It's a good thing the tea kettle wouldn't go on, because the sump pump is on the same circuit. Otherwise, we wouldn't have known the basement was flooded.

The thing with Kanopy is that you only get 10 tickets per month, and most movies call for 2 tickets. For my 1st noir movie I chose The Limey, which I'd wanted to see when it first came out, but it dropped off my radar. I loved this movie. I mean, Terrence Stamp. Creative use of past and present.

Early morning rejection slip. The editor said it was an interesting story, just not for them, so that was nice. Onward and upward!

I always feel a little sad that I can't boycott a business I never patronize in the first place.

I really ought to have a Finishing Week. I've got four sweaters and two tops that need seaming, and another that needs to be frogged. But I keep starting new projects....

Asking the assembled intelligence: is it legal to sell a house on the condition that a particular room and its contents remain exactly as they are?

An ideal to strive for.

I have messed up this cardigan in many new and inventive ways, but I'm not going to rip it back because at least my mistakes are symmetrical.

Seriously!

I've lost my Malt O Meal mojo! So many lumps. * Malt O Meal was the breakfast of our courtship when he came to visit me in Arkansas. * When my younger sister was in grad school, Malt O Meal was the only food she could afford. * I prefer Malt O Meal with a bit of butter and brown sugar.

Thanks to the tip from @naomind.bsky.social, we now have a burgeoning sweet-potato plant. When I was pretty young, my mother kept a similar plant on top of the piano and called it Gigantor.

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Hoopla has got Fiddler on the Roof, but not for long. I watched it last night, at least 50 years after the first time, and loved it. Topol, as well as being a great singer and actor, had plausible teeth.

Me: Oh my God, it's pink! I'm pregnant! (Negative test for COVID, but they say to do it again in 48 hours, so I will.)

My beloved is on a quest for COVID test kits, Malt O Meal, and Mexican Fanta Orange - the necessities of my life today.

Tally sheet for the Marsali cardigan. This is far from my usual utterly inscrutable notes, though it doesn't look that way.

Up at quarter after 4:00 am. I'm cold, and I'm sick. I really hope this is just a common cold. I have not had COVID and I want to keep it that way. Between the funeral, the crowded gatherings afterward, and my sick bro-in-law, I've no one to blame but myself for not masking.

New word definition proposal: to trump meaning to grift, to cheat, to commit fraud upon someone. Used in sentences: "I am not about to let you trump me out of inheriting my uncle's library." "What kinda trump are you pullin?"

"And though I know the rhythm you'd prefer me dancing to I'll turn my revolt into style" Bill Nelson, "Revolt Into Style."

Charts. We got em.

Puss continues to crash into things. Yesterday she was able to get up on the box we call Puss Peak. And then she fell off it....

Drop something WHITE. (And thin. And a member of the nobility.)

"Fellas, it's been good to know ya."

Our health insurance premium went up 20% last January. Today we learned that this January it's going up another 50%. I don't even know what to say.

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

I need this

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The poor blind bunny is back from being boarded. She's hopping around, bumping into things, chinning other things, trying to get her bearing.

It's one fine story for sure.

American Duchess ... Doing what they do best.

My strange powers are dancing, and hiding things. (Not really. But I enjoy quoting the mysterious chicken from that "Which Pie Is the Best" episode of Weebl and Bob.)

We all deserve a little Conrad Veidt today

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I inherited this from my father. Dad Suggests Arriving At Airport 14 Hours Early

It continues to be time to donate to support food banks.

Note to self: knitting with deep purple yarn is only a tiny bit easier than knitting with black yarn.

These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text

The original, almost completely spherical, bunny

Can you see its lil' bunny eye?

From frustration, I'm leaving the cabled bolero alone for a while. In the meantime, I've started swatching for Alison Green's Marsali cabled cardigan. I'm using Berroco Lanas Quick in deep purple.

Weird: "people who haven't gotten a full paycheck in 50 days don't want to spend money they don't have" It's a mystery.

The Minneapolis airport was calm, uncrowded. In the TSA line there were maybe 5 people ahead of us. We had fab organic food right next to our gate, and our flight was on time. I have no idea how we lucked out But believe me, I had Amtrak on speed dial just in case.

In other news, we *finally* took the light rail home from SeaTac. It takes about an hour, but is about as cheap as can be.

Back home. The ladies room in the Alaska Airlines terminal at SeaTac has two massive, lighted, floor-to-ceiling mirrors. I must admit it - I twirled.

Story rejected. Onward and upward!

I realized that my math wasn't mathing, so I started to unpick the seaming yarn. I'm now hung up on a six-inch section that refuses to be unpicked. Not sure what to do about that.

So many artists, writers, and designers I know have learned this lesson the tedious way, so let me co-sign this and say not only is it a huge waste of time and labor to listen to the "I'd buy that" crowd online, you will also lose money. Make what *you* want to make, everything else is noise

I ate a McDonald's filet-o-fish sandwich today. It was revolting. Also ridiculously expensive.

A single listen did something to my brain chemistry. It's like music heard in an abandoned mall - at the instant when your flashlight batteries die.

Stitching the collar to the body, which sounds rather gruesome.