Since I went to bed too late because of trouble setting up an account for yet another course website and then woke up half an hour before my alarm and couldn’t fall back asleep, I started the day with getting back to the account issues right away. I just can’t leave this kind of thing alone.
At least that issue was solved with the instructor’s help, hurray!
I wrote morning pages but then was too late to open the manuscript. I didn’t want to be as late as usual because my husband had felt under the weather the night before, he even had a fever following his influenza and covid shots, and I thought I should make breakfast for a change.
It turned out he felt well enough to do that, so I could do yoga and meditation.
I had decided to push the cleaning to the afternoon while my husband would still be teaching. The plan was to work on the manuscript in the morning which I did for a whole 15 minutes. I also did the dishes, ordered takeout and picked it up but most of all I knitted to the point where I could set up the next stage of fingerless mitten. You know, the point in the pattern where I go wrong every single time.
Not this time, though. At least I hope so. It definitely looks like I won’t end up with 2-by-2 ribbing with a weird place in it that has 1 purl and 3 knit stitches right in the middle of it. I should probably make myself a note in the pattern for the next time.
Takeout was delicious:
Really good:
After lunch I sat and read for a bit and then played some more Genshin. It was fun but I’m still feeling like a complete idiot bumbling around. And I keep forgetting things I just learned. (As a teacher I can tell you that is completely normal but still, frustrating.) And I realized that playing this kind of game can be pretty exhausting at times.
Meanwhile my eReader keeps having battery trouble. I had almost decided to buy a new one but then decided to wait for Black Friday. I mean, it’s not like I can’t use the old one, I just have to charge it every other day.
I kept researching alternatives. I stumbled over a recommendation for the Boox Go 7 with and without color. The big advantage would be that I could read all my ebooks on their regardless of the store I bought them at. It is an Android tablet designed as an eReader with an eInk display.
I also thought about buying a Kindle again. I really love mine, have loved Kindles ever since I ordered my first one from the US and I still buy most of my books at Amazon. Even though I feel I shouldn’t.
After finishing teaching I sat around for half an hour (bad move) then started the weekly cleaning. I did not get finished before it was time for bodyweight training. The boy and I were both a bit slow and sluggish.
I did an interesting amount of admin, mostly for teaching but I also answered an email telling me I hadn’t paid my membership fee for the music improvisation society I belong to. Which I found surprising because after the year where we actually forgot to pay a few years back I put that one on automatic payment in January.
I ate the second half of my lunch for dinner and talked briefly to my husband who had felt okay-ish all day but was starting to feel weak again. I’m not looking forward to that part of vaccination when it’s my turn in ten days.
We also talked about my eReader issue and he said – very predictably – I should just go and buy one. At that point some part of me had already made the decision to buy another Kindle because the Boox doesn’t have as good a battery life, needs to be recharged much more frequently. Of course, because it is a tablet as well as an eReader. I then spent twenty minutes choosing a cover, and the I was disappointed that I will have to wait until Monday for both to arrive. Which is ridiculous.
I did Duolingo, started writing this post, tidied the kitchen a bit, wrote a list for today and watched some C-drama while spinning before going to bed.
My husband and I have decided not to go to the concert tonight, and after looking through my fiber stash on Thursday because I wanted to show a student some Angora fiber I decided that maybe I don’t need more spinning fiber. You see, I have four bins of fiber and five spinning projects in progress which might be enough to tie me over for now.
And now the weekend!
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