{"id":16870,"date":"2015-06-30T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16870"},"modified":"2015-06-30T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T20:07:49","slug":"tuesday-bag-o-the-grumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16870","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Bag o’ the Grumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"grumpyIt’s day five\u00a0of a painful sore throat, the kind where 1) you dread having to swallow and 2) you\u00a0have to swallow constantly. I stopped at the corner CVS\u00a0yesterday to get something for it, and, since there wasn’t anyone in line, visited the\u00a0“minute clinic.” The\u00a0five-minute strep test was\u00a0negative;\u00a0the PA\u00a0said\u00a0I probably have allergies. I walked out with Flonase and Claritin. Still too soon to tell if they’re helping. Gargling with salt water, drinking tea with honey, all the standard home remedies.<\/p>\n

These drug store minute clinics are pretty cool. In and out in no time;\u00a0insurance\u00a0picks up the tab. I suppose urgent care clinics have their place, but my\u00a0memories of those places are all negative: waiting for hours to be seen, surrounded by\u00a0crying babies and\u00a0coughing adults. But maybe I was lucky with the\u00a0minute clinic.\u00a0Maybe there’s normally a line. Still, I think drug store clinics, manned by physician assistants, are a great response to our medical\u00a0needs. Would we have minute clinics without Obamacare? I suspect not.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to reprogram an old GPS navigation device our daughter gave us. I bought a Garmin\u00a0for the new truck. It\u00a0came with online support:\u00a0new maps and databases whenever I want to download them. This older one, which I want to set up in Donna’s car, doesn’t seem to be supported any more. It’s a Mio, a brand I never heard of (Polly, when she gave it to us, said it was a TomTom, and maybe Mios and TomToms are the same thing). In any case, online support is nonexistent,\u00a0so Donna will be driving around with outdated maps. If\u00a0money happens to fall from the sky, I’ll buy her a new Garmin.<\/p>\n

We plan to get a new trailer for the motorcycle, probably an enclosed one, which\u00a0we’ll have to keep\u00a0in the\u00a0open\u00a0area alongside the house. The neighborhood association didn’t like it when I parked our\u00a0old motorcycle trailer there … they didn’t like our\u00a0wood and rock piles either, or the garbage cans … so we’re thinking about building an RV gate beside the house to hide the open area. Donna thinks it’ll be cheap. I think otherwise.<\/p>\n

Grandson Quentin is coming for his annual visit\u00a0this Friday. Donna has him signed up for a week-long robotics camp at the U of A, so\u00a0apart from the coming weekend\u00a0he’ll be busy every day of his visit. Granddaughter Taylor, meanwhile, has moved back to Las Vegas from Seattle. She’s living at home and planning to relaunch her college career at\u00a0UNLV. The kids — Quentin & Taylor’s mom and dad — aren’t coming to Tucson this summer, so\u00a0we probably won’t see them until Thanksgiving (I can’t remember if we’re going there or they’re coming here).<\/p>\n

I DVR’d the season three opening episode\u00a0of Under the Dome, and good lord it was\u00a0horrible.\u00a0I don’t know what we’d do without Netflix and Amazon streaming TV … there is nothing worth watching on regular TV.<\/p>\n

Please forgive me, I’m grumpy with this sore throat. More bloggage when I’m feeling better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s day five\u00a0of a painful sore throat, the kind where 1) you dread having to swallow and 2) you\u00a0have to swallow constantly. I stopped at the corner CVS\u00a0yesterday to get something for it, and, since there wasn’t anyone in line, visited the\u00a0“minute clinic.” The\u00a0five-minute strep test was\u00a0negative;\u00a0the PA\u00a0said\u00a0I probably have allergies. I walked out with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16875,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870\/revisions\/16875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}