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This week's been strangely difficult, probably because Kay had come down with a bad cough on Saturday and stayed home on Monday. Yesterday, I developed the same thing, and I'm coming out of it today, so that seems to be how the week's going. It was minor enough that I was able to tackle minor grocery shopping but enough that I was kind of unhappy while doing it, so I got off a little lighter than Kay did.
Yesterday, one of the cats ended up peeing on some of my early 90's Analog magazines I had on a bottom shelf in the living room, which meant I had to throw them all out. There's really no way to get piss out of paper, you know? When I first got them, there had been a ton of 'em - one of my mom's friends was clearing out her shit and heard that I liked sci-fi and so she gave them all to her to give to me. Years later when I was cleaning house, I got rid of about two thirds of them and kept the ones that had the stories I liked best, since they were taking up a huge amount of space. I guess I'm just down to something like a single digest I had shelved improperly. Honestly, I hadn't read them in about a decade, and most of them were shorts that appeared elsewhere in magazines or as novels, so I didn't lose anything priceless, just kind of nostalgic. Like many things we have, they're not particularly important. They seem like something you want to have until they're gone, and then you don't miss them so much.
That's the way it is.
Kay gets back at 5 now. Overtime's been cancelled. The down side is obvious, and this'll really effect our ability to deal with financial burdens, so I hope the request for an interview comes in soon. The upside is something akin to a normal life for him - free time despite a long commute. It's felt strange but nice, and I'm looking forward to it being less strange. I've been trying to play Metal Gear Solid, but I'm bad at games and it's difficult even though it's not especially long. I'm stuck trying to get a sniper rifle without getting killed, and I've made it a point to try to avoid killing any other soldiers besides fighting bosses, or in scenes where it can't be avoided. I do have some thoughts about the first game, actually, but those will wait until later.
Yesterday, one of the cats ended up peeing on some of my early 90's Analog magazines I had on a bottom shelf in the living room, which meant I had to throw them all out. There's really no way to get piss out of paper, you know? When I first got them, there had been a ton of 'em - one of my mom's friends was clearing out her shit and heard that I liked sci-fi and so she gave them all to her to give to me. Years later when I was cleaning house, I got rid of about two thirds of them and kept the ones that had the stories I liked best, since they were taking up a huge amount of space. I guess I'm just down to something like a single digest I had shelved improperly. Honestly, I hadn't read them in about a decade, and most of them were shorts that appeared elsewhere in magazines or as novels, so I didn't lose anything priceless, just kind of nostalgic. Like many things we have, they're not particularly important. They seem like something you want to have until they're gone, and then you don't miss them so much.
That's the way it is.
Kay gets back at 5 now. Overtime's been cancelled. The down side is obvious, and this'll really effect our ability to deal with financial burdens, so I hope the request for an interview comes in soon. The upside is something akin to a normal life for him - free time despite a long commute. It's felt strange but nice, and I'm looking forward to it being less strange. I've been trying to play Metal Gear Solid, but I'm bad at games and it's difficult even though it's not especially long. I'm stuck trying to get a sniper rifle without getting killed, and I've made it a point to try to avoid killing any other soldiers besides fighting bosses, or in scenes where it can't be avoided. I do have some thoughts about the first game, actually, but those will wait until later.