Tuesday 11/07/2023
This morning my thermometer died. Little green digital thermometer. I can remember using it at least as far back as 2018. I have been taking my temperature daily now for over a year, and I often wondered how long its battery would hold up. It did awesomely well, more than 500 readings, maybe near a thousand. I figured out how to open it up and replace the battery, I probably could replace it — with only the annoyance of figuring out what number of battery actually available on the rack at CVS is equivalent to an L736F, and the annoyance of no doubt having to buy a pack of several to get one — but when I looked closer I realized that the rubber coating of the part I stick in my mouth was pretty ratty and eroded. So let’s replace it.
That was an excuse for a walk over to CVS where I was confident there would be a selection of digital thermometers. Wrong. They had only one, and it was quite a bit larger and generally didn’t please me with its looks. So I finished the walk and went on Amazon and quickly found the identical slim green thermometer for $9, Prime shipping arrives tomorrow. Done.
The writers meeting had us writing about “my joy” and I had nothin’. Well I had written about a moment of joy back in April 2021, although checking back it appears I didn’t post it in the blog at that time.
Anyway at 3pm I set up the auditorium for the Appreciation Fund kickoff. This was a fun production. Performances by various of my neighbors. Jerry and Mary did a musical comedy number based on “If I Were a Rich Man”; other people played and sang. My only part was to set out the microphones and start the zoom meeting. It was not a general zoom session and the meeting link had not been distributed. We zoomed it just so that the social director in the Lee center could put it on the big TVs on two floors there, so people in assisted living could watch. Afterward there was a lot of food and drink served in the lobby, so much so that I don’t feel like having dinner.
Codgerville 