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susandennisLast night I bitched about MLB's At Bat app not being updated yet. Looks like this morning, the fix is in. Go me! The first spring training game for the Mariners is Thursday. Yahoo! (The At Bat app is the only way I can listen to Spring Training games (most of which are not televised) on the 'radio' since I don't get AM radio here in the house and there's no internet streaming outside of At Bat.) $20 but a season of baseball? I'm in.
My wifi (although, more likely, my internet) has been going in and out all morning. I am getting a little weary of network issues.
I am pretty caught up in everything. The laundry is done, the kitchen is clean, the bills are paid. Next week starts a new insurance plan, medicare, Silver Sneakers... so I'll be investigating new swimming options, updating drug stuff, fill prescriptions, etc. But I've done all I can until the first of the month.
I'm now listening to the very last in Amisted Maupin's Tales of the City series. I'm amazed that it has lasted so long. I'm so grateful that Maupin is still alive and was willing to write one more. I read each one in the series, as they came out, and reread them until the next one was released. In the early years, these books shaped much of my thinking about people, about relationships, about differences. So it's with a combination of sadness and nostalgia and joy that I'm listening to the last one. I don't want it to end. My rule will be that I only listen to it before bed so that way I can make it last as long as possible.
I think I'll get up, get dressed, reboot both the modem and the router, make breakfast and do some knitting or reading of the Twitter book - which is really kind of fascinating - until time to leave for the pool.
My wifi (although, more likely, my internet) has been going in and out all morning. I am getting a little weary of network issues.
I am pretty caught up in everything. The laundry is done, the kitchen is clean, the bills are paid. Next week starts a new insurance plan, medicare, Silver Sneakers... so I'll be investigating new swimming options, updating drug stuff, fill prescriptions, etc. But I've done all I can until the first of the month.
I'm now listening to the very last in Amisted Maupin's Tales of the City series. I'm amazed that it has lasted so long. I'm so grateful that Maupin is still alive and was willing to write one more. I read each one in the series, as they came out, and reread them until the next one was released. In the early years, these books shaped much of my thinking about people, about relationships, about differences. So it's with a combination of sadness and nostalgia and joy that I'm listening to the last one. I don't want it to end. My rule will be that I only listen to it before bed so that way I can make it last as long as possible.
I think I'll get up, get dressed, reboot both the modem and the router, make breakfast and do some knitting or reading of the Twitter book - which is really kind of fascinating - until time to leave for the pool.
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Date: 2014-02-25 09:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-26 03:15 am (UTC)I love all the surprise twists and a revisit of two of the original characters thought long gone from way back in Tales.
I first read the books back in 2001, but knew of Tales of the City itself back when it first aired on PBS and managed to tape the whole thing as I knew something of the book, and its fictional address, 28 Barbary Lane, where and how, I don't know, but I understood at the time (1994) the significance of it. I'm glad I did record it when I did as I about wore out those tapes, and now have the DVD's of the first 3 books (and all the books, including Tolliver Lives) in my book collection.
Great stuff he did back then, and now I'll agree.
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Date: 2014-02-26 03:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-26 03:27 am (UTC)Anyway, glad it's out as I have my suspicions about what Anna discovers in her journey back to Winnemucca to her roots.
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Date: 2014-02-26 01:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-02-26 03:00 pm (UTC)