Rich

 I realize I’ve kind of fallen off the face of the earth lately. I just haven’t had the time to keep up with reading lately. Hopefully I can come back to DW because I do miss reading what’s going on. 

 My taxes are done, and I still have two whole hours to go before they're due. By my standards, that's early!

💉 After I delayed it back when everyone got sick back in December/January and then promptly forgot about it, I finally got my booster shot yesterday. I worked yesterday, and then took today off of work to recover from any ill effects.

Thankfully, the shot effects were mild, though my sore arm is getting worse now. Blah.

🌮 On my way home from work, I went to my favorite taco place for their tuesday taco special, and I randomly bumped into <user name="wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com"> and his friend. It was the first time we've met in person, though we actually live near each other. Great guy.

That's all. Short update today.

🗑 As of Friday afternoon, the borough/new trash haulers replaced one of the two missing dumpsters. So at least we have somewhere to put our trash now.

👨‍❤️‍👨 So over the past few weeks, one of the two south Asian guys that I know introduced me to a third one, R. And I think he's becoming somewhat attached to me. I don't know where this is going to lead, frankly because I don't have that much of a libido to begin with, and the mental health meds I'm on reduce that even further. Halp?

R wanted to get his ear pierced, so last night we went and did that. And we went to Costco.

🕳 A month ago, I put four brand-new tires on the road beast. Last night, I hit a pothole and developed a slow but significant leak in one of those tires. R and I found a 24 hour repair shop, where they found a hole in the tire sidewall, which could not be repaired. But they didn't have my size tire. So they pumped up my tire, and I was able to drop R off and make it home. This afternoon I was able to get a new tire. But I'm really annoyed that I didn't see the pothole, and that I had to replace an almost-new tire.

As I drove into the parking lot of my condo complex, I noticed the dumpsters were missing. I get home to this email from my condo association:

"The town of Belleville fired the refuse company, █████, and they were so angry they removed all of the refuse containers from all Belleville properties. The new refuse company is trying to provide dumpsters, but unfortunately this is a town issue. If you can, try to keep all garbage within your unit, garage, etc. We will keep you updated."

So after 17 days I finally got the results of when I was tested for Covid before Christmas. It’s nice to finally know that I tested negative.

Fortunately, everyone I was with at one of two events I was at, that had gotten tested, had tested negative. So after a few days and not having any fever or night sweats or anything, I kind of figured I was negative, too.

May your holidays be exactly this exciting. No more, and no less.

My uncle died this morning. He was schizophrenic and not particularly fond of staying on his meds, and was consequently extremely difficult to be around. He was abusive and managed to burn every bridge, and was estranged from everybody in the family. His three adult children (my cousins) didn't want to have anything to do with him. The only relative that even occasionally checked up on him was my mom.

A lifetime of heavy smoking and eating nothing but junk food caught up to him. He had had heart problems for a while, and he was eventually done in by them. My mom saw him a day or two before his death, and his arms and legs were already very swollen from poor circulation.

There will be no mass and no funeral. My mom and her two surviving siblings are going to put together money to get a spot for his cremated remains in a cemetery, and that's it.

I'm not really sure how I should feel.

14 years living in this place, and I have yet to have a single trick-or-treater come to my door. I guess the kids don't want to bother with a block of garden apartments. Whatever, less work for me.

I didn't even bother to buy candy this year. I sat around undressed and had a lazy day all day.

OK, all caught up reading posts. I didn't comment on everything, but I did at least skim through everything.

Dad is doing much better after his surgery. I drove down to see my parents today. He can now hobble around a little more freely with his walker. He'll be back to his old self in no time.

I wanted to do a RAM upgrade on my dad's cornputer while I was there. But apparently the RAM card that I got wasn't the right one for his computer. I now have to do a little more research to see if his RAM card can indeed be updated. At least I didn't open the package on the RAM card I bought for him, so I was able to return it with no trouble.