yikes

[dragonlady7]

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had a lovely dinner in rochester, realized it’s MM’s birthday tuesday– i have known her literally half my life now, haven’t i? yes, more, by a lot (i was 15 when i met her so i knew her half my life twelve years ago, sheesh), and i cannot ever remember what day her birthday is– watched her kids play Minecraft and jump off the coffee table, did the usual things.

drove back from rochester on the thruway and about 10 miles into the journey there was a violent cloudburst. bad enough that visibility was impacted, everyone had to slow down. no big, it looked transient, and sure enough it passed over and the sky began clearing up.

and then my windshield wiper blade went flying off. i was in the left lane, there were cars all around me, there was no way for me to pull over safely. so, whee, i watched it go, helpless.

i turned off my wipers immediately, of course, because without a blade the arm will immediately scratch the glass.

and i panicked, briefly, but– i couldn’t stop, couldn’t go back, it had surely already been run over, so. nowhere to go but onward. so i kept driving.

it did not rain again, for the next 50 miles, and it turns out i did have a spare blade at home, so that’s solved. hmph.

my upset stomach has gotten better, which is good. it was better yesterday, which was also really good because for some reason the Thruway has shut down entirely every other rest stop, so it’s an average of 70-80 miles between rest rooms on the Thruway and if I’d needed to stop I’d’ve been outta luck.

And I rinsed my mouth last night and this morning with salt water and the salivary gland is instantly much improved. I’ll rinse it again and see how it is in the morning, but the swelling is almost gone, and it hurts much less.

anyway i wrote like half of this and then zonked out for a couple of hours in my own bed so I am feeling better about the world. (Your picture was not posted)