Nonsense first. Back when, I collected retellings of “The King of the Cats.” This one came across my FB feed last night. I’m not sure the link will work, but on the off-chance: The King of the Cats
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I’ve been needing a lot of extra therapy sessions lately. Happily, my counselor is flexible:
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Monday. Sunny and starting to warm up toward our climactic Unsafe Heat Event, scheduled for Thursday.
Plans for the day include calling the peach ripe, cutting it up and having it for breakfast with cottage cheese. Because I can. After, I’ll go on back to Steve’s office and do some writing.
Yesterday afternoon went pear-shaped. I threw the bedclothes in to wash and the washing machine lost its mind — it entered the spin cycle, and then would start over with a rinse, over and over and over (the water district sent me a message last night that my water use was 2.5X over the average, and I might have a leak). I finally managed to get a half-spin, and dragged the soggy sheets out to the wooden laundry dryer I’d gotten out of the basement and set up on the (sunny at that point) deck, and — long story short; everything worked out, but I always feel like it’s somehow my fault when stoopid technical stuff happens, and that if Steve were here, it wouldn’t have happened.
Which! Is patently wrong, and I can very vividly remember several times when Technology Struck and Steve was standing Right There.
Given the above, I did not attempt to double-string my mobile, but settled down with my ice tea and a book, and then there was the non-thunderstorm, and from there it just all spiraled into an unhappy evening.
Hoping for better today.
I’m about 230 pages into Alliance of Equals, which I recall many people complaining about. So far, I’m finding it much better written than Dragon in Exile, which surprises me, and not at all off-putting. Of course, I don’t mind books that jump around, so long as the author makes clear where we are, and so far the author has done so. Well. Maybe it all falls apart at the end. We’ll see.
And all that said? I’d best get breakfast and start the day.
What’s the weather where you are?
And, for those who are still with me — here’s the rest of the story:
We’ve been under a heat dome in Europe for more than a week, suffering unprecedented hot temperatures for which our housing isn’t prepared – no more than 20% have airco. I am very relieved that in the Netherlands it has just started to move off, but despite 1 cooler night the house is still warm. We built our houses from concrete and stone over here, so they don’t immediately overheat, but after a few days the heat has soaked into the walls, ceilings and floors, and it takes more than one cool night to cool the house down again.
Please take good care of yourself if your area is expecting such heat!
Where I am, we had four days of hazardous heat levels in a row — reaching 36° C on the final day. And in about ten days time, we have a possible 41°C to look forward to. Stay safe.