Wednesday 01/07/2026
Started out for a 9am dental hygiene appointment. And of course they asked, did you take your pre-med? I’m supposed to take an antibiotic before any dental procedure, to avoid the chance of mouth bacteria getting into my blood and colonizing my artificial aortic valve. Which apparently is a thing. And I’ve been doing this for over 20 years. And I even mentioned that while going over my meds with Dr. Chu yesterday. So had I taken the amoxi this morning? Of fucking course not. So they can’t do the thing.
I rescheduled for Friday.
Then I was able to go for a stroll with Joanne, up to Whole Foods. Last week I had ordered this little amplifier from Amazon, and when I tested it I found that it added a reverb or echo to the mic input, and no way to turn it off. So I wanted to return it, and Whole Foods (now an Amazon company) has an Amazon return desk. So we walked up there.
Unfortunately when I got the return authorization from the Amazon website, it had only offered returns at Kohl’s. And the young man at Whole Foods was apologetic but no, even though I had this official return QR code, it would only be good at Kohl’s. So we had a walk for nothing but the company.
Then I hopped in the car and drove to Kohl’s in Redwood City. I had never before in my life been in a Kohl’s. It looks like another version of Target. But they did have an Amazon return desk and they took my package no problem. So that worked.
Later I had a good hour of music practice, and read some more in my boring books.
After supper I was supposed, I thought, to set up the auditorium for a lecture. The lecture was in the monthly calendar and in the AV calendar, but it had not appeared in the daily calendar that is displayed all over the place, which was odd. But I set up the auditorium and finally about 7pm got hold of Mickie, who was the sponsor of the talk, who was very apologetic, very sorry that I hadn’t gotten the word that the lecture was canceled. So, A, we could have gone to Hamnet tonight instead of Tuesday, and B, I didn’t need to set up the auditorium. Now I shut it down.
Codgerville 