Sunday doing nothing much ....
Oct. 21st, 2007 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muurankerWoke up at five, blood glucose meter shows "Error E4". Can I find the booklet? Can I heck. It's probably in storage. I can find the booklet for the second meter I ever had which was retired ten years ago. I think it means the battery needs changing. I go to find my back up meter. By this time thoroughly awake, so make coffee at six and go to bed with ExMemSec (during pain, we sleep apart - that way he can get sleep). I expect him to be sleepy (he is), so I take new book with me: Farthing by ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
papersky. At nine, I drag myself out for more coffee, and to make bacon butties (Not Allowed, but I am Poorly). At eleven thirty I give up wrestling with TimeMap, and go back to bed with Farthing. Finally get up at something past one, with Farthing finished, feeling slightly shell-shocked. It's very good - somewhat along the lines of Sayers, in that it is a murder-mystery which is also a love story (albeit an after-the-marriage one, so closer toThrones, dominations which was finished by Jean Patton Walsh), and also something much bigger.
I read somewhere that Farthing was written in 17 days, so a couple of posts about![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
picowrimo and my current situation lead me to sign up. I will try for a day of the Japan log each day, plus 1000 words of the Thesis. But ALL this will be done with the dictation programme, and not in front of tv with fingers.
Afternoon spent getting TimeMap to the point where I could send the help emails to Australia, and email to the guy who reprojected the maps for me at York, and dealing withone or two little things (including an enquiry I last properly dealt with in March - ouch). Wrote list for what needs doing re Moves next week. We have accepted an offer on our house, and had an offer accepted on a maisonette in Woking, and an offer on a house in York rejected.
papersky. At nine, I drag myself out for more coffee, and to make bacon butties (Not Allowed, but I am Poorly). At eleven thirty I give up wrestling with TimeMap, and go back to bed with Farthing. Finally get up at something past one, with Farthing finished, feeling slightly shell-shocked. It's very good - somewhat along the lines of Sayers, in that it is a murder-mystery which is also a love story (albeit an after-the-marriage one, so closer toThrones, dominations which was finished by Jean Patton Walsh), and also something much bigger. I have two of LibraryThing's unsuggestions (books that people who have Farthing are unlikely to have):
- The devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (expected 17, found 0; unsuggestions)
- For whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway (expected 16.8, found 0; unsuggestions)
- A midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare (expected 16, found 0; unsuggestions)
I read somewhere that Farthing was written in 17 days, so a couple of posts about
picowrimo and my current situation lead me to sign up. I will try for a day of the Japan log each day, plus 1000 words of the Thesis. But ALL this will be done with the dictation programme, and not in front of tv with fingers.Afternoon spent getting TimeMap to the point where I could send the help emails to Australia, and email to the guy who reprojected the maps for me at York, and dealing withone or two little things (including an enquiry I last properly dealt with in March - ouch). Wrote list for what needs doing re Moves next week. We have accepted an offer on our house, and had an offer accepted on a maisonette in Woking, and an offer on a house in York rejected.
