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Much as I suspected...
Mar. 15th, 2025 03:27 pmToday has mostly been a wash. KK left to get her nails done, and I ended up buried under dogs on the sofa. It was very cozy and very difficult not to let the "siesta rays" as Dylan and Sarah call them lull me into a much-desired nap. Instead I finished an audiobook of the murder mystery series I stumbled into back in January, the D.C. Smith series by Peter Grainger (I am almost caught up!) and then started the audiobook of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, which has been on my reading list for quite some time. I am going to listen to it a bit more slowly than the fiction books I've been listening to so far, in order to give it the attention it's due.
I've been really enjoying the D.C. Smith series: it has all the hallmarks of police procedural novels that I really enjoy, and the writing is a lot of fun to listen to. The author does have one quirk of syntax that I pick up on more because of the audiobook format, but it's not enough to deter me from listening to the stories. He has a nice gift for creating memorable characters, including D.C. himself, who is about a decade older than me but is written as though he's in his seventies, based on how useless he is with technology and how old-fashioned some of his ideas are. I actually think that the author has deliberately given D.C. some views he himself doesn't agree with, but obviously that's just a feeling as I have not read Grainger's personal opinions on anything. It's just something about the way he writes those opinions that gives me that impression. It's kind of fun, because back when I was writing I sometimes gave my characters opinions and tastes that were deliberately different than my own because it amused me to do so, so I'm often on the lookout for when other authors might be doing the same thing.
Right now I'm catching up on Saint-Pierre, a new TV series which is yet another police procedural (I really am predictable, aren't I?) based in the French territory of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, an archipelago off the coast of New Brunswick. It's also quite enjoyable, and occasionally guest stars James Purefoy, whom I really enjoy watching. He is really great at chewing the scenery.
I probably won't be back at my computer before tomorrow again, apart from a Zoom call with my parents. The last time I visited them I set up a Zoom account for my mother, and my father already has one, and I have sent them a link to a permanent Zoom meeting, so I'm hoping we can transition away from Skype relatively seamlessly and that my mother won't have too much trouble adapting to the new-to-her technology.
Otherwise, I am definitely feeling my night of very little sleep right now, which makes me hopeful that I will be able to sleep during tonight's sleep study. I am a tiny bit concerned that I will hurt my lower back if the hospital mattress is too soft, since I won't be able to bring my wedge pillow with me that I usually sleep with to keep my back muscles from rebelling. I suppose I could bring it, but I don't want to be too annoyingly high maintenance. I already have so much paraphernalia to keep me comfortable when I sleep (a mouth guard, wrist splints, an eye mask for when I have to sleep during the day, and my wedge pillow) that I kind of feel like a very spoiled, pampered lapdog. The funny thing is that I don't need any of those things to actually *sleep*. I can sleep almost anywhere, anytime, under any conditions. I need all of that so that when I wake up I'm not twisted up in an excruciating pretzel of pain. Isn't getting older fun?
So, yeah, once I've stopped debating how much paraphernalia to bring, it should be fine. I should probably go pack up so that I'm not scrambling later.
Catch you on the flip side, friends!
I've been really enjoying the D.C. Smith series: it has all the hallmarks of police procedural novels that I really enjoy, and the writing is a lot of fun to listen to. The author does have one quirk of syntax that I pick up on more because of the audiobook format, but it's not enough to deter me from listening to the stories. He has a nice gift for creating memorable characters, including D.C. himself, who is about a decade older than me but is written as though he's in his seventies, based on how useless he is with technology and how old-fashioned some of his ideas are. I actually think that the author has deliberately given D.C. some views he himself doesn't agree with, but obviously that's just a feeling as I have not read Grainger's personal opinions on anything. It's just something about the way he writes those opinions that gives me that impression. It's kind of fun, because back when I was writing I sometimes gave my characters opinions and tastes that were deliberately different than my own because it amused me to do so, so I'm often on the lookout for when other authors might be doing the same thing.
Right now I'm catching up on Saint-Pierre, a new TV series which is yet another police procedural (I really am predictable, aren't I?) based in the French territory of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, an archipelago off the coast of New Brunswick. It's also quite enjoyable, and occasionally guest stars James Purefoy, whom I really enjoy watching. He is really great at chewing the scenery.
I probably won't be back at my computer before tomorrow again, apart from a Zoom call with my parents. The last time I visited them I set up a Zoom account for my mother, and my father already has one, and I have sent them a link to a permanent Zoom meeting, so I'm hoping we can transition away from Skype relatively seamlessly and that my mother won't have too much trouble adapting to the new-to-her technology.
Otherwise, I am definitely feeling my night of very little sleep right now, which makes me hopeful that I will be able to sleep during tonight's sleep study. I am a tiny bit concerned that I will hurt my lower back if the hospital mattress is too soft, since I won't be able to bring my wedge pillow with me that I usually sleep with to keep my back muscles from rebelling. I suppose I could bring it, but I don't want to be too annoyingly high maintenance. I already have so much paraphernalia to keep me comfortable when I sleep (a mouth guard, wrist splints, an eye mask for when I have to sleep during the day, and my wedge pillow) that I kind of feel like a very spoiled, pampered lapdog. The funny thing is that I don't need any of those things to actually *sleep*. I can sleep almost anywhere, anytime, under any conditions. I need all of that so that when I wake up I'm not twisted up in an excruciating pretzel of pain. Isn't getting older fun?
So, yeah, once I've stopped debating how much paraphernalia to bring, it should be fine. I should probably go pack up so that I'm not scrambling later.
Catch you on the flip side, friends!
