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Nov. 21st, 2023 10:46 pmTaking tomorrow off, and I've got Thanksgiving and the day after off as Holidays, also taking next Monday off. So gifting myself a lovely six day holiday.
Wales will be coming to Thanksgiving Dinner - and wants to bring a salad, I also suggested green beans. She threatened to bring a pie, but I already have one. I do not need two.
This is going to be simple - mainly because neither of us can eat all that much.
( food )
Took state mandated training today on my computer. I took the same courses last year. They make us take the same ones every year. Cyber-Security (which basically advised me not to share personal stuff and work related stuff on social media platforms and to use long passwords, don't write them down or save them anywhere - I think IT folks want job security.) Right to Know (basically I have the right to know about various hazardous chemicals), Internal Controls (why government is so bureaucratic), and there's a few more that I can't remember the names of. The good news is everything is down by videos on the computer now - so I don't have to travel to some class, or worse, listen to someone lecture me in a monotone for five hours like they did in the good old days.
I feel old. ( Read more... )
On tap?
Clean apartment tomorrow
See if I can get some small cans of white wine or red wine for Thanksgiving
And thermometer
Work on novel
Oh, and my Super finally installed my smoke/carbon monoxide detector - except he didn't do it on the ceiling, he did it above the door. Because it's almost impossible to put on the ceiling. This one has a ten year battery, so I'm good until the alarm has to be completely replaced. I'll probably be in a new apartment by then, who knows.
***
Making my way through Fall of House of Usher - which is definitely satire. Satire - you don't care about the people. The series is kind of preachy though.
Also, it never occurred to me until now - but Edgar Allen Poe had a thing about guilt and revenge, the two overriding themes in his work are "guilt" and "revenge".
And playing Jeopardy on my phone via Apple Arcade. It's addictive. And cheaper than Redecorate at the moment.
Regarding The Barbara Streisand book - she's spending a lot of time complaining about various talk show hosts at the moment. Mike Wallace irritated her. Mainly because he mocked her Zen Buddhism. She's funny.
"I asked Mike to ask me about Zen Buddhism, because I was into Zen Buddhism, well that is until I lost the book." I can see why Mike and the crew ruthlessly mocked her on this, it's kind of hard not to?
She met Elliot Gould on I Can Get it For You Wholesale - which was both actors first major roles in the theater. They both started in the theater.
They fell in love, and kind of bonded over getting fired from the play. Barbara for not being able to shut up - she kept questioning the director's direction. Gould for sweating too much - he was apparently a sweater, and dripping sweat onstage.
She actually includes a clip from the show - with her singing Ms. Marmalestein in the audio book. So, yes, this may be the best format for this book in my opinion.
The reviews of Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand indicate that she kind of goes in the same direction as she has with all her novels - a bunch of semi-wealthy or priveleged artists meet somewhere spooky in the woods or somewhere...and bad things happen. This is a very popular trope with the NY Publishing Houses, mainly because most of the folks who run the houses hailed from priveleged (semi-rich) artistic dysfunctional families and can identify. That said, I'm enjoying the book so far. Better paced than the last two I read.
Wales will be coming to Thanksgiving Dinner - and wants to bring a salad, I also suggested green beans. She threatened to bring a pie, but I already have one. I do not need two.
This is going to be simple - mainly because neither of us can eat all that much.
( food )
Took state mandated training today on my computer. I took the same courses last year. They make us take the same ones every year. Cyber-Security (which basically advised me not to share personal stuff and work related stuff on social media platforms and to use long passwords, don't write them down or save them anywhere - I think IT folks want job security.) Right to Know (basically I have the right to know about various hazardous chemicals), Internal Controls (why government is so bureaucratic), and there's a few more that I can't remember the names of. The good news is everything is down by videos on the computer now - so I don't have to travel to some class, or worse, listen to someone lecture me in a monotone for five hours like they did in the good old days.
I feel old. ( Read more... )
On tap?
Clean apartment tomorrow
See if I can get some small cans of white wine or red wine for Thanksgiving
And thermometer
Work on novel
Oh, and my Super finally installed my smoke/carbon monoxide detector - except he didn't do it on the ceiling, he did it above the door. Because it's almost impossible to put on the ceiling. This one has a ten year battery, so I'm good until the alarm has to be completely replaced. I'll probably be in a new apartment by then, who knows.
***
Making my way through Fall of House of Usher - which is definitely satire. Satire - you don't care about the people. The series is kind of preachy though.
Also, it never occurred to me until now - but Edgar Allen Poe had a thing about guilt and revenge, the two overriding themes in his work are "guilt" and "revenge".
And playing Jeopardy on my phone via Apple Arcade. It's addictive. And cheaper than Redecorate at the moment.
Regarding The Barbara Streisand book - she's spending a lot of time complaining about various talk show hosts at the moment. Mike Wallace irritated her. Mainly because he mocked her Zen Buddhism. She's funny.
"I asked Mike to ask me about Zen Buddhism, because I was into Zen Buddhism, well that is until I lost the book." I can see why Mike and the crew ruthlessly mocked her on this, it's kind of hard not to?
She met Elliot Gould on I Can Get it For You Wholesale - which was both actors first major roles in the theater. They both started in the theater.
They fell in love, and kind of bonded over getting fired from the play. Barbara for not being able to shut up - she kept questioning the director's direction. Gould for sweating too much - he was apparently a sweater, and dripping sweat onstage.
She actually includes a clip from the show - with her singing Ms. Marmalestein in the audio book. So, yes, this may be the best format for this book in my opinion.
The reviews of Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand indicate that she kind of goes in the same direction as she has with all her novels - a bunch of semi-wealthy or priveleged artists meet somewhere spooky in the woods or somewhere...and bad things happen. This is a very popular trope with the NY Publishing Houses, mainly because most of the folks who run the houses hailed from priveleged (semi-rich) artistic dysfunctional families and can identify. That said, I'm enjoying the book so far. Better paced than the last two I read.