I did buy a couple of things from Amazon recently — the needle clippers, a replacement desk fan, a magnetic water conditioner that’s supposed to help prevent buildup of calcium gunk in pipes. But I’ve fully transferred my book wishlist to Bookshop.org and deleted everything else off my wishlists except one pair of linen pants, which might also go depending on how the ones I’m getting from Etsy are.
That desk fan replaces a dead Vornado Zippi, which didn’t start again after I turned it off for the New Year road trip. That was my second one and I’m just not all that convinced by Vornado anymore. The air circulator we have in the upstairs bedroom is that brand, but I don’t like it because unless you’re very specifically positioned you can’t feel it. I also had one of the standard Vornado fans die on me, though the other is still running on the upstairs landing (trying to equalize temps a bit both in winter and summer).
The replacement is an Arctic Summair 2Go. It’s a German-made DC computer case fan — very efficient, meant to be reliable for a long period, and stepless speed control — in a handheld/desktop repackage. It does have a battery and USB charging but I trust them a little more than a random Temu fan. And so far it’s been great. At low to moderate speeds it’s quiet; at high speeds it’s noisy but also impressively strong for its tiny size. If I wanted to run it on batteries it’s supposed to last anywhere from 4 to 77 hours on a charge, depending on speed. And it was fairly cheap too… I may get more of these in the future.
My brother and his wife almost always send their Christmas gifts late. Yesterday I got a gift certificate for Left Bank Books from them. Between that, Alibris, Bookshop.org, and Open Library I have the rest of Martha Wells’ Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy plus 4 more fiction and 6 non-fiction books. I’m making good on the goal of reading more stuff on science, ancient history and wonder in general.
I had my follow-up appointment with the PHMNP this morning. She’s increasing my Lexapro dose to 15mg. Unfortunately since they come in 10 and 20mg doses, that means splitting pills.