The knife was twisted in my heart again when Zooplus sent me an email saying they miss me, and now I would get a discount. A paper letter. Maybe because after the cats died I banned them from sending emails.
Last week's trip to Lidl was a bit disappointing. I almost couldn't find any women's pink pyjama bottoms, which were the main reason for going. They had been hidden among the men's clothes. And you never know what is the right size, it's a complete guess. On the way home, I got splashed all over by a car.
Lost library card
And when I got home, a crisis struck when I accidentally noticed that I had lost my library card, it couldn't be found in my wallet. I had reserved a course book from the library and was already panicking, wondering what to do now that I can't get it. I just remembered that the last time I changed the library card pin code was so that my spouse could wait at the library during a trip to the vet. Well, then he realized that my library card was still in his wallet. Luckily, I went through the contents of my wallet for fun, otherwise I would have had a useless trip to the library and I would have been a bit pissed off. I can imagine the situation: I excitedly collect a bunch of books and go to the lending machine with them, only to realize that I don't have a library card. Oh, shit.
I even remembered correctly that the library's lending machines have been changed. Nowadays, you need a PIN code to borrow books. It's a good thing I changed it back in the summer. My decades-old PIN code had letters, and today's machines only accept numbers.
On my trip to the library, I also went to Clas Ohlson to buy some Heat Holders thermal socks. They only cost 10 euros a pair. On the way there, I started wondering if cash is still accepted there. Well, it is.
G-mail is gone?
I guess I'll have to give up G-mail, because I won't be able to access that account anymore. When they start requiring a smartphone for two-factor authentication. A bit annoying. I'll have to change everything back to Yahoo mail. I don't even remember why I got G-mail in the first place. Was there some problem with Yahoo? Probably.
Well, the funny thing is that you can't change the email address of a Google account. And Google is literally my life. What am I going to lose next? I already lost my Tradedoubler account.
Writing short stories
Last week I finally finished one short story. I was supposed to finish it a week earlier, but it was left behind when I had a seizure. And now I thought I'd get to work on my latest short story idea, but what happened? I got another new idea, and a third new one... I guess the ideas have to stop coming at some point?! I don't have time to work on my novels at all because of this. Well, I dream of finishing enough short stories to make a collection of short stories. I now have 9 short stories in English that have been finished and published on Amazon. I just finished one story that I came up with an idea years ago. Maybe the oldest of the current ones. It would be such a good pace to get one short story published every week.
Why it is so easy for me to decide that my short stories are done and ready for publication? Whereas I've been working on my first novel for decades, and I can never be satisfied with it.
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