Satyrday CatchingUp
Jul. 27th, 2024 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vik_thorI sorta wish I had been able to go to London for the Relay.FM 10th anniversary show. (but at least it looks like the recording has been posted, so I will get to listen to it.)
Missouri's Primary election is 06 August 12024. I am working as Poll Manager again. I am actually working as the republican manager. (no, I am NOT registered as R with the state, nor the state R party. It is just that to work in the polls in MO, you have to declare a party affiliation. I've never registered as / with either major party (even though I am much more of a Democrat than the modern RETHUGLICAN / MAGAT party. The County of Saint Louis is fairly Democrat, so I work as Republican to keep the trumpists / MAGATs from trying to keep people from voting. I don't know if I will continue working as a Poll Manager gong forward... It has been a bit stressful. Regular poll worker, I don't mind, but being in charge of the polling place... no thanks... But on the other hand, I do NOT want the RETHUGLICANs to be the poll managers. (If anyone ever says anything, I will say I am more of an Eisenhower Republican, rather than the modern Trumpist cult member...) Basically, if someone is registered to vote, I want them to be able to vote...
Thursday, 25 July, I stopped at LabCorp to get blood drawn for my Dr. appointment on 1 August. Got the results through MyChart, and about as expected, the cholesterol/lipid #s are a bit high... not outrageously so.
I am currently on a blood thinner, and 2 blood pressure medications, so I can no longer donate blood. These medications were started after I had an atrial fibrilation earlier this year. I am actually feeling better than before I started taking them (which is pretty much the point, isn't it? :) )
I've got a home blood pressure machine (actually have had it for well over a year at this point) but only started taking my BP regularly this year. (The times I took it before, I actually thought it wasn't working right, because it was reading 175/101 type readings, and "I don't have high blood pressure, so the machine must not be working right." When I would get my blood pressure at the doctors office, or when I was giving blood, they were not getting readings that high. They would get readings that were a bit elevated, on the high side of normal. Some people have higher blood pressure at Doctor's office, because they are nervous. I think I tend to have lower when official people take it...
I got my https://www.mephitfurmeet.org/ MFM 2024 registration paid, so I will be going down there over Labor Day weekend. Driving my Bolt EUV, so won't be part of the caravan.
Missouri's Primary election is 06 August 12024. I am working as Poll Manager again. I am actually working as the republican manager. (no, I am NOT registered as R with the state, nor the state R party. It is just that to work in the polls in MO, you have to declare a party affiliation. I've never registered as / with either major party (even though I am much more of a Democrat than the modern RETHUGLICAN / MAGAT party. The County of Saint Louis is fairly Democrat, so I work as Republican to keep the trumpists / MAGATs from trying to keep people from voting. I don't know if I will continue working as a Poll Manager gong forward... It has been a bit stressful. Regular poll worker, I don't mind, but being in charge of the polling place... no thanks... But on the other hand, I do NOT want the RETHUGLICANs to be the poll managers. (If anyone ever says anything, I will say I am more of an Eisenhower Republican, rather than the modern Trumpist cult member...) Basically, if someone is registered to vote, I want them to be able to vote...
Thursday, 25 July, I stopped at LabCorp to get blood drawn for my Dr. appointment on 1 August. Got the results through MyChart, and about as expected, the cholesterol/lipid #s are a bit high... not outrageously so.
I am currently on a blood thinner, and 2 blood pressure medications, so I can no longer donate blood. These medications were started after I had an atrial fibrilation earlier this year. I am actually feeling better than before I started taking them (which is pretty much the point, isn't it? :) )
I've got a home blood pressure machine (actually have had it for well over a year at this point) but only started taking my BP regularly this year. (The times I took it before, I actually thought it wasn't working right, because it was reading 175/101 type readings, and "I don't have high blood pressure, so the machine must not be working right." When I would get my blood pressure at the doctors office, or when I was giving blood, they were not getting readings that high. They would get readings that were a bit elevated, on the high side of normal. Some people have higher blood pressure at Doctor's office, because they are nervous. I think I tend to have lower when official people take it...
I got my https://www.mephitfurmeet.org/ MFM 2024 registration paid, so I will be going down there over Labor Day weekend. Driving my Bolt EUV, so won't be part of the caravan.
