Sat Feb 03 2024

Sleep 0145 to 0830 (6-3/4 hours)

• Pretty much slept straight through, first time in a week, and my foot finally feels like it’s getting better.

Sun Feb 04 2024

Sleep 0500 to 1300 (8 hours)

• Foot feels better than yesterday, though still swollen. When walking around sometimes not painful. Still, have to take it easy as previously when I try to use it a lot too soon it relapses.

Mon Feb 05 2024

Sleep 0230 to 0930 (7 hours)

• Was looking at Mark Gilham’s (R) positions. He’s running for state assembly district 21. Espousing that mail-in ballots have massive cheating and a wrong definition of harvest balloting (legal in California but his definition is that someone can complete your ballot if not completely filled out — that’s illegal throughout the USA even in California). This is what the Republican Party has become — ill informed conspiracy theorists.
• Chase Pay Over Time is their new payment on install plan feature. It says 1.72% per month but doesn’t mention per year so it’s easy to compare. 1.72% per month = 22.71% per year. Unlike with Apple Card’s feature Chase I think starts charging interest immediately. Also they say it’s a monthly fee not interest so I guess the fee doesn’t go down as you pay off the loan. Pretty rough for consumers.
• Foot feels fairly good. Little pain, more like stiffness so I’m not walking normally but not hobbling. Still swollen though so would be hard to wear a shoe. So not going grocery shopping today which sucks since I ran out of juice.

Tue Feb 06 2024

Sleep 0045 to 0215, 0530 to 1130 (7-1/2 hours)

• Now that I feel I can stand well enough, first shower in 11 days. Foot still swollen though maybe slightly less.
• Was having trouble renewing my CA driver’s license online because I have a driver’s license (DL) with Real ID and the first question is if you want to renew your driver’s license (DL) or ID (ID) but here they mean a California ID card not a DL with Real ID so I went to the wrong branch and got confused.

Wed Feb 07 2024

Sleep 0115 to 1115 (10 hours)

• Dinner at C3’s. Steph made salmon, brown rice, salad.
• Hadn’t driven in two weeks so my car was in low power mode so just going and trying to open the door didn’t work. Had to use the remote’s unlock button to wake it up.
• Trader Joe’s for the start of replenishing groceries. Luckily I had two big packs of chicken in the freezer. Went through one and started in on the second whilst I couldn’t go outside.

Thu Feb 08 2024

Sleep 0700 to 1530 (8-1/2 hours)

• Working on my old Star Trek TNG campaign audio files (combining them since each session was 4+ small audio files — I forgot what I was using to record… I think I had an actual tape recorder). Also glancing at the after action notes and back then I often wrote about what I expected and how the session actually turned out.

Fri Feb 09 2024

Sleep 0630 to 1300 (6-1/2 hours)

• Foot in shoe was ok-ish Wednesday and in moccasin was ok-ish yesterday. Today I put on my shoe but it’s sore a bit on the left foot, left side, below the pinky toe. A bit uncomfortable to walk with a shoe on. Guess no Safeway Friday Specials today.
• Actually did manage to go to Safeway. Chicken tenders $5/lb and St Louis Ribs $5 for half rack. Also Bathroom Tissue as I was down to three rolls.