Around The World In 24 Hours

May. 21st, 2025 09:42 am
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You know those books where one day takes hundreds of pages? I'm in a bestseller titled _From 101.3 to 97.8 in 24 Hours_. Side effects were bonus scenes nobody wanted.

Now I hear the siren call, "Hi ho, hi ho! It's back to bed I go."

Tiny Drawers

May. 14th, 2025 01:27 am
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I now have an 8x8 case of tiny drawers. It arrived Monday. Some drawers are labeled, some are not. Labels include:


Read more... )

The effort has taken most of my day, organized several drawers, and made my desk completely incoherent. Good times.

Lounging

May. 12th, 2025 07:53 pm
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I'm not sure if I actually shared the Saga of the Three Infusion Recliners, so: an infusion center was upgrading, and had three chairs that they needed to get rid of. Preferably quickly. Preferably for free. So their admin made a Craigslist post. I managed to fit two into my Toaster simultaneously, then came back for the third once I'd unloaded them at home.

One is out front, and is the perfect spot for Lounging. Which I have been doing a lot of during this whole knee crisis. The position is perfect for not putting stress on my knee in a way that staying in bed isn't.

I now have various Implements (bought, scrounged, repurposed) to make the Lounge go better/more smoothly.

List )

What happens is I tend to refill my water bottle, prepare snack and drink, then put those out. Those tend to require more dexterity. Then I haul out the bag and unpack what I need. I put the chair in lounge mode. (On bad days sometimes I have a hard time getting out of it, if pain has decided to borrow all my strength.) Often enough I will set an audiobook going while I play clicky-games, or work on whatever craft. Or I'll read an ebook. Or chat with [personal profile] norabombay, since Lounge Time tends to overlap with Phone Time.

Currently my reading lineup is:
Celia Lake's magical romance/mysteries
An audiobook just for myself: Downbelow Station (2/2)
Bird pun humorous mystery series in audiobook (bedtime Please Don't Be Awake All Night distracting noise, rotating through the series about 1.5 times per year): currently on Lord of the Wings
Penric: saving this for with Belovedest
Audiobook of Murder with Peacocks, with [personal profile] alexseanchai so the weird radio noises in my bluetooth-to-car setup aren't as much Nope (first book in the bird pun mystery series)
Something suitably free on my e-reader

Occasionally I will hop inside, to refresh my iced drink and the ice cup, avail myself of the facilities, and maybe re-ice the spray jar.

Eventually, when the black-eyed juncos start trilling continuously, I start thinking about going back in. (Guess who just got the Merlin app specifically to identify the heralds of twilight)

I am working on getting to know the local crows. The other day one sat on the top of the Big Umbrella. I got a selfie. I'd long ago decided on my carefully species neutral greeting to them: "Hello, corvids!" -- there are both crows and ravens in the area, though more crows. Probably some Rrows and Cravens too.

Knee!

May. 12th, 2025 01:15 pm
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Tuesday I had an appointment with a physician assistant about my left knee. I'm apparently screamish about the details when I'm in that much pain, so I asked to skip a lot of the explanations I would have otherwise found fascinating.

I got an injection )

PA Fox warned me not to overdo things on the lidocaine, but the steroid should be taking effect over this past week. And it has! It's down to a normal sort of ow, and I don't have to use a cane to go from bed to the bathroom. I've still been lounging outside quite a bit (the only position that didn't hurt previously) but for pleasure, not from necessity.

Edit: And then I managed to stumble within the last half hour and it hurts badly again. I was lucky to have a cane nearby. We'll see what it does over the course of the afternoon.

catching up

May. 9th, 2025 05:25 pm
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I keep falling into various binge readings and rereadings, & falling behind on things, both online and off-.

Most Aprils, ze spouse & I take 4 days & make a trip to a town within driving distance.  The last few years we've gone to Charleston, Asheville, Nashville, Beaufort [SC]; this year was Chattanooga.  We didn't make it to the Towing Museum, but did make it to the art museum, several parks, & the botanical garden [which was mostly wild woods, not all curated like ours in Atlanta].  It was lots of fun, although my feet didn't quit whimpering for several days.

A couple of years ago, when I was discovering Alice Coldbreath?  I reread her so obsessively, I was afraid I'd be like Jo Walton, who laments she's read her favorites so often, she's memorized them, and can't read them anymore.  It's been over a year and a half now, & I'm launched onto what may well be a dozen book binge.  Part of the reason I waited so long, I was panting for the next Karadok book.  Instead, she published a spinoff of the Prizefighter series.  I'll probably read & enjoy it, but am still eagerly awaiting more Karadok.

What all are y'all reading these days?
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