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My birthday was lovely, the fella got me a Kobo and I've been enjoying having a thing to read fic on that doesn't do anything else. So I can curl up and read book and not get distracted by pings and alerts.

The birthday celebration day of massage, hair cut and comics went really well. I ended up spending the entire appointment talking comics and nerdery with my hair dresser, which was fun.

I also wandered by the farmers market got lunch and ought so many delicious nuts.

I was also struck by how it was the exact opposite of my 40th, where I rented the chalet with friends and had a whole weekend of social celebration.

This day I spent most of the day on my own, choosing my own things and then went out for dinner with the fella.

Both days were lovely and both days were what I needed at the time :D

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It's another year of Marvel Trumps Hate!

This had quickly become one of my favorite events from when I first found it in 2020. This year I answered the call to be on the org team, which was really quite fun.

I try and have one goal for the auction, just to create some kind of focus to narrow down the huge variety of offerings. This year it was bookbinding. I ended up missing the one I was aiming for because the author didn't respond in time for permission, but that was okay because my hunt for permission put me in touch with other people and instead of getting one volume of the series bound, we're going to end up with the whole series!

And then I also got the first creator in a second chance offer, and we had come in under budget enough to take advantage of it.

(I am also poking around learning book binding...)

We got a good collection of wins, I'm excited to see what comes out of it!

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susandennis

I ended up watching all of the Blue Jays/Dodgers game and it was a game. I was glad the Mariners weren't involved as it was hard enough as it was. The Blue Jays lost in the final out of the deciding game but, honestly, it was more the luck of the draw, really. Those two teams were about as equal as you can get in baseball. But, the end. No more baseball really truly until February. I am glad I am one sport only.

Biggie is the opposite of lethargic this morning. He wouldn't let me finish this entry so I went swimming. Now he still won't let me finish. He has a million toys and all he wants to play with is me!

We started a new puzzle in the elbow yesterday. It's one that has codes on the back. Letters A-F that correspond to sections of the puzzle. You can, of course, ignore them, but I started separating them according to letter and then took a break. Later, I went out and Bonny had picked up the task. Then she and I did section A together. It was fun and just the right amount of puzzling.

I've been through a number of time changes over the years and have never really suffered from it. But, yesterday about 4:30, I changed the clocks that needed it. Then I watched the end of the baseball so ended up going to sleep a little earlier than normal but also just slept til I woke up. I thought I'd slept well but...I just got my bed sleep score.

Fitbit only gave me 84 but Fitbit is way stingy on sleep scores.

Today will be TV and puzzling and entertaining Biggie, I guess. Geesh. At least, for sure, no sports.

Oh the sun just came out. Looks like I timed my swim perfectly.

susandennis

I just took this picture of Biggie and Julio.

I started to clean up the background junk and then just hit the AI thing on my phone and said 'change the background'.

They gave me four really nice options but this one just grabbed me.

Then I asked it to make Julio smile and it told me that it couldn't do that... yet.

I turned on the World Series to check the score before I went on to watch more Season 2 of Karen Pirie (Britbox). It was 0-0 in the 2nd. I screwed around with that photo and was getting ready to change the channel when the Blue Jays hit a 3 run homer in the 3rd. So maybe Karen can wait until tomorrow.

susandennis

It was good to get back to volleyball. We had a small group but one sans assholes so it was really lovely. Tomorrow, I can do morning laps again. Nice.

I think Biggie has a UTI but he's ok with it so far. The new litter is white so I can easily see he has a little blood in his urine. Not much. But, a little. For all I know, it's been there for a long time and it just didn't show up in the clay litter. Also he's using the litter box a fair amount. But he also loves to play in the new litter so that may be why. Nothing seems blocked and he's certainly not lethargic or appetite suppressed.

This is his royal highness right now.

Dinner last night with the group was lovely. I wouldn't want to do it often but it was a nice change. When I got home, I turned on the TV and remembered the World Series game so I watched the last couple of innings there. The last one, mercifully, is tonight.

I'm giving serious thought to going pumpkin hunting after elbow coffee this morning. I want some Brach's mellow creme pumpkins. Just one more bag. If I can find them, great. If not, I'll live. And I want some Safeway roast beef sandwich meat. Very little on the menus looks good for this coming week. Time to eat the freezer which is actually pretty full. I have meal money to burn but I think I'll burn it with an order of cookies and some other stuff from the little Bistro shop. I have until the 10th so still some time.

This morning, I put in a pod and set the coffee to make and then went to hang my wet suit up. About once every 6 months or so, I do this and totally forget to put the cup under the drip. Today was, apparently, that day. So I need to go clean that up before elbow coffee.

ursamajor

hyounpark pinged me from BART this morning with the sad news that Fugakyu is closing, after 27 years.

It feels like I've been going there forever, even though honestly the last time I went there was probably when we still lived in Boston. But I'm like 80% certain I've gone on dates there with all of my major boyfriends (if I dated you for at least a year, that's the defining line in my headcanon). A bazillion times with

hyounpark during our Boston era. Plenty of times with

noghri, both while we were dating and then when we became friends. I thought I'd brought

kallmir2000 there, but I double-checked and it was Ginza I was thinking of. Which, admittedly, I'd also eaten sushi at with even more of the people I've dated, hahaha, including both Punsterboy and Choirboy! 😁 (Even though Ginza's been gone for well over a decade now.) And

theconvictor and I had our Valentines' Day 2000 dinner at Fugakyu when we spent the weekend in Boston on a romantic getaway from campus, feeling ever so grownup, removing our shoes to sit at one of the traditional low tables in the fancy embedded booths.

Fugakyu was even where I introduced multiple friends to sushi (

fes42,

jennifer,

david_grana, Adam); where my girlfriends took me after devastating breakups and meh second dates, because sushi would be followed up by ice cream at JP Licks, and then a visit to a certain little shop down the way (also long gone, alas; I'm hoping this recent rise in romance-specific bookstores brings an appropriate replacement to the neighborhood) because that was definitely better than moping over guys!

And now it's closing, for "personal reasons."

Damn, am I gonna miss their pinetato (pineapple and sweet potato) maki. And the kinuta. And the hotate hokkayaki. And the giant boats of sushi that I would split with my friends. I know where to get sushi; honestly I may just pop down to our neighborhood sushi joint before the trick-or-treaters start arriving. But mostly, finding out that Fugakyu is closing next week is just making me miss everyone in Boston. Even knowing that many of the friends I mentioned don't live there anymore, like us.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: you know it's not the same as it was

susandennis

1. I am now all dressed and ready for the day plus dinner tonight. I went down to pick up some packages and stopped to check on the pool. Erica told me they just cleared it for opening!! Doh. Ok. Volleyball tomorrow. I'm not going to mess with it today. Now that's lazy. Oh they just sent out the official notice. Still not going.

2. My Mom taught me to love Pillsbury refrigerator cinnamon rolls. You know, the ones with the icing? But, one person - that giant roll? Then they came out with smaller ones. But heat up the oven? Plus even the smaller ones have 5 in them. too many and baked but held to the next day? meh.

Dash to the rescue. I have discovered that I can open a roll and take out one and cook it in my little Dash griddle - either the waffle or the flat. 5 mins or less if I hear it up first. I can put the rest back in the fridge and eat them one day at a time. DELISH. And my world is brighter.

3. Two years ago today I was moving in here. More precisely, two years ago just now, I was chasing Julio throughout an empty condo trying to put him in the carrier. It took a solid hour and I was exhausted. Then I got to move. I have not one single fond memory of that day. There are about 42 things I would do differently if I knew then what I know now. BUT, honestly, I have no regrets at all about being here.

susandennis

Way back in the dark ages, the federal government used to come steal people. Yep. sounds familiar now, too, but that's not my point. Everyone with a penis was required to serve in the military. After that horrible time was over, I dated a guy for a while, who, during that time, had been in the Coast Guard. Prior to that he had only lived in places far from water. So I asked, Why the Fuck Coast Guard. "Well, I didn't want to get drafted and have no choice so I looked at the options... Coast Guard kinda sounded to me like Life Guard and I thought that had to be more fun than the rest. Turns out not." Yeah, he was good sex and, frankly, that was about it.

But, I think of him now repeatedly as I deal with this litter. Tofu always makes me think of Toejam and then giggle.

The new litter is different. Biggie loves to dig in it. The Tofu pellets against the rubber make a big noise. I think he's trying to connect with cats in China. There is some tracking but, if I didn't have hard wood, I'd never know it. The pellets are like ice cream sprinkles but without the color. In two days, I have found maybe 6 out here in the hallway. I put down a large round carpet in the entry so that I would not crush the clay litter that invariably ended up there into the wood floor. I think I can safely remove that carpet now. I think I'll do that today.

Clay litter makes giant balls of rock out of cat pee and smaller bundles out of cat poop. The tofu litter does the same but MUCH smaller. I'm really interested now in how it's going to work long term. But, so far, it's excellent. I did order a new scoop in hopes of making it easier to sift through the ice cream sprinkles. It should be here today.

My shades run on rechargeable batteries. They are USB macro plugs - the ones that are a major bitch to get plugged into. And they are just out of my reach. I have to get on a step stool and even then it's not quite high enough. I am going to fall off and kill myself or worse. So. Yesterday, I got magnetic plugs and cords. I put a magnetic USB plug into each shade. I can, now, without even the stool, reach up and easily hit the end of it with the magnet at the end of the charging cable and boom! charging! I'm quite pleased with myself for coming up with this solution. The shades only need charged every six months or so but now I'm on it.

Half of me has enjoyed this week off from the pool but half of me is really missing it. I walked over there the other day and could see they were working on it. I might walk over there this morning just to check and see if they know for sure if it will be available tomorrow morning for volleyball.

Bonny has organized dinner tonight. Dick and Jan and me and Bonny and 2 other people - probably Gail and Jim. Should be fun. I like eating in the dining room once in a while. But these are the same people I'll have to sit with tomorrow morning at elbow coffee. Kinda wish she'd picked another night. BUT, no big deal really.

Every once in a while, someone complains about the 1,000 piece puzzles. "Why always so many pieces?" Usually, these are people who do not normally participate. This leads me to think that if we did do a 500 piece puzzle, they would. Wrong. Plus 500 piece puzzles are a PIA. It takes twice as long to turn all the pieces right side up and do the edges as it does to do the damn puzzle. I started a 500 piece on on Sunday. Dick and Jan finished it on Wednesday night. I went out Thursday and saw it had been done except for 3 pieces that they had left for me so I could 'finish' it. Cracked me up. I went down to the puzzle closet yesterday and traded the other 500 piecers on our shelf for some good 1000 piecers.

After living with my TV subscription spreadsheet now for a while, I think I'm going to try a new scheme. I think I'm going to delete everything as it expires and then just pay for a month of whatever is showing what I want to see. I might start doing this via Prime since that's is the easiest to manage. I'm still working on the plan.

I spent some time yesterday cleaning out drawers and tossing ShitIDon'tNeed. Today, I think I'll wash the sheets and mattress covers. And I think I'll go get that started now.

lovelyangel

Kumoricon 2025 Registration Hall
Oregon Convention Center
Thursday, October 30, 2025
iPhone 13 mini photo

I have Kumoricon badge pickup down to a routine, with a preferred driving route from Barnes/Burnside to Everett/Steel Bridge to street parking underneath I-405. I left home at 2:30 pm so that I could listen to Marketplace on NPR during the drive – and fed Parking Kitty at 3:10 pm. I did a WAG and requested 45 minutes of parking time.

This morning we received an email from Kumoricon saying the Ginkoberry entrance was closed this year and that we could use the Holladay street entrance instead – which is what I did. I headed straight to Exhibit Hall E. Unlike last year, there was a long line which fed shorter lines in front of each of the badge stations. The wait in line this year was longer.

At the station, I presented the volunteer with a printout of my QR code and my photo ID. The volunteer was delighted. “You’re a Pro!” Apparently it’s much easier for their scanners to read paper than smartphones. And a lot of people don’t have their photo ID ready. I said I didn’t know if I was a pro or not, but she reassured me I was. She directed me to the program guide, lanyards, and clips, and I took one of each while she prepared my badge. She asked if I wanted a Day 0 ribbon, and I declined. “You’re the first to decline one!” Honestly, I don’t see why advertising that I attended Day 0 was cool in any way.

After leaving the station, I stopped to assemble my badge/lanyard, and then I walked back to my car. There were five minutes remaining on my Parking Kitty, so the round-trip Shizu-to-Shizu was 40 minutes. Unfortunately, it was now rush-hour, and I used one of my Lloyd-to-Home rush hour patterns so that I didn’t get too bogged down in traffic. Still, I didn’t get home until 4:35 pm.

Anyway, I’m now equipped for the convention tomorrow. I’ve already used Guidebook to plan a schedule. I’m not particularly optimistic for photography, as candid photography is nearly prohibited nowadays. 😞 I’ll set expectations low and hope to get one or two keepers over the three-day event. I’d actually like to skip Sunday if I could.

One bright spot is guest seiyuu Kikuko Inoue! Belldandy! (And a zillion other well-known characters.) I don’t know if I’ll stand in line for an autograph, though. 🤔

Kumoricon 2025 Pocket Guide and Badge

lovelyangel

Bookwall

Yesterday (Wednesday), the remaining bookshelves were delivered, and in the evening I shelved the books that I had staged. I wasn’t exactly sure how many shelves would be available, so I left some extra room. Books keep coming, though, and there’s no such thing as too much empty space.

At any rate, I’m happy this wall is finally done. Work on the library continues, with new furniture arriving next Tuesday. My own office furniture won’t return until several days after that.

Current Mood: pleased

lovelyangel

Culled From the Library

Due to my not rigorously checking the design of the bookwall, I figure I lost about 10 linear feet of shelf space. That’s unfortunate, as I could have saved many of the above books that had to get cut so that I’d have enough space. Ah, well. Everything has to go at some point in time. These boxes of books will get taken to The Book Corner, run by the Friends of the Beaverton City Library.

I’ve also filled my recycle bin with more odd items. I wasn’t going to devote time to see if any could find a home. The recycle bin gets picked up tomorrow morning.

( Recycle Bin Fodder, Below This Cut )

susandennis

The research said to empty out the litter box and then lay in a healthy layer of tofu pellets and then cover with a layer of the old, used litter. Yeah, no. The new litter was too pretty and once I dumped it into the box, I knew my days of clay litter were over for ever.

They are pellets and not little rocks. And they are a white color so the whole box looks very different I did take some time to clean up all the clay crumbs and dust from the room. Soooooo nice to have that all gone.

Biggie anointed the new stuff immediately. Julio studied it hard several times and finally, by afternoon, decided it was ok. It's heavier than clay litter to scoop but so much less messy!! And... zero dust. It's so much cleaner. In the room where the box is, there are a couple of pellets on the floor but that's because I don't have the scoop/trash positioned perfectly yet and I spilled some when I was scooping.

There may be issues I haven't seen yet but so far, it's a win.

And speaking of win, the Blue Jays beat the Dodgers last night. Shocking and really nice. They only need one more win to take the Series which is really shocking. I am sure the Mariners could not have done this.

Nothing on the calendar today particularly. I need to go down to the front desk and pick up our floor's Timber Ridge Times and distribute. But, that can happen any time. I do need a shower and that can happen now.

gentlyepigrams

Books
The Sisterhood of Ravensbruck: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp, by Lynne Olson. Excellent WWII history that winds surprisingly into the present day. Horrible and yet joyful, and very much worth reading.
Hemlock and Silver, by T. Kingfisher. The author takes on Snow White from a very different point of view. I want to steal the mirror magic from this.
The Society of Unknowable Objects, by Gareth Brown. I really enjoyed his first book. This one not quite as much, though it's in a similar vein, because the protagonist takes a while to warm up to. I'm really looking forward to the next one.
Murder Is Bad Manners and Poison Is Not Polite by Robin Stevens. 1930s YA boarding school mysteries. In the first one two third-formers accidentally discover a body and then a series of murders. In the second one, it's a locked-house mystery in one of the girls' homes. The narrator is Asian and the topic is handled nicely. Easy to read and cute and much better as a boarding school story than That Magic School stuff.
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, by K J Charles. Queer occult Holmes pastiche. The sex was fine but the characters and worldbuilding were great.

Music
The Last Dinner Party, Prelude to Ecstasy and From the Pyre. I've really enjoyed every song of theirs I've heard until now (all radio, so I hadn't heard the explicit version of Nothing Matters) and finally hearing the full albums has not changed that. It's got some of the bigness of Florence Welch but also the harmonies. And the sharp-edged lyrics.
Kelly Moran, Don't Trust Mirrors. Frostily gorgeous electronics.

Current Music: Silence is golden.

susandennis

I went in to make up the bed and get dressed and found this.

I'm surprised that I saw him before I flung the comforter in place.

( Read more... )

These guys invented cat hijinks.

susandennis

This week's big project is moving the cats from clay litter to tofu litter. I've never approved of tofu as a food but as a little, it has promise. The promise of staying in the litter box. I've been fighting clay litter ever since I moved in here with hard wood floors. It sticks to their paws and ends up all over the place and especially grinding under my shoes on those wooden floors. So. I did my research. I asked gemini and I asked chat gpt and they both said - wood or tofu with tofu being better for what I want. The goods will get here from Chewy today.

We had a giant bolt of lightning and then loud clap of thunder last night. Only one set. It was very weird. Thunder and lightening is exceedingly rare around here any time of year but especially now. I kept waiting for more but never got any more.

I canceled Netflix and Hulu this morning. I'm caught up with Netflix. ABC and Fox both stream on Hulu but, at least now, there is nothing on either that is worth $20 a month (and, yes, I can get it cheaper but I do not want ads). I can get Netflix back any time. Hulu, of course, will be disappearing but they will just transfer all their shit to Disney and raise the price.

I need some background watching, stuff that I don't have to watch intently. Like Law and Order or vet shows. I'm working on my YouTube algorithm but also, I've got House Hunters on HBO. And, I have, recently, just turned off the TV and listened to my book while I knit. Habits change.

I ordered a track suit from Costco. They have started (a year or so ago) carrying some plus size clothing. Nice stuff. Online, of course, not in the stores. Anyway, I cannot remember how I happened on this, but I had been in the market for a track suit. Something comfy, that fit, that looks good enough for me to wear downstairs sometimes or to and from the pool. $16? OK. I assumed the fabric would be shit and/or it wouldn't fit. I'd just take it to the store and return it. It arrived yesterday.

So for a fat girl, off the rack clothes that fit are unicorns. This is a real unicorn.

It fits perfectly. The legs are the perfect length, the elastic stays on my waist without even tying. The pockets are deep enough for my cellphone. The sleeves are the perfect length and wide enough to easily fit my flappy upper arms. The fabric is great. It feels like a hug and looks really nice. I got green which is really more brown. 16 fucking dollars. So of course, I ordered another one. Black this time which I do not need but fuck. unicorn for $16. Who cares if I don't need it.

Biggie's getting bored and thinks sitting on my laptop might fix it so I think it's time to go get dressed.

calzephyr

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...if you're hungry, call The Lydo. FREE DELIVERY!

Eventually, the Internet coughs up everything--and apparently, seven months ago someone found and uploaded a ubiquitous hometown ad to YouTube. The local earworm was heard on TV and radio throughout the 80s. I shrieked with delight last night to hear the jingle; it had been decades. Although I sang it to myself at times, it was just not the same.

The Lydo was a legendary Chinese restaurant, located at 9203-111 Street NW, which opened in 1966 and closed down in 2003. The food was not great, yet somehow it managed to stay in business until family problems forced the closure in 2003. Today, the building is a sleek catering business.

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jesse_the_k

Robert Bringhurst's remarkable reference work, The Elements of Typographic Style, provides a full semester of type history in less than 400 pages. It's not just the book's elegant design nor well-chosen exemplars that so thrilled me I read both the 2nd and 3rd edition, dropping more than 50 stickies along the way. The current edition, version 4.3, is out of print and still focuses exclusively on printed material.

Bringhurst is a poet and translator. That last vocation has brought him into regular contact with non-Latin alphabets, and the Elements of Typographic Style provides the best advice I've ever seen in English regarding how to set type with accents, diacritics, and other "analphabetic characters."

( context: why I care )

( Archived links )

I drafted this review a decade ago, and I still believe it, so it’s a proof of life post.

susandennis

Most of our mornings, recently, have been foggy but this morning, so far, it's very clear and there is definitely snow on the mountain tops. Let's see if this crazy zoom can get it. Yep! Just shot this from right here sitting at my table. Amazing. Amazing that this is my view and amazing that this silly telephone can take such a picture.

My chauffeur service got canceled. Hazel came by late yesterday to say that they did not get the appointment after all. She was with John so I told them both that they do not need me. They only need to go to the front desk and asked for a ride and they can do that at the last minute if they need to. I'm not sure they believed me but next time they come ask, that's what I will tell them ... again.

The front desk manager actually called me yesterday - after I sent an email asking - and explained that what they offer is concierge Uber an Lyft service. You go down to the front desk and request a ride. They make all of the arrangements and the car picks you up and takes you wherever you want to go. THEN when you are ready to come home, you call the front desk (or, like in Hazel's case, have the doctor's office do it) here and tell them you are ready and your ride comes to where ever you are and picks you up and brings you home. No cellphone needed. No app needed. Not even a credit card. The payment goes onto your Timber Ridge account. I think that is slick as shit, honestly.

Not to mention it takes me flat off the fucking hook. Whew. It's not just the one drive, it's the future of being the person she depends on and then involved with her medical care and grocery store trips. I fell into a rabbit hole with Myrna which resulted in my making decisions that were not mine to make (and making some of them very wrong) and my being beat up by her family for being so involved. It was a hard, but a good lesson. I just need to remember it. The line between being nice and kind or getting sucked in is not that fine. I just need to pay attention.

So today's ONLY to-do is to go out to the elbow this afternoon for an hour and work the jigsaw puzzle while Tatitania cleans my house. Tough duty. But, hey, I can do it.

Oh shit, I just saw where the baseball game last night went 18 innings. THANKTHELORD I can just ignore it.

I was thinking about making a trip to Goodwill this week since I'm so pool-free but then I remembered that this is the one week, for sure, when a casual trip to Goodwill is not even possible. Halloween. Oh well, just as well. I do not need more stuff.

I have had a nice spell of not too much spending and zero Amazon returns! The rain jacket I ordered from Columbia arrived and it works fine. I'd love for the arms to have a bit more room but I can deal. And, of course, we are celebrating by having one of the first non rainy days in a while!

lovelyangel

Tsundoku Stack, October 18, 2025

A sizeable tsundoku stack remained as of the End of June – and that stack remained unchanged through September. As the bookwall needed to be fully populated with my books, I moved (almost) all tsundoku books with the book boxes for the reshelving process. Every few years such a tsundoku reset takes place, and the entire stack gets shelved.

After that, I acquired two significant books: Queen Demon by Martha Wells and Only Rogue Actions by Jennifer Estep. Earlier, I had bought an autographed book by favorite photographer David duChemin. Then the Frieren book arrived. And while I was going through manga, I found some that Katie had given to me for possibilities of series I might want to follow. I had bounced off those manga, but I thought with the passing of time, I should revisit them.

So already, a new tsundoku stack was forming.

At the same time, the bookshelves were filling up, and I needed to make sure there was room for these significant new books – so the major books got sent to the bookwall. Tsundoku reset #2.

I decided to reread all the v1 manga Katie had given me – and one more book arrived. I need to whittle down this new tsundoku stack as soon as I can. Tsundoku grows like weeds.

Tsundoku Stack, October 27, 2025

lovelyangel

Apple Inside Macintosh & Motorola 68000 Documentation

60 boxes of books is a lot to sift through. It’s a slow and time-consuming process. Figuring out what I am willing to discard is tough. I have a trash pile, a recycle pile, and 10 boxes holding giveaway books. And I’m still not done.

It’s my bad for squirreling away so much stuff.

( Photos of Odd Stuff Below This Cut )

I’ve worked hard to not start re-reading any of the cool books I’ve shelved. But last night I caved and re-read 2005’s Birds of Prey, Volume 2: Sensei & Student by writer Gail Simone and artist Ed Benes – my favorite pairing of all the Birds of Prey comic collaborators. It’s been so long since I read the collection that I had no idea what was going to happen in the story. That meant I could enjoy and love the book even more.

When I was finished, I saw that the cover had been autographed by Gail Simone. I had no idea I had such a thing. (They say that memory is the first thing to go.) It’s a good thing I have this blog, as I was able to find that I got Ms. Simone’s autographs at Stumptown Comics Fest 2009. I vaguely remember. 😳 And this is why I need this blog.

susandennis

I have a rug in front of the litter box that is very nubby in hopes that they will lose some of the paw sticking litter before they hit the kitchen floor. The rug is about 4x4 feet and it had gotten gnarly. So I tossed it into the washer/dryer and gave it clean. The washer/dryer performed flawlessly. And the rug looks amazing. Whew on two counts.

I need to change to tofu litter or some of that ground wood stuff. But, meanwhile. Good news all around.

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