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Back in America
Mar. 20th, 2014 01:00 amSo we've been back from Hawaii for a week now. Life goes on.
How About that Weather? Somewhat surprisingly, it was warmer in the Bay Area when we got back than in Kauai when we left. Our return was on a shockingly balmy Monday night, then we experienced quite a warm weekend.
Games. I've now been to Wednesday night gaming twice and had people over last Thursday, so that's definitely a sign that life is going on.
Work. Work continues to. Chris and I did some terrific writing related to our Touched comic book that I was quite pleased with. I've also been continuing the work to get Skotos back into the black. It's looking like we're at least 75% of the way there, so the stress is lessened a fair amount. I'm hoping that April will bring us home, and allow me to start working a little less reactively.
In recent years, I've usually spent my evenings doing work for my own projects like Designers & Dragons or DnDClassics or board game reviews, but I've actually had a bit of a hard time getting myself to do that since our return. Laziness after a week in paradise, or just a resistance to taking on too much again? Probably some of both. However, I have projects and deadlines, so I need to get back on that horse. (This weekend: start of another article for WotC and a few histories and I really need to finish some cleanup for Designers ... and I need to do taxes soon.)
The Weekend. This weekend I got to enjoy the Bay Area some. On Saturday I unfortunately woke to a dead Skotos machine, which nixed my plans for a long bike ride to somewhere I hadn't been before. Fortunately I just had to restore a disk to get things going, and was on the road again in a couple of hours. Afterward, I visited the Emeryville Marina and enjoyed the Bay. Then on Sunday K. and I spontaneously headed out to Contra Costa County to ride the Canal trail west of Pleasant Hill. It was beautiful weather (almost 80, but cooler thanks to the breeze of riding) and overall a great trip.
Doctors. It is also a time of much doctoring. I picked up some new glasses last week and pretty quickly came to the conclusion that they weren't right. However, it's such a visceral thing that I've had problems convincing myself of that conclusion. Looking at them from another angle this evening, I think I figured out that the right lens is made wrong. Very frustrating. In any case, I have a follow-up appointment tomorrow.
And then on Friday I have a first meeting with a new doctor (a change required by my new insurance, but not awful because the administrative side of my old doctor's office, Berkeley Family Practice, has gotten really bad in recent years). I basically need to talk with the new Doc about my one prescription (for blood pressure) and also talk about my ongoing problems with headaches, throataches, and congestion. When I first complained about headaches, I got sent to an ENT and a neurologist, neither of which was much help (though the neurologist gave me a drug to mask the symptoms that I took for a few years). I'm thinking an allergist would make sense at this point, but I want to talk with the doctor (or really NP) about that.
And that has been life back in Berkeley. I've lost some of my extreme calm that I got back from Hawaii, but I've mostly been able to keep my stress down. I'm going to try to keep working on that ...
How About that Weather? Somewhat surprisingly, it was warmer in the Bay Area when we got back than in Kauai when we left. Our return was on a shockingly balmy Monday night, then we experienced quite a warm weekend.
Games. I've now been to Wednesday night gaming twice and had people over last Thursday, so that's definitely a sign that life is going on.
Work. Work continues to. Chris and I did some terrific writing related to our Touched comic book that I was quite pleased with. I've also been continuing the work to get Skotos back into the black. It's looking like we're at least 75% of the way there, so the stress is lessened a fair amount. I'm hoping that April will bring us home, and allow me to start working a little less reactively.
In recent years, I've usually spent my evenings doing work for my own projects like Designers & Dragons or DnDClassics or board game reviews, but I've actually had a bit of a hard time getting myself to do that since our return. Laziness after a week in paradise, or just a resistance to taking on too much again? Probably some of both. However, I have projects and deadlines, so I need to get back on that horse. (This weekend: start of another article for WotC and a few histories and I really need to finish some cleanup for Designers ... and I need to do taxes soon.)
The Weekend. This weekend I got to enjoy the Bay Area some. On Saturday I unfortunately woke to a dead Skotos machine, which nixed my plans for a long bike ride to somewhere I hadn't been before. Fortunately I just had to restore a disk to get things going, and was on the road again in a couple of hours. Afterward, I visited the Emeryville Marina and enjoyed the Bay. Then on Sunday K. and I spontaneously headed out to Contra Costa County to ride the Canal trail west of Pleasant Hill. It was beautiful weather (almost 80, but cooler thanks to the breeze of riding) and overall a great trip.
Doctors. It is also a time of much doctoring. I picked up some new glasses last week and pretty quickly came to the conclusion that they weren't right. However, it's such a visceral thing that I've had problems convincing myself of that conclusion. Looking at them from another angle this evening, I think I figured out that the right lens is made wrong. Very frustrating. In any case, I have a follow-up appointment tomorrow.
And then on Friday I have a first meeting with a new doctor (a change required by my new insurance, but not awful because the administrative side of my old doctor's office, Berkeley Family Practice, has gotten really bad in recent years). I basically need to talk with the new Doc about my one prescription (for blood pressure) and also talk about my ongoing problems with headaches, throataches, and congestion. When I first complained about headaches, I got sent to an ENT and a neurologist, neither of which was much help (though the neurologist gave me a drug to mask the symptoms that I took for a few years). I'm thinking an allergist would make sense at this point, but I want to talk with the doctor (or really NP) about that.
And that has been life back in Berkeley. I've lost some of my extreme calm that I got back from Hawaii, but I've mostly been able to keep my stress down. I'm going to try to keep working on that ...