Sunday Afternoon Relaxation
Aug. 24th, 2008 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonAfter sleeping off much bad food from yesterday (my rarebit dream included waiting hours on end for a bus that wasn't coming), today is the day of kicking back and relaxing. Most of our errands are done (vacuuming, food shopping, having lunch, etc), and neither of us have plans to do much for the rest of the day. The TV is currently set to Olympics updates, Emm is making random foodstuffs, and I've got my 'puter on to get some writing done. I may do some cleaning later on, if I feel like it. (Okay, so I did a bit of cleaning in the bathroom, so all's well there, but in the process I stupidly touched a lightbulb that had been on for some time, so now two fingertips on my right hand are in pain and wrapped in bandaids, dumbass that I am... So much for that idea...)
Other than that, probably going to just kick back and relax the rest of the day. I probably should do a bit more writing (if my fingers will let me type). Also, I've got one more shelf of cds to rip onto the hard drives and then I'll be completely done. This shelf is almost all Emm's classical collection. In all honesty, I could never quite figure out how to tag classical mp3s...by composer? performer? orchestra? So I'll just go with what comes up on the auto-tagging...
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Doing this post just reminded me of what I used to do on weekends, back before I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmalyon, back when I still lived with my parents. A lot of it was spent at bookstores and record stores, of course. There was the Toadstool Bookstore up in Keene NH, where I bought many of my new-age books (partly for self-help I admit, but also for research for the trilogy) among other things. And later on, there was the double-whammy of Newbury Comics and Barnes & Noble in Leominster, both stores within a mile of each other. And sometimes, all three (with a long yet nice drive straight down Route 12 between the two towns). Plus, the occasional drive into Boston, which I did probably every month or so during the nicer seasons. Interestingly enough, I never went down to Amherst all that often during the weekends, as I would head that way during the week--on Wednesdays, new comic release day--which was something I used to do ALL the time way back in the day.
Living here in San Francisco, it's a different story. Roadtrips are good but a bit too long sometimes (the Sacramento trip wasn't too bad, but driving there is boring because it's flat and straight for most of the way), and we don't want to spend money on gas half the time. ;) Seriously, most places we want to go to are in the city and are readily available by public transit. That, and I don't spend money willy-nilly on cds and comic books anymore, for various reasons. I do miss the afternoons hanging in book stores for hours on end, and sometimes the thrill of driving through the hills of New England (as said, everything's either flat and straight here, or extremely hilly and curvy--plus, there's nary a forest around these parts, except further north or south of here). This is why I'm looking forward to our trip back east in October, of course! :)
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On that note...perhaps some writing and cd ripping again...and perhaps a reading/writing post later on at the other LJ...
Other than that, probably going to just kick back and relax the rest of the day. I probably should do a bit more writing (if my fingers will let me type). Also, I've got one more shelf of cds to rip onto the hard drives and then I'll be completely done. This shelf is almost all Emm's classical collection. In all honesty, I could never quite figure out how to tag classical mp3s...by composer? performer? orchestra? So I'll just go with what comes up on the auto-tagging...
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Doing this post just reminded me of what I used to do on weekends, back before I met
emmalyon, back when I still lived with my parents. A lot of it was spent at bookstores and record stores, of course. There was the Toadstool Bookstore up in Keene NH, where I bought many of my new-age books (partly for self-help I admit, but also for research for the trilogy) among other things. And later on, there was the double-whammy of Newbury Comics and Barnes & Noble in Leominster, both stores within a mile of each other. And sometimes, all three (with a long yet nice drive straight down Route 12 between the two towns). Plus, the occasional drive into Boston, which I did probably every month or so during the nicer seasons. Interestingly enough, I never went down to Amherst all that often during the weekends, as I would head that way during the week--on Wednesdays, new comic release day--which was something I used to do ALL the time way back in the day.Living here in San Francisco, it's a different story. Roadtrips are good but a bit too long sometimes (the Sacramento trip wasn't too bad, but driving there is boring because it's flat and straight for most of the way), and we don't want to spend money on gas half the time. ;) Seriously, most places we want to go to are in the city and are readily available by public transit. That, and I don't spend money willy-nilly on cds and comic books anymore, for various reasons. I do miss the afternoons hanging in book stores for hours on end, and sometimes the thrill of driving through the hills of New England (as said, everything's either flat and straight here, or extremely hilly and curvy--plus, there's nary a forest around these parts, except further north or south of here). This is why I'm looking forward to our trip back east in October, of course! :)
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On that note...perhaps some writing and cd ripping again...and perhaps a reading/writing post later on at the other LJ...
