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Monday, March 8, 2021

International Women's Day!

I have a movie recommendation today: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. It's available on Netflix right now, I don't know for how long. It is a story of China and Chinese culture, and moves between the 1800s and recent times. It is about sisterhood: Not sisters by blood, but by arrangement, like arranged marriages. It is also about foot-binding, and other ways in which women in long Chinese tradition are encouraged to some behaviors and relationships, discouraged from others. I hear the book is... Sign in to see full entry.

Night and Day

I really like getting things done in the morning, especially going out things, like shopping. Today I got to hit Trader Joe's before 8:30, and grab all sorts of things I have missed for a while. If I get to noon without getting errands run, I feel I have missed the whole day. Usually I like to go out with Charlie, and the thing is, he likes to sleep in the morning. In fact, his bedtime schedule is practically the opposite of mine, and of most of the diurnal world. This morning, however, like... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Having luck in the hours of darkness

After getting up at 4am yesterday morning, I was prepared all day to either take a nap or go to bed early. As it turned out, going to bed at 9:30 was the nap. I woke up around 1am and was pretty much wide awake. With a sigh, I got out of my warm nest of a bed, and went to the kitchen to heat some soup. I fired up the laptop again, and cruised through facebook. At around 1:30, Charlie posted that he needed to take one of his cats to the vet today. Sokka, the cat who is mentally part dog, was... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 5, 2021

The excellent very good day!

Not only did I get laundry done today, not only is it near 60F outside, I have now also received my covid vaccine, and it is the Johnson and Johnson one, so done in a single shot. In case you wonder, it is not a very painful shot--a bit more feely than a flu shot, but not as bad as, say, a penicillin shot. edit: I forgot to mention another great discovery... Kaiser has just this past month opened a new facility that's just about a mile from home, with full services--So no more driving 10 mile... Sign in to see full entry.

Finally...!

Scheduled for my first covid vac shot in about an hour! Sign in to see full entry.

Reaching out from the comfort zone

As these strange and troubling times drag on, it seems many of us are falling into a kind of personal doldrums, and it becomes easier to sit back and simply not engage. It's certainly where I am at these days. Not exactly depressed, but just not wanting to reach out from the comfort-routine I've been in for a year now. Every now and then, though, words actually want to break out of my head, and I find that some things are worth writing about. I often read you, my Blogit friends here, and some... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Adventures in Publishing

After a silence of many days, I finally connected with IngramSpark to see how my little book is coming along. They tell me it is already released. This, without my having yet seen the hard copy proof. Seems they don't do hard copy proofs, but I can order a copy through them, and if any corrections are required, it will cost me another $25 to upload them. Well, I have ordered a single copy through them, and with all the little extras it will cost me over $8 to get it in my hands in a week or two.... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 26, 2021

I should have realized...

Elder Cat Embers, since I adopted her 5 years ago, has had mouth troubles. It's called stomatitis, and is, more or less, an autoimmune disease that manifests as being, essentially, allergic to her teeth. So we had the teeth, mostly--except for, ironically, her canines--surgically removed. And she takes steroids daily, to suppress the condition. So, I have only just realized why she's been shying from her water bowl even when it is freshly filled: The cold water hurts her mouth. Since I have... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Yoyo Winter

The snow began yesterday evening, falling through near freezing air, so large, fluffy flakes. There is now, around 9:15 AM, a depth of nearly a foot. It will reach it, if it continues much longer. So, the house being all close and kitcheny, I have done the counter-intuitive: Doors and windows are open, overhead fan is on, heat is on higher than usual. It's time to freshen up! The doves are in residence on the deck, well out of the falling snow. I see they are adding twigs to the nest, and I'm... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Another launch...!

In less than two minutes now, another rocket will launch on its way to the International Space Station. Not as big a deal as manned flights or journeys to other worlds, but even so, I watch with fascination and a kind of elation only a little dimmed by the awareness that things can go terribly, fatally wrong in an instant. I was in 4th grade when the teachers wheeled a tv on a tall cart into the classroom to watch John Glenn launch into orbit, and at that age could hardly comprehend the enormity... Sign in to see full entry.

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