SweetWilliam of Bloom
May. 16th, 2025 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoLast night ended well for us. Eventually the sirens quit, the storm moved off eastward, and we went upstairs to bed. We awoke to a sparkling morning, and no downed trees or damage in our neighborhood. Not everyone was so lucky. Today I learned that the Duchess had been visiting Dr. Nurse and drove home through the worst of the thunderstorm. Shaking my head . . . They made it home safely, but when they got there, encountered a power outage and a water leak. So they didn't go to Pittsburgh today either. Of course, being the Duke and Duchess, they have a generator they can hook up, and no doubt the Duke will be able to find and fix the roof leak himself.
I had another tedious day of not feeling really recovered. I did a couple of loads of laundry. I was boiling myself a couple of eggs and noticed some green beans that needed to be cooked before they got old, so I fixed those. And then I noticed there were two zucchini that I had mistaken for cucumbers . . . as one does . . . so I cooked them too, with mushrooms, onions, and walnuts. Now we're out of mushrooms, so that may have been rash of me. Anyway, it ensures that we'll have plenty of vegetables. If I were inclined to eat them, which I'm not really, because my stomach is still wreaking havoc.
We watched the first two episodes of Murderbot, and quite liked it, although honestly, with all the twitching and the eyeballs, any human would be blind as a bat not to realize that something was up with the SecUnit! I'm entertaining myself with the thought of a story called Pride and Prejudice and Murderbot. The only problem is that there would have to be a threat to be neutralized, and the threats in Pride and Prejudice are not the kind that can be solved by blowing them up. One is occasionally tempted, but no, it wouldn't do. The Sparrowhawk is enthralled with the team, who embody the trope of the Misfit Toys, and says he so identifies with Mensah. I identify with Murderbot, because of course I do, darling.
I had another tedious day of not feeling really recovered. I did a couple of loads of laundry. I was boiling myself a couple of eggs and noticed some green beans that needed to be cooked before they got old, so I fixed those. And then I noticed there were two zucchini that I had mistaken for cucumbers . . . as one does . . . so I cooked them too, with mushrooms, onions, and walnuts. Now we're out of mushrooms, so that may have been rash of me. Anyway, it ensures that we'll have plenty of vegetables. If I were inclined to eat them, which I'm not really, because my stomach is still wreaking havoc.
We watched the first two episodes of Murderbot, and quite liked it, although honestly, with all the twitching and the eyeballs, any human would be blind as a bat not to realize that something was up with the SecUnit! I'm entertaining myself with the thought of a story called Pride and Prejudice and Murderbot. The only problem is that there would have to be a threat to be neutralized, and the threats in Pride and Prejudice are not the kind that can be solved by blowing them up. One is occasionally tempted, but no, it wouldn't do. The Sparrowhawk is enthralled with the team, who embody the trope of the Misfit Toys, and says he so identifies with Mensah. I identify with Murderbot, because of course I do, darling.
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