FIRMLY OUT THERE NOW!

Hey there Mal-Pals!

Haven't really done a lot over the past couple of days besides sleep lots and experience limited success on various dating websites, so I thought I'd come back to that. My sleep patterns are weird, I sleep less than average, and there are definitely nights when I just don't feel tired and just keep doing what I'm doing and then suddenly it's breakfast. Because I live in a care home they check on me every two hours throughout the night, so I leave a lamp on 24/7. The last couple of days I've been pretty tired and napped a lot and I'm hoping it's just sleep catching up to me and not an infection coming. Guess we'll see!

Last weekend I watched HBO Max series Soulmates and this weekend I plan on watching Netflix series The One. Both shows have the same premise: What if there were a scientific way of determining your perfect partner. It seems that true romance in the 2020s is elusive enough to classify as science fiction. That said, I signed up to a couple more dating websites; here are my first impressions:

A LOT CAN CHANGE IN AN HOUR: PART TWO

 In the first half of this story I shared how learning of my brother's engagement over Zoom allowed me to stop feeling bad for ending his previous engagement. What I didn't tell you was that later on the same Zoom call I learnt something that let me off the hook for failing to prevent a woman's murder nineteen years earlier.

So as you know, it was a couple of Friday's earlier and I was on the family Zoom with my parents and my brother Jason and his new fiancée, Amy. Everyone was in an understandably good mood. I can't remember what prompted it, but my mother asked Amy if she was good at math. Amy said she was OK with numbers but it was her worst subject in school, as she never got on with her math teacher at school, and that Jason was better at mental arithmetic than she was. I suggested that this must be because Jason got on so well with his math teacher. I was being facetious. The man was a freak.