Hanging in. Making Xmas stockings for a friend’s family, watching more Star Trek, and keeping my foot elevated. I’ve often said that boring is good, but I think I have reached saturation.
Book cover of Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green. Yellow background with an Orange circle filled with squiggly lines and dots to represent bacteria in a sample.
#16 Everything is Tuberculosis
Oh, he’s missing a few links, that’s for sure.
Model of a human spine
Maybe we need to send them some of these. a.co/d/0bhnDuSQ
Well, then I’ll just have to read it. (Runs off squealing in delight because the library had a copy available immediately!)
The best revenge!
Book cover of The Unmaking of June Farrow, by Adrienne Young. Appears to be the view of someone lying in a field with trees or bushes around the edges looking up a a sky filled with fireflies.
#15 The Unmaking of June Farrow
That’s what we had in high school. The ISDN line was in our house, so 1990. I remember explaining to my FIL why we wanted a modem before that and then explaining why our phone line was usually busy.
Ah, punch tape. I remember it well. We thought we were really hot stuff when we had an ISDN line.
Ooo! I’m about halfway through S6, so I have this to look forward to!
Happy taco day!
Cartoon by Steve Sack. A bald eagle at the top holds two ribbons, one says “Patriots” and the other says “then and now.” Below are two plinths. On the left is a statue of a revolutionary war minuteman. On the right are two people dressed in warm clothes holding smartphones. The female-presenting person is fist bumping the minute man and the male-presenting person is wearing Minnesota Vikings colored knitwear. The sign on the right plinth reads “ICE Citizen Observers.”
I had an aunt get mad at me because she was convinced I was lying about my starting engineering salary. She couldn’t imagine someone my age making $20/hr in 1989. I was making more than that, but had understated it so as not to brag.
Derpy Monty is still adorable! (Not that I would dare say anything like that to his face or claws!)
Book cover of The Murder at World’s End, by Ross Montgomery. Wild waves toss at the lower edge of the page. A large mansion sits in the middle of the page. A comet streams across the top of the page.
#14 The Murder at World’s End.
How would we tell the difference?
Every day is Caturday!
Yes?
Whatever it is, I’m loving the build up.
I’m also reading Tge Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, but needed some escapism.
I just finished Somewhere Beyond the Sea which isn’t as good (IMHO) as The House of the Cerulean Sea, but is so damn hopeful that I wanted to cry happy ice cubes. I recently finished The Spellshop and Kindred. I think Murder at World’s End is next.
Book cover of Somewhere Beyond the Sea, by T. J. Klune. A golden phoenix soars up into the night sky. Blow is a brightly-lit ramshackle house at the end of what apprears to be a rickety pier or rocky path.
#13 Somewhere Beyond the Sea
I was happily surprised that earlier Lori had not eaten the last of the gingerbread cookies from the freezer. Future Lori will not be so lucky, but current Lori is very happy.
Book cover of The Spellshop, by Sarah Beth Durst. An old cottage in the woods covered in vines. The cottage looks rather untended, but friendly.
#12 The Spellshop
Absolutely delightful!
Promises promises
Right? Then again, some other neighbor may have said something. She (and her pack of untrained, yappy dogs) are not popular.
Of course, I didn’t mean HER. Then again, these neighbors are really annoying so, well, maybe I did, just not right then.
I rather enjoyed working from home as long as I could employ mute and leave my camera off (I have no poker face). 3/3
to react to something stupid happening at work or on a conference call. At one point I know I exclaimed something about wouldn’t someone shut up already. A minute or so later the neighbor came out to shout to the universe that they were doing a project and not trying to annoy anyone. 2/?
I’m pretty sure I unintentionally upset one of our neighbors doing this. They were remodeling and it was loud and taking a long time. I was working from home and my office setup was near the patio door closest to the neighbors back door. I would often yell at my computer screen 1/?
Book cover of Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler. A young, black woman with short hair, wearing white clothing looks down. Superimposed at the bottom of the picture is a black and white photo of a row of small wooden shacks.
#11 Kindred
Pants are really hard. They are fabulous when you can get them to fit your shape in a way that no off-the-rack pants can match. I haven’t been able to achieve that since I was in my teens. The last time I tried was a dismal failure.
