Heidi, in the old days the doctor would simply admit you to the hospital for a day or two to run a battery of tests. Too bad those days are gone. Now the system is a mess for getting tests done. It sounds like you'd get a chest x-ray and possibly an echocardiogram through the ER along with your blood work. If you need to have a cardiac stress test your doctor has to set up an appointment for you to have that done outpatient.

It's in the low 70s and will climb a few degrees higher. A sun and clouds mix day. We did get some rain here last night to wash the pollen off the car. Navy blue is just as bad as black with the pollen being so noticable. We have more windy days than not so the pollen gets blown all over the place.

The tech from the water company just installed the new water meter a while ago. The meter itself is encased in dark plastic so you can't read numbers anymore. The outside panel it's attached to by a wire threaded through a small hole in the wall emits the RFID signal for remote reading. This is the last of the utility devices to go RFID for meter reading. The gas and electric company switched the gas meters to this a couple of years pre-Covid and has switched the electric meters over these past couple of years. Our electric meter was updated last fall. On occasion I've seen the gas and electric meter reader slowly driving around the neighborhood to collect the signals from everyone's meters on meter reading days.

Our water charges are billed quarterly and they don't list the next meter read on people's accounts. I just paid our latest bill over the weekend.

My errant paperback mystery novel missing in action from my Amazon order that is being shipped through UPS was mistakenly sent from a northern NJ distribution center down to Maryland on Saturday and was shipped back up last night. The book came from an Amazon warehouse in Kentucky to begin with, so its had a little adventure in traveling the mid-atlantic states on its way to me. It's finally in a local delivery truck and should be here some time this afternoon. I was originally supposed to get it Sunday. It's one of the titles from the Meg Langslow humorous cozy mysteries series by Donna Andrews. For some reason my in-county Barnes and Noble stores only carry one or two books from this popular series, so I need to buy the rest online. The only independent bookstore in town is a small romance novels only bookstore. The regular independent bookstore closed up shop back in the late 90s before we got a Barnes and Noble here in town. The other Barnes and Noble is in a neighboring town. The only other in-county bookstores are a couple of tiny religious books stores since the local shopping malls no longer have bookstores and Borders books is long, long gone.
Unfortunately you now need to spend a minimum of $40 to get free shipping from Barnes and Noble's website, it used to be only $25, unless you have their pricey premium membership. I don't. I just have their basic membership which is free. So Amazon has been helpful for acquiring books individually that aren't at the nearby bookstores.