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Reset Forty-Seven, Day Sixty-One
Jan. 29th, 2023 05:45 amOdd how I've slipped imperceptibly into this pattern of multiple short naps each day instead of one or two longer sleeps, and spend part of each neither asleep nor awake, but wandering in some intermediate space where I dream seemingly awake and then imagine I sleep to forget. Deteriorating brains get so strange. I suppose I'll get to the point where I don't remember any other way and it will seem normal to me, assuming I have a concept of normality. I probably won't write about that when it happens, seeing how it's already getting more difficult to focus on writing anything coherent at all even at this stage.
Something I've wanted to focus on writing about lately is the discovery through Google maps street view that a building I remember very clearly from my early adolescence apparently did not exist. I've had other experiences with false memories, but this one is just so unexpected and inexplicable that it really has me quite upset. I keep looking for alternate explanations for what is probably actually quite straightforward error on my part. I just haven't been able to bring myself to believe it. I might have to launch a cult based on a belief in forces causing people to shift unwittingly between alternative universes. (They must be stopped! Visit my "Defeat the time-travelling lizard people" Patreon.)
But in whatever world I'm in at the moment it has been sprinkling off and on for an hour or so. This storm is expected to bring only about a quarter inch of rain to the mini-metropolis, but it's going to be the coldest of the series of storms we've had this year. More snow for the mountains will be good, even if it's only a little bit. Skiers like fresh powder, and farmers like snowmelt for summer irrigation.
Dinner Saturday was the other half of my can of tamales, which I heated with extra sauce and layered over crushed tortilla chips and cheese, and topped with more cheese and more sauce to melt the cheese, and then some sour cream, and I was surprised how good it turned out. I'm a terrible cook, but I'm sometimes really good at heating stuff up and assembling stuff into bowls. More recently, after a modest evening nap, I heated a can of butternut squash soup which went surprisingly well with the last two Lotus Biscoff cookies from the pack I got as a premium for buying two pints of quite good ice cream a couple of months ago. I like happy accidental discoveries. And the rain that's starting up again.
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Something I've wanted to focus on writing about lately is the discovery through Google maps street view that a building I remember very clearly from my early adolescence apparently did not exist. I've had other experiences with false memories, but this one is just so unexpected and inexplicable that it really has me quite upset. I keep looking for alternate explanations for what is probably actually quite straightforward error on my part. I just haven't been able to bring myself to believe it. I might have to launch a cult based on a belief in forces causing people to shift unwittingly between alternative universes. (They must be stopped! Visit my "Defeat the time-travelling lizard people" Patreon.)
But in whatever world I'm in at the moment it has been sprinkling off and on for an hour or so. This storm is expected to bring only about a quarter inch of rain to the mini-metropolis, but it's going to be the coldest of the series of storms we've had this year. More snow for the mountains will be good, even if it's only a little bit. Skiers like fresh powder, and farmers like snowmelt for summer irrigation.
Dinner Saturday was the other half of my can of tamales, which I heated with extra sauce and layered over crushed tortilla chips and cheese, and topped with more cheese and more sauce to melt the cheese, and then some sour cream, and I was surprised how good it turned out. I'm a terrible cook, but I'm sometimes really good at heating stuff up and assembling stuff into bowls. More recently, after a modest evening nap, I heated a can of butternut squash soup which went surprisingly well with the last two Lotus Biscoff cookies from the pack I got as a premium for buying two pints of quite good ice cream a couple of months ago. I like happy accidental discoveries. And the rain that's starting up again.
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