Knowing Where To Look, Or Ask

We got off to a slow start this morning. I was awake during the night, so I was glad that sleep revisited me, and I didn't get up until 8:30. Tom helped me re-tape my foot yesterday. Today I had set aside time to contact doctors. I emailed my Group Health primary care physician, updating her on my visits to my referred podiatrist. I continued to play telephone tag with the podiatrist. I sure love being able to use email. My primary care doc responded within several hours. Then I pursued the night splint the podiatrist had recommended. He wrote me a prescription, but when I took it to the Group Health pharmacy last week, they told me I could order it but it wasn't covered by my insurance policy. It is a $100 item, so I put it off. Today I pursued it, and this time I talked to the right person, a very nice lady at the GH Take Care Store. I scanned and emailed my prescription, she checked my coverage and called me back to arrange for me to pick up the splint at the local clinic, no shipping charges, for a total cost of $20. It pays to talk to the right person! Then I was wondering where my eBay purchase was. It was over two weeks ago that I made the purchase so it should have arrived. I wandered around the computer, striking out at emailing the seller, until finally I went to the right place, My eBay, and found the tracking number. The USPS has had it somewhere in Seattle since the 15th and today was the last day of the window for delivery. Good, now I had the right information, finally. "Hmmm, I thought, "I don't think we ever got any mail yesterday. Could it be that there is a package on the front porch?" Eureka! It was a bit cold and damp, but there it was. When we gave Isaac and Irene a puppet stage for Christmas, I also gave them lots of animal puppets, including a lion and a mouse, and I demonstrated the Aesop's fable story. Irene said she knew that story. It was on PBS Kids, on the computer! Sure enough, she showed me the little animated version, modernized with the mouse and the lion going grocery shopping. I wanted them to have a collection of the fables in a more original version. Shopping on line, I found this 2000 edition, which seemed to be just what I wanted. It was out of stock at Amazon and book stores, but I located a copy on eBay for only $7.00, brand new. I just had to find the right place to shop, and finally the right place to find it upon delivery! Tom declared that it was too cold to work outside today. He says he has standards, and those standards include not going outside to work in the yard when it's below 40 degrees, especially when it's spitting rain. At 39.8, now at 3:30, it's the warmest it's been all day. So this afternoon, while I was doing my workout on the stationary bike, he has been searching for information via Ancestry.com. He just extended his contract with them to search in Canadian records. He reports he didn't find any new information today. But eventually he will. You just have to know where to look.