Stress & Me Plus Kindle Stuff

It is interesting and odd the effect that the stress of Fred’s illness stress is having on me.

For a long time I have been aware that I have more energy in the morning than in the afternoon or evening, and so I have made a point of doing what needs to be done, especially the jobs that require high energy, in the morning. Then I have pottered around through the rest of the day and gone to bed around 10 pm. These days, I have my usual morning energy maybe one day out of three or four. Mostly I have to force myself to get normal morning chores done. And I can’t stay up until 10 pm these days. Last night I made a big effort and stayed up until 9 PM. I woke at 5 AM which is marginally better than 3 or 4 am which is the hour the day begins when I go to sleep at 7 pm!

I really like this new router. This morning I realized that perhaps my Kindle could pick up our house wi/fi now. I couldn’t before– I think perhaps because of previous landlord Mike’s odd settings. I was lacking the latest update for the Kindle because it was only down loadable by wi/fi. I wasn’t really concerned by this because this was the update that allowed one to see page numbers of some books rather than {or along with?} locations and this seemed unimportant to me since mostly I look at the bar at the bottom of the page which tells me what percentage of the book I have read {seventy-one percent of the current book}. But I thought I would try it anyway. So, I brought in the Kindle, changed the setting to wi/fi rather than to 3G and let it sit until it went to sleep which is shown by the fact that a picture appears as a screen saver. After a while, the screen saver disappeared and I was informed on the screen that the Kindle was updating… Since not all books have the capacity to show page numbers, I don’t know yet whether or not the one I am currently rereading {C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton} will do that and, if it does, will I find that useful. The Kindle currently remembers where I stopped anyway so I don’t have to make a note of it.

OK, I have got to get a couple of things done before I set off to see Fred!

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You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

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