legalmoose

( Decades ago, many thought that science had much potential to improve our lives. )

I want to live in a world where experts truly are able to make our world better. Perhaps this ( was always a pipe dream. )

It's not as if I seek to be constrained by some soulless technocracy. Civil liberties are important to me. ( Experts should not decide everything for everybody. )

I just want institutional decision-making to be both well-informed and well-intentioned, even if it must also be open-minded. When I look at contemporary examples among social policy and technological innovation, it's hard to feel as if the future is filled with hope, in the way that some previous generation might have. Given the sea change that LLMs are causing in software development, I don't how much hope to have for even just my personal future.

Perhaps the Artemis program is an unusual exception, charging me with a little of that same hope that the 1962 Seattle World's Fair might have brought its attendees, reminding me of the perhaps naive optimism that experts would be able to guide our progress to a future worth embracing. Even if I am not part of it, I would still be glad for it to happen.

mtbc

Recently, in discussing other-media spin-offs, I was reminded of the three trilogies of Babylon 5 novels, which were decent enough that I would be happy to reread them. However, they are long enough out of print to be enough effort and money to obtain that I shan't bother. It seems a shame that such things just fade away.

Back when I first read them, I hadn't appreciated how that kind of book, like most manga, falls out of print, never to be reprinted. I don't know what ethicists might think but I would be quite open to a rule that put into the public domain any work that was once openly and widely available then was not similarly reoffered for a long period, assuming no conflict with the public interest.

days_unfolding

I need a name for my side hustle business. I had thought AJR Enterprises, but there is already two of them, one in Illinois. Need to mull this over. Some suggestions of ChatGPT that I like are Paper & Flourish and AJR Studios. There already is an AJR Studio though. Adrienne R Studios? I’m leaning hard towards Paper & Flourish.

Woke up with my alarm at 7 AM.

My refrigerator is working again. I don’t know why it stopped working and why it’s working now, but I’ll take it. I don’t want to have it fixed or replace it.

Fed us all. Nap time. I was singing and Gracie came over and licked my face.

Woke up at 11. Ate lunch. Showered. Put on my makeup. Left for my volunteer work.

I wound up being one of the people who ran cards on Square and managed the cash box. For some reason, whenever the volunteer leader looked over, there was no one there, but I did get some traffic. Then I helped box books, but my back was killing me, so then I sat and took tape off of things. I left around six. Ran to the local grocery store and picked up some things.

Fed us all. I was feeling completely beat, so I decided to watch the last Harry Potter movie. It’s over, and I really want to crash.

rejectomorph

There was a Saturday afternoon nap, waking from which I was sure it must be early Sunday morning, but it's only Saturday evening and it's raining. When I first looked out the window it was a sprinkle, but by the time I'd gone to the bathroom to lighten my bladder I could hear raindrops hitting the roof and the wind rising, and by the time I got back to the window a furious wind was lashing the glass with great streams of water and I was startled by their roar.

I had not gone to the mailbox before the nap, and I knew that anything in it would surely be soaked, so I gave upon the idea of making a rescue. I'm picturing the latest issue of Harpers sitting in the little black box turning to pulp, and distressing though the thought of losing yet another issue is, there is no way I'm going out in that mess. The last light is just about gone, and whatever is in the box is surely unsalvageable already, so I will remain indoors and perhaps go scoop up the sad residue tomorrow. Let night fall and conceal the tragedy while I mourn the loss I don't really know is there.

And why the feck have I still not signed up for USPS delivery notifications by email? Procrastinating old geezer with dead executive function! Oh well, it won't be long before I forget altogether that I've even got subscriptions to magazines. That'll fix it.

Fix dinner now. As soon as I eat second breakfast. Brownie bites with Madeleines. Yum.

house_wren

Today's nature report:

the sound of peepers in the backwaters by the river
a pair of white swans by the river
a pair of pheasants by the side of the road
a pair of bald eagles in their nest in the big tree by the river
Canadian geese in the air
a hawk
5 new beaver ponds, terraced in the little creek, surrounded by the remnants of 8 chewed trees
3 deer running across the field
yellow daffodils and forsythia
blue squill

I am exhausted by autoimmune illness. Also isolated. A family member has cancer again. I'm numbed by the state of the world.

On the bright side, a sleep study shows I do not have sleep apnea. I have exercised consistently for 19 weeks. I have cleaned something for about 20 minutes every day, which is a good strategy when ill. A drawer is clean, a shelf is cleaned, etc. I did my favorite jigsaw puzzle. I chatted with the one friend I have that I have known for more than 50 years. I ordered a book: Dressing a la Turque; Ottoman Influence on French Fashion, 1670-1800 by Kendra Van Cleave. (Kendra from the fabulous FrockFlicks.com.) I'm rewatching Be Melodramatic, one of my favorite shows.

I hope you are well.

mtbc

It is a considerable relief to have the crew of Artemis II safely back on Earth. I wonder in what state the heat shield is now. We stayed up late (for us) last night, streaming Coachella until nearer the reentry time, so we slept in somewhat this morning. It will be great if we manage a successful moon landing and return, for which even more things must go well.

The talk of a moonbase is exciting though this decade seems courageous, I would have thought anything remotely worthy of the name to be a whole order of magnitude tougher still. I wonder how eager future administrations will be to keep pushing the effort. Nonetheless, I should be very happy were we to continue actively working toward such a goal.

rejectomorph

Groceries were fetched today, and a pleasant surprise was the availability of my favorite donuts for the first time in six weeks. Only one item was substituted, and only one other was unavailable. After my niece dropped the groceries off and I got most of them put way I went out to check the mail, and found my issue of Wired, only slightly dampened with water from early morning's rain wicked up from the mailbox floor. It was good timing, as half an hour after I brought it in there was sudden overcast and thunder and the sky opened again for a good half hour.

There is apt to be more rain tonight, and on both Saturday and Sunday. I think I can forget about my climate credit covering my entire utility bill for April. Even when milder days return next week, the highs will be only in the seventies, and and nocturnal lows will mostly be in the forties. The next high of eighty won't be until Friday the 24th. That will be my next shopping day, and the utility bill should arrive by then so I can write my check for six bucks, or whatever ridiculous little sum it is, and get it mailed off in a timely manner. If I were still getting out and about, I might combine a visit to Piggy's (PG&E's) office with a trip downtown. I don't think they can refuse to accept cash payment in person at their office, or charge any kind of extra fee for it. They do charge a fee for paying by phone or online with a credit or debit card. Utility companies are not admirable.

I can't say much about Thursday, because I don't remember it. There is a vague impression that I slept through nine or ten daylight hours, but that was so long ago I can't be sure. It was a troubling time, I suppose. I'm glad those days are gone. I'll probably be glad when today is gone, too, which it will be in about an hour. I think I will make some tea and eat a couple of cookies, then hit the proverbial hay. Maybe the rain will come back to sing me to sleep.

days_unfolding

I’m wondering if I could do cursive transcription as a sideline. I can read cursive unless the handwriting is really bad.

Woke up a little after 7 AM. Went back to sleep after a little while, and woke up a little after 9.

I was waiting to let the dogs out until the dog poop scooper person came by. They’ll go out at lunchtime (done).

Oliver burst into Zara’s room when I fed her, so I went in and guarded her food while she ate. Oliver did try to rush at her dish a couple of times. Little shit. Zara ate all of her food!

My Home Depot order with the grass blankets and rake arrived. I forgot about it when I let the dogs out, but they put it over the fence. I went outside and got it into the garage.

Napped. I’ll take my shower after work.

Bella came in at 1:15. Gracie came in at 2. It keeps threatening rain but I haven’t seen any. The darkness is making me sleepy.

I’m thinking that I’ll need to mow the rest of the grass while the new grass is growing. Once it has grown, then I’ll get someone to mow the lawn for me.

I’ve been wanting a peace flag for the house for a while, and I’m wondering if I should get one. I want one with a dove on it rather than the peace sign.

I think that I need more Japanese forest grass for the shady side garden. I want to plant them between the Astilbe (or maybe the ferns?), so I’ll count how many I need when I plant the Astilbe. I also have a ground cover type thing for which I need to use my plant identifier to find out what it is.

Gracie was going berserk at the window. The cats thought that she was nuts and bailed. I told her that they were right.

Well, hell. Something wacky is going on in Lessonface, and we can’t schedule tonight’s lesson. I tried some things to no avail. I guess that there’s no lesson tonight. Oliver came into Zara’s room and is being manic and obnoxious. My teacher said that she was able to book my lesson, but by that point, I had put my food in the microwave. What a mess.

I’ve been feeling achy and keep on starting to fall forward. I don’t know what’s going on. I think that I’ll finish feeding the critters and go watch Harry Potter (done).

I need to get to bed soon because tomorrow will be a busy day.

days_unfolding

I ordered some peonies also. I should be done with buying stuff for the garden. Wait, no, I want to buy blueberry and raspberry bushes. And I’d like strawberries, but the birds eat them. Hmm. Okay, I bought the blueberries and raspberries with bird netting. I’m not sure how many strawberries to get. I have a big strawberry pot, but don’t remember how many pockets it has. Ordered a new lilac bush, and I’ll put chicken wire around it.

Gracie was biting me because I was trying to disentangle the blanket. Then she rolled over to have her belly scratched. Dog logic. Young dog logic. Bella wanted her belly rubbed too, but at least she wasn’t biting me to begin with.

Got up a little after 7 AM. I’m charging my cordless drill. Showered, and it feels good to be clean. I really want a nap.

The Japanese Maple should arrive today. Arrived. I have lots of planting to do. Oh, and the chicken wire top for the raised bed for the tomatoes arrived yesterday.

Got the registration renewed for the Honda. Yay. And I hope that they will email me a reminder in the future.

Napped. I’m feeling groggy. My work computer crashed but came back up. Someone was running around here and unplugged two devices.

Received the cane with a seat and the small stepper.

Hmm. Someone in a Facebook group online starts extra plants and sells the seedings. I was looking into that for next year (I want to get a setup for starting seeds next year), but apparently I’d need a couple of licenses to do that. Might not be worth it. My other plan for next year is to get a third planter with legs for herbs (I’m growing herbs in pots this year) and to clean out the area behind the garage and put down mulch. Eventually, I’ll want to take down the trees there and plant redbuds, some pink grass with a name that I’ve forgotten, and lavender. Maybe have stepping stones that lead to the back.

Had my therapy session. She told me that there are straw “blankets” for grass seed, so what I’m going to do is get the “dog-safe” seed and buy those blankets. Excellent. I need to remember to bring the measuring tape out when I go outside after work. Ordered the “dog-safe” grass seed.

Garage guy called me back. He’s coming over on Sunday (note to self–3ish) to rake up the gravel and talk to me about what I want for the driveway. Things are taking shape.

I planted the three roses and four ferns. Watered the side garden, roses, and crabapple tree. The Japanese Maple is soaking in a bucket. (This sounds so simple, but it was a lot of work.) My small Craftsman shovel worked better than my big shovel, so I’m wondering if I should order a big Craftsman shovel. And I need a rake to loosen the dirt for the grass seed.

Oh, I also got my Astilbe in, so I’ll need to plant it on Sunday.

I’m beat. Bella came in but Gracie did not. I need to sit for a minute and then I’ll feed the cats. Fed the cats and dogs. Ate dinner while watching the latest episode of The Pitt.

Ordered the grass blanket, stakes, and a rake.

days_unfolding

I was doing my PT exercises, and Gracie and Oliver had to get in the middle of what I was doing. The hazards of doing exercises at home.

Someone on a frugal living Facebook group suggested getting shoes on Poshmark. That never occurred to me, and they have some nice shoes in my size. Also, I have some boots that I want to sell, so I’ll try selling them there.

Woke up before my alarm a little before 7 AM. Let the dogs out. Went back to sleep. Got up a little before 9. The dogs must have gotten good exercise because Gracie is totally crashed out. (Bella probably is too, but she’s downstairs.)

Called about rescheduling Zara’s appointment at the vet. Apparently the vet with whom we were scheduled is out sick. The new appointment is a little over a week out.

Overslept my nap a little. I’m getting caught up on my sleep.

Made some phone calls. Started to call the Secretary of State for the registration number and PIN for online renewal, but the Web site said that it should be on the prior registration card. Left a message for the garage guy about getting the gravel out of my yard.

There’s a lively conversation on one of the listservs at work about whether the new Obama Presidential Library would join our consortium. That would be pretty cool. I’d like to see it when it opens. (The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield is a member of our consortium, and I’ve been to the museum.) I’m wondering if we could get a group of people from high school to go together.

One of the books that I requested from the university library is in. I want to wait for the rest of them, though, before I trek over there.

Ordered a ton of fall bulbs from Breck’s. This time, I will stash the bulbs in my garage until I’m ready to plant them. (My last set got stolen.) I still need to order peonies for the front garden.

I’m waiting for my piano class and talking to Zara. I told her that she’s one tough kitty. Of the older contingent of my mom, Mimi, and Zara, I wouldn’t have thought that Zara would be the last one alive. (I think that she’s 17 now.) Piano went okay. I was working on a pretty piece (simplified Gurlitt Andante? I’m not near the music.)

I shut Oliver in the bedroom so that he won’t eat Zara’s food. Also, I need him in there when I get the recycling out.

Got the recycling out. I didn’t get the boxes on the porch, but I did put out some boxes from inside. Got the registration card for the Honda, and it did NOT have the registration number and PIN, so I need to call them tomorrow. I also discovered that the battery on the Honda is dead. Sigh.

Filed my taxes. It was more expensive than I thought because I had to pay for TurboTax as well as pay the taxes. Life is expensive right now (says the person who spent a pile of money on bulbs). I forgot to mention that the refrigerator isn’t working properly, so I need to get it fixed or replace it after I finish the kitchen.

Anyway, I should wrap things up and head to bed.

rejectomorph

This was the fifth or sixth day in a row when I let my phone battery go dead and consequently lost Idernet. I've turned very stupid in my old age. Cursing myself each time it happens has not fixed it. I should probably use some sort of second childhood psychology on myself, but I fear I've gotten too stupid to even figure out how to do that. Maybe some sort of reward for not forgetting tp recharge? The problem then would be actually remembering once, so I could reward myself, and it's starting to look like that will never happen again. And if it does, I'll probably forget what I want to do. I mean I'll have Idernet, and that's really distracting.

But anyway. I just thought I heard some thunder, and a short time later I'm sure I heard some thunder. We weren't supposed to get thunderstorms until Friday afternoon, but I guess they got here early. I forgot to check the forecast yesterday, so I checked just now and sure enough, thundershowers tonight and Friday evening, then rain Saturday and Sunday. Weird, but welcome... at least the rain is welcome. Spring lightning can start wildfires. In 2008 a May thunderstorm sparked over a thousand little fires and some of them joined up and kept burning well into autumn. It was the smokiest summer I can remember. I'd rather not have another like that.

Oh, I need to go fix the dinner I've been putting off for three nights. I do hope the power doesn't go out while I'm using my all-electric stove. This stuff needs to cook all the way in one go. Pasta is very unforgiving.

arlie

State Farm has a garbage-quality autopayment system.

Six months ago, they failed to process my autopayment. I'd had to change credit card numbers to contest an unauthorized charge, from a company I'd never heard of, possibly "partner" to some other company I do business with, acting on their behalf. The credit card company declared the transactions to be legitimate, without any explanation to me, and left me with a change of account number to clean up afterwards.

Getting back to State Farm. I hadn't updated that auto-pay, so it tried to use the old card, and failed. I got an email, telling me to deal with it myself, but not immediately, as the bill wouldn't be payable online for 1-3 business days. Since the autopay was scheduled for the renewal date, I'd presumably be uninsured until they allowed me to pay it. Or I could call my agent, who, they claimed, would be able to help me.

I waited out the slow batch update delay, added the new number as a new payment method (the old one couldn't be updated in place), made it my preferred payment method, and [paid the bill. Their UI either offered no way to update the auto-payment, or implied that my new preferred method would be used.

There may have been some other interactions. These are what I remember, supplemented by State Farm's report of my payment history, as seen on their website today.

This morning, I received a similar notice that my autopayment had failed, and manual payment would not work for 1-3 days. They'd used the older, non-preferred payment method.

I may now have successfully set it to use the right card, but of course they won't do that automatically until the next bill, 6 months from now.

I've put an "appointment" in my calendar to check their website again in 3 days, when they will hopefully allow me to pay this bill online.

If I'm really lucky, this update of my autopayment method won't be conveniently "lost", leaving me to handle the same nuisance 6 months from now.

Fuck you, State Farm. May your CIO (presumably in charge of web programming) and CEO both die slowly and painfully from an incurable disease. Or since that's perhaps a bit excessive, may they both find themselves stuck with service providers just like them,and wind up spending 22 hours a day deleting unwanted emails, fixing problems that never should have happened, returning unordered merchandise, and discovering when they try to use it that their insurance doesn't cover what they thought it did. And may their afterlife, if any, involve all the same things, except perhaps more so, in the manner of Dante's Inferno's handling of sellers of fraudulent medicines.

p.s. To be fair, State Farm has not pulled the "nope, this isn't covered" thing on me, and I did "total" an elderly car insured with them a few years ago. Their claims people were in fact polite, efficient, and informative. It's their web site and their billing I'm angry about.

rejectomorph

Days managing to pass despite my inattention, I guess I don't mean much to them. Apparently I don't know much about weather either, because I was assuming it would be summery from here on out, and now the forecast is telling me more rain over the next weekend. Thundershowers Friday afternoon (shopping day!) and rain on Saturday, with more showers possible Sunday. Chilly, too, with highs in the sixties. More gas for the furnace, I guess, and probably a utility bill larger than the climate credit I'll be getting. I'll end up having to do something stupid, like write a check for three bucks. But at least no hot days are coming up, so I won't have to use air conditioning.

I dawdled so much Monday night that I never got around to cooking the dinner I'd planned, and around midnight I just made a tuna sandwich. Some people call it a tuna fish sandwich, but in English I've never heard of anything other than fish called tuna, so tuna fish sounds redundant to me. In Spanish, a cactus apple (some people call them cactus pears, but I don't want to layer tangents) is called a tuna, but as far as I know nobody makes cactus apple (or pear) sandwiches, and if they did they probably wouldn't be people who call a fish tuna. But where was I going with this? If I ever knew, I've forgotten now.

Anyway, I enjoyed the sandwich, but since then my stomach has given indications that it wasn't as happy with it as the rest of me was. I'm thinking I might just go to bed and see if I can get to sleep before it starts hurting worse. My afternoon nap ended at seven o'clock, and I've been awake about long enough now anyway.

days_unfolding

Woke up at 8 AM. The catlings want FOOD! NOW!

Hmm, I really want to nap at lunch, but I need to take a shower. Can I shower after work? I have choir. Oh! I have physical therapy today, so I need to shower at lunch.

The dogs came in early. Because it’s cold?

I forgot to mention yesterday that because of the sun pattern, I’m going to move the raised beds over against the fence in my yard. I plan to assemble them next weekend. Oh, I have the book sale next weekend. It’s going to be hectic.

Physical therapy went okay. The physical therapist worked me really hard. I’m looking at some tools that she had me use on Amazon. She gave me an exercise band.

I think that I want to learn how to can. I should have extra tomatoes.

Choir went well. I should get a solo part. The question is which one?

Went to the local grocery store and picked up a few things. Lily really wanted my chicken sandwich and took a bite out of it. Somehow she makes that charming. I’m putty in her paws :) I also submitted a Walmart order.

I couldn’t get the door to the basement stairs open from the outside, so I stashed the roses under the porch. That should keep frost off of them. Speaking of garden plants, Breck’s has a great catalog for fall. Sale prices are until early May though. I need to figure out what I want.

The dogs came in on the first try. They’re easier to get in at night.

No TV tonight. I need to get to bed.

arlie

My taxes are done.

The capital gain part was unpleasant, and the beta import function made numerous errors, leading to me retyping much of the information. (Its issues were a mix of copying some but not all of the relevant lines, and mistaking subtotal lines for additional transactions. It made these errors on statements from two different brokerages - the only ones where I had capital gains details.)

There's some possibility of additional errors, without the scaffolding I'm used to, but both the feds and the state have accepted my forms. The overall numbers are reasonable, any glitches would be in the details.

Money to pay my taxes due will be taken from my chequing account on April 15, by which time the money I transferred to cover this will have arrived.

Total aggravation: less than I usually experience from Turbotax.

Total $ cost: notably less than with Turbotax.

I won't be using Turbotax again.

In more surprising news, the Big Ugly Bill increased my deductions, and thus reduced the amount of tax owing. That doesn't change my political opinions about whether the bill was good for the country in the longer term, but it does give me a conflict of interest.

I'm also amused, in a sick kind of way, to not remember reading anything about the extra $6 K deduction for older people (my age), reduced if their incomes are above a threshold (mine was), but in my case at least not reduced all the way to zero. I suspect my news sources of not wanting to mention anything good about the bill, but I may simply have ignored it on the assumption that my income would be too high to benefit.

days_unfolding

I ordered the Japanese Maple because the plant nursery was having a sale. I also ordered some fertilizer for the trees and the roses.

Woke up at 8:30 AM. Had a lively conversation with Zara when I went to get her dish. The dogs, surprisingly, came in after an hour. It’s 40F/4C, so that’s probably why. Everyone is fed. Nap time. Oliver is on the shelf over the bedroom door. Sneaky little dickens. Woke up after an hour. I’m not sure if I woke up spontaneously or Gracie woke me up.

Hmm. I saw an ad for grass seed that you just roll out in sheets. That might work with the dogs.

Napped again for an hour.

Crud. There’s a freeze watch on early Tuesday morning. Should I plant the roses or not? Three out of four are bare roots. I’m thinking of doing the tilling, but waiting until Tuesday to plant them. I need to check if they need water.

There was gravel where I want to plant the roses, so I used the transfer shovel to scrape off the gravel. It worked pretty well and there was dirt underneath, so I didn’t need to till. I got the cedar beds with legs in the garage, piece by piece because it was too heavy to drag over there. I need to print off the assembly instructions online. I watered the roses (they sent three out of four). The roses came with plastic wrap that I can put over them in case of frost.

I forgot today was Easter and the local grocery store was closed, so I picked up some munchies at Circle K. Watched The Pitt during dinner. The dogs are in and fed.

I’m doing some laundry, but then I’ll go to bed.

low_delta

Thursday, I saw something on Fb about Good Friday being the next day. This was the first I'd realized this weekend was Easter. Sometime on Friday I realized I hadn't heard anything from my mom about Easter dinner on Sunday. We always have dinner with the family on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Saturday morning, Cindy made plans to visit a friend for her birthday on Sunday. Later in the day I finally decided I should inquire about said dinner. If I hadn't, I figure I probably would have gotten a "where are you?" call this afternoon. And it would have been partly my fault for not asking.

Turns out my mom had forgotten to tell us about it. So I went over to Mom's today. My sister and her two kids were there. Before dinner, I saw my mom take the salad bowls off the table (we usually bring the salad). So we had dinner. Cindy arrived after we'd finished eating, but before dessert.

rejectomorph

Today my feet hurt. I have no idea why. I hardly use them anymore. Back when I walked al the time they never got this bad. Perhaps they think they are no longer needed and can do as they please. Not for wrong, really, but still inconvenient.

Sleeping has not gone to four-eight-four pattern. Instead, I slept about nine hours Saturday night, then was up from around 2:00 AM until eight o'clock, after which I had another two hour nap, and I've been up ever since. But I have no idea how much longer I'll keep going. I'm thinking I'll post this entry, fix some dinner, than go soak my damned feet. Totally out of Epsom salts, but I guess warm water alone can't hurt. And it looks like this getting old thing won't be going into remission. Too bad.

( Sunday Verse )

arlie

This section is for nuisances, small aggravations, learning curve,and problems that are probably fixable, but not yet fixed. Compared to the other two posts, it's all small stuff. But many a mickle makes a muckle - and there's a lot in this category.

I'm posting it a bit late, and may have forgotten some of the things I intended to include two weeks ago.

Canonical has (a) decided to use snaps for key components of their linux distribution (Ubuntu, Kubuntu etc.). As the developer of the snap packaging system it's also decided to make snaps forcibly update themselves. Firefox arrives as a snap, and has new versions approximately every two weeks.

This blew up on me a week and a half ago. I posted https://arlie.dreamwidth.org/532599.html at that time, so I'll omit farther detail here.
Mozilla has gone all in on Chatbot support. This is quite controversial among Firefox users, some of whom have flamed Mozilla up down and sideways on their forums.

I'm rather disgusted myself. I encounter enough human-written lies, damn lies, and confabulations; I don't need an extra serving of confabulations ("hallucinations") from my web browser.

Checking out alternative web browsers is on my backburner, but I don't expect to find anything substantially better. Chromium has Google cooties all over it, giving me a serious feeling of caveat emptor.

( Read more... )

mtbc

A few years ago, driving from Portland, ME, back down to Belmont, MA, on Hallowe'en, we experienced a heavy blizzard. This Easter Sunday here in Glasgow, the morning started off with a lovely blue sky then gray turned to sleet then to handsome snowflakes that are settling. Update: Now the sky's back to blue.

The snow could at least confine itself to winter. I still vote for using R.'s citizenship to live on a tropical island instead! Fortunately, our dog L. is wholly unfazed by rain and snow.

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Artemis II's crew module returned

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No Singing Lesson

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