Just Driving and More Driving
May. 14th, 2024 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse Sadly, nothing cool to report today.
It was grey and rainy for most of the drive today. One of the only fun things that happened to day was that I'm nearly all the way through the audiobook of Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells. I will then have to decide what to listen to next. The audiobooks I downloaded for the trip are:
Three Miles Down by Harry Turtledove
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Rebel Sisters by Tochi Onyebuchi
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Devil's Gun by Cat Rambo
The Fractured Void by Tim Pratt
Noor by Nnedi Okorofor
Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Let me know, if you have a strong opinion, which I should listen to next. I'm currently leaning towards Darcie Little Badger's book. Though, Nnedi's Noor is shorter than all the others, which makes it kinda tempting.
We made record time through Chicago, which surprised me--normally, we get stuck in some stop and go traffic somewhere, but no this time. I suspect we had such good luck in part due to the fact that we left our Madison hotel at 7 am. Shawn and I are both morning larks, so this was no hardship.
The only stop we made today for any length of time was in Valparaiso, Indiana to see Shawn's step mother, Margaret. Margaret is 96. She'd been living fairly independently until quite recently when she had a bowel obstruction that landed her in surgery. She just never quite fully recovered from that and finally, in all the times I've seen her, really looks her age. Most of the time, Margaret seemed half her age. Now, she's wheelchair bound and has lost a lot of weight. She's not nearly as sharp as she has been, either. That's really hard to see, even though, when you put it in perspective of JUST HOW OLD she really is, she's actually doing pretty well for all that.
We are now just outside of Toledo. Tomorrow is another long, grueling drive into the Poconos. No planned stops along the way, alas. But, once we're in Connecticut, I have several fun side adventures planned. If I post at all tomorrow it will be to let you all know what audiobooks I got through.
It was grey and rainy for most of the drive today. One of the only fun things that happened to day was that I'm nearly all the way through the audiobook of Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells. I will then have to decide what to listen to next. The audiobooks I downloaded for the trip are:
Three Miles Down by Harry Turtledove
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Rebel Sisters by Tochi Onyebuchi
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Devil's Gun by Cat Rambo
The Fractured Void by Tim Pratt
Noor by Nnedi Okorofor
Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Let me know, if you have a strong opinion, which I should listen to next. I'm currently leaning towards Darcie Little Badger's book. Though, Nnedi's Noor is shorter than all the others, which makes it kinda tempting.
We made record time through Chicago, which surprised me--normally, we get stuck in some stop and go traffic somewhere, but no this time. I suspect we had such good luck in part due to the fact that we left our Madison hotel at 7 am. Shawn and I are both morning larks, so this was no hardship.
The only stop we made today for any length of time was in Valparaiso, Indiana to see Shawn's step mother, Margaret. Margaret is 96. She'd been living fairly independently until quite recently when she had a bowel obstruction that landed her in surgery. She just never quite fully recovered from that and finally, in all the times I've seen her, really looks her age. Most of the time, Margaret seemed half her age. Now, she's wheelchair bound and has lost a lot of weight. She's not nearly as sharp as she has been, either. That's really hard to see, even though, when you put it in perspective of JUST HOW OLD she really is, she's actually doing pretty well for all that.
We are now just outside of Toledo. Tomorrow is another long, grueling drive into the Poconos. No planned stops along the way, alas. But, once we're in Connecticut, I have several fun side adventures planned. If I post at all tomorrow it will be to let you all know what audiobooks I got through.