Stuff and nonsense.
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• My eyes, MY EYES! I mentioned I washed my car weekend before last--the next day it was already covered with pollen, and it's finally gotten to me. I've started taking my Zyrtec, which I think I largely avoided last year, but even so my eyes have been watering and burning nonstop for the past couple days. I hope I'm not miserable this weekend, since I plan to be outside for a lot of it! Meeting my grandmother at a campground over near Mom's tomorrow, planning to go to the spring plant sale at Leu Gardens sometime Sunday, and then an outdoor photoshoot that evening. And probably another park or yard work or something in there somewhere as well. I may need more Visine-A too. At least I haven't gotten too runny yet, my eyes seem to get the worst of it these days.
• I feel like a bad LJ citizen lately--been posting more, and I very much appreciate your comments, but I know I've been a bit lax on commenting myself. In my defense, I didn't get on the Net at all during my California trip last week, then we had a busy weekend, and then work has been nonstop this week. Plus..
• Yesterday I spent 3 hours on the road, 2.5 of which were sitting on I-4 with Parking Lot Mode fully engaged. We had our semi-weekly meeting in Deland, and on the way there we saw a flatbed tractor-trailer had overturned, blocking lanes and with bags of mulch spilled all over the road. So we went to our meeting, then stopped for lunch as usual, and figured they surely MUST have gotten those lanes reopened by now, right? Wrong. We had chances to get off and take an alternate route, but at those points traffic was still flowing just fine, so we were optimistic. But when we did finally hit the backup, it was severe, so there we sat. Once we finally got past it and traffic opened up, we saw another truck and trailer flipped over in the opposing lanes blocking traffic that way too. A cursed bit of roadway that day!
• Flights and hotel are booked for DC! I have a rental car reserved too, but I'm leaning towards cancelling that and just using public transportation for the whole trip. Might take a little more time and be a little less convenient (or maybe not, driving and parking around DC usually sucks), but it would be a monetary savings. I took my mother-in-law's recommendation for the hotel, and it looks like a nice place. It's also right on the new Silver line of the Metro, which was supposed to be in operation by now. But it's not, and recently got pushed back to more like summer. Would have been nice if it had been up and running in time for us! That's actually one of several bummers: 1) still no word about the Washington Monument reopening; 2) cherry blossom peak bloom is now forecast for April 8-13, so we'll probably miss out on the bulk of that; 3) White House and BEP tours were denied, too short notice. I'm not too disappointed, I guess--we'll have fun at the museums and monuments anyway. The blossoms are a bummer, though--I'd be tempted to push the trip back a week if there was a good airfare option. Which there actually is, but it would mean leaving on Saturday April 5, and we have something special planned that night. So I guess we'll stick with what we have and hope for the best. Also hoping for nice weather, and currently (for what little it's worth) the extended forecast is cooperating.
• So Amazon is raising the price of Prime from $79 to $99 for a year. I think that will price me out of it--$79 was tough enough to justify, I don't think I can go to $99. It's very nice to have, don't get me wrong. I love that I can need one little thing and order it on a whim with free 2-day shipping. But clearly I'm spoiled. Before Prime, of course, we'd basically store up those little items until there were enough to qualify for free standard shipping, which takes longer but that usually doesn't matter anyway. There are calculators online where you can put in how many orders you made in the past year and it will tell you if it's worth it, but their math is based on the assumption that you would have placed as many separate orders without Prime, and would have chosen to pay for 2-day shipping every time. Neither is likely the case, though. We do use the Instant Video service occasionally, but not nearly enough for it to be a big factor. Heck, we ditched Netflix because we found ourselves only rarely using it, and Amazon's service is no Netflix. I have until my current Prime membership expires in June to think about it, but at this point we're leaning towards going without.
• Seems like there was something else, but now I can't recall anything. So I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
• My eyes, MY EYES! I mentioned I washed my car weekend before last--the next day it was already covered with pollen, and it's finally gotten to me. I've started taking my Zyrtec, which I think I largely avoided last year, but even so my eyes have been watering and burning nonstop for the past couple days. I hope I'm not miserable this weekend, since I plan to be outside for a lot of it! Meeting my grandmother at a campground over near Mom's tomorrow, planning to go to the spring plant sale at Leu Gardens sometime Sunday, and then an outdoor photoshoot that evening. And probably another park or yard work or something in there somewhere as well. I may need more Visine-A too. At least I haven't gotten too runny yet, my eyes seem to get the worst of it these days.
• I feel like a bad LJ citizen lately--been posting more, and I very much appreciate your comments, but I know I've been a bit lax on commenting myself. In my defense, I didn't get on the Net at all during my California trip last week, then we had a busy weekend, and then work has been nonstop this week. Plus..
• Yesterday I spent 3 hours on the road, 2.5 of which were sitting on I-4 with Parking Lot Mode fully engaged. We had our semi-weekly meeting in Deland, and on the way there we saw a flatbed tractor-trailer had overturned, blocking lanes and with bags of mulch spilled all over the road. So we went to our meeting, then stopped for lunch as usual, and figured they surely MUST have gotten those lanes reopened by now, right? Wrong. We had chances to get off and take an alternate route, but at those points traffic was still flowing just fine, so we were optimistic. But when we did finally hit the backup, it was severe, so there we sat. Once we finally got past it and traffic opened up, we saw another truck and trailer flipped over in the opposing lanes blocking traffic that way too. A cursed bit of roadway that day!
• Flights and hotel are booked for DC! I have a rental car reserved too, but I'm leaning towards cancelling that and just using public transportation for the whole trip. Might take a little more time and be a little less convenient (or maybe not, driving and parking around DC usually sucks), but it would be a monetary savings. I took my mother-in-law's recommendation for the hotel, and it looks like a nice place. It's also right on the new Silver line of the Metro, which was supposed to be in operation by now. But it's not, and recently got pushed back to more like summer. Would have been nice if it had been up and running in time for us! That's actually one of several bummers: 1) still no word about the Washington Monument reopening; 2) cherry blossom peak bloom is now forecast for April 8-13, so we'll probably miss out on the bulk of that; 3) White House and BEP tours were denied, too short notice. I'm not too disappointed, I guess--we'll have fun at the museums and monuments anyway. The blossoms are a bummer, though--I'd be tempted to push the trip back a week if there was a good airfare option. Which there actually is, but it would mean leaving on Saturday April 5, and we have something special planned that night. So I guess we'll stick with what we have and hope for the best. Also hoping for nice weather, and currently (for what little it's worth) the extended forecast is cooperating.
• So Amazon is raising the price of Prime from $79 to $99 for a year. I think that will price me out of it--$79 was tough enough to justify, I don't think I can go to $99. It's very nice to have, don't get me wrong. I love that I can need one little thing and order it on a whim with free 2-day shipping. But clearly I'm spoiled. Before Prime, of course, we'd basically store up those little items until there were enough to qualify for free standard shipping, which takes longer but that usually doesn't matter anyway. There are calculators online where you can put in how many orders you made in the past year and it will tell you if it's worth it, but their math is based on the assumption that you would have placed as many separate orders without Prime, and would have chosen to pay for 2-day shipping every time. Neither is likely the case, though. We do use the Instant Video service occasionally, but not nearly enough for it to be a big factor. Heck, we ditched Netflix because we found ourselves only rarely using it, and Amazon's service is no Netflix. I have until my current Prime membership expires in June to think about it, but at this point we're leaning towards going without.
• Seems like there was something else, but now I can't recall anything. So I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
