Never, ever trust the backup.

“I’ll be careful.”

A friend once pointed out to me that if you have to tell yourself this, you should stop whatever you’re doing (e.g. pouring bleach while wearing your best shirt) and reevaluate.

I experienced the same frustrations with our Walgreens, and thought that was as bad as it could get. Then my health insurance plan mandated that we all stop using in-person pharmacies and switch to this stupid mail delivery system. You know what’s worse than having to wait for Walgreens to open so you can talk to a pharmacist? Sitting on hold hoping to talk to the one anonymous random pharmacist Optum has on staff. Want to transfer a prescription? Having trouble with a particular manufacturer or generic? Good luck.

TIL Mastodon has a CEO.

Get yourself a good app & it can give you recommendations. Personally, I’m using IceCubes & really like it.

Also, look up the FollowFriday hashtag to see who others recommend. Cory Doctorow is there, so are Jeff Jarvis & Amanda Marcotte.

The Walgreens in my town has started closing their pharmacy early because they don’t have enough staff to run it.

He looks like a wise old cat.

Some medications can make you constipated. Opioids, for instance.

This takes me back! When my youngest was in kindergarten, he discovered this song, so I put it on a playlist that I used to play while driving the kids around.

My new kitten had a terrible cold when we first got him. I’ve never heard a cat sneeze so much. We even had to wipe his nose with tissues. Glad to hear your guy is doing better!