Some ninety year old homeless dude said, “That’s a pretty ass shirt!” So I guess there is some sense of style left in the world. #FashionIcon

Because no one is around today, I created a database tool to generate image prompts based on randomly selected criteria for colors, genders, moods, head positions, gazes, and objects. Click a button and voila! Random new fun creature. It’s kinda wild! I’m having a lot of fun playing with it. #BookmarkEmpire

Things Mr. K needs to let me do this summer that I’ve never done before. Visit Boldt Castle. Go to the Bouckville Antique Festival. Make it happen, Universe! #BusySummer #BookIt

Hospital Fantasy

The matte acrylic arrived today, and I thus now have a fully functional demo! It looks fantastic. I’d love to share it with you. If you need a bookmark, drop your addy in a message, and I’ll send you one. It’ll help me get the kinks out of my production process. Danki! #BookmarkEmpire

Doctor appointment fantasy

Outside with the flowers. Feeling great!

I don’t like the phrase “tens of dozens”. If I weren’t busy, I’d research when this appeared and whom I need to time travel kill to eradicate.

Have you ever been this cute? #BookmarkEmpire

Madonna – nor any of us really – could have imagined that her constant presence in media for thirty years would simmer down to an endless variety of short thirty second clips of her saying whacky shit on my phone around-the-clock. What other celebrity has so much A roll footage? I can think of none. I mean, it was once said that Princess Di was the most photographed person in the world. But she was more passing through and being snapped by the paparazzi. She wasn’t constantly being interviewed – a talking head – like Madonna. I often find myself thinking about where I was when and what I was doing when Madonna had those eyebrows, that hair color, lip line, and was chatting about Kabbalah or being interviewed at a vanity fair shoot. I’m not complaining. I enjoy the nostalgia.

In unrelated news, we need to talk about the constant barrage of text message reminders from doctors’ offices. What Ai decided that we need daily reminders about appointments a week away? I want to talk to the manager! With my gang of medical handlers and frequent appointments, it just becomes noise. Do I need to get a burner phone for medical only?

Boil and bubble toil and trouble

Oh for cute! #BookmarkEmpire

Aw? I love this one! #BookmarkEmpire

Have you ever been this busy?

I’m working an a fun new craft project for my etsy store. I’m feeling energized! Chatgpt suggested it. So it must be legit? For one side of the product, I want it to have a plastic coating to protect the art. On the front only, the back will be regular paper that the user can write upon. I was experimenting with self adhesive lamination sheets with limited success. These sheets are great for some things. It’s essentially a big clear plastic sticker. However, they are designed to “self seal” by attaching back-to-back with another sheet. They cling to one another around the edges where the glue meets. If you put just one onto something, the adhesion is lackluster and can easily peel up if you play with it. Not good! I searched for “permanent adhesive” sheets but those still talked about “self sealing” with another sheet in the description and reviews. Ugh! Not what I need! Then it hit me? What about good old-fashioned clear contact paper? Contact paper is forever and could hold a bowling ball to a wall! And cheap! Much cheaper than lamination sheets, and I can cut it to size easily. I think I’ll have a final demo by this weekend.

We finished season 1 of Pluribus. She got her atom bomb. #Spoilers Mr. K still hates it. “This isn’t scifi! Nothing is happening!” He prefers the Hallmark Channel. He’s sensitive.

We’re at Steamers on the river. We sat outside. It’s a bit chilly, but we’re in the sun.

Pluribus is some kind of weird psychological experiment. Like in the show, and for the viewer. The main character is so supremely broken, but you have to like her because she’s the only “human” left on planet earth – give or take. I think Mr. K hates the show. He dislikes scifi. But I’m digging the parables with the pandemic, political climate, and digital isolationism.

New t-shirt say what?

Kinda feeling this.

Monday fact!

I took a new step in my hoarding journey today. (No, not the “buying another printer” step.) I organized, declutterred, and purged three banker boxes full of light bulbs. I filled up an entire garbage bag and tossed into the dumpster. Why does one own three boxes full of light bulbs, you might ask? Welp? I’ve owned four houses with various fixtures, lamp posts, garage flood lights, motion sensors, recessed pot lights, plant lights, chandeliers, and god knows what else. I honestly couldn’t remember what some of the bulbs could possibly have been for. I kept everything that has a purpose in my current home. I’m feeling lighter! Pun intended. Plus, I cleared out some space that Mr. K can use to store some of his stuff.

Made some szechuan stir fry – in the air fryer! – with some leftovers kicking around the fridge. It’s delish! More pics below.

Fun! But it’s a bit too gusty, and the kite won’t stay up and steady for more than a few minutes.

At park. About to fly my kite. For real! And maybe read my book if I don’t get too cold.