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Dream of vaguely Edwardian setting except for Mother's friend Mrs. O'S in an emerald green 50s dress with patch pockets over the chest whose flaps stuck out at a 90 degree angle. Problem was actually who would inherit the throne of England, there being something wrong about George V. Possibly that his name wasn't in fact George.

A few days ago found some empty peanut shells near the stove's burners. Figured I might have dropped a few when decanting shell holder into bio garbage bag. Came home to day to find more peanut shells by burner, and hear something scritchying in the kitchen. Happened same time that NNDs returned home, could have been little M doing something in the hall, but peanuts suggest it's much more likely that mice have moved in for the winter. Have put trap by stove in case.

Apparently our warm September means no fall colours this year. A pity, but my gas bill thanks me.

Finished the four volumes the library has of Daemons of the Shadow Realm and immediately want vol.5, orderable from the mighty river. But after 5 I will want 6 which doesn't come out until November, and 7 in March. So am trying to possess soul in patience till then.

As always when the temps first go below 10C/ 50F, everything feels cold cold oh so cold. I toy with the idea of turning on the heat. But checking the thermostat, turns out the heat is actually on and will kick in if things go below 15C. Thermostat currently thinks it's 20C/ 68F so the cold is pretty much psychological.

Finished Delicious in Dungeon 2-4 and Daemons of the Shadow Realm 1&2, have subsequent volumes waiting at the library, and will get them tomorrow probably. Will also return Shigidi which have given up on. It should be fascinating but the execution is so lackadaisical that I really can't be having with it, even skimming. Yes, there's a succubus in it, no you really needn't tell us how every man she meets salivates over her meticulously enumerated charms. Or what happens every time she copulates with the protagonist. A pity.

Nothing day because it was supposed to rain, and did rain, and was dark by the time it stopped raining. I would have ordered in but the website kept playing silly buggers. Skip the Dishes regularly does this, and Uber, aside from everything else hinky about Uber, piles on the surcharges, so can't use them either. Thus I didn't get Indian food or pad thai or a hamburger, but ate veggie pakoras from the freezer and got my calories from nuts and vodka. Finished a rather good Ferrars and shall continue on with Delicious in Dungeon, even if the idea of eating parasitic worms is revolting.

At least yesterday I got out to the library and the Manning Pour House for rice vermicelli and chicken, quite as good as the lamented Ginger's. Have not done any of my deskly to do things, like registering my new Visa card or applying for the government's dental plan or calling the rollator fixit guy or the physio who's registered with the province to approve grants to seniors who need things like upright walkers. I hate making phone calls and am glad to have lived long enough that texting has become a thing, but people still expect you to call them in person and wait for them to call you back. Which means staying in unless you use the cell phone which nobody else ie taxi drivers and the like, knows how to talk into comprehensibly.

Reading Daemons of the Shadow Realm before bed yesterday got me a very unpleasant nightmare of being a Japanese girl being stalked by a something, or a menacing someone, in an obscure city landscape. This will not stop me from reading vol2 because I'm such a sucker for backstories, but yes, this manga is quite as unpleasant as James Nicoll said it was. I mean, I was forewarned because it was his review that made me put a hold on it in the first place, but that's no consolation.

Went to get a scrip at the pharmacy yesterday, pharmacist wanted to review my meds with me, so after the lunch break scrum cleared a bit that's what we did. She recommends the pneumonia vax which enh, because I'm never near enough to anyone to catch it, though I always blamed the walking pneumonia of '85 on my friends' unheated Amsterdam apartment in December. But it was just as likely from the flight back. I think the pneumovax is free to crones my age, I just don't know if I care for the side effects. The shingles vax she also wants me to get is *not* free, and costs big bucks, and also has side effects. I had the old vaccine somewhere back in the day, but they still want people to get the Shingrix. And I did have chicken pox as a kid back in the dark ages, so caution suggests...

But also the covid vaccine is now available and she was all ready to give it to me after I'd filled out the form. Only I have appointments next week, so I'll do it when my schedule is clear. And a good thing I triple-checked said schedule, because I had it firmly in my head that the catscan was Tuesday the eighth and it's actually this Monday. The follow-up is on a Tuesday, the 15th.

Today was something of a bust since all I did was get sheets and towels to the laundromat and got caught in the rain doing it, but that's one foot-dragging chore over. Was pleased to discover that the trucks which were blocking the route to the laundromat the other day were actually replacing the broken and uneven sidewalk, both sides, that makes getting there with a loaded walker a pain. They still haven't made good the curb: asphalt is down but not the concrete yet, so there's a bit of a gutter in the roadway one must bump over, but it's a definite improvement over what it was before.

How I hate getting up in the morning, especially when I have the window AC on and bed is so warm and comfy and outside is so cold and achey. But I made me get up and put a laundry through to dry on the line in the 30C humidex. The annoying bit was me getting up at 10 but the laundry not getting outside until 1, what with exercises and stretches and breakfast and waiting for the meds to work. Laundry still got dry by 5, but still. Also note that vines have completely taken over the back yard and that damnable mulberry tree is back, after I paid a couple of hundred to have it uprooted.

And since the humidex was so nasty, stayed in all day and read. Another Simenon and Dungeon Meshi vol.1.

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