Recovery Day Today
Feb. 12th, 2026 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianI was supposed to see the allergist today, but they require ID and I still haven't renewed mine, so I rescheduled. I was super tired and didn't want to go back into town, so I was relieved. I spent today recovering from fatigue. Had the other half of last night's pizza for breakfast to help with the remnants of my headache.It's nine-thirty pm and I feel much better.
My phone service is garbage and is infringing on my privacy. I spent this morning researching alternatives. I'd rather go back to a landline, but that's no longer possible. All the available phone options require electricity, and it's disturbing that the FCC has allowed at&t to stop supporting landlines because those of us without generators and charged cell phones have no phone service when the electricity goes out, which it has done multiple times every single winter I've lived here. I'd hoped to find an alternative before this month's phone bill came due, but other shit got in the way.
I got a call about the va work program and it looks like I won't bother with it. There's a wait list, likely because the va lacks people to staff the program, I was told, which is funny because so many of us need jobs. Most of the jobs are in janitorial work or in the hospital, and I suspect they'll want me to get vaccines if I work in the hospital. The guy who called me said he'd email me some resources and possible alternatives, as well as information about appealing the decision from the va work program that rejected me last year. I doubt I'll bother with that program, but whatever. The va is probably struggling with trump's funding or staffing cuts, I don't have the energy to fight them, and I don't feel like I really earned va benefits, so I prefer to take as little as possible.
It's eleven fifteen pm and now I feel much worse. I had tea with lemon juice and a few teaspoons of coconut sugar, and it gave me a stomachache. I thought I'd feel better with a fuller stomach, so I had a half serving of oatmeal, and that made things worse. It's very important that I sleep tonight so these stomach issues don't worsen. This is another barrier to long-term fasting: multiple nights of zero sleep will make my ibs symptoms horrendous.
Maybe the dicyclomine will help me sleep.
I found another stupid goddamned thread featuring the mechanical keyboards crowd:
https://www.keebtalk.com/t/small-hands-kids-keyboard/19875
Another person was looking for a keyboard for kids, and mentioned at the end of the thread the others' suggestions to buy an adult-sized keyboard. I'm glad somebody called those clowns out.
My phone service is garbage and is infringing on my privacy. I spent this morning researching alternatives. I'd rather go back to a landline, but that's no longer possible. All the available phone options require electricity, and it's disturbing that the FCC has allowed at&t to stop supporting landlines because those of us without generators and charged cell phones have no phone service when the electricity goes out, which it has done multiple times every single winter I've lived here. I'd hoped to find an alternative before this month's phone bill came due, but other shit got in the way.
I got a call about the va work program and it looks like I won't bother with it. There's a wait list, likely because the va lacks people to staff the program, I was told, which is funny because so many of us need jobs. Most of the jobs are in janitorial work or in the hospital, and I suspect they'll want me to get vaccines if I work in the hospital. The guy who called me said he'd email me some resources and possible alternatives, as well as information about appealing the decision from the va work program that rejected me last year. I doubt I'll bother with that program, but whatever. The va is probably struggling with trump's funding or staffing cuts, I don't have the energy to fight them, and I don't feel like I really earned va benefits, so I prefer to take as little as possible.
It's eleven fifteen pm and now I feel much worse. I had tea with lemon juice and a few teaspoons of coconut sugar, and it gave me a stomachache. I thought I'd feel better with a fuller stomach, so I had a half serving of oatmeal, and that made things worse. It's very important that I sleep tonight so these stomach issues don't worsen. This is another barrier to long-term fasting: multiple nights of zero sleep will make my ibs symptoms horrendous.
Maybe the dicyclomine will help me sleep.
I found another stupid goddamned thread featuring the mechanical keyboards crowd:
https://www.keebtalk.com/t/small-hands-kids-keyboard/19875
Another person was looking for a keyboard for kids, and mentioned at the end of the thread the others' suggestions to buy an adult-sized keyboard. I'm glad somebody called those clowns out.
