Just one thing: 31 August 2021

[jazzyjj]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[novel_machinist]

Over the weekend I helped friends move from MD to OH. I'm still sore, but I feel so good that I could help them!

[siberian_skys]

It was very nice of you to help them out like that. Good for you. You deserve to feel good. :-)

[novel_machinist]

They'd do it for me in a heartbeat. Plus the drive in those mountains is so beautiful with the fog burning off at sunrise.

[siberian_skys]

I love a beautiful view. I just wish I enjoyed driving. It would be nice to get a change of scenery. That's the only way I'm going to get one.

[novel_machinist]

Trains are great if you can afford them, even if there are people, you can get a solo room in passenger trains.

[siberian_skys]

I always wanted to do that. I've been on trains, but never on a long trip. I would love to take an actual, long road trip. I have friends who always drive unless it's somewhere you can't. I just wish I wasn't a driving wimp. I want to do all 50 states and it makes it so much easier to do it by car. You can see all those road side attractions. I did a bus trip once that knocked off some 17 states, but that was a once in a life time sort of thing. If I wasn't such a wimp I could just get in the car and drive up the coast and knock off a bunch.

[novel_machinist]

I don't think having a phobia of driving makes you a wimp at all. I know a lot of people who cannot drive because of one reason or another. There's always flying and trains. All road trips with me have to be long, after like 4 hours my body starts hurting a bit too much to have fun.

[siberian_skys]

Thank you. I just hate it, though. It seems like I should get over it. I went to a town a couple of towns over over the weekend and I was not happy. It looks like they're putting a overpass in. Ugh. That means I'm going to have a problem going there. It sucks. Coming back was tough. I was up in the air. It was never like that before. Too much traffic here. There seems to be no place to go that doesn't freak me out.

Can you stop every three hours? Would that help in a road trip if it doesn't bother you to be in a car otherwise? It's what we did when I was the passenger with my mother driving. She couldn't sit for an extended period of time, but she didn't mind driving.

[novel_machinist]

when I travel with my partner I absolutely can. There are a lot of folks who just can't take the time I like to take when I travel.

Ugh, an overpass is so loud too. :(

[siberian_skys]

The biggest stressors for the driving are overpasses, flyovers, exits, ramps and elevated streets/highways. I basically have height issues.

I like to stop regularly when on a driving trip. I do it differently when I fly. Where ever I am, I see as much as humanly possible.

[jazzyjj]

Good on you for helping them. My immediate family moved from Pennsylvania to Illinois back in 1985, so I know a cross-country move when I see one.

[novel_machinist]

It's a gorgeous drive. Reminds me that I may want to rent a cabin for me, my wife, and our dog in the near future.

[siberian_skys]

I'm still really behind, but I got a couple of things done. I bagged up a few things for the recycle bin in the garage, I changed the air conditioner filter, I washed the washer and emptied out two of the drawers in the china cabinet. At this rate I may get moved in 20 years. That's probably a stretch, but some days it feels like it.

[azurelunatic]

Dried off the bed after I spilled a water bottle all over it.
Helped catch Escape Calico after she got onto the lawn (again).
Got a covid test, helped housemate when their phone did not work with the form.
Submitted the test site to the map app.
Picked up pills.
Tried several things when one of my car doors would not unlock. (Failed in all the things I tried. Not even the key in the lock worked.)
Tracked down the correct port in my computer-industrial complex to replace the mouse. (The old mouse had served long and well, but the right button was starting to go.)
Tried making popsicles.
Uncovered a refrigerator problem (not cold enough in either the freezer or fridge sides, as confirmed by two of the little digital thermometers I've had scattered around the house). Played my role as the one with the food service background to provide perspective on what kind of a situation we have here. (The freezer will go cold enough, but the fridge refuses to. The stuff that needs the fridge to be functioning is getting used IMMEDIATELY, transferred to the small fridge in the basement, or getting tossed.
Making emergency quiche, to the very experimental recipe of nearly everything that seemed usable.
Let my partner know that the authentication information for the warranty service was not where it was expected to be. Did not blow my top upon discovering that the warranty service will take nearly three weeks to even arrive on site.
Haven't fallen over sobbing ... yet.

[jazzyjj]

Hung out most of the day again w/neighbor across the hall, and with a next-door neighbor.





Managed to squeeze in some more pleasure reading.

[nanila]

Went crabbing with the kids on the North Norfolk coast. Enjoyed a meal in the pub and a long walk after.

[silveradept]

When confronted with a situation that I had every possible option of making worse by accident, I kept calm, stayed out of the way, and did the things that I could do.