Health, traffic, etc.

[kyrielle]

Drove to the grocery store this morning to get cat food for our two bottomless pits, er, beloved pets. Also picked stuff up for us, though there wasn't much we needed, and all of it could have waited. It was quite foggy today, hung on all day, but this was early in the morning and visibility of oncoming traffic was about 1/3 mile ... when they had their headlights on. So why were about 75% of them driving without headlights? I especially liked the white and off-white cars doing this. Not that the dark cars were really much more visible. (Fortunately, they were all in their lane and no problems, but c'mon folks, headlights!)

I have read The Hero of Ages, book three of the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. And unlike most of my other recent reads, I enjoyed it greatly and think it was well-done. I had trouble getting into it at first - I think that owed more to my mood and physical comfort levels than the book, but I'm not sure - but once I did it was excellent. I keep wanting to say the ending was too pat, except that I do not see how it could be, considering that it completely blew me over in shock.

The radio station I listen to for music and traffic reports has been playing Christmas music for the past two weeks already. It's a LITTLE early folks. And we've already hit the moronic Christmas Shoes song at least once. Ugh. I can tune to their HD2 station and get regular music, but then I don't get the traffic reports. And that's only in the car: the home stereo can't handle HD. (Need to do something about replacing it, at some point.)

Comments

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

That's one major thing I like about satellite radio. The stations I listen to generally don't deviate from format, and the only concession to Christmas music that they make, if any, is on Christmas day itself.

The Walmart I shop at here started playing Christmas music on November 1st.

I used to have a policy that I did not shop at stores that put up Christmas decorations or ran Christmas oriented sales before Thanksgiving. My grandmother instilled in me that a business doing so was very tacky. I quit doing that several years ago simply because so many stores were doing it that it was going to get to a point where during the months of October, November, and December I was not going to be able to buy even food or basic necessities.

[kyrielle]

*wry grin* Too true. I like Christmas music! It properly begins after Thanksgiving, similar to the Christmas-oriented stuff on sale....

I could switch over stations and get a better choice of music, but I'd be sacrificing the best traffic reports I can get with music. (I do use a talk-radio station on the am band that has traffic reports more often, but they frequently cause my blood pressure to rise and then I switch back to the music format.)

[tiassa]

I pretty much agree exactly with your opinion on Hero of Ages. It was a little too "happily ever after" and yet at the same time...it wasn't. And yeah.