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Well, yesterday was something of a grind. Today doesn't look much better. I worked my way through several implementation issues, hooking up a nifty front-end to NIS and getting the first page of the health monitoring system together (it's a basic HTML form with no confirmations-- whoop de do), so I'm unimpressed with my progress on that front.

After meeting Omaha and Kouryou-chan at the Costco warehouse market, we did our monthly shopping. A long time ago we acquired a rugged, plastic shopping cart just perfect for a child Kouryou-chan's size and she had a lot of fun driving it around and putting into it the things that would fit in its minescule basket: a shaving kit, a plastic bottle of maple syrup, a package of batteries, stuff like that. While we were walking around she announced "I have to go potty."

So I took her to the bathroom, leaving her little cart with its stuff outside the door since the sign on the door said "No merchandise in the bathroom."

When we finally came back out, her cart was gone, but the stuff that had been in it was left on the floor! Someone had stolen our toy shopping cart!

We alerted store security, but I managed to find it. Another family had walked off with it, thinking that it was something the store had provided. Nevermind that it was parked in a spot next to the restrooms intended for shopping carts in use, or that it had been full when they'd found it.

Some people.

Kouryou-chan fell asleep on the drive home, and was very hard to wake up. I managed to get her awake with a combination offer of something to drink and to read her one of the Frog & Toad stories. We ended up reading four and then I helped her work her way through several puzzles in a book of mazes we had bought for her. I'm helping her work her way through subtraction on her fingers. Omaha made a very yummy shrimp curry with raisins and apples. Kouryou-chan ate her rice and some of the fruit, but wasn't thrilled with the shrimp.

Nobody slept well last night; Kouryou-chan is still haunted by the seziure and, after her impromptu nap, didn't want to sleep alone and didn't want to go to sleep at all. I lost an hour of sleep last night trying to convince her that she needed to go to sleep herself.

And if this morning is any indicator, I shall have to be wary. Omaha had run my thermos through the dishwasher and put it away, and I mistakenly assumed it was assembled correctly. So after making myself a tall coffee and putting it into the thermos, I cheerfully walked down to the bus stop-- to find the thermos leaking everywhere. The gasket was missing from the cap. Fortunately, I had a handkerchief with me and the gas station coughed up a few paper towels so no real harm was done. The grapefruit I bought for a dollar at Pike Place Market was dried out and nasty. I'm just having no luck today.

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