51/40: Stupid and Plums
Oct. 22nd, 2024 04:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphI was watching a video of Greig's piano concerto, and the damned thing stopped just a couple of bars before the end. I was so pissed at YouTube! Then I tried another video, and got a screen that told me I needed to connect to the Idernet. D'OH! Some stupid old guy (okay it was me) let the phone battery run down again and I lost the Idernet connection. It was not the first stupid thing I've done in the last few hours, and if I stay awake much longer I'm sure it won't be the last. I'm really pretty tired of being the stupid old guy, and of wondering how I got so stupid so fast, but there's nothing that can be done about it. My brain is going to die soon whether I do or not.
So Monday continued the string of mild days we've been enjoying of late, and my dying brain did remember to capture a bit of afternoon warmth to keep the apartment comfortable through the chilly night which bottomed out at a crisp 46. As we have four moderately warm days coming up in a row, all followed by nights not as chilly as Monday's, I ought to be able to maintain this pattern through the rest of the week, but the odds are that next Sunday night or early Monday morning the furnace will come on for the first time since last spring. Sunday afternoon will actually bring a 39% chance of rain showers, with a mild high of 74. Days will get a bit warmer again toward the end of next week, and November will start with several almost balmy days and merely cool nights. But next week, definitely autumnal.
Oh, I found the two boxes of tea that I'd misplaced over the summer, so I won't have to order any for a few weeks. I do want to get some shortbread cookies to go with it soon though. Now that cold weather is on the way I'll be using the oven more, and making more soup. Oh, and waffles and pancakes, and other good autumn stuff. But right now I'm going back to bed, and maybe while I sleep visions of sugar plums will dance in my head. If they do, I'm sure I won't remember them. When I wake up anymore I usually don't even remember going to sleep, let alone what I dreamed. Probably a good thing. It's probably stupid old guy stuff that would just make me feel worse.
So Monday continued the string of mild days we've been enjoying of late, and my dying brain did remember to capture a bit of afternoon warmth to keep the apartment comfortable through the chilly night which bottomed out at a crisp 46. As we have four moderately warm days coming up in a row, all followed by nights not as chilly as Monday's, I ought to be able to maintain this pattern through the rest of the week, but the odds are that next Sunday night or early Monday morning the furnace will come on for the first time since last spring. Sunday afternoon will actually bring a 39% chance of rain showers, with a mild high of 74. Days will get a bit warmer again toward the end of next week, and November will start with several almost balmy days and merely cool nights. But next week, definitely autumnal.
Oh, I found the two boxes of tea that I'd misplaced over the summer, so I won't have to order any for a few weeks. I do want to get some shortbread cookies to go with it soon though. Now that cold weather is on the way I'll be using the oven more, and making more soup. Oh, and waffles and pancakes, and other good autumn stuff. But right now I'm going back to bed, and maybe while I sleep visions of sugar plums will dance in my head. If they do, I'm sure I won't remember them. When I wake up anymore I usually don't even remember going to sleep, let alone what I dreamed. Probably a good thing. It's probably stupid old guy stuff that would just make me feel worse.
