Look at that road and think about where we started

[beanside]

Ah, Thursday. Dad's still sick, though he seemed a little better last night, but still kind of shaky. I don't think I want to go into work and leave Jess alone with him, so I'm going to call out from work today. I asked my manager if there was a way to work from home for one day, but apparently, I'd have to go in and lie that dad had Covid. Then, I'd be given dispensation to work from home. I thought about it, honestly. It's a stupid policy. The thing that keeps me from doing it is that then I would have to go get a PCR test before next week.

Honestly, if I keep from getting this cold, it'll be a fucking miracle. I've been up in dad's shit so much the last two days taking care of him that I don't care how careful I've been, it's probably going to happen.

I'm honestly not that sad to be out, since it looks like Hurricane Nicole is going to be slamming us with delivery updates, and I'd have been the one doing them. Instead, I will relax and put in a big grocery order from Aldi.

Yesterday was okay work wise. Had difficulty concentrating on what little work there was with dad coughing every five minutes. But I got all my stuff done, so that's good. I did get a virtual appointment for dad, and got some cough pills and antibiotics. I don't think he has anything currently that needs that Zpack, but if we could forestall it turning into bacterial pneumonia, I'm all behind that.

We ended up cancelling on poisontaster's Monster of the Week game, which I feel horrible about, but I didn't want to leave my sister to deal with dad solo. I wouldn't have been able to focus and probably wouldn't have been able to relax enough to have fun. Unfortunately, the remaining players decided to cancel, which I feel really bad about. Honestly, it was probably overkill, though I think Dad enjoyed having both of us dancing attendance on him. He's deeply spoiled.

Okay, gonna go put on leggings and finish the grocery order. Have a good Thursday!

Comments

[poisontaster]

There’s nothing to feel guilty about. You wouldn’t want me to feel guilty if I canceled, or if any other player had to. It’s a well known and joked about feature of playing TTRPGs and no one but assholes get upset about it. We don’t play with assholes.

[beanside]

I know that rationally, but my jerkbrain says that I messed up people's fun thing. And y'know. I don't like to disappoint people. I'm glad we were able to rescheduled for next week, tho.