some good things make a post

[kaberett]

1. Staying up until 3am finishing T. Kingfisher's The Wonder Engine was not the best idea I've ever had, but -- I have an e-reader that facilitates late-night reading-under-the-covers (being both book and torch!), and I did go back to sleep after breakfast, and I enjoyed the book a very great deal, so on the whole I think that's a win.
   
2. Text message from my GP surgery: the paperwork A dropped off with them for me has been completed and is available for collection, at no charge, so that's in my future. (Or more probably in A's future.)
   
3. I have completed all the fiddly bits of a tedious tech-repair job, that was made substantially more difficult by failing to register a step in the instructions for part replacement #1, necessitating part replacement #2, but all I gotta do now is get the screen to stick down properly (currently it's face-down with a pile of books on top of it) and I'll be done and can reclaim the coffee table for ART. (If the pile-of-books doesn't work I'll grumble and use the extra dedicated adhesive I have.)
   
4. We cleaned the fridge (everything out, including the shelves, and washed; almost everything back in, rather better organised).
   
5. For bonus points, we had a communication mismatch at the beginning, and I retreated to a different room to hyperventilate and read a book for 15 minutes, and when I returned... A had calmly and relatively cheerfully carried on Getting Stuff Done without panicking in turn and I was able to slot in and be helpful, and I only cried a very little bit during the debrief.
   
6. At which point we'd hit approx 9pm and I was still somewhat fragile and Nothing Sounded Like Food and I just... did not... engage... with the concept at all? and then A put pasta in front of me and it was in fact pretty much exactly what I wanted.
   
7. Having Dealt With the tech repair, and also (in company) The Fridge, and consumed food, I took a deep breath and begged A's indulgence because, uh, we're at a stage in the *gestures* everything where I had no idea where my house keys were, and I'd checked all the obvious places inside the house with no luck, so I got A to take me out to the car to soothe me about whether I'd left them there, which I was increasingly anxious about. No joy from looking in all the obvious sensible places -- but then A opened one of the back doors and did a three-second tidy and they Materialised! So that's one more thing off the agitation stack.
   
8. Work is going Interestingly. Still no idea what to make of the Bizarre Graph, but it's percolating.
   
9. I've got my act most-of-the-way-to-together to buy myself a new pillow. I've had the current memory-foam-hybrid for getting on for five years, if I recollect rightly; it started out great but it's showing its age and actually if I'm waking up sore and struggling (more than usual) to get to sleep, it is very definitely worth getting a replacement. I've a shortlist; actually making a decision probably happens tomorrow night, now, because I want to talk it over with A (in case he wants in on the order, all else aside) and, well, The Fridge.
   
10. This preposterous mug, linked to me by a friend. It is emblazoned with the first line of Catullus 16 (NSFW text). Claims the description: "Translates to 'I love you'". I have been enjoying it all evening.
    

Comments

[kaberett]

BONUS: I was poking around the Waitrose Online website and they still make and sell my favourite cheesecake which I had thought lost to me because the local branches stopped carrying it, so, GUESS WHAT I'M PUTTING IN MY NEXT ORDER

(which unfortunately won't be for a little while now because we had £60 of stuff from Waitrose delivered today and are getting another £40 from Ocado on Sunday, which between them gets us to minimum order amount on both and permits stocking up on things that one or t'other don't carry)

[sylvaine]

YAAAAY CHEESECAKE

[polyfrazzlemented]

Claims the description: "Translates to 'I love you'".

Well, that's a very... specific kind of love...

[davidgillon]

I found another version by the same designer on the site:
"Part of the Latin Valentine series Catullus Carmen 16 Translation: [Redacted - research at your own risk] "

[watersword]

oh my god the mug I am D Y I N G

[alexseanchai]

10) *cackling*

[azurelunatic]

That is a MUG!

[tree_and_leaf]

"The Wonder Engine" is such a great book.

[brainwane]

Congrats on the many good things! The fridge and car keys partnership-works sound especially triumphant and prideworthy!

I see I can also get a Carthago delenda est mug from the same shop.

[vass]

That mug is a DELIGHT.

I am also DYING like her kids at the Medea "Nevertheless She Persisted" mug.

I've got my act most-of-the-way-to-together to buy myself a new pillow.

Snap! I have pillows open in one of the tabs in my shopping window too.

[sfred]

re. 5. - Well done! Lots of love and solidarity. We are getting gradually better at this in my household-pair too. <3

[sylvaine]

You did so many things and got so much done and reading about the way A supports you is just. lovely. Yes good partnership. <3

Ahahaha THAT MUG. AMAZING. "Love", uh-huh, sure! :D

[silveradept]

That is a lot of things, and well done on the communication and finding and taking care of yourself through pillows.

Also, that mug and other possible things that it could be on. I don't care much for the color choices, but the verse choices are excellent!

[lokifan]

OMG THAT MUG.

[haplocke]

henlo what e-reader do you have (would you recommend?) ? x

[me_and]

Alex has a Kindle Paperwhite 10th Edition they got second-hand; I have the old Kindle Touch they cast off when they got that. Personally, I wouldn't buy a new Kindle off Amazon, but I'd probably gladly buy one second-hand off eBay; the Touch I'm using is the 2011 model and still does the job very nicely, although I'd probably buy a Paperwhite if I wasn't getting a freebee – I've not checked but I imagine a second-hand Paperwhite isn't much more expensive than a second-hand Touch, and the better screen resolution and backlight are both nice.

[kaberett]

... naw this model & generation of Paperwhite is going for like ~£100 second-hand; I *might* have been able to get it down to ~£70ish if I'd been willing to haunt eBay, but I was buying off a friend, so.

[kaberett]

As A says, I have an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite that I got secondhand, and also as A says I wouldn't buy into the Amazon ecosystem new -- e.g. I don't buy *any* ebooks from Amazon. Most of my ebook purchases are via Kobo (referral link, gets us both some money off if you sign up via it) and Hive, neither of which sell Kindle-format ebooks. I use calibre with a variety of add-ons to do ebook conversion, which sometimes requires DRM-stripping. I think more modern Amazon ereaders do also support epub, but I haven't actually investigated.

I am definitely happy with it but I am reluctant to actually recommend Amazon products, as such? I'm much more into the backlight feature than I thought I would be, e.g.

(... in fact I have a spare Touch that was passed on to me for free, and which I could in principle pass on to you in turn...? it's otherwise just sitting on the bookshelf...)