Re-Cap/Re-Count of Thursday August 02, 2018

First big news, which actually has to do with today, ….. The son will officially be 17 today (will be at about 2:00 or 3:00 this afternoon, sometime around there).

Alrighty on to the Re-Capping and Re-Counting. I really need something better to use as a title for these, “Re-Cap/Re-Count” just sound so boring, robotic, and impersonal. If you have any ideas, let’s here it.

If you saw yeterday’s Re-Cap/Re-Count post, you’d see that I didn’t even get to it until very late in the evening (and even then I kept getting interrupted as I was trying to type).

My day started out with an early morning doctor’s appointment to discuss one of the meds I’ve been taking to control my non-stop coughing. Apparently the Benzonatate isn’t exactly meant for long term, regular, usage. Because of the insurance I’m on, we have to start at the beginning w/ some “approved” medications – even though they haven’t really done me any good in the past. So now I’m on Flovent as a maintenance and Pro-Air as a “rescue” (great, except my coughing attacks seem to just be ongoing, not sudden, acute, attacks. I’m still taking Montelukast (singulair) at night and 24-hour Loratadine, as well as flonase, in the morning. She also set me up w/ a referral to an allergist and a pulmonologist. Hopefully…HOPEFULLY… I can do something to get, and keep, this dang-blasted coughing under control because this is seriously for the birds (and I’m pretty sure they would’t want it either).

After said appointment, I headed down to the Starbucks near my house and got myself an Iced Caramel Coffee/Caramel Iced Coffee (not sure which is correct), and then went over to the pharmacy to pick up my new prescriptions (speaking of which I need to check on one of my hubby’s medication – *mental note to self*).

The afternoon was spent mostly running a couple errands and stopping at a couple stores. One of those was at a place called “The 99¢ Store” I went to use my EBT card and it didn’t work when I swiped the card… Apparently you now have to manually, yes I said manually, enter in the account number on that is on your card before putting in your pin…. Are you fricking kidding me?!? – #FAil. So basically if you can’t read the account number your pretty well screwed there. AssHats. I had to enter my number twice because I mistook a “7” for a “1”. By the way, that was the only place in which I ran into that problem. The other place I went the usual swiping method worked fine.

Apparently, according to the cashier, this is the new thing. I know that it’s easier on the cashiers to have the customers enter in their own numbers, but how about having “readers” that work properly so it comes up automatically rather than having to have the cashier, or customer, fumbling about trying to properly enter the correct 16(?) digit number that may not be easily legible.

Once I got home I was able to sit down and relax for the most part though there were still things that needed my attention as well as some family & personal “administrative” type stuff to be done.

So here is my Question of the Day”

Are you a fan of watermelon or not? Seeded or Seedless?

Photo of the Day:

Jackfruit

And finally…..

5, Randomly picked, blogposts (from yesterday):

• Track – #WritePhoto by Trent’s World (the blog)
• Autumn – Stanza 2 by Like Mercury Colliding
• RPD #63: Challenge by Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
• A Photo a Week Challenge: Music by Nancy Merrill Photography
• Saddle Mountain Fire (WA) by NW Fire Blog