random thoughts - Day 2,023 (Tuesday) - calls and caws

 It was another day of even more more of the same. Blah, blah, blah. Things hurt. Things were found. Things were accomplished.

Today, I was able to reach a human at the orthopedics office I'm trying to get an appointment with, after finding a different phone number than the one dialed yesterday. Even though my current insurance does not require a referral, I was told the ortho office has a policy that requires referrals, requiring me to reach out to my primary care office through the magical patient portal. The response from an assistant was that it's not needed by my insurance. Correct, but as I wrote in my original message, it's the policy at the orthopedic office and they won't make an appointment without it. A little later, someone from the primary office called me to confirm the problem needing attention and assuring me that the referral was being sent.

Meanwhile, I'm in pain. Throbbing, stabbing, cramping pain in the shoulder region. A lidocaine patch helped for a while. In the quest to find the tan suede skirt not found on Monday, a suitcase was opened and it contained all the fall/winter season office-type jackets. It is still not known if I'll ever need them again or not and they were hung in the closet while the job gods and jury deliberate. Still no suede skirt, and now the worry is that it was donated as part of a big clothing drop before the move. It wouldn't be the first time and probably won't be the last.

In the afternoon, I called the ortho office to learn that the referral had not yet been received and I still can't get an appointment. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Then I called my former employer financial institution to ask about closing two accounts I had methodically and strategically recently drawn down to zero balances. Luckily, this could be done over the phone. No branch visit required. Yay.

Bird on a wire.

The crows visited the front yard again with one in the tree and another on the power line outside the house caw cawing like they do. I could see them from couch from which I was watching the Turkish drama Shahmaran, which a friend recently told me about. The music is really good in the show and my Shazam app is getting a workout. There is a cool floor lamp in one of the homes and that inspired an online floor lamp search. It was found, is in the online shopping cart, and there is a very good chance it will be purchased before the week is done. 

Earlier in the day, there were noises on the roof that were weird enough that I got up and tried to determine which part of the roof was under siege. I looked up at the kitchen skylight and there was a crow trying to walk on it. The skylight is a bubble shape, so the bird kept sliding off. The bird left, and bless it's little heart, it came back twice more to try whatever it was trying to do. Maybe it is the equivalent of a birdie slide and it was fun. Each time the crow was sliding around on the bubble skylight, my cell was on the charger and I couldn't get a photo. Future photo goal.

I walked to the mailbox because my legs are still functional even if my upper torso is staging a revolution. In addition to collecting the mail, the plan was to drop the October lot fee check in the office mailbox. That's when I learned that walking on pavement made my arm, which had been kind of okay, hurt more. And halfway there, I realized I had written the check and then left it on the counter. I ended up driving back down the street to deliver it.