The migraine is gone, happily. The pain isn’t. But I’m up and at ’em, ready for work to start before long. I don’t want to lose this little video: Five stitches you need to know if you’re a beginner crocheter…
Memories and migraines
I’m having a migraine and a worse-than-usual pain day in other respects. It’s making me grumpy. Also, it doesn’t seem to be possible to post to my regular Facebook feed from here. I can post to a Facebook page, so…
One of the many ways women differ from men
I think I’m going to be sick. This link definitely requires content warnings for violence against women and sexual assault. It’s a very good essay, though, and well worth a read. What Would A Woman Do To An Unconscious Man…
What are “COVID safe” gathering precautions
The following is from a college professor, Dr. Mike Hoerger. He emails it to all of his students and has posted it on X. How are the top science programs handling high COVID-19 transmission, inclusivity, equity, and diversity in January…
Has your health insurance claim been denied?
A very long time ago, I ran a self-insured health insurance fund for a non-profit organization. I processed claims, then turned around and filed them with our stop-loss insurer. Much of my job involved making sure the stop-loss insurer paid…
Sunday evening, slowing down
Now that the whole crossposting thing is working, I plan to continue reducing my presence on Facebook. I often post things there in order to remember them, but then I can’t find them later when I want them. So it…
And another change
I am beginning to be cross with this system. Edited to add: that finally worked! Perhaps it needed to be frightened into submission.
It’s another test
For some odd reason, none of the posts I’ve written since 15 January are showing up on LiveJournal. This is a test to see if the setting I changed will fix that. Well, that first attempt didn’t work. We’ll see…
I need another plugin
JournalPress is handling crossposting blog entries to Dreamwidth and LiveJournal, so now I need a plugin to keep the comments synchronized. There’s a WordPress plugin that says it will do so, but it hasn’t been updated in 14 years. I’m…
Saturday, what a day
My day started a little later than usual. I was up late (for me, anyway) playing D&D with a new group. It was a very lively game full of fun, but we also defeated the bad construct. Once I got…