Speaking personally, I think the loveliest thing for a rainy cloudy foggy gray day is a really good local public jazz station, played at a volume where you can really focus on the music if you want to, but can also drift off to focus on Important Other Things as needed.

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Earlier I had to move a really big spider. The spider really did not want to move.

And that was pretty much my budget of conflict for the evening.

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"No! I turned that in yesterday. You can't fine me! I'm innocent!"

- - - Me, upon discovering that the books I returned the day before haven't been checked in yet, so the library's electronic account records are warning me I have imminent fines

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How you can intervene when witnessing racist assaults

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The local Chamber of Commerce does a thing where they send out a calendar paid for by advertising from local businesses and illustrated with photos of the town from the previous year. Next year's arrived in the mail yesterday, and the image for April is of the neighborhood Holi festivities!

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I, I am the true hunter of the Christmas ornaments!

All shall pay homage and tribute!

...I've been reading a lot of pulp lately.

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My folks are out of town this week, helping my grandfolks (my dad's parents) move to a flexible assisted living complex. This means sorting forty odd years worth of stuff, and deciding what to move to the new apartment, what to sort out amongst the siblings (Dad and his two sisters), what to throw out, and what to donate to charity. We are ( Read more... )

You know you're really a grown up when your younger brother buys you a RID2015 Optimus Prime for your birthday and apologizes because it's not a Rescue Bots Optimus ( Read more... )

I've been really tired lately, and keep slipping behind on comments.

On the other hand at the same time I've had a lot of other kinds of energy! I baked an enormous amount for a project of Mom's yesterday!

And I sorted out a lot of password situations I'd been failing to deal with for... over a year. Because I was too afraid.

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