Weekly update - April 11,2025

I'll dive right in. I actually have no idea how long or short this will actually end up being 
  • I've been thinking more about my experience in the self-driving car, especially in light of having having used a Lyft the month before. I realized I actually felt far more comfortable with the car driving itself. There were a couple of reasons. The first is that as a woman travelling alone it is always odd to be in a vehicle alone with a male driver. The drivers I had in San Antonio did absolutely nothing to make me feel concerned, but I was not 100% comfortable just because of the situation. The self-driving car was more relaxing. The other reason I found it more comfortable is that the car is programmed to drive safely. This would be unlike the driver who got me to the airport in record time because I swear he was going 90. If I were flying into the Phoenix airport and didn't have someone picking me up I would opt for the self-driving car over a ride share. 
  • The sugar snap peas that were planted in the garden are a couple of inches tall now. This means that actual spring weather should be here soon, right?
  • Buddy update: I feel a little vindicated. It is an abscess, though very high up in his hoof. I was doing everything right and we'll keep doing it, hoping it bursts through the sole of his hoof and not his coronet band. (Vienna had that happen last year as she was healing from the laminitis and I've already crossed it off my bucket list.) The vet did give her some antibiotics to help ward off infection. I didn't have to pay for an X-ray at least. 
  • The forsythia is blooming.

  • J. and I have been taking turns being out of town. He got back today from being at a conference this week. I think we're both getting a little tired of all the to-ing and fro-ing.
  • You can get a sense of my state of mind from how organized my desk and reading space are. Do you I think I have a little too much going on in my head right now?


  • But R. is still managing to hold it together despite all the disruptions to our regular schedule, which is no small thing.
  • Another item that I don't take for granted is that all the prescriptions renewed this month without me having to call a single doctor's office. It did take one extra trip and two phone call to the pharmacy, though. 
  • L. has started on the jeans she is going to make. She has traced the pattern, we did a rough fitting on her using the pattern, she adjusted the pattern slightly, and now we're to her cutting it out of some scrap fabric. 
  • We have so many eggs. Yes, I know I was complaining about having no eggs just a month ago, but here we are. 
  • I am less than one hundred pages of finishing The Crook Factory, and I am so relieved. I want to know how it ends, it was a bit of history I didn't know about, but the pacing was excruciatingly slow and parts of it were just painful to read. I'm ready for a new book. 
I've now sat here trying to think of something else to share, but I've got nothing else. Life here really is fairly uneventful. 

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