Stuck at Home

One of those rare days today in Bali that has seen rain throughout, from morning straight through to night. What a bore! Especially considering that I no longer have a car available to me--and believe me, you don't want to go out on the motorbike in weather like this. You'd be so soaked by the time you got to wherever you were going that you'd have to just turn around and return home to change clothes and dry off. Just waiting for bedtime now so that I can go to sleep and hope for better weather tomorrow. Watching Christmas movies in the meantime--A Christmas Story (a classic) and Scrooged (an absolute bomb). Surfed about on Facebook for a while, but the American news is so depressing that one doesn't really even want to look at it. It seems that the Republicans, who were fine with the theft and publication of Clinton emails, are now crying foul at the FBI seizure of Trump campaign emails. Hypocrisy much? In the meantime, other Republican congressmen are adding final touches to the tax bill that will even further enrich the already rich. Good grief. So it's out of the internet in favor of reading a book, this one called Broken Monsters, by Lauren Beukes. It's a rather difficult book to read in Indonesian, given the wide vocabulary that this author has employed as well as the complexity of the story she is telling. I am about halfway through its 650 pages. There are no actual monsters in this book, like vampires or zombies or giants or trolls and such-like. The monsters here are the worst of monsters--the human kind. Oh, and speaking of monstrous--last night one of my feet stepped off the raised kitchen floor out back while the other did not, causing the rest of my body to suddenly dive forward and collide with the ground, which inflicted in turn a rather monstrous cut to my forearm as well as another to my shin. These I have covered with secret Chinese medicine, which is deep red in color and makes the cuts look all the more monstrous. One has to take special care with cuts here in Bali, as they may very easily become infected--something I have learned through painful, and expensive, past experience.