Dept, of Determination

[kaffy_r]

Welcome to the Working Week

Tomorrow I'll be working on a quick for-money story, and invoicing the last feature I did for the folks who pay very, very well. Then I'm going to try to bake some cookies, and figure out a healthy supper for Bob and me. And possibly work on my fiction. 

I'll also be reading up on some of the expected changes to Medicare in 2025. For at least as long as we'll be here in 2025, we need to get as much bang for our buck as possible. We have a video call on Tuesday with our very nice, and very good, medical insurance rep., and I want to understand as much about our potential choices as I can. Our current Medicare Part G plans have increased their monthly premium costs over 2024, and if we can, we'd like to check out some options. 

Ah, the glamorous life of senior citizens. 

Bob is in considerable neck and shoulder pain right now, as his last spine area injection has pretty much worn off. Luckily, he'll be getting a new shot on Friday. Once that takes, he'll be able to focus more on setting up our moving game plan. I'm thinking of putting together a flow chart so we can keep track of what we need to get done, and when. 

I have only the slightest idea of how to do that, but I put together something of the like to keep the plot of my second fanfic novel from going off the rails. It wasn't pretty, but it worked, so I may try that cack-handed version of a flow chart for this much more important task. 

I've been having fun watching as the number of people joining Bluesky climbed from about 17.5 million early Saturday to more than 19 million as of Sunday night. I'm also having fun wandering around my new social platform of choice. (I'll probably still hang some on Threads, but as someone said over on Xitter, he wasn't going to swap one billionaire-owned site for another billionaire-owned site. Makes sense. 

And we talked to Andy and Em last night. We told them our decision, and it broke my heart to see Andy's face during the subsequent discussion. I have a feeling that my heart will be breaking for him a lot. For a lot of other things, obviously, but he is my beloved son, and I hate hurting him. 

Fuck that man and his clowncar of fascists, neo-nazis, and would-be Gilead Commanders. I wanted to die in my home, in Chicago, in my adopted country. 

But to end on that ... nah. 

I'm still bopping to Stray Kids. I'm also checking in on a couple of other groups. KPop is fun. There. That's better. 

Comments

[muccamukk]

Love you <3

I'm sorry it's so shitty and hard right now.

[kaffy_r]

Love you right back; I am sorry that your life has been upended as well, and I wish you strength and some form of hope.

[supergee]

Good luck wherever you go.

[kaffy_r]

Thank you. It's not what we wanted to do, but we believe it's something we must do.

[thisbluespirit]

*hugs* But also well done on getting down to dealing with the difficult things. <3

[kaffy_r]

Thanks. I just got an email from my brother in Canada, asking if we really know what we're doing. I'm torn between irritation and amusement. Dearest brother mine, oh yes, we definitely know what we're doing. That's what makes it so hard. Heh.

[lokifan]

Poor you and poor Andy :( But I'm glad you're getting out. And hee at Bluesky over Twitter.

[kaffy_r]

Sorry for the belated response; my brain is working at half power, and has been doing so for the last few days. And now Bluesky is up above 22 million users. It's so much fun!

I wish with all my heart that we didn't have to leave, and Andy and Em and Harlan are part of that. Even if that man is ever deposed and this country begins the long hard journey back to reality, we won't be able to move back for many reasons.