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I recorded one consumed medium every two and a half days (2.3), where the media are movies, documentaries, TV series,  articles, short stories (thanks to Amazon's proliferation of single shorts under one cover), novellas, and novels.   There does seem to be a growing pattern of shorter serials rather than large epics, so i've plowed through them when available. That's about 77% more entries than i recorded last year. I would have thought it was a greater fraction more, as i felt like i spent much of my time off in books this year, and the short stories would inflate counts. I guess the fatigue over the summer of 2024 had its impact.

I will admit that much of the reading is shaped by what is at my library's Overdrive instance and then by Kindle Unlimited. I've recorded 37 purchases.

I think Robert Jackson Bennett and Victoria Goddard are the new to me authors that most engaged me. I look forward to more Ana and Din mysteries.

We continue our tradition of Sunday night British mysteries, Monday night NCIS (including as of this year, NCIS: Origins - we have caught up with the network release), and Wednesday night science fiction.  On other nights we frequently end up watching NCIS: New Orleans. Sunday mornings we frequently watch art documentaries or Landscape Artist of the Year. Today we will likely watch the final episode of the 2020 season 6.

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If i miss writing in time, i hope everyone is able have the observations that make passing through this solstice period a joy or at least the darkness eased. I am enjoying my LED lit branch (up all year) and tree during the long dark morning, and found that BritBox has streaming holiday light shows to run in the background of doing other things.

Some quick notes

• no car news, but we don't really need two vehicles, so we are OK. What we have is a good reliable car (that is now dmaged) and a vehicle for taking things to the dump. Christine managed to find a really nice take things to the dump vehicle some years back, so we'll drive it about more and live with the lousy gas mileage.

• Bruno and Marlowe have had a step of improvement in how they get along and how Bruno believes he can access the rest of the house. He doesn't need coaxing to leave his safe room, Marlowe is not nearly as vigilant. It's odd to see how things seem to have little jumps and not gradual change. We went from much coaxing to get him to leave his room on his own to him dashing out in the morning.

• Christine is having a more serious flare (infection) of the issue that sent her to the emergency room in June. Less than a month to the surgery that should resolve things.

• I am fighting my own self denigration around gift giving and not really winning but avoiding. I hope i can take some time off today to label and wrap and pack and ship. I had so much joy making and thinking about giving -- years of it imagining when i could gift things from the orchard -- and ... anyhow, i will focus on that and try to  take the insecure part of me and tell her ... that people already know i am a flake so it's ok? No, wait, that's not the message. We'll work on that.

• i've gotten in my (pathetically low count of) steps the past two days. I think i feel better for it. I am worried about how fatigue hit me out of the blue a few weeks ago, but i have no evidence that the fatigue is caused by doing things, i just NOTICE when i am doing things. Acting like i am fatigued all the time is not the solution.