So, I like audiobooks just fine, but I use them mostly to reread books I liked the first time around (I have a bad habit of skimming when I read - audiobooks force me to not skim). One of my favorite M/M authors turned me on to Chirp. Their regular prices are about par with …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Unreliable Narrator
Someday, maybe, I'll have actual themes and essays to write. This is not that day. Things have been fine here, mostly. C has been having health problems, but we finally, after vaccination and the two-week wait, got him to a doctor. Waiting for test results now, but he's basically fine, except for this leg and …
Fie then, why sit we musing?
Hey, it's May! Still chilly, but sunny out today for now. It's Mother's Day, the second without our Mom. She never cared much about it - happy to receive the cards and flowers and so on, but if we'd forgotten or gotten them there a day late, there would have been no blowback or guilt …
Oh, yeah, this always happens
Ah yes, the return of the anxiety of "why am I tired all the time? Why can't I concentrate? Why can't I get anything done". Followed eventually by the dull realization that this might be connected to "why am I sneezing all the time? Why are my eyes burning? Why are my glasses covered with …
Waiting for my microchip to connect
C and I got our 2nd Pfizer shots yesterday. Same drill: Uber to the Bronx, a not-bad wait outside in line at Lincoln Hospital (which then became a wait inside). They sort of had two lines, one for 1st and one for 2nd doses. Once inside and through the paperwork, they put us in various …
Allegro con brio
Continuing to be personally and, um, emotionally? productive. Work's going well, I'm in the process of wrapping up a first-quarter project. We're big on quarters at PLI. I didn't finish the training I'd slated to do for first quarter, but I don't think my boss cares and I could possibly wrap that up this weekend. …
Practically Productive
One of my favorite books, Judith Guest's "Ordinary People", introduced me to a phrase I've tried to take to heart, that there's 'no golden gradebook in the sky'. It's easy to beat yourself for failing to hit your own goals, even though they don't make a lot of difference and no one else cares. Anyway, …
The most important thing
Had to check the last post to see what I'd shared re our vaccination status. Was it really only last week that C had an appointment at our local (not-chain) pharmacy in a week or so, and I had none? Well... events moved quickly. First, using the NYC.gov vaccine finder, I tried to get an …
Moving forward inefficiently
I've become aware that I can easily lock myself into inaction simply because I can't easily plan the best way to do something. Oh, I have so much to do - well, I'll do that first, but wait, something else needs to happen and this really should happen today too... and then I've come to …
Like a Flower, Opening Up
Today was unusually warm and nice, after the weeks of snow and cold and rain we've had. At my job, I'd gotten past some blockages and felt not under-the-gun for the first time this week. C and I had done our usual Wed mid-morning food shopping, but this time we went to the new grocery …
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