Tomorrow, I will be dealing with a Doctor's appointment as Mario, and then a Dinner engagement as Marian. So, it will be one of those "half and half" days where I have to change my presentation in mid day. This is part of why I did nothing much today other than to pay a bill or two, and to do some more laundry.
But first....
I woke up after a good sleep. How did I know it was a good sleep? Well, I rarely dream, and I had a vivid dream during the night that has since faded from memory (like most dreams do). Once I was fully conscious, I warmed up some frozen quiche from Trader Joe's (Meh!) and sat down to fold some of last night's laundry. Even though the sock monster ate two of my ankle socks, I have more than enough to spare.
Next on the docket was paying some bills. Although my car insurance went up, I was glad to get this payment out of the way, as I expect even more bills to come up before the end of the month, as well as a funds transfer to pay for work being done on the family homestead. AARGH! Yet, one good thing came of this - I found out why credit card payments to one account weren't being processed. It seems like the partner bank for one of my cards had changed, along with both account number and lockbox addresses. So I updated this information, and I hope that next month all will be OK.
Finally, I got around to doing my laundry. Two loads washed and dried, but not yet folded. I will need to do this before the weekend, as I have to bring a packed suitcase along with me as I drive RQS home after the upcoming weekend. This way, when I go there by train, I'll have my carry-on, my CPAP machine, and maybe my backpack.
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One item of mote: Today, I read a report where US Customs detained a US Citizen and his wife at the Canadian border, and made him surrender his cell phone - even after he noted that he was an attorney, and had sensitive information on it. Even bright red congressional districts have had enough of this crap and are complaining. The US Citizen and his wife were eventually released, but what does this say about the heavy handed treatment that ICE is showing people of all nationalities, including our own?
Given that I will be out of the US at least 3 times in the next 6 months, I wonder what will happen to me, as I am openly against this administration's actions. Will they subject me to the same headaches as this citizen experienced? Yes, I'll be traveling as a cisgender white male, and not the transgender woman I am. But how long will it be possible for me to deal with being in stealth mode, and when will they start hunting us down, like the Nazis did in the 1930's?
