Adventures in trying out adhd medication at work, days 1-2

Monday I took my trial dose in the morning, but I left the lunchtime dose on the counter and forgot to bring it to work with me.

Yesterday I took the meds to work, but I forgot to take them at lunchtime. Already worn off, or they don't help with absent-mindedness in quite that way...?

Monday on top of everything else I also left my work key at work, because, well:

I use a usb stick to transfer images to the tv in the front window. I had just put a new image on it and was carrying it back to the tv and bumped the doorframe with my hand, knocking the usb stick out of it, but I didn't hear it plink on the floor! I spent an hour looking everywhere for it, crawling around on the floor, sweeping, looking behind and under the furniture and up high and all kinds of places it couldn't've possibly gone. I took my shoes off twice and turned down the twice-folded cuffs of my trousers, also twice. No dice. Finally I consulted the manual and figured out how to get the images onto the tv internal storage, but to do that I had to use my own usb stick that travels with me on my work keychain. I plugged the keychain into the tv, copied to the tv, then took the stick back, but then I discovered a mistake and had to go back and do it again and that time I forgot to get the stick back out of the tv. It stayed there, with my keys attached to it.

Then right before the Meeting of Doom, I crouched down for something and heard a little plink and the usb stick fell out of the hem of my right trouser leg, where I had already looked like twice, mind you. I suppose just folding it down and feeling it wasn't enough: I should have unfolded it all the way and jumped up and down. So the usb stick was recovered, but I locked my keys inside.

In the morning yesterday I had to text my boss to get someone to let me in, and she was in a meeting at first but she managed to let me in within half an hour, and before the Severe Weather arrived in earnest. (It did rain while I was waiting under the awning by the door, but the awning saved me. The really intense rain and wind came later.)

Yesterday I had a much nicer work day after that, though. It wasn't so hot anymore. Nothing really strained my powers of focusing though, so it's hard to say much about the medication yet.

Ikkunaentisöinti 😰

Wax and I are understandably trepidatious of beginning the task of removing and restoring all thirty-something* windows in our house. But the house has decided for us.

The putty holding the glass into the frame is peeling away from the outer pane of one of the bedroom windows so it's an emergency. We don't have time to restore it before winter because of how long it takes to cure and dry putty and linseed oil paint, but we're going to have to start as soon as it gets warm again next spring.

So I've been forced to order a window restoring kit, and in Wax's second stretch of two week vacation in a few weeks we will have to make our first attempts on one of the less important windows from the enclosed porch.


*There are twelve quadrilateral holes in the house filled with panes of glass in the downstairs and nine upstairs, but unfortunately, most of them are traditional double glazed windows with two (independent) panes of glass. The downstairs ones mostly contain four windows - ie individual objects that will have to be separately removed and treated - while two of the ones upstairs contain six each. On the plus side, each window only has one pane of glass, so no delicate little muntins.



Wax's wfh office a few weeks ago with one of the upstairs triple windows (6 because double) above the heteka; and the front of the house showing the kitchen window (two main panes and two side panes that open for ventilation), complete with Anubis, on the right