weekly update
Once a week seems a reasonably reasonable goal to aim for here -- my son has at least one day each week in which he is engaged enough with school that I am only occasionally needed to answer questions and assist in locating misplaced notebooks, which leaves both space and mood to write. Today is actually the second such day this week, but I spent the first enjoyably updating my Goodreads.
The wildfire smoke continues, although less so than it has been; my children have been outside for all of 20 minutes, and I made a trip to pickup books from the library & another one to get supplies from their school, both will no ill effect. The supply trip also included a bonus stop at 85C, a Taiwanese bread/dessert chain that I used to go to very often but have not been to since pandemic. I was pleased to find it open and uncrowded with sensible safety precautions taken, and all the people present wearing masks. Along with various buns for quick consumption (curry, hot dog, chocolate) I now have a box of mooncakes for Saturday to eat while spouse and I will finish Handsome Siblings.
In other pleasing news, the library has rejoined the state-wide free interlibrary loan service, so along with innumerable ebooks from many libraries plus paper books from the city-wide system I can once again get books from the academic libraries. In a way this is silly, I already have more books to read than I am likely to be able to finish in my lifetime, even with the typically high speed of my reading -- but I have never recovered from a book-poor childhood, more books is always good, and when I am curious about a thing I love being able to grab books from universities to find out about it. I am trying to keep the number of requests to a dull roar, as books on paper take me ten times longer than ebooks -- I keep misplacing them and then have to find them again before I can resume reading! How did I ever manage this competently for so many decades on end? Did those parts of my brain just get repurposed to other things once I started keeping track of my phone/ipad for reading purposes?
And finally, I have discovered a ridiculous new show on Netflix called Sing On! which is a karaoke competition -- so far Germany and Spain are up on the site and they are charmingly odd in different ways and make excellent before-bed television that does not require actual thought or emotional engagement beyond 'Wow, that Celine Dion song!' and 'Oh look finally a song that's not in English!' (Interestingly the version from Spain is about 50/50 USian songs and Spanish songs, the German version is like 95% songs from the US.)
The wildfire smoke continues, although less so than it has been; my children have been outside for all of 20 minutes, and I made a trip to pickup books from the library & another one to get supplies from their school, both will no ill effect. The supply trip also included a bonus stop at 85C, a Taiwanese bread/dessert chain that I used to go to very often but have not been to since pandemic. I was pleased to find it open and uncrowded with sensible safety precautions taken, and all the people present wearing masks. Along with various buns for quick consumption (curry, hot dog, chocolate) I now have a box of mooncakes for Saturday to eat while spouse and I will finish Handsome Siblings.
In other pleasing news, the library has rejoined the state-wide free interlibrary loan service, so along with innumerable ebooks from many libraries plus paper books from the city-wide system I can once again get books from the academic libraries. In a way this is silly, I already have more books to read than I am likely to be able to finish in my lifetime, even with the typically high speed of my reading -- but I have never recovered from a book-poor childhood, more books is always good, and when I am curious about a thing I love being able to grab books from universities to find out about it. I am trying to keep the number of requests to a dull roar, as books on paper take me ten times longer than ebooks -- I keep misplacing them and then have to find them again before I can resume reading! How did I ever manage this competently for so many decades on end? Did those parts of my brain just get repurposed to other things once I started keeping track of my phone/ipad for reading purposes?
And finally, I have discovered a ridiculous new show on Netflix called Sing On! which is a karaoke competition -- so far Germany and Spain are up on the site and they are charmingly odd in different ways and make excellent before-bed television that does not require actual thought or emotional engagement beyond 'Wow, that Celine Dion song!' and 'Oh look finally a song that's not in English!' (Interestingly the version from Spain is about 50/50 USian songs and Spanish songs, the German version is like 95% songs from the US.)
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I've noticed this, too -- unless I keep the books in a couple of predictable locations (work bag, bedside table) I just lose track of them. And even in my work bag, if I've not used it for a while, like now, I'm very surprised to discover what books I've stashed in there XD
I think the brain repurposing thing is real, too. I used to be very good at remembering strings of numbers, so remembering telephone numbers was never a challenge. Nowadays, I don't actually remember any phone number that became relevant after I got my cell phone except for my own (and my husband's, but that's only because it's the same as mine with a couple of digits reversed). /o\
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