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Feb. 4th, 2019 08:05 am
February 4th, 2019 Daily
Highlight of my day so far has been a donkey bite call.
Me: Well, that's a new one on me.
Caller: Really? Oh dear.
Me: So, is there any particular reason you're worried about this donkey bite? Donkeys can transmit rabies, but it's--
Caller: The donkey dropped dead yesterday.
Me: ...okay. Let me just consult the lab about accepting a donkey for testing.
The sidewalks and roads were a solid sheet of ice from my front door to the bus stop (about 650m) this morning. This was handy because I could literally "skate" (the movements involved were more akin to cross-country skiing) my way to the stop without having to constantly adjust my stride, but unfortunately it was as frictionless as a physics problem set so I had issues whenever I came to an incline: I kept sliding down the curb cut-outs into the street unexpectedly and then having to make like the roadrunner from the cartoons to get up enough speed to skitter out again. Folks, this is why I wear a hi-vis vest and blinky lights on my commute.
When I finally got to work, I found that I'd won a jar of locally made jam for coming in second in our infectious disease epidemiology quiz.
House
Looking back through my older posts - I did end up buying a floor lamp and navigating LED bulbs for the first time. It seems to be working out.
My mom is retiring later this spring and coming to live with me since she can't live alone at the moment. This has moved the improvements list priorities around a bit - need to get more shelving for basement storage and install a better medicine cabinet in the bathroom.
Crafting
Close to finishing a piece I started for the house, watch this space for eventual photos. Stalled on the Avengers piece because I've all my commuting time over to reading. I'm participating in the Fiberuary Challenge on Instagram this month.
Reading
Read 12 books in January: 3 rereads, 9 new to me. Three of them were the beginning of series, trilogies, or duologies, and all three had their successor added to my to-read list.
Best of the lot was probably The Calculating Stars, an alternate history novel about the development of the space program (this time with female astronauts!) after a meteorite strikes Earth, wiping out D.C.
I finally finished Ravensbruck, a 1000+ page tome on the concentration camp for women during WWII, and frankly, that is it for me and non-fiction about WWII for this year. There is only so much depressing shit I can read about in this world before I become a total weeping mess, complete with nightmares. Very well written, however, if you can stand it.
Me: Well, that's a new one on me.
Caller: Really? Oh dear.
Me: So, is there any particular reason you're worried about this donkey bite? Donkeys can transmit rabies, but it's--
Caller: The donkey dropped dead yesterday.
Me: ...okay. Let me just consult the lab about accepting a donkey for testing.
The sidewalks and roads were a solid sheet of ice from my front door to the bus stop (about 650m) this morning. This was handy because I could literally "skate" (the movements involved were more akin to cross-country skiing) my way to the stop without having to constantly adjust my stride, but unfortunately it was as frictionless as a physics problem set so I had issues whenever I came to an incline: I kept sliding down the curb cut-outs into the street unexpectedly and then having to make like the roadrunner from the cartoons to get up enough speed to skitter out again. Folks, this is why I wear a hi-vis vest and blinky lights on my commute.
When I finally got to work, I found that I'd won a jar of locally made jam for coming in second in our infectious disease epidemiology quiz.
House
Looking back through my older posts - I did end up buying a floor lamp and navigating LED bulbs for the first time. It seems to be working out.
My mom is retiring later this spring and coming to live with me since she can't live alone at the moment. This has moved the improvements list priorities around a bit - need to get more shelving for basement storage and install a better medicine cabinet in the bathroom.
Crafting
Close to finishing a piece I started for the house, watch this space for eventual photos. Stalled on the Avengers piece because I've all my commuting time over to reading. I'm participating in the Fiberuary Challenge on Instagram this month.
Reading
Read 12 books in January: 3 rereads, 9 new to me. Three of them were the beginning of series, trilogies, or duologies, and all three had their successor added to my to-read list.
Best of the lot was probably The Calculating Stars, an alternate history novel about the development of the space program (this time with female astronauts!) after a meteorite strikes Earth, wiping out D.C.
I finally finished Ravensbruck, a 1000+ page tome on the concentration camp for women during WWII, and frankly, that is it for me and non-fiction about WWII for this year. There is only so much depressing shit I can read about in this world before I become a total weeping mess, complete with nightmares. Very well written, however, if you can stand it.
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