monday chicken

[kellan_the_tabby]

Roommate-who-drives has a bit of a fever & feels yucky. They got tested today & have off for the next couple days until they know. SLIGHTLY TERRIFYING.

On the up side, they haven't been home for a couple months, so Other Roommate & I aren't in any more danger than we were anyway? On the down side, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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On the way back from walking to check the mail day before yesterday I checked out another abandoned house. It's had a hole in the roof for at least two months, so I feel pretty good about saying it's definitely abandoned, but it's still in pretty good shape? Everything's locked, though, & that's a step beyond 'walk in the door that's been sitting open' so I haven't gone in. Might do a bit of research, see if I can find the owners, & see if they want anything for it, though.

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I've been working on Tyrava again, on & off, & apart from EXTREME SHENANIGANS getting anything from Home Despot it's been going well. I want to finish all the projects -- doors, the roof, some of the windows -- that I can't move her in the middle of, in case of nearby wildfire. I mean I'd drive her anyway, even with a door entirely not attached, but it'd suck a LOT less if I didn't have to.

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The cats are ... the cats. Loiosh seems to be resigned to staying home for the immediate future. I've decided I'm gonna load them all up in the van once a week & head out to the woods for a couple hours, so they can run around some. That'll also be my 'making phone calls' time, along with Friday errandsrunning.

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My phone camera has died the death. Well, it still takes pictures, but the focus doesn't change, so they're only sharp when you're at the exact right angle. Fortunately my old phone still exists & works, & while it doesn't take great pictures, it takes pictures, so I'm gonna keep using that for a while. This is really not the time to chuck a lot of money at a new phone if I don't hafta.

That said, I've put together the components of a solar power system for Tyrava, & I'm just waiting until I have the guts to do it before I put in the money. That feels like a 'keep myself safe' thing in the same way that working on getting her road-worthy again does -- it's a self-sufficiency thing. Gotta do my deep breathing, but I can't think of a better use for my stimulus money.

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I took some advice I saw on Tumblr about writing -- 'if you're really stuck, shitpost until it turns into prose' -- & banged out 900 words of more-or-less smartassed outline for a story I've been stuck on for. Months. Up side? 900 words! Down side? Fingers really hurt. For three days now. Probably I need to finish this post up pretty soon, because: ow. But I need to figure out a way to type that doesn't suck.

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Hanging in there, more or less. Half a thing at a time.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Umm... I know someone who is currently homeless, kinda...[staying with two friends and a problematic room-mate] If said house is truly abandoned and available, maybe something could be worked out? She's currently trying to decide between a ratty apartment, or campershell on the back of a truck.

I could introduce you two, maybe?

[kellan_the_tabby]

I'm in New Mexico, between Grant & Gallup, about ten miles off I-40. I would happily show her where it is & assist as possible with getting her settled in.

Fair warning: we're 40 miles from anything resembling a job, unless she works online. The internet connection here isn't great, & chances are very good that she'll have no cell signal, either ... though I haven't checked at the house, it's entirely possible. It gets hot over the summer, although not as bad as Albuquerque or (gods forbid) Phoenix.

Up side: Not a lot of people around, so little chance of getting the plague except for going into town. I know the local Handyman Guy, who's very talented at fixing things with what's to hand, including random stuff he just found in the back yard. Getting Medicaid in New Mexico is pretty easy. & mostly people around here are pretty okay.

Yes, do get me in touch with her, I will happily give her a hand if she decides this is a viable thing!

[siliconshaman]

Ok, sent her an email with a link to here, you two can chat and work out if it's do-able. I don't precisely know her location... she has personal reasons to keep that off the web.

[azurelunatic]

Eep, hope they get well quickly and with no complications, whether it's this, that, or the other.

[kellan_the_tabby]

ME TOO AUGH

[roselightfairy]

Is it already Monday again? what is time anymore.

That's scary about the roommate - it's just . . . always scary when it comes close, whatever "close" means. But it does feel like self-sufficiency is a good thing to be striving for right now, if nothing else.

Keep hanging in there. *hugs*

[kellan_the_tabby]

i know it's very AUGH

& there's nothing I can do from here but also, if they came home I couldn't risk the exposure anyway? AUGH

i am guiltily grateful they're unlikely to be able to come home if they do have it

everything sucks

[roselightfairy]

Everything is the worst and it feels like there's nothing we can do about it, and that is . . . ugh. I have no words of comfort, but I'm also guiltily glad you'll be safe.

[thewayne]

With luck, your driver-roomie has just an opportunistic exhaustion infection and not COVID. Truck driver's have really grueling runs these days, though with states doing reopening (not that I think it's a good idea!) things will become less grueling.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Here's hoping. He got the test pretty quickly, though it'll be a couple days before he gets the results, & he's off work at least until he knows, so if it's a random something else he should be well on the way to feeling better.