Tea and a good book.

Turns out a card to someone in the US I had meant to arrive early November reached them this week! There is still hope for my cards then. ;-) Note to self: write holiday cards to overseas in August this year.
Got something myself in the mail today I had ordered and am loving it. :-) Someone is turning old audioplay cassettes into little decorative lights. I'm normally very reluctant about online ordering from new places but saw these recommended on fannish accounts, and I really wanted some for favourite Die Drei Fragezeichen episodes of my childhood, so I ordered two colourful and two plain ones. Of course now I'm thinking but three of each would look even nicer, so guess what I just did right after testing. ;-) Cross fingers that I stop now and don't end up wanting a light for every one of the old episodes.
The first week of work has been unexpectedly awful. I thought once the preparing steps last year were done the worst was over until we are at the point where staff is getting mixed full time in a few weeks. Nope, we are already at a stage where I feel caught in the middle and can understand everyone a bit and want to strangle everyone a bit and am worried that it ends with everyone pissed at me. And it is not fun to have things back in my work life now, and know how we dealt with that at the old place in a good and effective way, and to not be believed because one has never done this at the new place and a world of no. In short, argh. And so I already started the year with a week of overtime when I am supposed to further reduce it, because I'm basically driving a campaign for something that was self-evident at the old place.
I never mentioned it and maybe everyone but me would have known, but for a long time with the new kindle fire I was frustrated by it constantly losing wifi connection. Turns out this is a battery saving setting, which is sneakily set to yes by default, turn it off and voila permanent connection. I guess usually people don't get it that often, either, my old device started working fine again the second I had the new one so I have ended up using them parallelly for now, which is quite practical when listening to both an audiobook and a podcast on audible, no switching back and forth. But means each device gets breaks.
I have no idea why I keep forgetting that I like listening to the radio. I sometimes get stuck not starting something, because I want background noise while doing it, but can't decide what I want, and then I end up surfing the internet instead. Radio on, and I'm finally typing that DW entry. ;-)