One of the big things that I don't really notice when I'm in quarantine is weather. Unless it's a day like today with lots of thunder and lightning, it could be cold or hot or rainy or sunny and I wouldn't really know about it. We don't really go anywhere except on hospital days, and even the small times Patrick leaves to take out the trash or get the mail, I'm far enough away from the door I don't feel the temperature outside.
It was really thundery today though, and I could hear the rain enough outside that I didn't even feel bad at all about the fact that I was missing Friday celebration at Rice - even if I'd been healthy, we probably would have stayed home.
I've finished the second of two books this week - The Red Pyramid, the first book in the Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan. It's the same guy who wrote the Percy Jackson books, but these are about the Egyptian gods and mythos, which makes it better for me. Not that I like Egypt more than Ancient Greece, but it's just that I don't know hardly any of the mythology behind Egypt, and so the book was much less predictable. One of the Percy Jackson books was sort of a modernization of the Odyssey, which I've read multiple times, so it was easier to guess what happened next. I've got its sequel, so I'll probably start on that pretty soon, and the third book in the trilogy is supposed to come out either this month or next, so I'll make sure that one of our trips out when my counts are up is to go to Barnes & Noble and get it.
My hemoglobin's been slowly falling over the past couple weeks. I think Jeffrey wants some bacon.
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