Moved Stinky Tinky in 2020s

Yesterday was a horribly rough day. I was not only groggy and hungover from the melatonin, but my lungs were also so tight. Because Tom was a little tight too, we were wondering if the oak tree he was trimming had anything to do with it. I looked up the trees in the area that can trigger asthma, and that was one of them, along with the Brazilian pepper tree by the lanai. I chatted with Toni a bit on Messenger, and she said the pollen has been crazy high. I’ve noticed that too.

He didn’t trim anymore yesterday since he didn’t feel all that great, and today is donation day.

I took a full clonazepam before bed, so I slept better, and I feel better except my lungs are still slightly tight, and I’ve been coughing up a gallon of congestion. I’m not so sure anymore that the Levo is connected, but I’m going to find out once and for all by making automatic weekly skips, no matter how I feel. If this doesn’t happen again, like it seems to every two to three months, then there may not have been a connection. But honestly, it’s starting to seem weird that it would mostly be on the med. The only time it made me tight was when it first ramped up to be too much for me, and it didn’t cause congestion that I remember or the achiness I had. Tom had some aching in his chest and back as well.

We really need to get out of this state as soon as we can! Florida is simply not asthma and allergy-friendly, and I should have known better. I’d rather complain about the cold than struggle like this. I’ll miss having it warm most of the time, and I never minded the humidity itself, but this kind of climate is no good for me. I moved to Arizona for a reason, after all, and it wasn’t only about Andy being there.

He’s going to not only ask his doctor when he sees him in May about beta blockers for his essential tremor and stay off the road when it’s dark, but he’s also going to get an eye exam done to find out if it’s time for him to have his cataracts removed. If it is, he’s going to lose a month of donations. He’s got almost 8,000 points accumulated from his donations, and once he gets to 10,000, he gets the express bonus where he doesn’t have to wait in line. He’s going to wait until he hits 10,000 before he gets the procedure done. Of course, I worry because I couldn’t drive him home, but then he reminded me that Medicare gives him 50 free medical rides per year.

I deleted the Too Hot to Handle app. It was too much like a storybook in which you had a little bit of say in how it played out.

Most of the people visiting the Honker seem to be gone, but Tom said he saw the daughter who just had a baby less than six months ago pushing it in a stroller the other day. Already? I thought she’d want to wait until the kid was older before she traveled. I just figured she would still be exhausted since it can’t be sleeping through the night yet, as well as it being a bit traumatizing for one that young to travel. But what do I know?

I dreamed of the Honker looking at me through the window as I watched him gearing up to take off on the motorcycle and somehow being able to see me through the reflective film, but the Honker didn’t look anything like the Honker. He had longish hair in the dream, but in reality, he’s nearly bald.

He’s going to have to go through the hassle of registering every time he comes down here and get fingerprinted, LOL. This applies to anyone who stays longer than a month. And he’s oh so pro-US, LOL. The impression I’ve always gotten from him is that he’s a Republican and therefore a serious hater, not happy with his own country because it’s liberal. But since the US is getting less and less liberal, he just loves it here. Well, a little over a month and Canada can have him back again for half a year.

I’m excited that they’ve implemented Co-Pilot into Word and trying that out, only that feature doesn’t seem to have been rolled out to me yet. I don’t know if he was joking or not, but in his email, Tom said it was creepy to have Co-Pilot call him by his name when he was telling me about this feature. Why is it creepy? It’s only using the names we used when we created the accounts. He’s probably joking but anyway, when I first opened Co-Pilot to ask how to add it, I got an Englishman who asked my name, and I just said Rainbow. I switched the voice to an American woman, and when we were done talking, she addressed me by my real name.

I have never had a rat smell this bad. We had multiple rats in a place half this size and it still didn’t stink like this, so I think it has something to do with her aging hormones (we’ve mostly had males). It’s not her that smells but her pee. Between that and the fact that she can’t get around as well, it’s time to move her into the smaller cage so she can get around easier, and it should be less stinky, too. Now that I’ve had my coffee and my protein shake and woken up as much as I’m going to, I’m ready to get on with that.