Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Monday Stuff On the Way to Other Stuff: Is It Spring? Nope -- Yup -- Nope...

     Two trips to Denver in less than a week. The Brick attended the COS (Convention of States) rally on Wednesday. Then we both felt it important to attend the funeral of an old friend on Sunday. I'm glad we did, but we got home exhausted. 

     In between, we spent the night with Daughter #1 and Adopted Son #1, and had lunch with dear friends. Oh, and I had a chance to make a quick visit to my favorite thrift shop. 

      A doctor's appt today, groceries...and starting to make headway on work again. Denver is in full spring, but our area is still in "well, maybe, sort of, kinda" mode.


Meanwhile:

Booklovers form a human chain to get 9000 books to their new location.  

So what's your birth month bird?

So...now that locals are allowed to use this PUBLIC lake in Oregon, some incredibly restrictive rules apply.  This is going back to court again...I can feel it.

A fascinating look at Comic Sans, a font we see often in comics and children's books.

Irish tombs weren't reserved just for royalty, after all -- a discovery made, thanks to DNA research.

The million-dollar dip... from Pioneer Woman. Yum. Her taco soup is pretty darn wonderful, too.

A millionaire announces he's going to start from the bottom, and begin again. And in a year he'll be a millionaire again. Mike Black quits, though, six months into the plan. (Although he was making progress.)

Dealing with fruit flies and fungus gnats. This is an ongoing problem for us all winter.  (From One Hundred Dollars A Month)

Ten ways to console yourself if you just lost money in the stock market. (From the White Coat Investor)


Have a good week.



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