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halfshellvenus) wrote2026-04-26 12:45 pm
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Another day...
another staged assassination attempt. :( What's really at issue? Distracting peole from the war in Iran and the Epstein files. Not to mention grift and treason, but who's counting?
In lighter news, Sacramento is still in the off-again/on-again rain cycle. A few days of biking outdoors, a few days in the garage. This is keeping the summer heat at bay, though, so I'll take it. May is coming, and that can be the start of hell. Or not. We got married on May 20, some almost 37 years ago. It was a beautiful day, about 80F. On our first anniversary, it poured all weekend. Other years? 90-100F. There's no way of knowing until you're in it.
We watched Beckett last night with The Boy, which was entertaining but another reminder that Denzel Washington's son will probably never have a huge career because he looks like his mother rather than his father. Pleasant, but not distinctive. Then HalfshellHusband and I watched Happiness For Beginners, which I always thought was a Simon Pegg movie. It was not— different flavor altogether— but we enjoyed it. Gorgeous scenery.
Bookwise, I finished King Sorrow (Joe Hill) a couple of weeks ago. Good, but also depressing— I wanted the characters to be spared their fates. Also, oddly British. Hill should get an American editor. :O Then I read the 3rd Dungeon-Crawler Carl installment, The Anarchist's Cookbook. Not as fun as Book 2 (which was a RIOT), and the editing seemed rushed (a few missing words, and some noun/verb-tense and subject disagreements). But I'm looking forward to Book 4. After that, it was Dead Wednesday, which is a kids' book (8th grade characters) but unexpectedly sweet and wholesome. I could read more by Jerry Spinelli— I really liked it.
And now, I've started Night Film. Both it and Dead Wednesday were recommended by NY Times readers commenting on a recent article on short novels. I have a couple more recommendations in my library Wish List, and one in my Hold List (But Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?). I'm really glad our online library system has those features for e-books as well as regular books. There's a whole independent site for e-books, which is great since I do all my reading on Kindle. Although that is not working so well for the current book... It has sections intended to look like authentic newspaper clippings and police reports and medical files, and they are all too tiny to read. :(
Speaking of which, there are ads now for eyedrops you can use to temporarily remove the need for reading glasses. Ullhhhh... That seems kind of risky to me. I used to have daily contact lenses that would sharpen my right-eye vision and make my left eye work for short distances. But I always wound up taking the left lens out when I biked, because otherwise I couldn't see the traffic behind me clearly enough to know if it was safe to merge left. And most of my reading now is either computer screen or Kindle, and the Kindle lets me adjust the font size up and down!
The medical miracles I want have to do with weight control (currently ineligible) and shedding less hair. I've seen a little improvement on that last issue. My sister bought and then didn't use about 6 months' worth of Nutrafol, which she passed along to me. AFAIK, it isn't helping the corners of my lower eyelashes grow back, but it HAS reduced the amount of hair that comes off in the shower. Possibly due to the extra iodine— added to my multivitamin, I'm at 250% RDA. \o? My doctor won't raise my thyroid levels (which I think would help BOTH issues), so maybe this is a small workaround? It may also be helping my energy levels and mental clarity a little, both of which can suffer with low thyroid.
What's everyone been doing this weekend?
In lighter news, Sacramento is still in the off-again/on-again rain cycle. A few days of biking outdoors, a few days in the garage. This is keeping the summer heat at bay, though, so I'll take it. May is coming, and that can be the start of hell. Or not. We got married on May 20, some almost 37 years ago. It was a beautiful day, about 80F. On our first anniversary, it poured all weekend. Other years? 90-100F. There's no way of knowing until you're in it.
We watched Beckett last night with The Boy, which was entertaining but another reminder that Denzel Washington's son will probably never have a huge career because he looks like his mother rather than his father. Pleasant, but not distinctive. Then HalfshellHusband and I watched Happiness For Beginners, which I always thought was a Simon Pegg movie. It was not— different flavor altogether— but we enjoyed it. Gorgeous scenery.
Bookwise, I finished King Sorrow (Joe Hill) a couple of weeks ago. Good, but also depressing— I wanted the characters to be spared their fates. Also, oddly British. Hill should get an American editor. :O Then I read the 3rd Dungeon-Crawler Carl installment, The Anarchist's Cookbook. Not as fun as Book 2 (which was a RIOT), and the editing seemed rushed (a few missing words, and some noun/verb-tense and subject disagreements). But I'm looking forward to Book 4. After that, it was Dead Wednesday, which is a kids' book (8th grade characters) but unexpectedly sweet and wholesome. I could read more by Jerry Spinelli— I really liked it.
And now, I've started Night Film. Both it and Dead Wednesday were recommended by NY Times readers commenting on a recent article on short novels. I have a couple more recommendations in my library Wish List, and one in my Hold List (But Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?). I'm really glad our online library system has those features for e-books as well as regular books. There's a whole independent site for e-books, which is great since I do all my reading on Kindle. Although that is not working so well for the current book... It has sections intended to look like authentic newspaper clippings and police reports and medical files, and they are all too tiny to read. :(
Speaking of which, there are ads now for eyedrops you can use to temporarily remove the need for reading glasses. Ullhhhh... That seems kind of risky to me. I used to have daily contact lenses that would sharpen my right-eye vision and make my left eye work for short distances. But I always wound up taking the left lens out when I biked, because otherwise I couldn't see the traffic behind me clearly enough to know if it was safe to merge left. And most of my reading now is either computer screen or Kindle, and the Kindle lets me adjust the font size up and down!
The medical miracles I want have to do with weight control (currently ineligible) and shedding less hair. I've seen a little improvement on that last issue. My sister bought and then didn't use about 6 months' worth of Nutrafol, which she passed along to me. AFAIK, it isn't helping the corners of my lower eyelashes grow back, but it HAS reduced the amount of hair that comes off in the shower. Possibly due to the extra iodine— added to my multivitamin, I'm at 250% RDA. \o? My doctor won't raise my thyroid levels (which I think would help BOTH issues), so maybe this is a small workaround? It may also be helping my energy levels and mental clarity a little, both of which can suffer with low thyroid.
What's everyone been doing this weekend?
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I've lost a lot of hair around my hairline because I've been pulling it back for years. I've had a couple of stylists call it "thyroid hair" because it's so fine. I need a cut desperately -- right now it's just below my shoulders and therefore tangles itself at every opportunity. I've been balking because I don't want what I call a "Mom Pixie" because I don't want the upkeep, among other things.
I'm not eligible for any kind of medical miracle weight control either. SO, however, is, but he's already stated that he doesn't want to be married to it. His dr put him on a small dose of one of the T2 drugs that has weight loss as a side effect as a compromise. I think it's too small a dose given that SO hasn't lost anything significant so far, but maybe he will down the line?