Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Be Kind
Monday, July 17, 2023
A Catch-Up Post
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Sunday Stealing
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Saturday, July 15, 2023
Saturday 9: Touch Me in the Morning
Friday, July 14, 2023
A Visitor
This guy showed up yesterday evening after dinner. |
He was curious. |
Definitely not afraid. |
He was covered with ticks. |
He just kept coming closer. |
And then he was on the patio! |
He probably weighs 125 pounds or so. |
Probably a male tossed out by his mama this year. |
This is how close he got to the patio door. By that time, I was moving away. I was afraid he was going to come on in. |
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Thursday Thirteen
I am having a year of reading eclectically. My reading habits so far have ranged from self-help to old literature to banned books. Here are 13 of the 44 I've read so far this year:
1. A Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny. The 7th book in the Inspector Gamache series finds our intrepid hero back in Three Pines to inspect the death that involves the art world. I had missed this one when I was going through the series last year, so went back and picked it up.
2. Unf#ck Your Brain, by Faith G. Harper. This failed as an audiobook, but it had some decent ideas in it. You can find worksheets that might be helpful at Faith G. Harper - Worksheets and Printables (faithgharper.com).
3. The Jasmine Throne, by Tasha Suri. This fantasy is set in a world inspired by ancient India and is thematically about the power of nature.
4. Born With Teeth, by Kate Mulgrew. The audio version was read by Mulgrew, and I enjoyed hearing about her childhood and her work, especially when it came to Star Trek: Voyager. It stops before her time with Orange is the New Black, though.
5. The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah. This Hannah book is set in Alaska, and is a coming of age novel.
6. River Woman, River Demon, by Jennifer Givhan. This is a psychological thriller with a little folk magic thrown in for good measure. It was a recommended library read.
7. Carnival of Snackery, by David Sedaris. The writer-tragic comedian offered up more morsels of his observations of life.
8. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng. I had resisted this book for some reason but found it a fascinating story, with life lessons in friendship, relationships, and community.
9. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. Man's inhumanity to man. Or maybe it was humanity? At any rate, a classic, and one that leaves you thinking.
10. Out of the Corner, by Jennifer Grey. Grey's memoir settles the question about her nose, although I was left scratching my head as to why she did what she did. Not for prudes or misogynists - this is a tell-all, and she slept with practically every hot young Hollywood dude before she married.
11. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume. This is one of Blume's first novels for young ladies, and one that is frequently placed on the banned book list. Apparently, young women should not read about breasts and menstruation.
12. Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green et al. This is another banned book. It is about two young men who are both named Will Grayson. One is homosexual, the other is not.
13. Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This story of the well-known Tarzan of the jungle actually surprised me at the end, since I was only familiar with the story through the old Johnny Weissmuller (I hope I have that right) movies that I saw when I was young.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023
When the Cloud Messes Up
One of the game stages I use is called GOG. It has older video games on it, the ones I played back in the 1990s and early 2000s, along with other things.
One of my favorite set of games, aside from Bethesda's Elder Scrolls, were by 3DO and were called the Might and Magic series.
GOG allegedly syncs my game play in its cloud with the games saved on my hard drive.
The last few days, I've been getting this message when it goes to sync:
I have no idea how to fix this and can't find a way to contact anyone at GOG to ask about it. So, I just hit ignore and go on.
But isn't it fascinating that my files are now 53 years off? I didn't even know what a computer was 53 years ago. Well, maybe I thought it was the robot on Lost in Space that said, "Danger! Danger!" but that would be about it.
I have also wondered if GOG has been hacked. Or if I have been hacked. Nothing else is amiss on my end, though. At least, not that I've noticed.
Suggestions welcome if anyone knows anything about this.
Monday, July 10, 2023
Dreaming of Dead People
Sunday, July 09, 2023
Sunday Stealing
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Saturday, July 08, 2023
Saturday 9: Mercy
A. I like driving in the country, but I am not a fan of driving in heavy traffic. So, I do ok close to home, but not in the city. In the city it is necessary but not pleasurable. Out here, it's both pleasurable and necessary.
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Major looked nothing like this. |
A. In 1970, we lived in a trailer. We had a poodle named Heidi, and she gave birth to puppies. One of those puppies was white. A day or so after they were born, the white puppy fell into Heidi's water dish, and I heard the plop of the water in the night and went to check. I fished him out of the dish and took him in to my parents, who massaged him back to breathing again. We named him Major and he was with us from then until about 1980, when he was running after my car and just keeled over dead in the road. He had grass in his mouth. I think he may have been eating grass, saw me leave, and ran after me without chewing and choked, which now that I write this seems rather symmetrical since I saved him from drowning/choking on water to begin with. He was a good dog. Very affectionate. We had him about 10 years, which is close to average for a poodle. He was getting old. He was my favorite of my childhood pets.
Friday, July 07, 2023
Long Week
Thursday, July 06, 2023
Thursday Thirteen #815
Wednesday, July 05, 2023
Strange Fungi
My size 7 foot for size comparison. |