I love e-books for several reasons. One of them is that I can adapt the font size. Sometimes my sight, even when glasses, is tired and I like to read larger letters.

Hello!
It may be interesting to have new neighbours.
It seems that you are a really good and responsible teacher. I wish you good luck with that.

I had my first class of the year yesterday. It seems that the group of students is quite good with several ones who like to intervene, ask and answer questions. But today I am tired. The first classes always tire me because my body is not used to standing and talk so much.

12 months is now available for pre-order in Amazon and it says it will be released on January 2026, which is quite disappointing.

I have the hope that it is going to be released before that...like for Christmas.
Unless I am mistaken, the kindle had been U$ 15 (or around that) since forever. I was counting with that amount.

Hi Regen! It is so good to have you back.
I am sorry to hear about your mom's fall but I am glad it is not so serious. I hope she gets better soon and well, at least she is sleeping well  .
I hope your first swimming lesson was good, let us know how it went, please. I am not a very good swimmer. I manage to move a little, I am not completely useless, but I am very slow and not very efficient, so I tire. But I am very good doing the plank (the thing were you just float facing the sky?)  It was a little frustrating for my dad, who was a very good swimmer and did water polo as a child/teenager but I never had the inclination of becoming a real swimmer. I just wanted to play and enjoy the water.

Thank you for your kind words about the city I told you about. Donations and help poured and i think they are quite better now but a lot of people lost pretty much everything and there is a lot of work to do. The scenes we saw on TV were directly post-apocalyptic, with some cars mounted above others and semaphores half submerged in water. It was terrible.

Hello there!
I am very glad your mom is doing well. If she is in no pain, I imagine she will feel more or less fine, even with the annoying swollen leg. And I laughed at the coincidence of her new friend being a relative of her neighbour. I wish both of them the best 
I it so good to know about your cats, I love their different personalities and human favourites.

Yes, no politics. Moving on...

I sometimes do that about Harry! Thinking what he would do in the situation. And for God's sake, everybody knows wishes are tricky. In every RPG session where a wish is involved I remember having to think a lot about that. And if she had time to think...oh well. Perhaps the author of the book is kind with the characters and things go well for her.

I watched "See how they run" this weekend. It is a movie (I have it in Disney+) with Saoirse Ronan about a crime commited in a play of "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie. It is fun and full of references to Agatha Christie and other whoddunits. I liked it.

Oh, excellent! I hope they take good care of her there. Some of those places are miraculous  (while others are hell itself, but I trust you know the place and have references).

Glad to hear you won't be in legal troubles anytime soon.

We finally watched Dune part 2. I have not read the books (even when I've been known the story since I was a teenager) and I liked it, even if I found it a little long. On the other hand, hubby, who did read the books, disliked it. He said they invented a bunch of things just because the USA public won't like what would be too similar to a muslim peopla and a Jihad. He may be right. But well, at least I liked it.

To faith, hope and love. And weirdness!

   

Sending you all the best wishes for your mom. I hope the week at home (with your help) at least allows her to rest, and probably read too.

Very infuriating: today I had to go to a medical center just to give a sample of my pee. This is why. At my university, we have mandatory medical tests every year. They are quite basic and oriented to discover any problem that the insurance company may cover. The specific tests are customized according to the sort of potential risks we face every day. For example, years ago I worked with more products and I needed a blood test and now I do not. And for those tests every year there is a medical bus with all the things (like RX, a room for blood extraction, etc) that goes to the university for a couple of days (we are given appointments). Well, apparently now some of us need to have some tests every semester and as we are not enough to justify the bus going to the university, each of us needs to go to the medical facility. And in my case it is only for that (they need to check if there is methanol and a couple of other chemicals in urine).
At least it was quite a cool morning.

Hello weirdlets! 
I am  sorry I did not answer before. I read it, but I was busy at the moment and then I totally forgot. I've been on my vacation (staycation) and my mind has been lazy. I tried to stay away of pretty much anything,  to charge my batteries sort to speak.
Regen, I hope all went well with Mini's test run, and I wish her all the best in the internship.

I've been also worried about a relative (a very dear cousin) who needed surgery and I am glad to report that all went very well 

Regrettably, come Monday I will be back at work. Oh well. I'll miss being lazy.

Something funny happened to me today and I wanted to share. I had downloaded on my computer several episodes of a Canadian show, Murdoch mysteries. It is a charming show, set on Toronto and in the end of the Victorian era and beginning of the XX century. Well, on the wee hours of today (I mean, it was already today February 15 but i had not gone to bed yet) I was watching an episode and they showed a hotel with the UK flag, the US flag and another flag that I assume would be a Toronto one or perhaps some proto Canadian one and that made me wonder when has Canada adopted its current flag. So I've checked. It was 1965. But the funny thing I wanted to share is that the flag has been approved on 1965...February 15. And according to wikipedia, Feb 15 is the Canadian Flag Day. And I even after watching 16 seasons of the show I had never wondered that until its 60 anniversary 

In other topics, I watched the other two movies of the Before Sunrise trilogy I told you about last time. I liked them all, but I think the first one was the best.