We we got home in the evening yesterday, our tap water tasted strongly of chlorine. Before we noticed, a sip for me and a swallow for a family member gave us stomach pain for an hour.
Never experienced this in 14 years in the city.
Anyone else? Anyone with insight here?
Wow, even with the AI set to least aggressive, and on Chieftan difficulty, this game is frustrating! I forgot how quickly the other civs take up every square of land on the board, and relentlessly come for any stray square between your cities.
I do love the little animations, however, so detailed, and the battle voices are humorous.
I never forgot how the automated workers would build roads in every square! I think it was the one thing I could clearly remember about III.
I couldn't find II or the original Civ on Steam. Can anyone point me to where they might be available?
For me, I always leave a building before using a totem or the Scepter of Return. If feels so rude to cause a noisy implosion of air (what I imagine happens when something instantly disappears) inside a home or business!
Merlin takes forever to recognize the Gray Catbirds near me, minutes sometimes, and sometimes not at all. Their song is so incredibly varried! I see that they sometimes mimic other birds. Could they possibly mimic other things? The one I'm hearing today sounds like it has a squeaky toy in its repertoire!
I've been sick for a while. Maybe it's a post viral illness brought on by COVID, maybe it's POTS, there've been several other culprits considered by my medical team. In the last six months, it looks like I may be developing some kind of MCAS reactions in my skin. My dermatologist said the rash was a histamine reaction and I have mild dermatographia, so I have that much for official diagnosis at the moment. Currently we're investigating neurology issues. But there aren't any answers and I'm a bit adrift.
Anyway, when you look back to when you were new to MCAS, what do you wish you had known?
This is my third move since the beginning of my symptoms. I was miserable but functional for the first. I had a collapse midway through the second, and basically sat under a blanket on the couch and weakly directed where things should go. Even the movers were very concerned. This move, I have been very scared that I might push myself too hard and permanently injure myself. Whether its unreasonable or not, I also feared a heart attack.
I have been mostly good about not pushing to injury. Its hard to have to rely on my AuADHD family to do a majority of packing, cleaning, unpacking, organizing. They really just dont have a strong skill set for this kind of project. And there are some dysfunctional family dynamics too. So I can make detailed plans spanning days or weeks so no one is overwhelmed by too much labor, but I can't rely on them to follow through, even with many discussions ahead of time where I ask in so many ways "Does this look like something you could do? How can I change the plans to make it easier, better for you? How would you plan this? Oh, it looks good to you and you agree this is a good plan that you are willing to do these things?" But they can't, so even though the bulk of the move happened, the old apartment still has so much left to pack, clean and move.
The pains have mostly been joint pain in my knees, achilles tendon stiffness, and general pain when Im really unwell. I try not to bend down and stand up too often, but its hard to avoid. I haven't passed out, but if I stand too long, I run out of breath, my speech slurs and heavy brain fog comes on.
Today, I stretched my neck, felt a small pop/ click and had mild shooting pain on one side from my neck down to the elbow. I mentioned to my husband it happened and said something like "isn't it annoying when this happens and you have this kind of pain?" And he told me he has never had this kind of pain! For real, this has happened occassionally all my life and I thought it was normal. Now I'm wondering if I have hypermobility issues under my POTS!
The move continues, I am trying so hard to be kind to my body and work within my ability and energy. I hope we can live nicely in our new apartment, but worry that because I'm the mom, everything will continue to fall on me, but because i cannot do much, things will be cluttered and disorganized for a long time to come. They have not stepped up, even though I've stopped doing everything.