A few of my favourite things
Aug. 12th, 2023 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyornHanging out with flederkatz: I had to go to the phone store (not one of my favourite things) to clear up some confusion, and flederkatz had offered to accompany me as she's a lot better at this. (Worked in a phone store for years and got it a reputation as the best in town.) So we met in town this morning, had coffee, the phone issue was resolved, and we spent the next hours with some shopping, admiring cats, having more coffee, and talking about stories we had written or planned to write. I had happened on a strange fragment on my hard drive the day before yesterday, and we tried to figure out where is was supposed to be going.
Thunderstorms, especially when I'm safe and dry: In the morning the weather had been mild and muggy, it turned to hot and muggy and then hotter and not-so-muggy. When I bicycled home it was too hot to be fun. I had a shower and noticed that the sky was turning steel blue. Distant grumbling could be heard, and after half an hour more a very nice thunderstorm broke loose. Sheets of rain, clouds of rain when the wind hit the sheets, stuff on my balcony blowing parallel to the floor, the green ditches around the houses flooding. I watched it for a while, very content with it being outside and me being inside, and then, as it had cooled down a bit, made tea.
Tea: More precisely, my favourite afternoon tea, an Assam Hattialli SFTGFOP 1. It's mild for an Assam, and if I drink it after moderately tiring day, it makes me most pleasantly awake, calm and optimistic. It was hard to get in southern Germany last winter, because (I've been told) tea comes in via Bremen in the North, and the northern tea retailers get first dips. But I brought some from Lübeck in March, and as I ration it out a bit, I'm fine for now. Also, it stays special that way.
I read a bit, cuddled the cat, had dinner, and am now looking forward to the rest of the evening. And tomorrow is Sunday.
Thunderstorms, especially when I'm safe and dry: In the morning the weather had been mild and muggy, it turned to hot and muggy and then hotter and not-so-muggy. When I bicycled home it was too hot to be fun. I had a shower and noticed that the sky was turning steel blue. Distant grumbling could be heard, and after half an hour more a very nice thunderstorm broke loose. Sheets of rain, clouds of rain when the wind hit the sheets, stuff on my balcony blowing parallel to the floor, the green ditches around the houses flooding. I watched it for a while, very content with it being outside and me being inside, and then, as it had cooled down a bit, made tea.
Tea: More precisely, my favourite afternoon tea, an Assam Hattialli SFTGFOP 1. It's mild for an Assam, and if I drink it after moderately tiring day, it makes me most pleasantly awake, calm and optimistic. It was hard to get in southern Germany last winter, because (I've been told) tea comes in via Bremen in the North, and the northern tea retailers get first dips. But I brought some from Lübeck in March, and as I ration it out a bit, I'm fine for now. Also, it stays special that way.
I read a bit, cuddled the cat, had dinner, and am now looking forward to the rest of the evening. And tomorrow is Sunday.
