No Labour Day Holiday

I'm on holiday this week, No Labour Day Holiday, otherwise known as mental health time off.  It's been okay.  I visited M on Sunday as I did not have it together on Saturday.  [Nothing wrong, just inability to become fully conscious].  Monday was the Labour Day public holiday, so stuffed around at home, mostly reading the library books I had obtained earlier.

Tuesday did the food run and also some gardening.

In the evenings watched the two shows I discussed in my last post and also the news and a program on gender neutral people, mostly kids, from Four Corners.  It was good, though I'd like them to also feature older people, who certainly exist, e.g. Norrie who lives in Sydney, I think it is?  Not certain.  The kid who didn't use pronouns at all came closest to doing my head in.  Everyone sounded very awkward discussing that person and there were slips, for which I don't blame the parents at all. 

I agree with the point made on the show that there are many more young people now who are coming out as non-binary, as well as trans, because now we have the language for it.  When I was a teenager there was no language for the concepts, so that made it very difficult to think about it in any coherent way.

Today I did some writing, trying to pull together a Nightside novella I'm working on.  I changed direction several times and left myself notes in the text which I had better find before it goes anywhere.   I don't have anything else decent enough to go on Curious Fictions, I'm sorry, it might have to be some of my unpublished stuff again.

I also rode up the road to Better Pets and Gardens;  needed some more pot plant saucers, as I rarely remember to get them when I buy a plant.  Got a maroon cordyline as well which is now recovering from the trauma of an e-bike journey over not the smoothest of terrain.  I've tried to tell it this is actually a good home.

I'd hoped to be gaming tonight but we're down too many players yet again.  It's been weeks.  I rarely seem to be able to play when I'm on holiday.  So that means I haven't seen anybody except in the random course, such as when shopping, going through checkout etcetera.  I'm trying to stay motivated but it's not easy.   Everyone else, as shown by the problems we have getting the gamers together, has a life.  Or if they don't have a life, it's colliding work schedules that's the problem.  I start thinking about contacting somebody and then I don't do it.

The other thing I had on my mental list was I need to go shirts shopping, which is generally fairly traumatic unless I encounter somebody like Tony, the Jedi Master of David Jones Menswear, as I think of him, who helped me last time I needed to get shirts.  Otherwise I find myself standing in front of a sea of shirts as my brain grinds slowly to a halt.  

I'm encouraged, though, at the general level of ignorance guys seem to have about shirts, as I found when I checked a helpful website on the subject.  The guys were asking each other about EVERYTHING, all the way from "What colours can I wear at work?"  to questions about brands suiting guys with long arms :-)    In one answer, the guy concerned said he was looking around the office and reeled off a list of all colours of the rainbow and said you could wear, "Pretty much whatever you like." 

So my ignorance really does not stand out.  I'd like to know why it's so hard to find a good deep purple or red long-sleeved business shirt, though.  I've seen one of the former but it was on somebody and I was too nervous to ask him where he got it.  I can't afford to order from the Purple Store in San Diego again, not with the Aussie dollar how it is.