Time to nosh on tea snacks

I've been getting a monthly box of traditional tea snacks from Tokyo
from Sakuraco.  I first heard of it from John Scalzi's blog, where his
daughter Athena was doing monthly reviews of her boxen from them.  I was
intrigued, so I had hubby read the reviews and look at the site, and we
signed up for three months.  It's over a year now that we've been
getting the snacks, and we love them.  They're not as sugar-laden as
American snacks.  This is good for a type 2 diabetic like me.  I'm
finding all sorts of flavors new to me that I like.

This led to me finding one of the digital channels of KCET, which has
NHK-World, all Japan, all the time, in English or subtitled.  There are
culture shows, language lessons, news (local & world), and even craft
shows. I like the challenge of learning new things.  Being housebound
has the potential to bore me to tears and depress me.  If I'm mentally
stimulated it's not so bad.

Whenever I was in the hospital and nursing home, the staff fairly
drooled over my naptop and the Logitech trackball.  It's an HP Omen.
Yup, a gaming computer.  I have word games, comics, and the Sakuraco and
affiliated sites, as well as the NHK site to keep me occupied.  All of
the facilities I've been in so far have Spectrum cable packages.  The
channel numbering system is weird.  They have to give the patients a
sheet with all the channels, and they aren't always accurate,
up-to-date, or complete.  I had been known to go through and update the
sheets when I was waiting for something to come on the TV.

Time to go back to noshing on my wagashi I got today.  Then I go for my
second walk of the day.  Late tonight, I try my CPAP for the first time.
  Prayers/GoodThoughts/et cetera would be much appreciated.  The thing
scares me.  I couldn't tolerate it the last time they tried it, back in
April when I was in the hospital for my heart attack, sepsis, blah blah
blah.  Monroe will probably comfort me, if he gets out of his
Grandpa's bed.



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