![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
What you have when you're not having a Russian winter
It is now cold, by Western Australian standards, so I don't think I will break last year's swimming record, when I went in the ocean during May. By the coast it's a bit warmer than the official city record of 5^C minimum yesterday - we had about 8^C - but the air is definitely crisp and one needed one's jacket. To those who ever experienced a Russian winter [or anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, really] you can stop laughing now, you'll hurt yourselves.
At the end of this month, I will get the chance to have proper conversations [at Swancon], and hopefully be more interesting as a result. I say this after nearly losing my mind again this evening, trying to figure out why M still couldn't hear me even after I had changed the hearing aid batteries. She'd wanted me to bring around fish and chips, which was supposed to be simple.
Conversations with M tend to be repetitive and basic, even more so when you're writing everything down and muttering insanely to yourself. Just lucky for me that the bit she did hear was when I'd managed to censor myself and say "flipping" instead of the other word. I've now looked up how long the aids are meant to last and it's a week to two weeks after they're activated. I hadn't known you're meant to let the battery sit for a minute or so before putting it in, that's not something that ever occurred to me and the hearing place didn't mention it. Before activation, they last several years, so M's idea that the aids fail because of "old" batteries is, like so much she says, nonsense. She doesn't change the f...ing batteries when they fail, it's just a complete mystery to her every time. And that's why I go mental over it. And no, I never considered a career in the aged care industry, why do you ask?! [EDIT. Finally got the aids to work by messing with them].
I'm in dire need of some intelligent and like minded conversation! Last I had was when I visited Rdm and Leece of this journal. Or no, there was a week ago when the gamers did get four people together to play Cards Against Humanity, where I was victorious, being declared the most depraved person in the room for that evening!
Swancon is Perth's annual sf convention, 50th of that name this year, and probably my only chance to be able to discuss important things. Like the books up for the Hugo Awards, zombies, what will happen when the zombies overrun Perth, our certain doom whenSkynet AI becomes self aware, the latest empire to crash and burn [cough, USA!] embarrassing things like what I've managed to write lately [not much], gaming, the Hail Mary movie and many other things.
I'll be looking about to see if there is a GURPS game somewhere I can join/get to. I haven't been able to play since two of our players dropped out and were, to be honest, getting extremely unreliable for a long time before that. Hopefully the gamesmaster will be successful in recruiting some more to ours, I'm pretty sure he's going to try.
At the end of this month, I will get the chance to have proper conversations [at Swancon], and hopefully be more interesting as a result. I say this after nearly losing my mind again this evening, trying to figure out why M still couldn't hear me even after I had changed the hearing aid batteries. She'd wanted me to bring around fish and chips, which was supposed to be simple.
Conversations with M tend to be repetitive and basic, even more so when you're writing everything down and muttering insanely to yourself. Just lucky for me that the bit she did hear was when I'd managed to censor myself and say "flipping" instead of the other word. I've now looked up how long the aids are meant to last and it's a week to two weeks after they're activated. I hadn't known you're meant to let the battery sit for a minute or so before putting it in, that's not something that ever occurred to me and the hearing place didn't mention it. Before activation, they last several years, so M's idea that the aids fail because of "old" batteries is, like so much she says, nonsense. She doesn't change the f...ing batteries when they fail, it's just a complete mystery to her every time. And that's why I go mental over it. And no, I never considered a career in the aged care industry, why do you ask?! [EDIT. Finally got the aids to work by messing with them].
I'm in dire need of some intelligent and like minded conversation! Last I had was when I visited Rdm and Leece of this journal. Or no, there was a week ago when the gamers did get four people together to play Cards Against Humanity, where I was victorious, being declared the most depraved person in the room for that evening!
Swancon is Perth's annual sf convention, 50th of that name this year, and probably my only chance to be able to discuss important things. Like the books up for the Hugo Awards, zombies, what will happen when the zombies overrun Perth, our certain doom when
I'll be looking about to see if there is a GURPS game somewhere I can join/get to. I haven't been able to play since two of our players dropped out and were, to be honest, getting extremely unreliable for a long time before that. Hopefully the gamesmaster will be successful in recruiting some more to ours, I'm pretty sure he's going to try.
no subject
I never considered a career in the aged care industry, why do you ask?!
Me neither. I think I'd go completely bonkers, or even more so than I already am! :P
But seriously, I can imagine it being very draining to constantly have those same basic conversations, so I am happy that you will get to go to Swancon soon and get your mind off things.
no subject
Yes, if this was spring, I would be happier. I like the hot weather.
I keep meaning to write some cards up for M, where each one is the answer to a repeatedly asked question. I bet I could get through a whole visit without needing to say anything original.
no subject
Had to move to the mountains to overcome this 🤣
no subject
There's good skiing in the mountains of Australia's eastern states, NSW and Victoria, so I am told. Never tried it myself, but my brother used to work in a ski lodge quite a few years ago. In Western Australia it does get cold and wet, but probably no worse than an English autumn, which is the only kind of Northern Hemisphere autumn I've experienced.
no subject
I simply couldnt hold 3 cm snow in Munich for winter. 🤣
I remember I came to Crimea in November/December once. It was exactly the weather that is usual to see in May in Sankt-Petersburg. That was the moment I understood that the phrase of Pushkin "our nothern summer is a caricature of the southern winter" wasnt a joke.
And when I swim in the sea in Spain in November and local come to see it wearing winter jakets it is kinda funny for us both.
But I must confess I really suffer here in July and August and hardly can imagine how people survive to the South from Alps in summer. Some kind of biological magic 🙃
no subject
If you can get to WABA on Saturday let us know what time you plan to arrive. (It goes from 1 to 10:30 pm)
no subject
Oh yeah, WABA is next Saturday. Admittedly any conversation there tends to be game-related, but I still might show up just to get somewhere else. I'll confirm.
no subject
If you remind me I will bring the books Steveg is passing on to you.