I've mentioned the waste bins we take our garbage and recycling to. Here's what they look like! Restafval (garbage) in the left foreground. Plastics and metals in the right foreground. The midground bins are for cardboard and paper and often fill up even though there are two. The furthest set are of bins are are for textiles (left) and glass (right ( Read more... )

The last few days' activities have been marvelous, and relatively inexpensive. That's good because I'm feeling a little anxious about money. We've had only my income since early this year. That's enough to get by on, but I just paid property tax, which is not quite a month's worth of pay and it feels like a lot. And her health insurance through NW ( Read more... )

I'm scared today. Not of anything particularly scary. I'm just feeling the fear effect of chronic anxiety more than the anxiety effect, if that makes any sense. It makes everything seem more scary ( Read more... )

I found a bunch of the kind of CDs at the Goodwill today that I don't expect to ever see. Two Beatles albums, a David Bowie, Devo's greatest hits, Two Neil Young, and Beck's "Mellow Gold ( Read more... )

I dreamed that I owned a Sigmonster. It would be silly of me to have one of those lenses as it would not be well suited to my kind of photography, but I wouldn't say no either ( Read more... )

After my recent complaints about Facebook and how much better LJ is, I feel a bit about having been a little inactive here. Sometimes my brain does not cooperate when I want to write things; especially when I want to say something interesting back to someone who has written something interesting, and I think I'll do it later when I'm feeling a bit ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, I helped Posi get more packing done on Friday and Saturday, between building more stuff in our Factorio game. On Sunday he and I drove up to Kenosha to help Serin and Todd with their move to Racine. Their new house is so wonderfully cute. I was in love at first site, as, they told me, were they. I don't want to own or live in a ( Read more... )

I biked down Chicago Avenue to the start of the Lakefront Trail, then most of the way to Navy Pier. I decided I was slowing down after ten and a half miles and turned back north. I took Lawrence west to the south end of the Channel Trail, but stopped on the way to investigate Shake Rattle and Read. It's a used book and music store in the Uptown ( Read more... )

Achievement unlocked; slept eight hours! Maybe it was the nice walk with an excitable dog. I'm continuing to remember my dreams a bit, which is odd, but these weren't as disturbing as the last several nights. I think I was wandering around inside one of the buildings that restoman and his crew are renovating. It must have been on my mind after talking to a ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to wash my hair since I had surgery. I feel super gross. It reminds me of getting into a city after a week-plus in tropical jungle. All I wanted was a real shower with real conditioner and shampoo. I guess it's not as bad as that, which is a helpful reminder ( Read more... )