Al Capone Does My Shirts A Mastery of Monsters L.A. Requiem Trouble in Queenstown

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April 22: A good selection of books at the moment.

The Names, by Florence Knapp

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April 21: Finished a good book this evening.

Large and well-frosted cinnamon rolls

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April 20: Be the cinnamon roll so frosted it looks like a toupee.

University Celebrates 60th Birthday by Breaking World Record for Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Dinosaurs To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the University of Calgary in Canada set out to break a very unique world record: the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs. And on Saturday, April 11, tha...

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April 19: people.com/university-s...

Buc-ee’s Pet Essentials Paw Washer

Inside of the paw washer.

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April 18: Stopped at the new Buc-ee’s last night and saw one of these in the wild for the first time.

I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

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April 17: This week that was supposed to be rainy and gross has turned out to be beautiful and sunny…and the allium are starting to pop open!

They really do. If you don’t finish them the murderer could go uncaught. It’s quite a responsibility.

That’s my plan for summer (and fall and winter and spring).

Bobblehead of Al Capone standing next to a copy of Al Capone Does My Shirts.

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April 16: We had a surprise special guest at reading group last night.

Recipe for It’s Five Alive Somewhere cocktail

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April 15: Got my Margarita contest entry written out! 🎉🍹🍹🎉

Carbon Leaf at Natalie’s Grandview - April 13, 2026 YouTube video by Megan Real

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April 14: Amazing show by Carbon Leaf at Natalie’s Grandview last night. They really went for the full light and sound experience…and then blew out the power. 😂

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April 13: It’s going to be a rainy week…but there’s always a Mansfield at the end of the rainbow. 😂

Pink cocktail on a red and white checkered tablecloth.

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April 12: the Super Smash Bros. at Paulie Gee’s.

Dress made from copies of the program from The Wiz at the Short North Stage.

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April 11: Why can’t the merchandise for Wicked be this awesome?

Dafuque on High Taproom in Columbus.

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April 10: I haven’t been yet, but I have a new favorite brewery/taproom name.

Extremely small font size (with hand for reference) in the program for Sean Jones’ concert at the Lincoln Theatre.

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April 9: Enjoyed a lovely concert by Sean Jones at the Lincoln Theatre…but we may never know the stories of his band, because their bios were provided in font so small that I’m not sure anyone could read them (my adult size hand is included for reference).

Five Star Reads for March 2026: We Rip the World Apart the Underground Library New Suns New Suns 2 We Will Be Jaguars Racing Hearts

Four Star Reads March 2026: Last Chance Academy It’s Not the End of the World Strawberry Lane A Land So Wide Ambush The Civility Book We the Women Rain of Shadows and Endings

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April 8: I was putting together a list of the books I read in March and realized that six of the 21 were 5 stars and another eight were 4 stars. In a month with a couple of one stars that seemed to go on forever, it’s nice to be able to focus on the good ones.

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April 7: Hockey fights. I’ve seen women throw down, but the desire to repeatedly bare knuckle punch a helmet (sometimes around the ref’s head) is pretty unique to the men’s game.

Roster image of Oasiz Wiesblatt #88 for the Milwaukee Admirals (AHL)

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At a Cleveland Monsters game over the weekend, an opposing player with an interesting name scored. I had to look up whether that was his real name or a nickname, and a quick search revealed that his siblings are:
Ozzy
Orca (sadly deceased)
Ocean
Oceania

Audiobook of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

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April 5: Whether you love or loathe Northanger Abbey. Juliet Stevenson’s narration is absolute perfection.

Two bins of basketballs, one of which is the traditional color and the other is mostly pink but with one blue on top.

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April 4: Rocket Arena has one blue ball.

Screenshot of an Amazon page for the book Easter Shifter by Amelia Shaw. The cover depicts a silver man with rabbit ears with his arm around the waist of a woman in a short, low cut floral dress holding an Easter basket.

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April 3: A lovely lady in a FB group posts a roundup of free on kindle books every Friday. There’s always an absolutely unhinged one at the end of the list labeled “It’s Free and I’m Curious.” This week’s did not disappoint.

Stalking the Angel by Robert Craig

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

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Image of ten separately labeled dinosaurs in bed with various signs of illness. Clockwise from top left: Euoplocephalus: reclining in bed with a red blanket covering its legs and tail sticking out with a box of tissues on the bed and a trash can on the floor. Carnotaurus: Sitting up in bed with a purple blanket over its legs holding a teapot and drinking from a teacup. Tropeognathus: Hovering over a bed with a checkered blanket, blowing its nose with tissue box being blown away in the background. Brachiosaurus: Body hunched on a bed with a pink cover with yellow dots, head and tail curled on the floor. Styracosaurus: Sitting up in bed with a green blanket over its legs holding a get well card. Tuojiangosaurus: Lying on a bed with a green patterned cover looking at a side table holding a bowl and vase of flowers. Velociraptor: Lying on its stomach on a bed with a red cover, propped on one arm, tail hanging on the floor, coloring in a book with two other coloring books lying on the floor. Dilophosaurus: Sitting up in bed with its legs under a multicolor polkadot blanket glaring at a thermometer. Parasaurolophus: Crouching on a bed with a green cover playing solitaire with a deck of cards. Gallimimus: Sitting up in bed with red and white striped sheets and a blue blanket over its legs reading a book with a box of tissues sitting on the blanket.

Stealing this idea…to have at least one positive thought per day, post a photo every day in April of something that makes you smile.

April 2: Another image I found in yesterday’s dinosaur get well card, and this one’s from a book about sick dinosaurs!

A drawing of a green t-Rex holding a box of tissues and with a thermometer in its mouth and a hot water bottle on its head. Text below is Juras-Sick.

Stealing this idea…to have at least one positive thought per day, post a photo every day in April of something that makes you smile.

Making up for missing yesterday, April 1: Found out a friend has a bad kind of cancer. We have a running joke about my dinosaur obsession, so I found this for her.

Same.

Oh, good - we sometimes run low so it will be good to have some extras.