Caffeine in the Kombucha
My wife bailed on bedtime to sew and watch a cooking show, blaming caffeine in the kombucha. When the Apple TV keyboard prompt popped up on my iPad, I helpfully typed B-E-D-T-I-M-E. Maybe it was me. Maybe it was a super powerful alien race projecting its will across galaxies.
I’m reading 3 Body Problem. The story reveals some unbelievable phenomenon — near supernatural — a countdown timer in one’s vision, inescapably. I finished reading my chapter for the day and I retired to bed to spend some quality time with my iPad.
My wife bails on her usual bedtime (“I think there might be caffeine in the kombucha”) to sew and watch a cooking competition show. The Apple TV keyboard notification appears on my iPad. I helpfully take over, typing out B-E-D-T-I-M-E. I hear the laughs from the other room. Maybe it was Curtis typing that. Maybe it was the spirit world. Maybe it was a super powerful alien race projecting its will across galaxies. We'll never know.
Speaking of 3 Body Problem, the writing quality seems to have stepped up a notch. Maybe it was intentionally simple in the first chapter, to lure people in with a false sense of small words? Meanwhile though, I was reading Dangerous Journey to the kids last night, and it used the word "bedaubed" and the phrase, "the news had noised abroad." I'm going to have to find opportunities to use "noise" as a verb.
