I've got something in my pocket.
Feb. 17th, 2012 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI got an e-book for free ages ago. It was called Stray and was the first book in the Touchstone trilogy by Andrea Host. It's not free anymore, but was something I thoroughly enjoyed. I bought the second book in the series (paid for an e-book, shocking, that!) immediately.
As much as I was concerned I wouldn't like the Kindle when I got it, I really like it a lot. I have the one from 15 months ago, but the ability to side load documents using FanFictionDownloader (there are other tools) and email those documents to my device (no cord needed) for free (using wifi) has been really phenomenal. I love the ability to have 250 books in the space that a single paperback takes. I'm not overly keen on Amazon and their DRM crud, but they do make it incredibly easy and there are enough things that are offered freely that one does not have to pay for content.
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Today I went somewhere new and had a great coffee. I also wound the yarn for the knitting project for me. I'm next.
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I had a really strange dream when I napped after coming home from my adventure and going to the grocery store. There were a lot of things weird about the dream, but the weirdest was that I've had that dream before. It was like replaying an action/RPG video game after several years of setting it aside. At one point the narrator supertitles that explain the current immediate task said "You must hide!" So I vaulted under the library circulation desk that has typewriter cutouts in the surface and had to use a special cheat code to keep from being captured in the first minutes of the game. I knew when diving under the desk that I had made that mistake before. Later in the game, I as the player, used a cardboard poster shipping tube to vault down a sloped hallway. There weren't any supertitles anymore because I'd turned off hints as I remembered the game.
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I'm really disturbed by the large numbers of dream repeats I've been having lately. I keep recognizing the scenarios and where I failed in the dream last time. Like people who do lucid dreaming and take control of the situation, only I'm doing it years or decades later.
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Inside filtered posts, I've been talking about stuff that's not going well. I try to temper it with humor or point out the things I think are ridiculous to show I'm keeping my perspective. And I really am still moving forward. There've been some catastrophically hard things this year, but the basics are still covered and I'm still bearing up under my responsibilities. When I called the dentist's office to get my teeth cleaned, I told the scheduler not to let the hygienist nag me because we were running under different parameters here. "I haven't flossed since the last time I was there, but no one has died on my watch, and despite the flossing, that's a win right now."
But I can feel the splintering effect of my internal perspective of total failure and complete disconnect from everyone and everything in my life; while externally I'm chatting with the grocery checker, paying bills, and remembering to put gas in the car so when I go to pick Simon up, I don't waste his time. That's why I shaved my head. I couldn't cope with having there be no external signs of the internal conflict.
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We've been eating a lot of things in pita bread lately. Today I had pre-made chicken salad with lettuce and cherry tomatoes and cottage cheese in a toasted pita. Breakfast sometimes has vegetarian sausage patties and hashbrowns and egg inside pita. (I like it better with ham, personally.) We found a pre-made Indian curry thing that's quite tasty.... it comes with rice. I like my share inside bread.
I discovered that high fiber granola bars from TJs have more chocolate to them than the regular ones do. I have no idea why, but it's a tremenous improvement in the "feels like a treat" instead of "feels like something to cram in your gullet between things that are too time-crunched".
Almond milk has no calcium. I'm not sure what to do about replacing the role milk had been playing in that regard. I can't eat more cheese. Yogurt doesn't seem to have made it into a personal rotation--- I really prefer drinkable yogurt to needing a spoon, but I'm tired of yo-juice.
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Anyway, I'm going to go vacation off on another planet with the next Touchstone book. Have a good weekend everyone.
As much as I was concerned I wouldn't like the Kindle when I got it, I really like it a lot. I have the one from 15 months ago, but the ability to side load documents using FanFictionDownloader (there are other tools) and email those documents to my device (no cord needed) for free (using wifi) has been really phenomenal. I love the ability to have 250 books in the space that a single paperback takes. I'm not overly keen on Amazon and their DRM crud, but they do make it incredibly easy and there are enough things that are offered freely that one does not have to pay for content.
____
Today I went somewhere new and had a great coffee. I also wound the yarn for the knitting project for me. I'm next.
___
I had a really strange dream when I napped after coming home from my adventure and going to the grocery store. There were a lot of things weird about the dream, but the weirdest was that I've had that dream before. It was like replaying an action/RPG video game after several years of setting it aside. At one point the narrator supertitles that explain the current immediate task said "You must hide!" So I vaulted under the library circulation desk that has typewriter cutouts in the surface and had to use a special cheat code to keep from being captured in the first minutes of the game. I knew when diving under the desk that I had made that mistake before. Later in the game, I as the player, used a cardboard poster shipping tube to vault down a sloped hallway. There weren't any supertitles anymore because I'd turned off hints as I remembered the game.
____
I'm really disturbed by the large numbers of dream repeats I've been having lately. I keep recognizing the scenarios and where I failed in the dream last time. Like people who do lucid dreaming and take control of the situation, only I'm doing it years or decades later.
____
Inside filtered posts, I've been talking about stuff that's not going well. I try to temper it with humor or point out the things I think are ridiculous to show I'm keeping my perspective. And I really am still moving forward. There've been some catastrophically hard things this year, but the basics are still covered and I'm still bearing up under my responsibilities. When I called the dentist's office to get my teeth cleaned, I told the scheduler not to let the hygienist nag me because we were running under different parameters here. "I haven't flossed since the last time I was there, but no one has died on my watch, and despite the flossing, that's a win right now."
But I can feel the splintering effect of my internal perspective of total failure and complete disconnect from everyone and everything in my life; while externally I'm chatting with the grocery checker, paying bills, and remembering to put gas in the car so when I go to pick Simon up, I don't waste his time. That's why I shaved my head. I couldn't cope with having there be no external signs of the internal conflict.
___
We've been eating a lot of things in pita bread lately. Today I had pre-made chicken salad with lettuce and cherry tomatoes and cottage cheese in a toasted pita. Breakfast sometimes has vegetarian sausage patties and hashbrowns and egg inside pita. (I like it better with ham, personally.) We found a pre-made Indian curry thing that's quite tasty.... it comes with rice. I like my share inside bread.
I discovered that high fiber granola bars from TJs have more chocolate to them than the regular ones do. I have no idea why, but it's a tremenous improvement in the "feels like a treat" instead of "feels like something to cram in your gullet between things that are too time-crunched".
Almond milk has no calcium. I'm not sure what to do about replacing the role milk had been playing in that regard. I can't eat more cheese. Yogurt doesn't seem to have made it into a personal rotation--- I really prefer drinkable yogurt to needing a spoon, but I'm tired of yo-juice.
____
Anyway, I'm going to go vacation off on another planet with the next Touchstone book. Have a good weekend everyone.
