electricity no-nos

Monday the 4th January
* Belovedest did a gaming in the morning (their day off this week)
* Costco run in the late afternoon, groceries despite being a little shaky on the specifics
* 0 scooters or pushchairs available when we arrived (I don't do epic store tours with a mask because that's the straw that leaves me gasping for breath and needing my inhaler)
* Someone came out with one of the scooters within the first few minutes of waiting (Belovedest had to run back to the car to get the list)
* he drove the thing out into the parking lot to unload, sure
* except he had not secured the cord and it was dragging behind the scooter and through puddles
* when he had fully unloaded and drove it back, he was about to plug it in with the recently immersed and not dried off plug
* I took the scooter before that could happen
* two 27 gallon bins in the basket in front = difficult to navigate
* we were thinking about Home Depot but no

Tuesday the 5th January
* doctor day for me
* running late, both of us
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* Nora called to make sure that I was aware that Lil Nas X's kid's book had dropped https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953349880/lil-nas-x-says-children-are-his-core-audience-right-now-and-thats-ok
* no, the 9am appointment in April does not work for me, let's try afternoon
* completely forgot that I had a BOGO for a burger, my bad
* I enjoy my tradition of spite burgers
* At some point I have a comforter to repair

From 05:08 PM Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Read "Virgins", the Outlander story, for the second time -- I think it may have been in two different collections, or something? In any case, I read it a second time, and it seemed a lot more anti-semitic on the second read, more so than on the first (plenty). It absolutely depicted antisemetism, which is a thing that Jews in Europe have been facing since forever. The main problem of the story was banditry. ( Spoily bits. )

This falls on the wrong side of my preferences for Historically Accurate Assholery in escapist fiction. The series has already accumulated strikes for situations involving Black people, Chinese, and gays. I'm far enough into this thing that I may sunk-cost my way through it via the library, but I can't recommend that anyone else pick it up or spend money directly.