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turds have to be made of something
Wednesday, July 12 2017
Gretchen had enough strength to drive herself to Emergency One late this afternoon, where a doctor learned of her symptoms and agreed that Lyme disease was the likely culprit. If she had an actual flu, there should've been respiratory symptoms. There had been none. As for the constipation, at this point it might be more a function of Gretchen not having eaten much of anything for the past few days. Turds have to be made of something. The doctor was fine with not performing a Lyme test, especially since it almost certainly would've come up positive even if Gretchen had no symptoms. We're exposed to Lyme ticks in the same way we're exposed to the fraction of the atmosphere comprised of argon.
One of the things I did today, in among my usual workday, was bury five or six gallons of urine-cum-pine-needles in the garden. I've noticed that some species of bee that looks like a bumble bee (it might be a carpenter bee) loves the urine that overflows from my urinal collection bucket near the northeast corner of the house. There's always one or two bees there on the bucket collecting overflowing urine. Now that the bucket is empty, they will have to get their urine somewhere else. I wonder what use they have for it or if it's just triggering their pre-programmed desires in an unhelpful way, like potato chips presented to a West Virginian.
For the past few days, Andrea had gone to a few interviews in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut. Tonight, after Gretchen picked up Andrea from the bus station, she told us that the interviews hadn't been especially fruitful. She's decided to turn to the services of a headhunter (the kind who hunts the heads of restaurant managers) to see if she'll get more luck that way.
Meanwhile, one of my big workplace jobs today was to screen resumes from potential hires for The Organization's IT department. The work was fairly dull, but it helped that the framework for doing this work was an easy-to-use web app provided by Greenhouse.io. I don't know what is up with all the hip new .io domains I've been seeing since I got this job, but they always host modern web apps sporting semi-gameified features and responsive design.
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