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Well, apparently yesterday was a day to post a political-ad link and then wander off to do other stuff, never to update the journal again. I am sure you are all relieved, since the snow has still not all thawed off and I could therefore babble about that. I won't, though.
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pheon) stopped by yesterday around noon, the weather having let him get to the outside world again. He brought by Elizabeth Moon's Trading in Danger, which I will get to at some point (but right now I am mired in library books, as I shall note below). He also brought back the bunch of family photos and papers that my aunt sent me, that had been my grandfather's, and which he and mother borrowed to scan them in (which I am very grateful for: dad can get scanners to scan, I have a terrible time with them on balance and tend to use my digital camera, which is fine for copying some things but not this sort of thing). Also included was a CD with all the scans, complete with indexing in html files with css. Very slick. It is also nice because now they are all labelled on the CD and, in some cases, I did not have a clue who these people were (and what one place was). In many I did know, of course; they were sent to me because they are pictures of our branch of the family, for the most part. But some were puzzling.
Had a good time looking through those and will go back through in detail. Need to find some way to properly store the real photos as well; piled in a brown paper bag is how they came, but I don't believe that's remotely archival. ;) Perhaps I can get something when Scott and I go out - I'd been planning to stay in all weekend, but changed my mind, so we're going shopping.
Last night I was reading the second Green Knowe book. They are very like candy, sometimes a bit too light, but it is nice to at least know again what I read instead of only vaguely recalling them. I got stuck on the chapter about the real ship that inspired the toy one, and for some reason was not interested to read it, perhaps simply because I'd had enough literary nothing for the day.
The library has very thoughtfully gotten in four more books that I had a hold on. I only have one more active hold. I have seven library books in my posession, five of which remain to be read. I do think I will wait to pick up the held books, which will stay available a couple weeks.
Spent a fair bit of time yesterday playing with pieces of mux code and design for same; on the other hand, I also got the dishes done and the bills paid, found time to read, visit with my father, mess with the playlist on my desktop, and roleplay. That was fun, except, as sometimes happens, I stayed up too late - I am amazed that I'm awake and alert now. Perhaps it's an illusion and I'm really still in bed, but I doubt it.
It's a pretty day out, the sun bright but the clouds present and marbled in grey, blue-grey, white, and cream; the pasture is mostly clear in the center with hints of snow, then thicker along the edge. It still reminds me of frosted shredded wheat in many ways.... There are lots of patches of snow, even thick ones, still in the blackberries on the opposite slope where they are shaded most of the morning by the slope and most of the afternoon by the houses. It is clear in the patches that get full exposure during the brief segment around noon, but anything that is shaded then is still heavily blanketed in white.
And here you thought you'd escaped the snow commentary!
Dad (
pheon) stopped by yesterday around noon, the weather having let him get to the outside world again. He brought by Elizabeth Moon's Trading in Danger, which I will get to at some point (but right now I am mired in library books, as I shall note below). He also brought back the bunch of family photos and papers that my aunt sent me, that had been my grandfather's, and which he and mother borrowed to scan them in (which I am very grateful for: dad can get scanners to scan, I have a terrible time with them on balance and tend to use my digital camera, which is fine for copying some things but not this sort of thing). Also included was a CD with all the scans, complete with indexing in html files with css. Very slick. It is also nice because now they are all labelled on the CD and, in some cases, I did not have a clue who these people were (and what one place was). In many I did know, of course; they were sent to me because they are pictures of our branch of the family, for the most part. But some were puzzling.Had a good time looking through those and will go back through in detail. Need to find some way to properly store the real photos as well; piled in a brown paper bag is how they came, but I don't believe that's remotely archival. ;) Perhaps I can get something when Scott and I go out - I'd been planning to stay in all weekend, but changed my mind, so we're going shopping.
Last night I was reading the second Green Knowe book. They are very like candy, sometimes a bit too light, but it is nice to at least know again what I read instead of only vaguely recalling them. I got stuck on the chapter about the real ship that inspired the toy one, and for some reason was not interested to read it, perhaps simply because I'd had enough literary nothing for the day.
The library has very thoughtfully gotten in four more books that I had a hold on. I only have one more active hold. I have seven library books in my posession, five of which remain to be read. I do think I will wait to pick up the held books, which will stay available a couple weeks.
Spent a fair bit of time yesterday playing with pieces of mux code and design for same; on the other hand, I also got the dishes done and the bills paid, found time to read, visit with my father, mess with the playlist on my desktop, and roleplay. That was fun, except, as sometimes happens, I stayed up too late - I am amazed that I'm awake and alert now. Perhaps it's an illusion and I'm really still in bed, but I doubt it.
It's a pretty day out, the sun bright but the clouds present and marbled in grey, blue-grey, white, and cream; the pasture is mostly clear in the center with hints of snow, then thicker along the edge. It still reminds me of frosted shredded wheat in many ways.... There are lots of patches of snow, even thick ones, still in the blackberries on the opposite slope where they are shaded most of the morning by the slope and most of the afternoon by the houses. It is clear in the patches that get full exposure during the brief segment around noon, but anything that is shaded then is still heavily blanketed in white.
And here you thought you'd escaped the snow commentary!
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