• I find myself anxiously checking first thing in the morning that my Social Security check was deposited when expected. Now I’m instantly paying bills with it I don’t have to until the first of the month, on the theory that if Apartheid Clyde decides I died several months ago like that guy in Washington State, he can’t claw it back from my bank accounts if it’s already in the hands of someone else and at least my bills are paid while I’m wandering through empty Social Security offices trying to convince the system that I’m not dead yet.

    I’m not. I feel fine. I think I’ll go for a walk.

• The Not Run Flats I was talked into buying at Costco last time, because they said they couldn’t get the right ones for my car, didn’t last any longer than the run flats would have anyway, and they didn’t ride any better. So I will have run flats put back on. The Costco in Owings Mills says they can get the right ones for my car now. It’s about 500 bucks more for a set of four but I can avoid the constant the anxiety of running with only an emergency tire plug kit in case I get a puncture.
• The Disney+ Percy Jackson series has already been renewed for a third season which means we will get to the introduction of Nico di Angelo and hopefully see him through the rest of the first five books of the series. But the big reveal during the fight with Cupid doesn’t happen for six more books after that one and I have serious doubts that Disney is going the distance there. If they just let it end with the last of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books then they don’t have to deal with that big reveal in The House of Hades that it wasn’t Annabeth Nico had the crush on.

The best fan art there is of this scene and imo much Much
better than the official graphic novel adaptations, by 
alessia.trunfio

• Pretty sure going full time isn’t going to work for me, given the very low energy levels I have. I would just be working and sleeping all week long with maybe a little energy left for housework on the weekends. I need to make visit to the GP again, which I haven’t in a couple years now, to talk about this, and also verify my measles vaccine status and get the next updated COVID shots before the lunatic currently in charge of our public health services takes vaccines off the market in favor of Draino cocktails.