Someone on the FFL was reviewing The Man in the High Castle and remarked on the odd English used that was supposed to suggest either a second language Japanese speaker or a rendering in English of what people were saying in actual Japanese, neither of which sounded likely to them. I noticed none of this when I read it so many decades ago, so I got ( Read more... )

They said it would rain today. I don't think it did but stayed in anyway because my knee is doing the Kleinzach thing of clic-clac any time I move. Dunno if it's bone spurs or tendons. Hope for the latter, suspect the former. Vacuumed a bit, roasted a hubbard squash which I like better than the usual run of squash, and started a crockpot beef 'n' ( Read more... )

Yeah well, living in the future has some drawbacks. There's a new Saiyūki Zero-sum episode out in November's GFantasy but only available as e-text from honto.jp. And though honto is quite happy to send me paper copies of stuff, it has indigestion when I try to order anything electronic. Sign in with google? Doesn't like my password. Sign in with ( Read more... )

Ordered lenses from an online company that uses a delivery service they say you don't have to sign for. Good. Hope they arrive ( Read more... )

The rain continues to rain every day and no matter how much I sweep, leaves I didn't even notice fall out of my walker's wheels where the rain has plastered them on my brief forays outdoors. The joys of the season. So I stayed in and swept up the dust elephants on the front bedroom. However useless I thought the air purifier, it must have done some ( Read more... )

The rain outside is doing its raineth every day thing. Put out my garbage early but not the dead vacuum, given there's no guarantee they'll take it ( Read more... )

Entering the supermarket today, I was greeted by the inimitable strains of Love Hurts. Am happy that Fiesta isn't playing Christmas music, unlike Loblaws (they will, Oscar, they will), even happier that the first two people I passed were singing along sotto voce. As was I, of course. Always impressed by the staying power of my generation's music, ( Read more... )

The other pain of the postal strike is that my contact lenses come by mail, and I must always order at least a month in advance in case there are supply line issues. I have forty lenses left (one a day, remember) so in the ordinary way of things I'd order in a week. But even if the strike is settled soon-- not likely-- there'll be a backlog and the ( Read more... )

I really have no idea why going west on Bloor *always* seems longer than going east, and why even the blocks down to Bloor seem longer if I'm intending to go west rather than east. But west I went to the only wool store in the neighbourhood, which is veddy veddy upscale and doesn't have anything I could easily crochet with. Also is a pain to get ( Read more... )

Mnh. So postal strike is a go.  People will get their Christmas cards come Easter, I suppose. But then I had to sign up for online billing from Enercare (the water tank) only they won't do email billing even though the flyer said they would. Pre-authorized payments how about, huh? huh? huh? No, I don't think so. Shall check online in early December ( Read more... )