Some things get done, some don't

[hrj]

 It has just occurred to me that I never got around to replacing the front tire on the bicycle this weekend, and while I could--in theory--go out and do it now, I'm all freshly showered after the furniture wrangling and bedroom set-up and simply don't feel like getting dirty again. So tomorrow's lunch break may simply be a bike maintenance break.

I lost my cynical bet that the cats would hork a hairball on the freshly shampooed carpet before I even got the bedroom furniture back in. But I'm sure they'll take care of christening it soon enough. I've been combing vast amounts of shed fur off them lately, but there's plenty left for hairballing. I did a bit of rearranging of storage in the process of moving things back into the bedroom. I"m now keeping the bed linens in plastic compression bags in the under-bed storage (which tends to get dusty, so I wanted to protect them) and moved the off-seasen comforters, spare pillows, blankets, etc. into the cedar chest. I have a feather bed that I tried out unsuccessfully as a mattress topper at one point that could use a good home.

Next weekend I'll shampoo the library, and maybe the hallway while I'm at it. Then the living room the weekend after that. In the mean time, I'll try to work on sorting through the costumes and small SCA gear bit by bit. I'm currently feeling like my living space is very cluttered, but I need to leave it feeling cluttered so that I'll have the impetus for working on it.

I've posted on the Alpennia blog about this year's Pride Storybundle, which became available a few days ago. Floodtide is included in the bonus level of the bundle, which has a total of 11 books. I'll post the full blog about it tomorrow and I'll be doing regular promo both here and at Alpennia.com for the run of the offer. I always get a bunch of new fans through the Storybundle offers, and I'm glad I was able to include Floodtide since it makes a good entry for the series as a whole.

It looks like the weather will be more moderate this week -- only barely sneaking above 90F on a single day and otherwise highs of 70s and 80s. Looking forward to it.

Comments

[hrj]

6/7 - temperature 97.2, didn't leave the property at all

[affreca]

Thank you for reminding me of the Pride storybundle. I've found some really good books in the last few Pride storybundles, so I'm looking forward to this one. I've already got and enjoyed Floodtide, but that makes me think that I'll like several of the other books in the bundle.

[hrj]

The Pride Storybundles have been very well curated for "if you like some of these you're likely to like others."

[kareina]

I would so love a feather bed matress topper! Alas, I am much too far away for it to be reasonab to give yous a home.

[hrj]

Alas. I got it as part of an experiment with trying to find something my back likes. But not only was it fairly meh as far as back comfort, it also was far too warm for me. The only thing that really works for my back is having a large body pillow that I can use to keep my knees bent. One of those fancy hospital-type beds that bends in several places would probably work too, but wouldn't be as nice looking.