I went away for a while to be sad and grumpy.
Mum visited and put the lightbulb in. I don't know why it worked for her and not me, but she's a lot taller and she used the same step so maybe taller is the trick. Now the living room is light bright and I can see all the things again. Much better.
I got the toaster out and read the instructions. So far I have made two slices of toast. They were just the right side of burnt when I used the 3.5 setting so I need less than that usually. The kitchen smells of new toaster though. It said the smell is perfectly normal and will go away and to just run the toaster with no toast in first, which I did, but still there is a smell. I've run the fan for ages too. But the toaster is thus far provisionally a success. I hope that continues.
I finished reading the book I mentioned yesterday, with the grand total of two female characters. One of them is 10 or at most 11 years old but her body has been aged up to 17 and now everyone fancies her while the narrator keeps commenting on her innocence, which combination is creeping me out. The other woman was secretly a slave, who does not so much use the power of sex as get used by demon puppeteers, but still, sex and death lady. The two speak to each other only as one lies dying, and her last words are to tell the other to warn a bloke. Bechdel fail to the last. It's all very depressing and thus far I don't know why I'd want to keep it. I mean two female characters is two more than Tolkien sometimes manages, but still.
The demons turn out not to be the native inhabitants, they arrived on the same crashing ship the humans did, having been stolen from their worlds, suffering captivity and exile. So, less conquistador, more slavers. I'm still unclear as to why I'm supposed to be Team Humans.
I'm picky about my reading.
I know which author I'm going to re-read next, but I might need a couple days to manage starting that.
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