I'm not sure we have what you call squash here (I'm in Canada; my dictionary says it's British), but I think it would prefer it; I'm not much into fizzy stuff.
You have, tucked in some drawer, a novel you wrote but never published.
Phone the doctors to cancel an arranged appointment if you can't make it there.
I don't have health insurance. So of course I'll properly call to cancel an appointment at the VA hospital. Don't want to piss them off and give them a reason to ban me from their proper medical services. It's just the right thing to do anyways.
You missed the past several year's worth of eclipses and meteor showers due to bad weather (cloudy and overcast).