Wanderlost Werido

Up early today and lots of driving to get Dog to chemo. He had a late appointment today, which still means 11 AM ¹in fracking Lynnwood. I like life less on days when I have to face the day star face-on, particularly when I feel tired. But it went well enough, and got me to a place where I could advance the plot on urgent day job bits before HA4H, which was great.

Dog is doing well. He gets a little sick after chemo but otherwise he acts like he feels better than he did in March. His spinal growth doesn’t seem to be a big factor right now, so it’s easy to imagine that he’s still got a long time, even though we’re quickly approaching the median survival time for his other cancers. I hope his decline is visible and slow enough for us to murder him in comfort.

My therapist was surprised to discover that I am not very attached to day job. They caught themselves after a minute, but I was disappointed to be unseen. I don’t feel like this is a thing I keep secret. I’m not attached to anything – that’s one of the things I hope to work on with them – and I complain about being trapped in Capitalism at every opportunity. I don’t know if it’s just another way I’m an outlier or if I somehow gave a different impression.

Did hand arts today. Among other things I bleached my hair and one eyebrow during the stream. I’m hoping Shanda will help me paint it red and purple this weekend. I had plans to modify and keep up my colored hair designs from earlier this summer, but I went to Cleveland and moved and crashed a car over most of the relevant period, so plans feel though. Now I’m back to a blank canvas, and I’ve got colors picked out, so it’s almost time to have colorful hair designs again.

We got a dog containment system to make car travel easier on Dog. It’s basically a hammock that covers the back seat and foot well, but it’s quite useful. It gives Dog a flat place to be instead of the people-shaped seats, it keeps him from nosing through between the front seats, and it lets you pull all components of dog mess out of the car in one go. Would recommend if you do car travel with a dog.

It was over 90 here today, which is hot for Seattle. Maybe 5 days a year. We did okay cranking 10k BTUs upstairs, but the first floor became difficult to tolerate as the west sun hit. It was a bad paring with the air quality, and I had to spend more time than usual dealing with outside today. I am looking forward to staying inside again until my eye irritation goes back down and the day star is filtered by water instead of ash. 9 months of overcast fog would be great right now.

Dave exploded at me a little today. Which seems good. I’m sorry you’ve been stuck alone with it for so long, under such pressure.

ZiB

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