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June 24

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  • This getting old shit sucks.
  • I understand my generation’s parents are getting to the age where they get replacement parts and augmentations.
  • Possibly courting mortality.
  • Oof.
  • Mom had a hip replacement Monday, so we’ve been busy.
  • Yes, she’s up and moving already.
  • With a walker, but still.
  • It is what I expected.
  • She gave me the fount that is my stubbornness.
  • Obviously.
  • Like me, she’ll probably expect to be better before she actually is.
  • She’s bunking with us for a couple of weeks.
  • In no small part because she has eight or nine Great Pyrenees, and she would have pretty good odds of getting bowled over.
  • (Falling when you’ve just had a hip replacement is not physician-recommended.)
  • Dog Rescuer.
  • So was my sister at one time.
  • Stubbornness and caretaking run in the family.
  • My uncle showed up for the surgery on Monday, and we ended up talking to him at the hospital Starbucks for the couple of hours Mom was in the OR.
  • Good talk.
  • He’s a doctor, so again, the caretaking thing seems to run in the genes on that side of the family.
  • I bailed on pre-med, one of those decisions I regret, so that had been my path at one time, too.
  • (Given what my uncle said yesterday, I should’ve been a radiologist.)
  • I’d planned on being a shrink.
  • Sometimes, I still think about being a therapist.
  • I don’t think I want to incur that much student debt again, especially not when we’re about to co-fund the kid’s college.
  • It would be fun to be back in school.
  • I loved grad school.
  • Would probably enjoy lower-level stuff now.
  • If I had the time to audit classes, I totally would.
  • Teaching would be rad, too.
  • The Path.
  • It’s interesting to look back and remember those choices that had an outsized impact on the course of your life.
  • Literally one thing.
  • Boom.
  • There are lots of little unnoticed moments that shape our lives, too, but it’s the big ones you remember.
  • Butterfly effect, right?
  • That makes me think of that Machines of Loving Grace song, “Butterfly Wings.”
  • Loved that band.
  • Still like those first two albums quite a bit.
  • I listen when I remember.
  • They had a song on The Crow soundtrack, “Golgotha Tenement Blues,” which was a pretty good song, but they never blew up.
  • I may go listen to them today.
  • After we figure out what we’re doing for dinner.
  • One of the worst things in adulting.
  • When you don’t know what you want, but you sure know what you don’t want when you hear it.
  • It’s probably going to be Meddys (it was).
  • (I’ll cook tomorrow; it’s been a couple of days and nights of exhaustion.)
  • (Know when you’re beaten.)
  • (Meddys rocks, btw, and it’s not terribly expensive by comparison.)
  • Shawarma rules.
  • I had no idea.
  • My exposure to it before now was the end-credits scene after “Avengers.”
  • (I want to do a head-to-head comparison between shawarma and gyros.)
  • I’ll be a lot more excited about food when I’m also exercising again.
  • I’ll have that date on Friday.
  • Can’t wait.
  • Going five-for-five days with doc appts this week.
  • Combine that with mom’s stuff …
  • I’m bloody tired of doctors and medical facilities.
  • Not finished yet, but … soon.
  • …
  • Do not trust to flow.
  • It has abandoned these bullets.
  • I blame the exhaustion.
  • Then again, sometimes the stream of consciousness has rapids.
  • My TBR pile keeps growing.
  • I think I’m on the last book (currently) in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (which I heard someone on the Internet describe as an “intergalactic Hunger Games”).
  • It’s good stuff.
  • Fun.
  • Also upcoming: …
  • Yeah, okay, I looked at my Kindle library and it’s running over with samples and other things I don’t remember getting.
  • …
  • I considered listing them, but there are probably 15.
  • Well, hell with it.
  • “Modern Divination” by Isa Agajanian
  • “Nettle & Bone” by T. Kingfisher
  • “Doorways in the Sand,” Roger Zelazny
  • “The Fourth Consort,” Edward Ashton
  • “An Easy Death,” Charlane Harris
  • “This is Your Brain on Music,” Daniel T. Levitin
  • “Written on the Dark,” Guy Gavriel Kay
  • “Practical Demonkeeping,” Christopher Moore
  • “The Original,” Brandon Sanderson & Mary Robinette Kowal
  • “The Raven Scholar,” Antonia Hodgson
  • “In the Garden of Beasts,” Erik Larson
  • “The Ophiuchi Hotline,” John Varley
  • “The Bone Season,” Samantha Shannon
  • And that’s just the stuff on the Kindle.
  • Not the paper books I have laying around.
  • And that’s not the whole “now reading” list.
  • A couple of those I already bought, so they aren’t samples.
  • A few are on Kindle Unlimited.
  • Authors get paid by the page on that?
  • (I didn’t even look into it when I pubbed that short story.)
  • I’m sure Amazon pays less now, or has jacked up the system.
  • When I published that short story, I feel like Amazon got much more of the 99 cents than I did.
  • The ratio was better if you charged at least $1.99, I think?
  • Again, the creatives doing the work, some other entity profiting from it.
  • Shocking!
  • Shocked!
  • Stunned!
  • …
  • I gotta stop.
  • We have Ironheart to watch.
  • Back tomorrow …
  • …
  • …
  • Yeah, I did not get this posted before I went to bed.
  • Going to post it now and then get on with today’s.

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