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Jun. 26th, 2014
These times are my times
Jun. 26th, 2014 08:53 amLast night I finished the novel I was listening to. This morning I got up and bought the next one and loaded it up on my phone and my tablet. I also renewed my library book and downloaded it to my Paperwhite and my phone. And... I'm still in bed.
I love that. Love it. No matter where I am when, whatever device I have next to me will have the book I want to read and know exactly where I was in the book when I put it down last time.
I remember, back in the olden days, I hated hard back books. I didn't like holding them, I didn't like carrying them around. So I would wait until a book came out in paperback before I bought it. And then there were books that came out only in trade paperback size which always pissed me off - the worst of all options.
I do not miss non digital books one tiny bit. There has always been so much good stuff to read and now there are so many so very easy glorious ways to read it all!
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I changed out the cover on my bed last night from the very light quilt to the duvet cover - sans duvet - that I use when it gets too hot. Turns out it was too early for the swap. I spent half of last night too hot and half too cold. One of the very worst things about summer is sleeping comfortably. One of the most marvelous things about really cold weather is getting into bed and burrowing under mounds of cozy warm covers. 79 days to go.
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Every day I do not invite Ann to lunch or dinner and/or leave my door open so she'll know to come in and visit, I feel horribly guilty. So, yes, I feel horribly guilty most of the time these days. I ran in to her again yesterday afternoon while she was chatting in the hall with another neighbor. She was telling her story about how Ron died which I have now hear about a million times. I know she needs a friend and someone to tell her stuff to over and over and over again but I just cannot be that person. She does have other friends, fortunately, who are better friends than I am but I still feel guilty.
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I have a couple of small online projects today and swimming at 11. No baseball tonight so I'll get some TiVo catching up done.
I love that. Love it. No matter where I am when, whatever device I have next to me will have the book I want to read and know exactly where I was in the book when I put it down last time.
I remember, back in the olden days, I hated hard back books. I didn't like holding them, I didn't like carrying them around. So I would wait until a book came out in paperback before I bought it. And then there were books that came out only in trade paperback size which always pissed me off - the worst of all options.
I do not miss non digital books one tiny bit. There has always been so much good stuff to read and now there are so many so very easy glorious ways to read it all!
---
I changed out the cover on my bed last night from the very light quilt to the duvet cover - sans duvet - that I use when it gets too hot. Turns out it was too early for the swap. I spent half of last night too hot and half too cold. One of the very worst things about summer is sleeping comfortably. One of the most marvelous things about really cold weather is getting into bed and burrowing under mounds of cozy warm covers. 79 days to go.
---
Every day I do not invite Ann to lunch or dinner and/or leave my door open so she'll know to come in and visit, I feel horribly guilty. So, yes, I feel horribly guilty most of the time these days. I ran in to her again yesterday afternoon while she was chatting in the hall with another neighbor. She was telling her story about how Ron died which I have now hear about a million times. I know she needs a friend and someone to tell her stuff to over and over and over again but I just cannot be that person. She does have other friends, fortunately, who are better friends than I am but I still feel guilty.
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I have a couple of small online projects today and swimming at 11. No baseball tonight so I'll get some TiVo catching up done.
Kind of a weird-ish day
Jun. 26th, 2014 06:42 pmThis morning I remembered that my stash of stuff for Goodwill was getting too big so I gathered it all up and stuffed it into the car and dropped it off on the way to the pool. Good job, me!
At the pool, I debuted new headphones. And I like them! I got good clear sound the whole time very comfortably and very less fiddly than the standard ones. I've had a hard time listening to podcasts and books because the other earphones were sometimes fine and sometimes not and with the spoken word, sound fading in and out does not make for very successful listening. This could be good. Very good.
It was hot in here all afternoon so I've got the air conditioner on and... ahhhhh. I may leave it on tonight. Maybe. It's lovely and cool outside but not inside.
Today in the snail mail, I got a short but really very nice note from a girl I went to high school with. She was collecting info for class news. I have, for nearly 50 years, carefully avoided and ignored any and all requests for class news from high school or college. I'm just not interested. But, her note was sweet and short and only asked if I were still alive. I knew she was still in North Carolina so I didn't figure we'd have to get together IRL.
She asked that I send her an email. I did - short and sweet. I got a nice return note with a high level overview of her life. She's on her second marriage with 5 step children and they bought and live in a house about 3 blocks from the house I mostly grew up in. She got big points for keeping it all short and sweet and not asking if I was on Facebook. But she lost a few by not Googling... since she knew my name (which is different than what it was in high school) a quick Google would have netted her exhausting details about my life as well as my email address. Oh well.
She'll publish my email address in class news and I'll hear from classmates I don't remember. It will be weird but fine.
I'm considering a trip to Ikea tomorrow. Maybe. They have a frying pan I want but that's really it. Is it worth a 25 minute drive and an annoying hike through the maze for one lousy frying pan? (I cannot order it online because their online ordering is broken and has been for 3 weeks - no sign they intend to fix it any time soon.) I think I'll decide tomorrow after my swim.
At the pool, I debuted new headphones. And I like them! I got good clear sound the whole time very comfortably and very less fiddly than the standard ones. I've had a hard time listening to podcasts and books because the other earphones were sometimes fine and sometimes not and with the spoken word, sound fading in and out does not make for very successful listening. This could be good. Very good.
It was hot in here all afternoon so I've got the air conditioner on and... ahhhhh. I may leave it on tonight. Maybe. It's lovely and cool outside but not inside.
Today in the snail mail, I got a short but really very nice note from a girl I went to high school with. She was collecting info for class news. I have, for nearly 50 years, carefully avoided and ignored any and all requests for class news from high school or college. I'm just not interested. But, her note was sweet and short and only asked if I were still alive. I knew she was still in North Carolina so I didn't figure we'd have to get together IRL.
She asked that I send her an email. I did - short and sweet. I got a nice return note with a high level overview of her life. She's on her second marriage with 5 step children and they bought and live in a house about 3 blocks from the house I mostly grew up in. She got big points for keeping it all short and sweet and not asking if I was on Facebook. But she lost a few by not Googling... since she knew my name (which is different than what it was in high school) a quick Google would have netted her exhausting details about my life as well as my email address. Oh well.
She'll publish my email address in class news and I'll hear from classmates I don't remember. It will be weird but fine.
I'm considering a trip to Ikea tomorrow. Maybe. They have a frying pan I want but that's really it. Is it worth a 25 minute drive and an annoying hike through the maze for one lousy frying pan? (I cannot order it online because their online ordering is broken and has been for 3 weeks - no sign they intend to fix it any time soon.) I think I'll decide tomorrow after my swim.