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totchipanda ([personal profile] totchipanda) wrote2025-04-29 01:38 pm

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Canada, primarily thanks to efforts in Quebec, elected a sensible leader yesterday. Even better, Pollievre lost his seat, which means he is no longer allowed in the House of Commons, except as a spectator. (We all vote locally for a member of parliament, and whoever's party has the most members elected becomes prime minister, unless the governor general - the King of England's rep - refuses which I am not sure has ever happened. He lost his seat which means he is no longer an MP and possibly cannot lead that party.)

Yesterday I wasn't feeling good and it got worse and worse as the day went on. I went back to bed around noon, threw up around 2 (poor kittens have never been around someone doing that, they were scared!) and woke up again at 430. I was ROASTING so I took my temp and sure enough, fever of 100.3. That lingered for several hours and had dropped to 98.6 by 11pm, and was 97.7 when I woke up. It was a terrible way to spend the day, though not much different than the way I'd planned to spend it anyway.

Today I am feeling perhaps 70% better. I ordered food last night and got something I could have today, which was a smart decision. Last night's soup was very salty and today's meal will get me through most of the day, I think. Dinner will be a low-effort affair.

I went to print a copy of the trousers to get a better sense of sizing, and was so frustrated that even my "trick" from the Charm patterns wasn't working. It was still cutting off about 1/4" off the top and left edges. Cashmerette has a grid that can be printed (and has to on the Chromebook, since none of the programs I have installed can do layers) which has been very useful in lining things up. But I don't want to do this anymore! So I booted up the old Windows 7 laptop again, remembered my password for it (ie: i was overthinking it last time) and then had to spend like an hour trying to get a driver installed bc the printer and the OS are both no longer supported so it took some time to find a solution. I hate that it's so much easier like that. Layers! Printing settings more complicated than "print at custom scale"! I WILL have to replace that laptop eventually, it's so old and slow, I can't do much with it. The biggest reason I'd keep it is for my Steam library and even that is no longer supported. Its a brick.

Not really up to standing for longer periods so it's time for Vacation Activity #4: video games, while curled up in bed with my kittens.
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[personal profile] marianme 2025-04-29 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! I'm so excited and hopeful for Canada's new leader.

Hope you continue to recover from fever.

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[personal profile] koshka_the_cat 2025-04-30 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so relieved for your election!

Keep feeling better ❤️
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[personal profile] danabren 2025-04-30 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Cats panicking at a human barfing is very funny to me, when they do it all the time. Maybe you should have convulsed and made the HRK HRK noise to reassure them?

HURRAH CANADA

You can migrate your Steam account to another computer, happily.
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[personal profile] mala_14 2025-05-02 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
So relieved about the election results! And so much petty satisfaction at Poilievre losing his seat.

Hope you feel better soon!