Off the Cliff

The rain outside is doing its raineth every day thing. Put out my garbage early but not the dead vacuum, given there's no guarantee they'll take it.

Have finished Reaper Man, a couple of Angela Marchmont mysteries, a John Norman, probably a Lorac but don't ask me which (I Could Murder Her, actually), and Daemons of the Shadow Realm 5, an e-book hold which came in today and pooh to your 'about two weeks.' Violent and lowering as ever. Am reading another Lorac and Trent's Own Case, a reread because I remember nothing of it and want to stick it in a Wee Free Library. Have two more Loracs in transit and think maybe I should do a massive reread of Rainy Willow Store before my Japanese vanishes entirely.

Reading Daemons of the Shadow Realm before bed yesterday got me a very unpleasant nightmare of being a Japanese girl being stalked by a something, or a menacing someone,  in an obscure city landscape. This will not stop me from reading vol2 because I'm such a sucker for backstories, but yes, this manga is quite as unpleasant as James Nicoll said it was. I mean, I was forewarned because it was his review that made me put a hold on it in the first place,  but that's no consolation.

Went to get a scrip at the pharmacy yesterday, pharmacist wanted to review my meds with me, so after the lunch break scrum cleared a bit that's what we did.  She recommends the pneumonia vax which enh, because I'm never near enough to anyone to catch it, though I always blamed the walking pneumonia of '85 on my friends' unheated Amsterdam apartment in December. But it was just as likely from the flight back. I think the pneumovax is free to crones my age, I just don't know if I care for the side effects. The shingles vax she also wants me to get is *not* free, and costs big bucks, and also has side effects.  I had the old vaccine somewhere back in the day, but they still want people to get the Shingrix. And I did have chicken pox as a kid back in the dark ages, so caution suggests...

But also the covid vaccine is now available and she was all ready to give it to me after I'd filled out the form. Only I have appointments next week, so I'll do it when my schedule is clear. And a good thing I triple-checked said schedule, because I had it firmly in my head that the catscan was Tuesday the eighth and it's actually this Monday. The follow-up is on a Tuesday, the 15th.

Today was something of a bust since all I did was get sheets and towels to the laundromat and got caught in the rain doing it,  but that's one foot-dragging chore over.  Was pleased to discover that the trucks which were blocking the route to the laundromat the other day were actually replacing the broken and uneven sidewalk, both sides, that makes getting there with a loaded walker a pain. They still haven't made good the curb: asphalt is down but not the concrete yet,  so there's a bit of a gutter in the roadway one must bump over, but it's a definite improvement over what it was before.