Saturday 07/13/2024
Another easy day, favoring the foot which has continued its recovery although my left big toe is still fatter and pinker than its right-side counterpart. Still, I expect by tomorrow to be good enough to do the docent round I’m scheduled for — 33 international students, it says. Hopefully with another docent?
Drove the five blocks to the CVS store and picked up a couple of prescriptions – but not the allopurinol that I hoped for. On Friday I placed a message to my PCP asking her to prescribe that. I think that may have happened but later in the day, because around 4pm I got an ambiguous text from CVS that a prescription had been received, but it didn’t say for what.
Walked around the farmers market and bought a handful of apricots and peaches. Then down to the Peet’s coffee shop to stock up on my morning coffee beans. On return I found a package had arrived, and very timely.
Last two times I ran a docent round, the battery in my little belt amplifier ran out before the end. Which told me its rechargeable battery was getting old. So I took it apart and got the numbers off the battery and ordered a new one from DigiKey. And it had come today, just in time for tomorrow’s tour.
That’s the device with the old battery, I should have taken a pic with it apart. Thing to notice is that little connector? It’s keyed so it can only go in one way. And when it was in, the red wire was on the right. Fortunately I took a skeptical look at the new one and its connector was wired just the opposite, so the red wire would have been on the left if I had plugged it in. I had to get the wires out of the connector and put them back the other way. Imagine my relief when I turned it on and it lit up and worked.
Codgerville 