Silly Site o' the Day

It's Election Day in the US, and we're hoping for the best and... well, I don't even know how to prepare for the worst as one candidate is an existential threat to pretty much the entire world. So I'm keeping busy at the office, and Robin's keeping busy at home. Today we found out that our landline has been automatically forwarding calls to Optimum's online answering machine (not even our own!) for about a week, which means we've missed all incoming calls. I'm grateful we haven't heard the political spam ones, but there was at least one from my uncle I would have liked to have heard. Everything's all fixed now, and I'll be making a couple outgoing calls tomorrow to make sure everyone knows what happened. I think we're moving closer to a cell-only life, probably when I retire. In the meantime, enjoy this ballot-box stand-up comedy.

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Whew, my new credit card came in today to replace the one that had a teeny tiny (like $10) fraudulent charge on it last week. I now have it it set up on all the usual places, updated auto-pay stuff, all that jazz. It was surprisingly easy, thanks to the list I now keep of where my credit card is used for auto-pay stuff (EZ Pass and the like) and my in-house IT person. Robin and I still can't figure out how to verify one of my other cards on my iPhone or Apple Watch, but I do still carry the physical cards with me so that's not a big deal. I feel settled again, at least for now. Maybe I'll go outside tomorrow and watch the birds with Birdcast (via PZ Myers).

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Okay, it could have been too much hot sauce in yesterday's pseudo-salsa, or this morning's scrambled eggs, but my stomach and thus the rest of my body paid the price for much of the day, including the gamut of chills and sweats, so I laid low and got as many naps in as I could. I hate when I'm both hungry and not hungry at the same time. At this point I don't even care what my body fat spirit animal is...

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The right leg is starting to improve, but of course I was behind the wheel again, albeit only locally to get gas and do our shopping. Otherwise nothing to report, except different kinds of "graveyards" (via Cathy from Canada)...

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White Rabbits! With the weather still far too balmy, we took advantage to visit what will turn out to be the last stop in Riverdale Restaurant Week, a fairly famous Jewish deli that ended up with Robin cracking a tooth. Dental appointment all made, and in the meantime we'll be having a quiet weekend at home while my right leg continues to recover (fortunately neither last night's impromptu walk from the express to the local bus as well as today's walk between the bus and the deli seemed to do the leg much harm). Work was fine, but I think my file extensions are going on a folder vacation:

Via Laughing Squid.

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Happy Hallowe'en! I don't really celebrate per se any more, having grown up with a family mistakenly believing it was a Christian holiday (rather than a pagan holiday co-opted by Christians) so I never did things like trick or treating; mobility issues means I can't stand around and watch the West Village parade; and I suck at costumes. So I wore Hallowe'en earrings because I have earrings for just about any occasion, Hallowe'en socks, and an orange madras shirt because the weather was freakishly (global climate change-ly) warm, and nobody made any comments but I got lots of bad-for-me sugary candy, and even a scare. My homeward-bound bus apparently scraped another vehicle while making a turn at its first dropoff and was taken out of service. No injuries but it meant I had to walk a block up Broadway and get the local bus, for which there was fortunately almost no wait time. In fact, a bus pulled up with an Out of Service notice which quickly changed to a route number, so it was fairly empty when I boarded and quite possibly got me home sooner than the express bus would have. We don't get any trick or treaters here, and the house next door is having an outdoor party for the holiday, so for the first time in years I'll be sleeping with earplugs. Here are some scary Disney makeovers to send you to sleep...

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Thank goodness I worked from home today as a very bad car crash closed the main artery my bus uses in this neighborhood. All was cleared by dinner time, when I opted to drive the four semi-short blocks to the local fancy-shmancy place celebrating restaurant week. The food was very rich but very delicious, I've now showered, spoken with my brother about Mom in the nursing home, caught up on finances, and settled in to watch the Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series, where so far they're beating the Dodgers and hoping to force a Game 6 in LA. I think I've exhausted myself just typing all of that! Here, relax with another Randy Rainbow:

Now back to the game!

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A very productive day, in which I helped out my supervisor by beta-testing a site he helped design, and that took the last hour before I had to leave early for a primary care-suggested skin test at a local dermatologist's office. My skin is just fine, I'm finally rid of the large skin tag on my neck, and then I read my email and apparently there's a fraudulent charge on my credit card. I figured it was probably from the meal at the diner a couple days ago, so I was not in the mood to celebrate Riverdale Restaurant Week tonight with that hanging over me. The charge has now been reported and a new card is on its way, but I'm prepared with the list of places where I have to update it as well as an alternate payment plan for any other restaurants we visit this week (my Capital One card that I just remembered I used during the last restaurant week, and which I need to maintain or it'll go inactive). And lo and behold, it appears the Yankees look like they might win tonight's game, which means one more game at Yankee Stadium tomorrow! Say, I haven't posted any Randy Rainbow in awhile, have I?

Enjoy!

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Today's Riverdale Restaurant Week pick was a bit closer to home, as Robin needed to ship something via UPS and I thought it best to drive a few blocks so he didn't have to carry it to the shipment place, and eat at our local steakhouse while we were there. Of course, since it was lunch hour I was naturally interrupted by work texts from one of my partners who has a knack of texting me during lunch hour pretty much daily, but nothing I couldn't handle once I returned. So far the leg is recovering but way too slowly, and I don't look forward to my medical appointment tomorrow as walking there from the office will be a lot of wear and tear on my body. And I'm giving up on the Yankees once again and going to bed. Ah well, it's been a good season. But now it's time for Hallowe'en:

Via Laughing Squid.

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Still tired from yesterday, I decided to participate in Riverdale Restaurant Week for dinner instead of lunch and give my right leg a bit of a break. Also, the Liverpool game was on during lunch hour so that was incentive to stay in even though they drew. We went down to the South Riverdale area where we used to live to try the diner we occasionally frequented, now under new management with a new name and decor, and I had a very palatable dish of chicken kebobs (preceded by matzoh ball soup), so no complaints so far. Tomorrow we stick closer to home. For now, it's time for bed before the lazy dog ghosts get me.