Wednesday

[susandennis]

Today is housecleaner Wednesday. Except no. She is still coming to clean the unit across the hall every two weeks but I'm just not ready. And house cleaners are specifically called out on the governor's schedule as phase 3. We are currently in Phase 1*

She is, contrary to the beginning, now very responsive to texts so that helps with the planning. Since she's here, I just tape her pay in an envelope to my front door and she picks it up when she comes to clean the neighbors. I'm actually pretty sanguine about the whole thing. It's nice not to have to stress about where to go while she's here. And I've been doing a pretty good job of keeping the place up. It could use a good dusting but I sure as hell am not going to do that what with my lungs' love of dust. I have gotten pretty good at toilet cleaning and turning on the vacuum robot.

And, I really don't mind paying her. She's cleaned my house now for more than 10 years. I feel like it's a contribution to Covid-19 relief.

And it makes me feel safer to do it all this way.

*Interestingly New Zealand went exactly the opposite direction. We have 4 Phases with 4 being pretty much All Back To 'normal'. New Zealand has 4 Alert Levels with 1 being their pretty much all back to normal. I'm pretty sure we went with phases because alerts are too scary for us. Precious flowers that we are. But I do wonder about how the tilt was decided 4 the worst? 4 the best?

I fell asleep quickly last night and slept through until 5 this morning before I had to get up and pee. I usually get up several times, but not last night. So I figured my Fitbit sleep score would be way higher. Wrong. Fitbit thinks I slept like I always do. Pish Tosh. What does it know anyway?

There were workers today at T-Mobile Park!! Last season, they announced upgrades to the park. One of them was to open up the north entrance and make it less of a bottleneck. That's the entrance I pass by each morning. In January they put up a fence around it and were working on it but by March the work had stopped. Today, it appears, it may be starting again! Kewel. Nice to see some signs of life there. They are going to start using the parking lot (on the far side from the north entrance) for Covid-19 testing. But, I think what I saw this morning was park upgrade work.

I'm reading (listening to) The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves. My brother (bill_schubert) found her first. I never even thought to look for who wrote the books behind the TV show Vera. We both belong to the Vera fan club so finding her books should have been obvious to me but it was not. Anyway, the book, the first in the series, has the same slow, deliberate pace of the shows, but, I'm now a third into it and so far, no sign of Vera at all! I thought it was too slow for me at first and I put it down and picked up another, completely different novel, and listened to it for a couple of hours. All the while, I'm wondering what was happening with the characters in Crow Trap. So I came back and it's just so lovely to read. I have no idea where it's going and I don't care. I'm just enjoying the ride.

I have plenty of dinner food in the house but I'm running low on stuff for lunch. I have a hole in between snacks and dinner. Maybe I should just eat up my snacks at lunch time. I do have Costco cheeseburgers in the freezer, I should pull one of those out to thaw.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Poor old sticky is tucked behind you. I saw Biggie take it there. Just in case you wondered where it had gone.

[susandennis]

hahaha I didn't know it was there! Biggie, you are busted!

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

I've not read any of Cleeves' Vera books, but I love her Shetland series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez. Also adore the TV adaptation (Shetland) which is on Netflix (at least in Canada).

[susandennis]

I had no idea she had another series! bill_schubert - Vera's relatives - 5 seasons on Britbox!!

Thanks siobhan63!

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I knew about the Shetland series but must have looked in the wrong place and couldn't find them. Good job @siobhand63

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We watch both Shetland and Vera when they show up on our local PBS station. Shetland, like Vera, is kind of slow and, if anything, darker, and the accents are impenetrable in a different way, but we’ve mostly enjoyed them. I had not taken in that they were based on the same author. One difference between the shows is that, white Vera has a different case every show, Shetland does a season of about six episodes covering a single story.

[susandennis]

Funny how Shetland has just totally escaped my world until now. Good to have expectations set. Thanks.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Guffawing at the idea of alerts frightening the horses! Phases do sound very...gentle. It should really be Panic Levels 1-4 if we're really being honest about it.

[rejectomorph]

It's probably best to have higher numbers for situations that are more grave, just in case they keep getting worse beyond what we are expecting. Then the zombie apocalypse could be, say, alert level 7, instead of phase negative 2.

But then, they might not have been thinking about that. Maybe they just did it that way because New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere, and thus everything there is upside down.

[susandennis]

hahahaha i mean toilets that flush backward... right??!

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

We have red/yellow/green rather than numbers. Green sounds like it should be back to normal but it isn't.

I enjoy Ann Cleeves' books.