small random things
Apr. 16th, 2025 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julian1) My oldest nibling -- that is, Calluna's brother's eldest daughter -- is GOING TO COLLEGE I am old.
Specifically, they were *thinking* about Brandeis, which would have been awesome, but is instead going to Georgia Tech. Maybe this means we'll visit Georgia more than once a decade?
We're not going to go to their graduation because Calluna's mom is going, and we don't want to Make Drama even though we are not the ones who make the drama, but anyway: do not want drama. We're vaguely pondering going down in June or something to throw a "yay!" weekend, but AFAIK it hasn't gotten that solid yet. I should check in on that.
Kiddo is tentatively but not firmly non-binary so I go with they, most of the time.
We had a like 9 year stretch of not seeing that side of the family (present and relevant regrets elided) and then last year went down for ... why the hell *were* we there. Oh, right, a postponed Thanksgiving because someone got COVID and Calluna's step-mom had brain surgery. (She had dementia that turned out to be because of brain cancer, which was operable. She is now unsteady on her feet, physically, but much more there mentally, which is A Good Outcome.)
2) I had a contretemps just now because my car was showing battery difficulty signs, but I was like, "It's a hybrid, it'll be FINE." (I don't think I was disbelieving that hybrids need new backup batteries, but I think I was skeptical that they couldn't last longer. Or something.)
Reader: It was not fine.
Car failed to start last night, so I decided to get a jump from AAA in the morning (because it was raining last night). The AAA guy who came by is Hindi, as per his tattoos. (This is irrelevant but interesting.) He diagnosed me with a dead battery that was unlikely to work if I tried restarting it, so I went to the AutoZone on the way to my work to get a new one. AutoZone was like, "Zomg hybrid panic, we cannot cope," which I think was mostly, "I don't want to bother coping," so I shrugged, did not buy their battery, and sat in their parking lot waiting for AAA. They sent me no text updates so I was unprepared when a AAA woman came by (with really long fake fingernails) to replace my battery all by her ownself, in 5 minutes or so. Overall, much reduced AAA wait times, 50/50 on communication. AAA in-person people continue to be really good but mostly don't bother asking for relevant IDs.
Specifically, they were *thinking* about Brandeis, which would have been awesome, but is instead going to Georgia Tech. Maybe this means we'll visit Georgia more than once a decade?
We're not going to go to their graduation because Calluna's mom is going, and we don't want to Make Drama even though we are not the ones who make the drama, but anyway: do not want drama. We're vaguely pondering going down in June or something to throw a "yay!" weekend, but AFAIK it hasn't gotten that solid yet. I should check in on that.
Kiddo is tentatively but not firmly non-binary so I go with they, most of the time.
We had a like 9 year stretch of not seeing that side of the family (present and relevant regrets elided) and then last year went down for ... why the hell *were* we there. Oh, right, a postponed Thanksgiving because someone got COVID and Calluna's step-mom had brain surgery. (She had dementia that turned out to be because of brain cancer, which was operable. She is now unsteady on her feet, physically, but much more there mentally, which is A Good Outcome.)
2) I had a contretemps just now because my car was showing battery difficulty signs, but I was like, "It's a hybrid, it'll be FINE." (I don't think I was disbelieving that hybrids need new backup batteries, but I think I was skeptical that they couldn't last longer. Or something.)
Reader: It was not fine.
Car failed to start last night, so I decided to get a jump from AAA in the morning (because it was raining last night). The AAA guy who came by is Hindi, as per his tattoos. (This is irrelevant but interesting.) He diagnosed me with a dead battery that was unlikely to work if I tried restarting it, so I went to the AutoZone on the way to my work to get a new one. AutoZone was like, "Zomg hybrid panic, we cannot cope," which I think was mostly, "I don't want to bother coping," so I shrugged, did not buy their battery, and sat in their parking lot waiting for AAA. They sent me no text updates so I was unprepared when a AAA woman came by (with really long fake fingernails) to replace my battery all by her ownself, in 5 minutes or so. Overall, much reduced AAA wait times, 50/50 on communication. AAA in-person people continue to be really good but mostly don't bother asking for relevant IDs.
