Turns out I probably won’t need cataract surgery for a few years. Yippee!

This. I’ve seen random men disparaging women on social media who are experts in their fields. Often the men don’t even bother to check the bio, and make fools of themselves.

A shocking number of plants I bought two years ago and never got round to planting have survived. It makes me wonder who or what is protecting me. But I was too embarrassed to ask for help planting them.

This is a good thing to do for kids, but it would be best if parents got the forms and instructions when the Social Security number was issued. oag.ca.gov/idtheft/fact....

It’s too bad we didn’t learn the lesson of Vietnam, really learn it.

The Biden Administration did this too. thehill.com/latino/47413...

For no reason having a missing John day.

I always knew that John was more likable than I am. It was never a question.

My new brush isn’t as good as the old one, but it doesn’t have to make it 30 years.

Eventually every hire will be a DEI hire. “At least they’re competent.”

I’m a calico. I don’t have to do that.

Graham is missing. I thought he was on the bed, but he’s outside.

Steve Barton has done rent control work for decades.

Super jealous of Connecticut's RUBS law. Text from @nclc4consumers.bsky.social .

It’s ridiculous that I feel sad getting rid of the hairbrush I’ve had for 30 years. John will never know the new hairbrush.

This isn’t the way to the park.

John always remembered to wish me a Happy International Women’s Day.

Set the clocks forward. Going to sleep now.

Years ago, we were in Canada, sitting in a local park before a concert. A kid walked over to my husband and asked for help with his skate. My husband fixed and the kid thanked and went back to his friends. Here we just do “stranger danger.”

Is anyone else unnerved by the failure of anyone in the Administration to think, what’s going to happen to oil prices if we prosecute this war?

This is a bad decision, but governments generally have the right to inspect rental housing, and landlords are running businesses, ferhevensake! gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

Your reading. researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

Well, this is a softball interview.

He’s the Pretender to the Iranian Throne, and a failson.

I woke up at about 3 and watched a bit of the eclipse. The moon was definitely reddish.

Firefighters really don’t like single-stair. I’m agnostic on this, but would be concerned that developers wouldn’t do a good job of mitigation (sprinklers, smoke containment etc.), which would be a fire hazard.

Just got the scam call from a telemarketer who wants to know if I remember asking them to call me back. No, because I never ask telemarketers to call me back. This is a common one now, directed at older people.

I am not nearly as funny without John.

There are reports of US/Israeli strikes on or near the homes of former Iranian pres, Ahmadinejad, former reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and various leftist activists. If the US/Israel really wanted the “people” to take back the country, they wouldn’t assassinate these folks

If John were here, I’d be venting at him. Instead I think I’ll just go to sleep.

Damn, we need DEI. These white guys are screwing up everything.

I’d do it in a heartbeat. Zoom, email, personal delivery. I’m up for it.

And of course, I run across something John would love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQQ...

Door is open today and cats are happy. Going out, coming back in, going out… Happy #Caturday.

It’s bad Lupin, but we have one another, and Mom, Dad, and Sora. Let’s just all read a book.

I’ll have more on this later. www.dailyjournal.com/article/3900...

End Starker exchanges! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

The Roberti legislation ended the requirement that surplus housing be sold to the highest bidder, allowing sale to tenants, nonprofits etc. pasadenanow.com/main/city-re...

Rent control, with vacancy control, would fix much of this. voiceofoc.org/2026/02/sant...

From New York. cnycentral.com/news/local/s...

What a good idea! caanet.org/bay-area-tra...

It’s easy to respect people’s preferred pronouns, and I spend almost no time thinking about it.

One of the goals of the owners of AI is to make humans dumber. That way, the mediocre excuse for AI that they develop won’t seem quite so stupid.

The problem is that federal projects often override any local rules. Health/safety considerations probably would have more sway. But use every tool in the toolbox. And the organizing stuff too.

I don’t leave Twitter because John was never here. It would be like abandoning him. I got his archive, and may eventually delete his account, but not yet.

Right to Counsel is spreading. whyy.org/articles/del...

Have to find someone to do a plant run for me.