I'm definitely in the phase of my time when I'm trying to get rid of stuff, not the accumulating phase. I genuinely don't enjoy shopping for anything except books any more. And I am trying to reduce the number of unread books I own, as well.
I've been thinking about Marie Kondo lately, too. Her method of folding things so you can see everything in your drawer was so helpful. Now I'm entering a new phase of my life and trying to figure out how I got so much clutter in my house and how to get rid of it.
I find it fascinating (& frustrating) that I'm seeing the same thing with urban fantasy. In the Reddit fantasy group when someone asks for urban fantasy they're going to get a list of mostly male authors, despite it being mostly written by women when it was popular.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS?
I have a bill to get that done.
Cover image of After the Weeping by David Mark. The title and author are in large text laid over a misty landscape with trees and mountains in the background.
Cover image of The Reckoning by Kelli Stanley. Title and author name are in large text laid over a misty scene of a wet road and trees on either side.
I think mysteries have fallen even further. So many seem to be a misty or indistinct landscape and large text. I think these are thriller-coded, so I tend to avoid the ones with covers like this.
Fruit bats are awesome.
Is Wednesday a good show? In my opinion, no. But it is stylish and fairly compelling, even if I have to periodically fast forward through the parts that are too stupid for my willing suspension of disbelief.
For me, the entire plot lines around events several centuries earlier and needing an ancestor as a spirit guide are incredibly cringe. On the other hand, having Christina Ricci play one of the teachers at the school--funny and clever. But the show is a little too self-aware.
The dialogue probably reads well on paper, but is too complex for spoken dialogue, and is not how people actually speak. I do not believe that a modern 16 year old would be likely to know who Deep Throat was, much less use him as a throwaway reference.
I started watching Wednesday last night. At a base level it's a school story about a sullen teenager. I am very much not the audience for that type of story. But it is also about solving mysteries, and I am the audience for that story type.
I've come to the conclusion that it's crazy the large banks collect a percentage on most of the transactions in our economy, as well as collecting information about us. What a massive waste of money. I've started paying for more transactions with cash again, like I did before Covid.
A view of Snow Canyon in southwest Utah. Red mountains and a flat green valley below.
A change of scenery for me, I’m visiting an old friend in Utah.
I have a subscription to Kobo Plus, which for a monthly fee gives me access to a wide variety of ebooks and audiobooks.
Finder and Driving the Deep by Suzanne Palmer were great. I wasn't as enthusiastic about the third one.
A tortoiseshell tabby cat on a sofa, looking just to the left of the photgrapher
Here's Liza
An arrangement of purple flowers
A surprise delivery at work from one of our vendors because I had told them I will be retiring soon.
I don't think he does believe he has a shot. This campaign (in my opinion) is just a way to raise money.
I'm trying to watch the Bondi hearing and she keeps yelling "You have Trump Derangement Syndrome!" every time someone asks her a serious question. And then the Republicans thank her for her service. I don't know how Congress members' heads don't explode daily in rage at the processes in D.C.
Crocheted. What a lovely gift.
I feel like national media is excitedly waiting for riots and it’s not happening and they are getting annoyed they can’t post their pre-written articles.
We used this when we went on family trips. I don't know why bringing separate jars of PB & J was considered to be a problem. It brings back memories of making sandwiches at a windy rest stop in Nebraska that smelled like manure and trying to keep our paper plates from blowing away. Not fun.
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
Next #NoKings protest: 3/28...tell a friend.
Yes, it's a very similar premise. I haven't seen any acknowledgement of the Clough story anywhere.
Bondi and Patel also need to go.
Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.
Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Linguistics
2. Astronomy
3. Latin American History 1929 to the Present
4. The Heroic Figure in Literature
5. Business Law
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
Johnson's vote shocked me.
Homan: "I don't want to see anybody die -- even the people who are looking for it."
Homan: ICE agents have been "living in fear" for 8 months. ??!?
