Lego anticipation
May. 17th, 2022 02:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichTomorrow, or rather (since it is the middle of the night) later today a Lego kit I want will be offered for sale. It's a limited run item and I will likely have to set an alarm to make sure I'm online as soon as sales open. It is a ski chalet of the Swiss style. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/849c03ee-e2ae-41d5-9450-6efa53808340 So. Cool. Lego started doing these limited-run things after they opened up competitions for the designs. They use some "winning" designs to kick start their own kits but people were unhappy not being able to get what they'd voted to support, so in comes the limited-run bit.
Still, it is almost $200 for this thing. Then again, if I don't get around to building it, it will be a solid investment to hand down to my children. The value never decreases on unopened box kits, especially when they are rare. I've got (opened and built) kits I bought for $35 a decade ago that are now on the market unopened at $500 or more! (The opened kits are worth about $200, so that's not bad either.)
I saw my Endocrinologist today. There I was, waiting in an examination room, when the sky opened up with a loud and wind-crazy thunderstorm. And my car? It was in the parking lot with the windows cracked open because it'd been hot and clouds were barely on the horizon when I parked it. 20 minutes later the micro-storm blew in and was bad enough to knock out electricity in the medical center's office. I heard that we had 60 mile an hour wind gusts and there ewas flooding on most of the streets I had to drive over to get home. I can attest to gustiness all right - there was blown rain on the inside of my windshield and on top of the can of soda I had in the center console. And I'd only cracked the windows less than a inch. It's a durned good thing that I was wearing jeans and a linen shirt because I was soaked by the water in my car seat by the time I drove home.
That family practitioner who I'd seen for a wellness check and argued with, who I'd posted about earlier when I was ticked off about her, she did order the tests that my Endo normally runs after all so he could not order them for this visit and will have to wait until after August to get them run again. I am so glad I will not be seeing that woman again. I have an appointment with another one of the doctors in the clinic whence my soon-too-retire GP works (the not-good doctor works there too and was supposed to be his replacement) and we'll see if this one is someone I can trust. I sure hope so. I don't really want to have to find a new office to visit. And I need to get the bad doc off of the care system's computer listing showing her as my primary GP. I didn't know that one visit would allow the system to annotate her as my doctor but I will leave the whole health care system to avoid having to deal with her again. I'm not going to be shy telling them that.
Still, it is almost $200 for this thing. Then again, if I don't get around to building it, it will be a solid investment to hand down to my children. The value never decreases on unopened box kits, especially when they are rare. I've got (opened and built) kits I bought for $35 a decade ago that are now on the market unopened at $500 or more! (The opened kits are worth about $200, so that's not bad either.)
I saw my Endocrinologist today. There I was, waiting in an examination room, when the sky opened up with a loud and wind-crazy thunderstorm. And my car? It was in the parking lot with the windows cracked open because it'd been hot and clouds were barely on the horizon when I parked it. 20 minutes later the micro-storm blew in and was bad enough to knock out electricity in the medical center's office. I heard that we had 60 mile an hour wind gusts and there ewas flooding on most of the streets I had to drive over to get home. I can attest to gustiness all right - there was blown rain on the inside of my windshield and on top of the can of soda I had in the center console. And I'd only cracked the windows less than a inch. It's a durned good thing that I was wearing jeans and a linen shirt because I was soaked by the water in my car seat by the time I drove home.
That family practitioner who I'd seen for a wellness check and argued with, who I'd posted about earlier when I was ticked off about her, she did order the tests that my Endo normally runs after all so he could not order them for this visit and will have to wait until after August to get them run again. I am so glad I will not be seeing that woman again. I have an appointment with another one of the doctors in the clinic whence my soon-too-retire GP works (the not-good doctor works there too and was supposed to be his replacement) and we'll see if this one is someone I can trust. I sure hope so. I don't really want to have to find a new office to visit. And I need to get the bad doc off of the care system's computer listing showing her as my primary GP. I didn't know that one visit would allow the system to annotate her as my doctor but I will leave the whole health care system to avoid having to deal with her again. I'm not going to be shy telling them that.
