A bed of roses

Husband's podiatry appointment was at 15:05, so I pre-booked a taxi for 14:45. When I checked the app at 14:40, it said the taxi booking was for 15:05! WTF?! So, I cancelled the booking and tried doing a right-fucking-NOW booking and waited for a driver to be assigned - and waited - and waited... In the end, our son booked one through Uber. The clinic where the appointment was is only a 20-minute stroll away, so we wouldn't normally have got a taxi even in January but it was absolutely teaming with rain. When we came out, we tried a RFN booking and waited for a driver to be assigned... And gave up after 5 minutes because there was nowhere to shelter so we were already getting wet. Of course, I'd left the hats and umbrellas at home, thinking we wouldn't need them. First Lesson Learned for 2024 - ALWAYS take the bag with All The Things in it! But, as we were heading for home, we knew we would be able to get into some dry clothes once we were in.

We now have two days of sitting around and doing very little until Friday when we go for a blood test.

Oh, except that tomorrow I have to chase his sharps box. We put the full one out last night, which was supposed to be collected and replaced between 07:00 and 15:00 but wasn't. We need somewhere to put the needles!

Three play-sessions with Scarlet Nexus today means REAL progress has been made. I've just done a bit of poking in the PS Store at all the add-ons, which are a) reasonably priced and b) quite useful. Unfortunately for whoever made the game, I'm not invested enough in the game or the characters to spend cold, hard cash. I can imagine lots of people would be, though. For example, there are two 'Extra Bonding' (or something like that) DLCs with extra costumes and weapons, as well as more bonding episodes, and a DLC that gives some insight into the Big Bad - which may be worth investigating on YouTube.

I currently have 3 books on the go. Sometimes I read a bit of all of them, sometimes I just focus on one.

• The book I'm reading simply for pleasure, and therefore the one I read when I'm ONLY reading one, is Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. I hate every adaptation because the MC is a quiet, shy, timid person, which makes for a very uninteresting screen heroine, so they always try to make her more lively and 'interesting', thereby ruining her. But I will always watch any Austen adaptation :D
• The other novel I have on the go is Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. I recently read Nostromo by him - and yes, I only read it because of the link to Alien! There is, however, nothing in the book that links to the film apart from the ship in Alien being called the Nostromo. Anyway, this is the one I'm sort of forcing myself to read. It's on a '100 classic novels' cartridge for my Nintendo DS and I'm reading through them in author alphabetical order.
• Finally is The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis. I always find the theology Lewis presents in the Narniad aligns much more with my own thoughts on the subject than his apologetics. I remember struggling with Mere Christianity and not making much sense of The Four Loves. Anyway, early on in TPOP, he presents a logical 'proof' for Christianity - either Jesus was a dangerous lunatic, or his claims to be the Son of God are true. Now, even I have a problem with this. It presupposes that atheists accept that a) Jesus was an actual, historical person (which I believe is still up for debate since his existence is only recorded in the Gospels) and b) there's a God for him to be the Son of, which would be difficult if you didn't believe in God (which is, after all, the DEFINITION of an atheist...). For me, the existence of God is self-evident, but that's because I look at the world in a way that provides the proofs. I'm looking through God-tinted glasses, so I naturally see God in everything and everyone. I appreciate that the world just doesn't look like that to other people. But, for me, the purpose of our existence is to make the world a better place than we found it, and we can all do that. Those who know God here and now are like the Pevensies and Narnians - those who don't are like Emeth in The Last Battle. Which is why I prefer the theology of the Narniad :D

Well, time to settle down for the night. It feels like a 3-book night...