More! More!

I was working for a magazine doing paste-up, fitting widows and orphans in and correcting typos with teeny Xacto surgery, at the same time I was teaching myself Pagemaker. Weird and wonderful time.

bad art, ha. that is lovely and so is the alt text! the world needs more royal purple and butter yellow!

At one time in my life I could stretch and/or cat curl in all sorts of ways in a coach seat. Of course back then the seats were bigger and I was smaller.

Glad you saw this! I hadn't gotten around to tagging you on it!

An archive massacred to the last link,
A feed of brain-rot, give away the show:
This intelligent web's begun to stink,
They cannot fool us with how fast they go.
Transfer the cash that we might live like gods!
My friends and I get castles in the woods.

(Sorry, Auden.)

Nice to see the most relevant NYC art is still in the subway

In east coast cities, older buildings, both apartments and single family houses, are likely to have radiator heat. In Oregon and Washington all of the houses I've lived in have forced air heat. I prefer radiators because they are quieter, not as drying and dusty.

If i could actually pick the unfamiliar brands up and look at the labels, I might actually try them. But the last time I was in Target, everything was in jail.

Turned 60 this year. Any surprises in my 50s (2016-present) were overshadowed by current events or social factors (kid leaving the nest, parents growing older, that sort of thing)

The same number of doctor's appointments, but more dentist's appointments.

hence the visit from the table inspector

years ago, the Iraqi blogger Riverbend had a side blog that was just recipes and someone made that same comment about sumac.
(IIRC, she responded something like "if I included mushrooms in a recipe I'd trust my readers not to use the poison ones!"

Exciting! Signed up.