Snow has begun. Meatballs in the oven. Now to cook veggies in sauce. Then will it be a sub or spaghetti? Decisions, decisions

Need to haul out trash and haul in shovels and old shower curtains. You can cover the steps with them. It helped with the snow last time

Seems like good advice

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

One of my regulars got a job! Next an apartment and out of the shelter! So happy for them.

Wanting Friday off, but have to go into work. Think we will be busy with people stocking up on books and dvds before the storm hits. That is going to be a hot mess

Opened the dark chocolate ginger biscuits my husband got from Scotland for me as a Christmas present. So good,not too sweet and really ginger fire to the biscuit. It will be hard not to devour them all.

Wish the meteorologists would decide on how much snow and when it starts. Trying to plan for my staff.

friends if you thought it was bad when the teenage boys got radicalized you should be TERRIFIED now that the perimenopause posse is waking up to the situation. there's WAY more executive function in this crew. they've managed entire households for DECADES.

You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...

Supposed to be my day off, but have to go in to do interviews. Hopefully everyone shows. We had several no shows last week, including the really promising one. Fingers crossed

Last summer, I surveyed library workers about the ways library work impacts their mental health, and they responded. “Pizza Parties Don’t Fix Burnout”: The State of Librarian Mental Health: bookriot.com/the-state-of...

Has anyone ever planted toadlilies? Are they hardy or finicky?

Listening to two male patrons talk about the women in their lives and wondering why things aren't working out. Listening to them talk, it is not a surprise to me. People are not things

Me with cat pictures

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Insomnia, so I get to listen to RadMac. Quality discussion of best biscuits (cookie) for dunking in tea. I like a ginger nut or a digestive.

Patron calls about tax appointments. Asks why the place close to her no longer does them. I said that people just got too rude with the volunteers and they don't want to do it any more. She says she was never rude and proceeds to argue with me about what paperwork she has to bring.

Today would be the weekend in a fair world. So to get moving I've cranked up Primal Scream, Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand and the Undertones. Now more coffee.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

Odd that I miss him so much, we never met or were likely to. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Did a patron just scratch their back on my wall like he was Balloo the bear.... yes.

Did IT cancel EZProxy and not contact any vendors about SIP as an alternate before hand? Why yes.

A mask apology. A patron, who was dismissive about my mask wearing, came up in a mask. They spent 2 weeks in the hospital with a pneumonia flu combo. "You had the right idea, lady, you had the right idea."

Wanted to see Rental Family but it didn't come near here. Now you can rent it for $18. I may never see it

Like the tag

It is hard for patrons with legal questions. I don't have the knowledge to help them. I often don't have the resources they need. They don't have the money to a lawyer, who has both

A reminder from Huffington Post that DHS and ICE have opened fire on unarmed civilians 16 times since Trump took office, killing 4 people. In every case, DHS claims that the victims "assaulted officers" and/or tried to ram them with cars. In every case, evidence proves they are lying. Every time.

I dropped my teabag and the kitten took off with it as if it was a catnip mouse. I expect to have a mess later

This is fabulous because it is all, actually this stupid.

Super short staffed at work today. I am spraying everything at any desk I am working at with lysol.

$170 at the grocery store. A lot of it cat food and litter. Might need to explore cheap litter, the this low dust and tracking. Did get beautiful radishes as a treat for me. Nom nom

I love these cats, but having to get up at six on my day off gets old

Anyone interested in ordering some Girl Scout Cookies form Kansas? My little gingersnap is selling... digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/agatha...

I was sad to see that Elle Simone Scott from ATK has passed away and so young. She was also a real advocate for young Black women entering the culinary field. If you entertain, I highly recommend her book Boards. She never let me down with a recipe. plus it looks so much better with her tips.

In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can. That will be bad for America—and everyone else: econ.st/4qcajRx

So arresting innocent people, depriving them of meds in jail, etc aren't enough. Now they will shoot you and kill you

Offered to help patron with an online application, but now they have been on the phone for 15 minutes instead. I may not be that interested in helping now.

Cleaned up two hairballs and a cat barf. Yay me

Do you think WW3 is coming?

Working today. Sundays aren't a full day, but they seem like a long day. And I have Sunday dinner to make when I get home. Ugh

How much farther can this administration sink? It is abominable and terrible

Do i have any friends who collect old paperback mysteries. I have The corpse came calling by Brett Halliday up for grabs. Cover and back below

I feel the need to throw things out today. Purge but without crime and violence

We are half way through the first LOTR.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over