Late

[rejectomorph]

Dawn has crept up on me again. I blame the perfume. I was digging through stacks of old stuff and came across magazines from ten years ago and more. Some of them had those perfume strips in them. They still smell, after all this time. But I have a suspicion that the perfume has altered with age, and now has soporific properties. (This is undoubtedly the result of some conspiracy perpetrated by the perfume manufacturers.) Inhaling it has altered my perception of time, so that I spent the entire night doing things in slow motion. A few minutes ago, I went out to look at the stars and found that the sky had already turned pale. The birds must be in on the conspiracy. They are all laughing at me.

Despite having had the windows open and the fan on, the house still holds much of yesterday's heat. A few nights ago I slept under five blankets. Now I will be down to one, and might find even that too warm. Poor Sluggo has been having a hard time of it, too. If today is as warm as yesterday, I doubt he'll be able to work more than a few minutes this afternoon, and maybe an hour or so later tonight. I can almost hear his CPU popping and crackling now. When I get a new computer, I might try using Sluggo as a hotplate.

Must get to sleep before it gets any brighter.

Comments

[rejectomorph]

Small town, bigger house -- big city, smaller house, is pretty much the way it works here. If you are rich, you can have a big house even in a big city, and if you are poor you can end up with a small house even in a small town, but for everybody else the size of house you can afford depends on where you live. This being a fairly small town, a lot of middle class houses are fairly large. We have about 1800 square feet. (I'm not sure what that is in meters, but I think a square meter is about 11 square feet.) Plus, there's a two car garage, and we have only one car in it, so there is quite a lot of space for storage.

Update: This comment is a bit late, because I stupidly posted it in the wrong place. (I must learn to pay attention to what I'm doing!)