— छह हज़ार बावन —
No major plans last night, but a lot to do that I did not to wait until next week for because I have two Pride events each day between today and Sunday,
plus Tess's graduation party tomorrow night! I was about to say I can't believe she's 18, but you know what I just realized? She'll be 19 next month! Holy shit on a stick.
Shobhit was already out getting his steps in, so he met me at the office when I left work at 4:30. We walked home together, stopping at Walgreens so I could get the bottle of shaving cream I've been forgetting for several days now; the one at home is perilously close to empty.
The most critical thing I needed to do was laundry, so as soon as we got home I put the first load into the washing machine.
Then, Shobhit walked with me to take my bike to 20/20 Cycle, finally. I have two more weeks before it's advisable for me to ride my bike again—really more like a week and a half at this point—but I really wanted to take it in, have it looked at, and just make sure nothing looked perilously out of whack.
There's a ton of work that needs to be done on it, actually, but I don't think any of it has to do with crashing the bike a month ago. I really think the bike is just as good as it was before,
but it was in need of many improvements already, and now is not the time to let any dangerously out of date improvements go unattended to.
So: he's going to replace the brake pads (the back ones have been very worn down for a long time, to such a degree that I do wonder if that was at all a factor in my crash); straighten the slight wobbliness of the back wheel (this may or may not have been the same before the crash); replace the chain; replace the "cassette" which is the back stratified wheel the chain links to; and tighten the brake elements. The guy's estimate was that this would cost around $250, but other things may come up. I feel like maybe I should be prepared to pay at least $300. I haven't budgeted for this at all, but, oh well. I almost never pull from my savings account, and I'll be doing it for three different things this month (most notably for medical bills), but that's kind of what it's there for, right? Now I just need to try and go another couple of years without needing to touch it.
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— छह हज़ार बावन —
I seem to be doing perfectly okay without taking the daily Extra Strength Tylenol, the last dose of which I took Wednesday morning. I'll still feel a slight strain in the left side of my abdomen when, say, getting up off the floor, but that's it. It's hardly different from several days ago when I was still taking the Tylenol. Plus, the nearly-diarrhea seems to have stopped, and the gas, though sill present to a degree, is nowhere near as incessant. I have a feeling all this was related to taking Tylenol every day for four straight weeks.
That said, I did get a headache last night. I sure as shit didn't want to take more Extra Strength Tylenol. So, for the first time since the accident, I took a couple of Aleve. The headache was gone within maybe half an hour, thankfully.
I needed to check the bike in and leave it at the shop, which I figured was a possibility, maybe even a likelihood. I can pick it up on Wednesday probably. The reviews for
Supergirl are so bad I'm going to take that movie off my calendar.
So anyway, Shobhit walked with me, I walked the bike there, then we walked back together without the bike. I didn't even get too out of breath coming back up that hill, so that seems like a good sign. We stopped briefly at Trade Joe's and then we went home and had a sort of "huevos rancheros" using broken taco shells and leftover veggie chili, putting fried eggs on top. It was actually quite tasty.
In the meantime, we watched
The Hitman's Bodyguard on HBO Max. This is a 2017 movie I never bothered to see, probably because of not-great reviews (MetaScore 47). But I had looked up action movies set in Amsterdam, and this movie came up. And indeed, there are multiple set pieces in both Amsterdam and The Hague (which we also plan to visit), so those were actually really fun to watch.
Beyond that, I just spent some time making the card I'll give to Tess at her graduation tomorrow night. It was a pretty productive evening, all told.
— छह हज़ार बावन —
[posted 12:32pm]
