Continue to self-medicate
A day like this makes me want to run along the shoreline. Of the ocean. I did get into the pool (long enough to agitate the sleeping greenies), but with a water temperature approaching that of my morning shower I didn’t stay long. This was a hot one. The dog found that neither side of the door suited his need for cooler breezes, and the infernal noise of all those fans inside must have played torture tunes on his sensitive ears.
Made a quick trip to the box stores, and came home with another small external hard drive. 2 TB, and no wall wart, all for $130 plus applicable taxes. A backup for my media collection. I used the following logic to justify my purchase: all hard drives fail. If I had to recollect 350 different titles, it would cost WAY more in time and energy, so this is cheap insurance. And it will carry well, on a holiday trip to (you guessed it) the seashore. Daytime media is irrelevant, but a rainy evening in a tent cries out for long battery life and something not yet seen.
I also decided to profit from a closing window of renewal for my various eye drop prescriptions. I’m on call for medical care, and if they don’t call, nobody else cares. At least I can continue to self-medicate, four times a day. This way, there’ll be no reason to stand in line in a pharmacy elsewhere, begging for tolerance.
Still too hot to sleep, so I’m going to find another glass of chilled liquid, and curl up in the air shadow of one of those noisy fans.
