TV and radio apps

I bought a FireTV stick and set it up today. Installed many apps. Mostly wanted it for some German news and shows, but also installed other apps to try out.

One app is iQIYI, and on it I watched the first episode of I Don't Want to Be Friends With You. It's a 2020 Chinese series, free to watch, with English subtitles. The first episode was cute, funny and entertaining. I don't want to spoil it for anyone by describing the plot, as I had no idea when I started watching it. But this page has some details if you want, and lists its genres as: Comedy, Romance, School, Youth, Fantasy.

I admit, one thing that appeals to me about the show is the androgynous appearance of the lead character, a teenage girl.

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Recently I installed the Audials Android app on my phone. It's got radio stations from all over the world. Unlike some apps, the radio links all seem to be up to date, no hunting just to find stations that will play ok. It also lets you record songs/shows to your phone. (This feels like taping songs from the radio to cassettes like in the old days, except it's to your phone instead.) That can be useful for stations that don't list which song is playing. If I hear a good song, I can save a clip to help in figuring out what song it was so I can later buy it and support the artists.

The "record songs" option didn't work for me when I tried it. With that, the software looks for distinct gaps between songs before it will record or save them. But the "record show" option worked fine - you can select that and then click to stop the recording whenever you want.

Now I find myself listening to our local college radio station WUSC more often again, as I can simply tap on my phone to start playing it.

I'm also getting to listen to college radio station WUML again. I used to listen to it in Massachusetts during my high school years, when it was called WJUL.

maybe that's not September (chills)

I'm sure the fleece sheets helped, but I wasn't cold at all last night, and almost too warm. I kept one window open until I went to bed after 5am. Maybe those "night-chills" I sometimes get are the opposite of "night-sweats" but somehow also caused by perimenopause.

This page: Night Sweats and Chills in Menopausal Women*
says that chills can be caused by exercising or otherwise getting too warm before going to bed. That wasn't the case for me.

*My browser URL bar chopped the URL off at "night-sweats-and-chills-in-men", which surprised me and made me double-check what I'd been reading about!

This page: Are Premenopausal Cold Flashes a Thing?
says "Cold flashes most commonly run their course fairly quickly and usually pass in a few minutes at most. But in some cases they can last up to 20 minutes."

Mine are usually longer than that. I can be in bed with warm covers for what feels like hours without getting warm. Yet even then, just like in winter, I'm loathe to get out of bed to fetch warmer sheets or blankets, thinking that I'll surely warm up more quickly by staying under the (what ought to be warm enough) covers than getting up and chilling myself even more by doing so.

In the summer, the idea of getting out the electric blanket to warm up my feet just doesn't *seem* right.

So I still don't know if it is related to perimenopause or not.