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Sleeping with the window AC on has two drawbacks. The first of course is the reluctance to get out of bed, but that's by now a constant with me which the coolness only adds to. The other is the pillow of heat that greets you when you walk out of the house. But today was definitely hotter and more humid than yesterday, even if the lying weather page said 'current temp 25, feels like 25.' No it does not. It feels like mid-30s/ 90F and steamy with it. Went to Fiesta for sundries like milk and soy and potatoes which I will run out of by the weekend, that I won't want to shop for in the weekend crowds. And came home as thunder rumbled on the left. I assume it also rained, which merely added to jungle soup. Lying weather page says less humid tomorrow but I expect to be indoors with fans for the next few days.
I've dropped a fraction of a pound since Monday but I feel much flabbier. Am making an effort to do the spot exercises I did happily all winter while waiting for eg water to boil or beanbags to heat-- marching in place or toe tapping or whatever-- that heat and June made me disinclined to. I'm not going for long walks (or gardening) in this weather so I must move otherwise. But I really don'wanna.
Nicholas Whyte strikes me as a reasonable person so I don't understand his distaste for the Murderbot novels/ novellas. He says it's because he hates cute robots. Which is exactly what Murderbot isn't. But he liked the series. Because he could regard Skarsgård as a human being? No idea. I've only seen short clips of it, but I really disliked the whole 'space hippies' wrinkle. That's not at all what they are. And then all the side plots to give the team back stories, presumably to make them more individualistic and create dramatic!conflict where none existed in the books. I sort of see that, yeah, to Murderbot the others are just clients distinguishable from each other only in broad outline, and you can't express that sort of affectlessness in a visual medium. But oddly, the more often I read the books, the clearer the individuals become to me; and all the angsting in the TV series feels, I dunno, both contrived and unnecessary?
I've dropped a fraction of a pound since Monday but I feel much flabbier. Am making an effort to do the spot exercises I did happily all winter while waiting for eg water to boil or beanbags to heat-- marching in place or toe tapping or whatever-- that heat and June made me disinclined to. I'm not going for long walks (or gardening) in this weather so I must move otherwise. But I really don'wanna.
Nicholas Whyte strikes me as a reasonable person so I don't understand his distaste for the Murderbot novels/ novellas. He says it's because he hates cute robots. Which is exactly what Murderbot isn't. But he liked the series. Because he could regard Skarsgård as a human being? No idea. I've only seen short clips of it, but I really disliked the whole 'space hippies' wrinkle. That's not at all what they are. And then all the side plots to give the team back stories, presumably to make them more individualistic and create dramatic!conflict where none existed in the books. I sort of see that, yeah, to Murderbot the others are just clients distinguishable from each other only in broad outline, and you can't express that sort of affectlessness in a visual medium. But oddly, the more often I read the books, the clearer the individuals become to me; and all the angsting in the TV series feels, I dunno, both contrived and unnecessary?
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Someone definitely dropped the ball on that one. The PNW has been having heat waves for at least 20 years now, as my Seattle friends have been saying. Try to stay cool.