52/279-280: Still Chill Night
Dec. 3rd, 2025 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphMonday and Tuesday did what they did, which was damned little, and apparently I survived them, only to find myself here, trying to survive early Wednesday morning. I will attempt to do that by going to sleep as soon as possible, trying not to think how I'll have to wake up and survive another day of daylight later. I've got a low grade headache, probably from my neck being out of place, probably from sleeping poorly and contorting myself into some sort of odd shape that might have made sense in a dream I don't remember having, but is highly impractical in the real world.
There was a rather late Tuesday dinner built around a large baked potato, and finished off with a bottle of Black Butte porter. For some reason (or perhaps none at all) my nose has begun to run. I don't think I could be coming down with a cold, as I have had no direct contact with other humans for more than a week, and with the onset of wintry weather have gone back to the pandemic era custom of wiping down my few bits of mail with those smelly wet disinfecting things. I'm thinking the runny nose is just one of those odd things that old age inexplicably brings on. I'm hoping it won't cause my nose to stop up when I lie down, because that happens sometimes, and it's hard enough for me to breathe these days anyway, even with a clear nasal passage or two.
Daily high temperatures keep getting revised downward, but next Friday is showing a high of 62, the highest in the fourteen days currently showing in the long range forecast, It's also the only sunny day in the forecast, though most of the remainder are only partly cloudy. It's not too horrible for December, and an email from the utility company today said I am on track for a bill of 69 dollars this month, which is a bit lower than last December's bill. I can probably afford to squander a few extra bucks at Safeway this month. I have my eye on a small bottle of Grand Marnier that's on sale this week. A drop of cognac is nice on chilly winter nights, and I ain't gonna live forever.
There was a rather late Tuesday dinner built around a large baked potato, and finished off with a bottle of Black Butte porter. For some reason (or perhaps none at all) my nose has begun to run. I don't think I could be coming down with a cold, as I have had no direct contact with other humans for more than a week, and with the onset of wintry weather have gone back to the pandemic era custom of wiping down my few bits of mail with those smelly wet disinfecting things. I'm thinking the runny nose is just one of those odd things that old age inexplicably brings on. I'm hoping it won't cause my nose to stop up when I lie down, because that happens sometimes, and it's hard enough for me to breathe these days anyway, even with a clear nasal passage or two.
Daily high temperatures keep getting revised downward, but next Friday is showing a high of 62, the highest in the fourteen days currently showing in the long range forecast, It's also the only sunny day in the forecast, though most of the remainder are only partly cloudy. It's not too horrible for December, and an email from the utility company today said I am on track for a bill of 69 dollars this month, which is a bit lower than last December's bill. I can probably afford to squander a few extra bucks at Safeway this month. I have my eye on a small bottle of Grand Marnier that's on sale this week. A drop of cognac is nice on chilly winter nights, and I ain't gonna live forever.
