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There has been stuff
Sunday has fallen upon me once more. I'm still feeling a bit tired. Yesterday more tiring than work, because I got a call from my mother who needed help with stuff. She now gets helpers from an aged care organisation called Whiteoak three times a week, but things get untidy scary fast.
Honest to Gods, if nothing else, this is encouraging me to try to stay in shape. About the propensity of seniors to damage themselves with falls, hopefully doing martial arts (not now but used to) will help with that, because one thing I was ok at was doing the falls without hurting myself. Let's hope this stands senior me in good stead. Meanwhile, it takes me 45 mins to an hour to get over there and I just get tired after time in M's company, it's hard to explain.
M just has so much....stuff. I've noticed that very keenly since I've had to assist. In the hospital, I had to search M's handbag for something, probably the hearing aid batteries, and so help me, I think there are Special Forces on deployment who carry less gear with them. Truly, I don't have to stock up in case the apocalypse falls on us, just go to M's place and raid it. M also has not thrown any clothes or kitchen items out for about three decades, I think, or that's what the cupboards look like. And yet she doesn't have a library. Not a permanent, books that live there, library. As a confirmed minimalist for all things but books, I can't get my head around this.
Today was a kind of rest; did some gardening and drove myself crazy trying to persuade my Kindle and printer to talk to the new wifi, which they won't. They don't acknowledge the password or I'm doing something else wrong, I have no idea, but I'll get some help with that next week, I hope. Probably wouldn't hurt to do less reading on the Kindle. I've found I tend not to retain as well and there's the problem of not being able to fastforward through a book to a certain spot if it's a reread. And the fact that a power failure can knock out your book, of course. But they're cheap(er). Seems to me that books from the Book Depository are now as expensive as buying them here; anyone else noted that? Or know another source?
I'm about halfway through bingeing The Blacklist, which I like a lot. It's got good backup characters as well as the two focus characters and I don't mind that the drama is as improbable as could be. The concept of so many intelligent criminals is also extremely unlikely, IMO. 25 years of transcribing various courts has shown me that most criminals are definitely towards the shallow end of the gene pool. There's been a dismaying lack of supervillains brought low by the heroes and marched before a judge. Which is why it's more fun to see it on TV, of course.
Anyway, shackles are back on tomorrow and I'll again hope for a chance to get some sleep later in the week, when neither the building site, nor the noisy neighbours, nor the neighbourhood's assorted moronic dogs are holding forth. It would be so great to live in a community with no dogs, where the humans had agreed not to be inconsiderate idiots. I've a few other requirements which I will consider tomorrow to help keep me sane at work.
Honest to Gods, if nothing else, this is encouraging me to try to stay in shape. About the propensity of seniors to damage themselves with falls, hopefully doing martial arts (not now but used to) will help with that, because one thing I was ok at was doing the falls without hurting myself. Let's hope this stands senior me in good stead. Meanwhile, it takes me 45 mins to an hour to get over there and I just get tired after time in M's company, it's hard to explain.
M just has so much....stuff. I've noticed that very keenly since I've had to assist. In the hospital, I had to search M's handbag for something, probably the hearing aid batteries, and so help me, I think there are Special Forces on deployment who carry less gear with them. Truly, I don't have to stock up in case the apocalypse falls on us, just go to M's place and raid it. M also has not thrown any clothes or kitchen items out for about three decades, I think, or that's what the cupboards look like. And yet she doesn't have a library. Not a permanent, books that live there, library. As a confirmed minimalist for all things but books, I can't get my head around this.
Today was a kind of rest; did some gardening and drove myself crazy trying to persuade my Kindle and printer to talk to the new wifi, which they won't. They don't acknowledge the password or I'm doing something else wrong, I have no idea, but I'll get some help with that next week, I hope. Probably wouldn't hurt to do less reading on the Kindle. I've found I tend not to retain as well and there's the problem of not being able to fastforward through a book to a certain spot if it's a reread. And the fact that a power failure can knock out your book, of course. But they're cheap(er). Seems to me that books from the Book Depository are now as expensive as buying them here; anyone else noted that? Or know another source?
I'm about halfway through bingeing The Blacklist, which I like a lot. It's got good backup characters as well as the two focus characters and I don't mind that the drama is as improbable as could be. The concept of so many intelligent criminals is also extremely unlikely, IMO. 25 years of transcribing various courts has shown me that most criminals are definitely towards the shallow end of the gene pool. There's been a dismaying lack of supervillains brought low by the heroes and marched before a judge. Which is why it's more fun to see it on TV, of course.
Anyway, shackles are back on tomorrow and I'll again hope for a chance to get some sleep later in the week, when neither the building site, nor the noisy neighbours, nor the neighbourhood's assorted moronic dogs are holding forth. It would be so great to live in a community with no dogs, where the humans had agreed not to be inconsiderate idiots. I've a few other requirements which I will consider tomorrow to help keep me sane at work.
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OH boy, do I ever understand that.
Also - the stuff thing? Dude... I can also heavily relate. My parents have this huge house just full of crap (and honestly, I don't think they even hoard as much as a lot of people) but lately every time I go they want me to either take stuff, or list stuff on Ebay. I can't deal with Ebay any more. And I can't deal with random possessions. You ever just get the urge to just hire a skip and pour a ton of STUFF into it?!
I did notice books were so pricey in Australia, it's weird. And you can't even order from overseas because then postage is pricey.
I kinda want a show with realistically dumbass criminals now.
Anyway - I hope work went OK.
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Book Depository doesn't charge separately for mailing, which of course doesn't stop them adding it on elsewhere. Up until recently their prices were a lot better, but they were bought up by Amazon about a year or two years ago, I forget, and prices have crept up ever since. It was once told to me by a bookshop owner that Perth is at the end of a very long supply line. Even the prices in Eastern States Australia are usually lower than they are here.
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And hi - was wondering whether you were still talking to me!
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You should have seen the dogs in Finland - I should do a post about it. They are allowed in a lot of places they're not here, or in the USA, but they're all so well behaved I hardly noticed them...you'd just look down in a cafe or a hotel or shopping centre and see somebody furry. Finns are big on social responsibility and from what i saw, dogs don't go in public until they too will behave as well as the people. Which is a lot. Finns wait to cross roads until the lights say they can, even in the middle of the night with nothing around!
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