How the work day began:
All righty, then. Sunday. Sunny and warm, with a soft breeze.
Tali does good work. She got 1,020 new words outta me on behalf of the characters, and the WIP has broken 40,000 words.
I hereby declare this Good Progress.
There were exactly eight people in the audience at yesterday’s 4:30 show of Hadestown. I decided to do the thing right, and actually got a small bag of popcorn — buttered, of course — to go with my water. I haven’t had buttered popcorn for … probably decades. It was good.
I had, I thought, oversupplied myself with tissues, but it turned out that I had just enough.
Even though, yes — I know how it ends.
This time I was able to watch some of the stage work, which I really like to do, and also to admire the work of the chorus, and of the Fates — in particular the Fate who played the accordion. Good Ghod, that woman was menacing.
Also, the reason why Hades made that particular condition came home harder for me this time.
So! An afternoon well-spent. I stopped at the grocery on my way home and bought a frozen pizza to have with my wine. That was good, too.
Socks are currently drying, and I? Have had another brainstorm, which I will be acting on after lunch. Disposable litter pans complete with litter are A Thing, and if I take a few on, then I can make sure that the cats have clean facilities while the Magic Dust is working without having to Disinfect the World every day. I do believe my brain used to work faster than this, but I guess I ought to just be pleased that I got there, eventually.
The page magnifier arrived just a few minutes ago, and initial testing indicates that I made a good buy. For everyone who is trying to Help by suggesting that I get a Kindle or reading glasses —
1 I have a tablet with the Kindle app (among others), and it works swell. Only — Not All Books have electronic editions. And it happens that I have several of that class of book that I need to read.
2 I have reading glasses — all kinds of reading glasses! — and I agree that they Ought To Work. Only, they don’t. I have, honest, tried.
2A I had cataract surgery some time — a year, or more, I think — before Steve died.
I think that catches us up on the day. I’ll be going out after lunch, then coming home to work on stuff for my class. Tomorrow morning, I need to pick up the Magic Dust from the vet.
So! How are you spending the day?
I got back from music camp late last night, so I’m still recovering from that a bit. Camp itself was lovely, the performances were once again better than last year, so now we’re reaching the stratosphere.
Camp is full of geeks of various sorts, so I got to talk up the Liaden universe a bit, which is fun. Rig Tranza would find many like minds in this group with respect to music.
I’m interested in your page magnifier. Can you say which, how, how much, how well? I love reading ebooks for the text setting, and Opera browser for its text zoom & flow for reading websites (I don’t think any others do this). With pbooks I need a very bright light.
BTW I often hum a song from my youth called “Standing up is hard to do” or similar. I reckon you’d know it.
I have this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX7D1SP6