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Mac v. PC
This is the difference between my Mac and my PC. When I sat down in front of my PC this morning, it was already on. I wiggled the mouse to make the screen wake up. And waited ( Read more... ) -
Fascism in Italian pop fiction
I've just finished an Italian novel, Occidente by Mario Farneti. I found it on my last trip to Florence and thought it looked neat--an alternate history novel where Italy didn't enter World War II? There were others in the series, but I just picked up the first one to see if I liked it. I can't carry back with me every book in Florence, though ( Read more... ) -
Bad timing
Naturally, the week that I have two overflowing trash containers (and other bags sitting around the garage waiting their turn to get into the trash container) would be that the garbage truck breaks down. I saw it a couple of blocks away with its hood up and a very large tow truck parked next to it ( Read more... ) -
Joys of modern life
I was talking on the phone to my boyfriend (currently about 500 miles away) when all of a sudden the power went out. No storm, no bad weather, no heat wave--no apparent reason for the outage. Just sudden, perfect dark.
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Wiped, at 8:40 am
If my cat had behaved herself and not escaped from her fenced-in yard to go out and explore the beauties of the night until 1:05 am, I wouldn't be so exhausted this morning ( Read more... ) -
Lawnmowing
First mowing of the year. I had forgotten how tiring it is to mow a lawn. It's not even hot yet, so I can't blame heat prostration or anything like that. I'm just out of breath, and my shoulders ache. God knows why; I wasn't lifting anything ( Read more... ) -
More gardening
Okay. Rain again today, rain/snow mix this evening when the temperature drops down to freezing tonight ( Read more... ) -
No garden yet
I want to plant a garden. It's mid-April, and that seems like a good time to plant ( Read more... ) -
Three things I don't like in pop fiction
1) Families who die in car crashes, leaving the hero/heroine all alone in the world. Admittedly, many books benefit from having the hero/heroine not be able to resort to family for aid. But if I see ONE MORE entire set of relatives wiped out in a car crash, I'll...roll my eyes and whine in LJ about it ( Read more... ) -
Food
There's something that's been bothering me for a while about food, and I want to ramble about it for a couple of minutes here. Maybe it will clarify things in my own mind.
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