Am discovering the sad fact that if you don't use it, you lose it. 'It' in this case is reading Japanese prose. Time was-- time being 2005-- I could trundle along fairly happily through the 12 Kingdoms novels, which have a rep of being slightly difficult. Now I'm stumbling through やさしい竜の殺し方, 'How to Kill Gentle Dragons', a YA fantasy novel, which was recc'd here. So far I have yet to encounter any dragons at all, gentle or otherwise, but so far isn't very far. I'm not even sure that the title isn't intended to be 'The Gentle Art of Slaying Dragons.' Whatever, we do at least have our requisite fantasy silver-haired purple-eyed character, though with the current brainfry I'm not actually sure if he's in fact either.
Tempus fugit
Am discovering the sad fact that if you don't use it, you lose it. 'It' in this case is reading Japanese prose. Time was-- time being 2005-- I could trundle along fairly happily through the 12 Kingdoms novels, which have a rep of being slightly difficult. Now I'm stumbling through やさしい竜の殺し方, 'How to Kill Gentle Dragons', a YA fantasy novel, which was recc'd here. So far I have yet to encounter any dragons at all, gentle or otherwise, but so far isn't very far. I'm not even sure that the title isn't intended to be 'The Gentle Art of Slaying Dragons.' Whatever, we do at least have our requisite fantasy silver-haired purple-eyed character, though with the current brainfry I'm not actually sure if he's in fact either.
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Tomorrow's forecast: 'periods of snow mixed with rain. High 8.' Now, in my 70 years of experience (65 if you're counting Japanesely from 'when first…
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Walked to the laundromat with my rollator and it... didn't hurt as much as before? What pain there was, was elbows mostly. So maybe those flexor…
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Things I never knew: that the valves inside a shower get gunked up with lime and so on and need replacing every decade or so. This is why my shower…
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