Bacon cheeseburger wonton tacos? So much for staying in your lane. Just take up the whole highway.

A three-hour nap with the gray kitten? No regrets. At all.

July has become get sh*t out of my house month. All eBay auctions are listed; only 12 more to sell yet. I sent off my first camera sellback lot. I need to get together a donation run and break down my box collection. I may have kept too many ahead of selling things this summer. Oops.

eBay: 20 sold, 10 still on offer, 9 with watchers, 3 more to list. I'm further along than I had thought. After this goal, next is camera sorting.

My upright freezer keeps beeping a "high temperature" alarm. The gauge I stuck inside has gone from 18 to 22 degrees. I pulled a couple things out and they were thawed. I fear I may have to ditch everything in there and start over.

The scans from the film developing are back already! Will have to take a peek later today when work is done.

The photo developer has received my film! We'll see in a couple days if anything turned out.

Can fish be cooked easily in a pressure cooker / Instapot? I broke mine before the Mediterranean eating switch and now am wondering if it is worth replacing.

I just decluttered a storage bin full of ... boxes! 🤦‍♀️

Hopefully, I will remember how much WORK all this selling and decluttering is in the future in order to prevent it from happening again. Three eBay listings have gone out this week -- shipping is expensive! I have 20 more eBay listings to go, and I just started my first quote with the camera gear.

@chrisspagani.com I couldn't DM you, so question for you: Do you have any use for Lumix batteries? If so, what sizes(?) I might have some extras for you if you can use them.

From a website on how to freeze cashew cream: Step 1: Pour Your Cashew Cream Into Your Container Step 2: Put It In The Freezer This is from an entire post on how to freeze cashew cream. Note that they forgot to tell you to put on the lid!

My three rolls of 120 film are on their way to a developer. If all goes well, I should see some scans within a week or so. They ended up going to California. My local camera store never responded to my inquiries.

Pain is not my friend today, but gray kitten is on the job.

I may or may not have bought a Leica today...

@thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social Have you heard anything about possible grocery shortages this fall and winter?

Even more visitors around these parts yesterday...

My baby 🩷

And the new color is... pink!

I have decluttered enough things that I can take down an entire bookshelf. That is a little crazy.

A new generation of charmeras has come out. My last one was gray. What color will this one be?

Do any of you listen to audiobooks? Any strategies? They are expensive, even with a free trial.

Solution for storing extra batteries, wall chargers, and cables? Tackle boxes.

That memory shortage is no joke. I looked for portable drives to store the photos and looked for a desktop archive. Desktop ones were $800! 4-8TB were $400-$800 for solid state drives, IF they were even in stock. I ended up with two HDDs. They will be slow, but they will do the job.

Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon. Cameras are not Pokémon.

Teachers are the worst people to create training for. The training has to be perfect. I am in an online training program for teaching online, and I have more notes on the errors and issues with the course than I do anything useful or my own homework for it.

As part of picking up and getting some things organized, I managed to sort, box, and label all the camera gear and accessories. That made it really easy to see what I have been using and what kits I want to build up and what probably should be let go. My brands seem to be Fuji, Ricoh, and Canon.

I have been released from eBay holdings jail. I am down to three listings from my initial 15, so I need to dive back in there and get the rest listed. Unfortunately, it's maybe 20+ items yet, but at least it's 20 and not 50.

Two from today. (Well, yesterday.)

From an Amazon review for a Vitamix: "It will dance so you need to keep your eye on it."

There is almost no room in the kitchen for food or kitchenware. But I have been watching a $65 stir fry pan for more than a year anyway. Today, its price was $19 -- 71 percent off. I didn't care -- I bought it. Too good to pass up! I'll hang it in my office if I have to!

After several months of building up ramen and Japanese dish ingredients, he now wants to switch to Mediterranean meals. The person has already blown through my grocery budget for the month, with another $50 for the next round of requests. Next dish I get to learn is fish tacos. Whee.

Tonight's dinner request: Salmon. I am allergic to fish and really have no idea what I am doing. It's in the air fryer with olive oil, lemon, and pepper. There are four more filets in case these two don't work out.

eBay is so random. After selling on and off for nearly 20 years, and for delivering every single sale except the one the post office lost and I personally refunded, all of my funds from sales are now on hold for up to a month. Never mind that everything is shipped early, with tracking. *sigh*

Someone has a busy schedule this evening. Now we are cleaning.

Someone decided she has had enogh TV and is taking a nap

Someone is watching TV with me.

84 shots in a two-block radius in about half an hour?

Now we play the eBay game of watch the watchers. Six of the seven remaining auctions / offers have watchers. I once let an item sit for a year with 20 watchers but not going to do that again. Just need to figure out my floor for each item and try the offers thing. The goal is gone, not huge profit

@goodport.bsky.social and others: Can you recommend a good kitchen knife brand? Pampered Chef is colorful but relatively useless for cutting melons and such. Cutting my own fruit would save a lot of $$ after the initial investment.

The day began with a loud CRASH as someone* knocked a vase off the dresser. *House tiger, oddly enough. Usually, it's the house panther knocking everything over.

We had a purr! It's been more than five months -- since the hospital visiting room -- but the gray kitten has finally purred again.

After a long day, I took pictures of 12 items and listed all 12 of them. Two of them have already sold!

Goal: 10 eBay listings today. Stretch goal: 15 eBay listings today. The stretch goal would knock out 1/3 of my list. And getting this done would get me over the hump in terms of major projects on my list. Two major ones after that and then smaller, afternoon-based ones to follow.

Lots of visitors round these parts today...

I had some very cute company napping with me this evening

And why is it camcorders have gone out of style? All the major brands have stopped making consumer ones.

I went to the pantry shelves, pulled out a crate, and grabbed what I wanted for dinner. This just seems wrong after all the chaos of before.

This is adorable, particularly the "get photos" and arrow on the bottom.