of Warcraft to your other machine, it should work just fine; at least it did when I moved from my laptop to my desktop in August. Evidently, there are no system dependent registry files or anything, and this way you keep all your interfact settings, add-ons, etc. I haven't tried it since the 2.0 patch, tho, but I don't think they changed that part.
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