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Mar. 3rd, 2020 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWorking my way through The Outer Worlds. Debating writing stuff up; I've mostly been playing it as the last thing I do before bed, which isn't conducive to taking notes. Last night's round of the adorable asexual homoromantic engineer and her attempts at figuring out how to navigate the waters of engineer romance was pretty fun, though. And the first time I've seen the opportunity to have an RPG character say 'it's okay, I'm not into physical stuff either', too.
Did my voting at today's primary. The big one, a couple of local government positions, and 'town committee! vote for no more than 35 people!', which is weird no matter how long I live in this part of Massachusetts.
Mom is after me to go back to the doctor to have my cough checked out for a possible secondary infection after the virus in December and the flu the other week. I am starting to get tempted to call the WTC responder registry people, ask for my medical records from them for the past however many years, and then just drop them in her lap. My coughs are going to last for months and respond to changes in temperature and/or changes in exercise status no matter what I do, Mom. This isn't something a medication is going to fix, unless that medication is a combo of Atrovent, Claritin, and some high end cough suppressant. And I'm not taking high end cough suppressant unless I absolutely have to, because I would like to be able to fly, thank you. As long as I'm not having coughing fits I can't control I'm not going to take more medication than is strictly necessary. Regardless, this isn't a pathogen. I'm not having symptoms other than post-nasal drip and cough cough cough. This is just how my stupid stupid respiratory tract is. I've had fiberoptic hose things shoved up my nose twice now, and two different doctors have confirmed it's an unpleasant place in there by default. Quit assuming there's something that can cure this.
Meanwhile, working on getting setups together that'll allow people from my company's main trading floor to work for home for two weeks at a time. Turns out they make reasonably decent PCs in chassis sizes smaller than my office telephone, if you don't mind having an antenna sticking out the back making them easy to confuse with a router. The big issue is that the traders all have two or three 24-inch monitors on their desks here, so using Gotomypc to switch between remote windows is kinda awkward; we're going to have to set them up with company-owned monitors so that their Gotomypc sessions can have two screens each. Might set them up with webcams and headsets, too, but we'll have to see whether video calls are in the cards.
Did my voting at today's primary. The big one, a couple of local government positions, and 'town committee! vote for no more than 35 people!', which is weird no matter how long I live in this part of Massachusetts.
Mom is after me to go back to the doctor to have my cough checked out for a possible secondary infection after the virus in December and the flu the other week. I am starting to get tempted to call the WTC responder registry people, ask for my medical records from them for the past however many years, and then just drop them in her lap. My coughs are going to last for months and respond to changes in temperature and/or changes in exercise status no matter what I do, Mom. This isn't something a medication is going to fix, unless that medication is a combo of Atrovent, Claritin, and some high end cough suppressant. And I'm not taking high end cough suppressant unless I absolutely have to, because I would like to be able to fly, thank you. As long as I'm not having coughing fits I can't control I'm not going to take more medication than is strictly necessary. Regardless, this isn't a pathogen. I'm not having symptoms other than post-nasal drip and cough cough cough. This is just how my stupid stupid respiratory tract is. I've had fiberoptic hose things shoved up my nose twice now, and two different doctors have confirmed it's an unpleasant place in there by default. Quit assuming there's something that can cure this.
Meanwhile, working on getting setups together that'll allow people from my company's main trading floor to work for home for two weeks at a time. Turns out they make reasonably decent PCs in chassis sizes smaller than my office telephone, if you don't mind having an antenna sticking out the back making them easy to confuse with a router. The big issue is that the traders all have two or three 24-inch monitors on their desks here, so using Gotomypc to switch between remote windows is kinda awkward; we're going to have to set them up with company-owned monitors so that their Gotomypc sessions can have two screens each. Might set them up with webcams and headsets, too, but we'll have to see whether video calls are in the cards.
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Date: 2020-03-04 03:44 am (UTC)