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Ice

The good news is that living like I’m Little House on the Prairie and keeping my heat at 68 over the last few months has reduced my rolling average kilowatts used from around 1050 to 960. The bad news is that my bill still continues to climb like a monkey on crack.

Mango

It’s the smallest, teensy, tiniest sip of mango margarita ever! #SippySip

Nostra

This morning, I was thinking about that time I spent a high school summer with my TRS80 computer writing basic program code to generate random vocabulary stems for a conlang. I had different probabilities set for word length, consonant vs. vowel selection, monophthong vs. diphthong, etc. based on parts of speech and frequency of usage. I created a textbook / study guide of sorts for the language that I had bound into a book. This was 1,000 years ago before people had printers, copiers, or book binding equipment at home – as one does now. I did all this by bouncing around town to different places, getting all the pieces and parts stitched together. It was an adventure that lasted many months, and I felt so proud. This morning, I was pondering that one could probably ask an Ai to instantly do all of this with the wave of a hand. I wonder if there are any weird kids like me using Ai to do whacky fun things. I would have been like a kid in a candy store if I were growing up now. Who knows what magic I might have whipped up?

T

I am still so beyond thrilled learning about adding new libraries to my #LibbyApp. The number of available ebooks in my to-read list has jumped from 17 out of 89 to 80 out of 89! I counted because I wanted to see what all the hoo-hah was about. I almost fell out of my chair! Given that I read about a book a week, this is putting my library tax dollars to good use! I’m going to save a ton of money on book shopping.

Rest

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. Right after it stops raining.

Dollars

A strange meeting has appeared on my calendar with #BrownBakery #BigWigs which is suspiciously close to the end of the fiscal year on June 30. I’m not sure if I’m getting fired or if they are throwing more money at me. #WellSeeLinda

Groucho

I’m letting my mustache grow in a bit. To give Mr. K the thrill of a lifetime. I’m a giver.

Toss

Is Mr. K gonna be able to handle his 50th birthday secret adventure? We’re gonna have so much fun. I have to go to the office three days in a row this week. Which is making me grumpy. I can’t do anything but work and sleep. There is no other existence until Friday when we hit the road for our trip.

Lights

Rough draft project. I’ll paint the base black. I set it in my bathroom to get a good pic of what it looks like illuminated.

Lightbright

I bought a cheapie tacky-as-heck yard-art solar light thingy with which I’m going to make an art project for my windowsill. It’s fun and very pretty. The lights oscillate different colors. I tried to take a picture of it lit up, but it didn’t come out well. It’ll be more of a mood piece. I’m excited!

Lean

I’m having a lean cuisine for dinner. With a side of tater tots. As one does.

Inhabit

I got the office window insert installed today. Fresh air is possible! Just unlikely since it’s forty degrees out. I sadly smashed my Nativity Tree and Quebec Totem in the process. But I guess you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

Tin

Added a tin flap to deflect rain from coming through the window insert.

Books

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I recently discovered that you can legally add other libraries to your Libby app – in addition to your local library – to increase the number and availability of downloadable e-books in your to-read list. Whoah! This is valuable info. In related news, I also discovered that there is a native epub reader on iPhone that I’m assuming you can sideload books to. I don’t like reading books on my phone – I prefer a dedicated e-ink device. But Mr. K is not so devoted. So we may be able to share books by my pushing books onto his iPhone. I’m going to experiment.