cosmolinguist | Good weekend (Reply)

I was too tired yesterday evening to write here, which is a shame because it was a much better mental-health day.

D and I went into town on a pretext, ran a couple of errands (emergency groceries and DVD returning), and had a nice lunch and a couple of pints at a new place in town that has sheltered outdoor seating, which was handy in the drizzle.

Today I assembled a couple of big planters to make more raised beds in the backyard. Even more fruits and vegetables and flowers this year! I am excited. And when D and I went on another errand, this time to the pharmacy, we stopped at a new cocktail place on the way back for very nice (and commensurately expensive) drinks.

Also, D got his old phone usable for me -- he only stopped using it because it wasn't able to run an app that I am not going to run, so it should be fine for me. Since it belonged to him, it has LineageOS on it, which will be new for me but I'm excited about trying it. So far it hasn't been any more difficult to switch to it than it was to switch between two brands of Android in my last phone and my current one. Which is to say that I have to individually download all the apps I want and sign in to everything and so on. My eyes were not at all up to this task tonight, but luckily there's no rush. This phone is getting ridiculous for how often it crashed yesterday just trying to read an article online or look at social media.

I also finally bit the bullet and ordered a work phone on Friday (I'd been putting it off because I hate dealing with the IT people, who are condescending or unhelpful more often than not) so hopefully that will work and hopefully being able to not download the Microsoft apps will make my own phone run better. I never wanted to combine all that stuff in my one phone anyway, so it will be nice to have that separation even if it has taken a lot of annoyance for me to overcome the hurdle of interacting with the IT people.

I forgot that I need to figure out how to find three more days to take off this month, and I also forgot the last Friday will be a bank holiday (it will, it occurs to me now, be Best Friday). There are worse problems to have!