This is the fifth time in the past week or so that I have started up blogger and wrote several false-start sentences. I usually type for about 10 minutes and then delete everything I wrote. No one is the wiser.
I can give everyone an update though. Key things that have happened in the last week:
-- The TV is still, annoyingly, in double letter box picture viewing mode. So the 35 inch TV is really kind of about 20-something inches.
-- The hose on my CPAP machine ripped, so I have switched to nose strips until a replacement arrives.
-- Speaking of my CPAP machine, I have not been using distilled water in the humidifier and so mineral deposits are building in one of the units.
-- The various books that I ordered from Amazon arrived on time and exactly as their 12 followup emails predicted.
-- I finally got around to taking off a lot of the films that were in my Netflix queue. I mean, sure, I wanted to watch Tokyo Gore Police but I just never got around to it.
-- I bought a typewriter.
-- I ripped two pages out of two different magazines at the hair salon, but I will probably never track down the items in the pictures that I thought I for sure needed.
-- I switched off all the lights in my house except for the overhead spot lamp at the table, to increase the dramatic mood in my living room.
-- I still favor graph paper over regular lined paper.
-- I brewed a pot of mint tea last night. It was OK.
-- I find Eurasian Crossroads to be a very informative history of Central Asia from pre-history to modern times.
-- (An aside, the Silk Road, it turns out, was much less a precise route and more realistically a vast network of commercial exchange linking India with Mongolia and China with Europe.)
-- I had pizza tonight even though I am lactose intolerant and will probably regret it at four tomorrow morning.
-- Even though I own two books by John Hodgeman, and may be imitating his style in this post to some degree, I rarely laugh when I read them. In fact, I can't really stand reading them.
-- I will probably finish this post soon and then read in bed for a while.
I have always been disappointed by tea--including "iced" (but only when I found out it wasn't strictly "allowed").
ReplyDeleteWhat is it about blogs and lists?
ReplyDelete(Maybe because I am not real good at lists!)
I never brew my herb tea - I make it a cup at a time.
Maybe I need a teapot.
I recently read an amazing book and thought you might like it. It's called "Nothing to Envy" and it's about ordinary life in North Korea. The author is a journalist who profiles six people (now living in South Korea) and it's really readable and really fascinating. I knew sort of the basics of North Korea but had no real conception of what life there was actually like. Two thumbs way up.
ReplyDeleteAnd PS I know that didn't really have anything to do with your blog post, but you used the words "books" and "Asia" so I figured it was a legit connection.
ReplyDeleteMint tea is the best -- nothing beats the mint tea at urth cafe
ReplyDeleteRegarding Amazon and seeing things you might like to buy but may never have time to find--have you tried the Remembers feature on the Amazon iPhone app? See something you like, take a photo, and they find it for you.
ReplyDeleteWhen did you get a cpap and when did you become lactose intolerant?
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