hush, and restless
Sep. 30th, 2017 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacThe same medical issue that put paid to B.'s singing career is now, it turns out, being exacerbated even by her talking, and she's been prescribed complete vocal silence. For three months.
Like Buffy in a similar situation, albeit a different cause, she's gone out and bought a dry erase board, and that, plus a lot of notepads, a computer display, and some gesturing are enabling her to communicate. But you may see her even less than usual at social events for a while.
The hope is that, with sufficient rest, she might even be able to sing again, and nobody could be against that except the viola lobby.
Meanwhile, I went out with two items on my agenda. First, lunch with my stepmother, visiting from Wales on a long-delayed trip that had not been possible while my father was still alive but unwell, and which she's describing as probably her farewell trip to California. So that affects the agenda on future trips I take to the UK.
And to buy my pocket calendar/address book for next year from the little stationers' with the best selection. Only to discover that the manufacturer has discontinued the model that I buy. That I have been buying annually for over forty years. Some loyalty to their customers they have. I searched long and hard for an adequate substitute among the other varieties, considering switching from a month-at-a-glance to a week-at-a-glance, or to an otherwise adequate one that's too big to fit in my pocket, and wound up taking one whose most serious deficiency is that the spaces for weekend days are half the size of the others. Since most of my appointments are on weekends, that's a burden, but I think I can live with it, especially as it also has a notepad which I can use for the miscellaneous notes with which I am increasingly inclined to festoon the calendar.
Like Buffy in a similar situation, albeit a different cause, she's gone out and bought a dry erase board, and that, plus a lot of notepads, a computer display, and some gesturing are enabling her to communicate. But you may see her even less than usual at social events for a while.
The hope is that, with sufficient rest, she might even be able to sing again, and nobody could be against that except the viola lobby.
Meanwhile, I went out with two items on my agenda. First, lunch with my stepmother, visiting from Wales on a long-delayed trip that had not been possible while my father was still alive but unwell, and which she's describing as probably her farewell trip to California. So that affects the agenda on future trips I take to the UK.
And to buy my pocket calendar/address book for next year from the little stationers' with the best selection. Only to discover that the manufacturer has discontinued the model that I buy. That I have been buying annually for over forty years. Some loyalty to their customers they have. I searched long and hard for an adequate substitute among the other varieties, considering switching from a month-at-a-glance to a week-at-a-glance, or to an otherwise adequate one that's too big to fit in my pocket, and wound up taking one whose most serious deficiency is that the spaces for weekend days are half the size of the others. Since most of my appointments are on weekends, that's a burden, but I think I can live with it, especially as it also has a notepad which I can use for the miscellaneous notes with which I am increasingly inclined to festoon the calendar.
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Date: 2017-10-01 09:15 am (UTC)Yay for in-person lunch with your stepmother.
[worries about my preferred calendar, which I haven't yet bought for 2018] WHY do they halve the room for weekend days, ever? That's just sad, and wrong. I use Lett's, incidentally, a nice British line with several options in the past. [worries more]
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Date: 2017-10-01 03:33 pm (UTC)I think they had some Lett's in the store I go to. They looked nice, but didn't have the layout I prefer.
This isn't the only mystery about calendars. Why do wall calendars usually include the last three months of the previous year? What do you need that for? What you need is the beginning of the next year, as appointments during it begin to pile up towards the end of the year and you need to write them down somewhere. (One of the things I was looking for in my pocket calendar was adequate space for the next year, something else none of the models available did as well as the discontinued one.)
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Date: 2017-10-01 09:48 am (UTC)Is the condition one that tends to improve, given the right conditions?
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Date: 2017-10-01 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-01 04:09 pm (UTC)I have been furious with At-A-Glance calendars ever since they stopped making the one I've been buying for 10 years or so. It had a nice long side bar with lined space for noting clients and amounts due. They have replaced half the lines with useless graph paper. Whyyyy?