Living in the countryside this week, once again my cycle has shifted so I just want to go to sleep with the daylight. There are owls outside just starting, but the day birds are still calling as the blutac colour in the sky still fades away to darkness.
I’ve left Lou to sleep on her own tonight as I don’t want to be snoring her awake the night before her driving test. She’s likely to be restless anyway and this way she gets to flail around and I don’t need to restrict my movement. This week has been building up to tomorrow morning. I’ll drive her in and then hang out and maybe have a coffee while she goes around showing someone how thoughtful and safe and competent she is now at the old driving malarkey so he can give her a certificate that lets her drive however she wants. Plenty of people get them who shouldn’t be on the road. She’s got the skills now. It’ll be good in her life. I’m happy to be here to support her.
But yeah, even though I’ve done very little today I’m ready to crash. We watched Life of Pi on Blu-ray and honestly I don’t know how we have let go of this thing of owning our movies and music so easily. You can get DVDs for peanuts now. Sure they take up space, but this thing where we pay for a licence that can be revoked at any time and everyone loses access when we die, that sucks for everyone but the people running the platforms. It’s not really an issue storing DVDs and pulling one out of a box and sticking it into a slot. It all works fine. I don’t like streaming. The same with games… My great big steam library will get locked eventually even if I give someone my password because it knows my age and it won’t let it still be accessed if I’m supposed to be 120.
The sky outside the window is oil black now. Just a touch of light still spilling back to us and it’s ten to ten. This is late for me these days and the cottage is silent now, no big roads nearby, very few houses. We went for a little walk through a secret door this evening. It’s bucolic and reasonably remote here, twenty minutes drive minimum for a coffee by someone else, although there’s a pub up the road by the river. For now I’m enjoying living here, I’m getting up to date with my admin. Before long I’d probably start getting bored, but not for a while. There are plenty of books to read, films to watch, trees to hug. If I lived here I’d go riding twice a week and be much healthier, and I’d rarely if ever see midnight.
Gonna slide to dreams.
AlBarclay 