Happy Sunday morning, all! It’s 9:47 and a humid and partly-cloudy 83°F (“feels like 88”), on its way to the same 92-degree-high we had yesterday. Happily, I do not plan to leave the house at all today…and, I get to work from home tomorrow.
After posting yesterday I moved to the kitchen table for lunch and Lego, and built the Hanging Golden Pothos set while old West Wing episodes played on my iPad Air. The set only had 372 pieces and didn’t take long at all, and I’m happy with how it turned out:
Here is it on display with my other Botanicals sets:
I started building the big X-Files set, but after a couple of bags my back started complaining. It was way too early to head to my BFFs’, and for whatever reason I didn’t feel like moving to the TV room, so I actually went to the living room and sat on my old couch for a while – for the first time since the move! – and read a couple issues of The New Yorker. I’m still three issues behind, but at least now I’m up to July (heh). I need to establish more regular reading habits, because I recently signed up for another subscription: a UK mag called Blocks, all about Lego (yes, there’s a much cheaper online/website version, but I’m actually worse about reading those than I am about reading print copies!). At least the new one is only monthly vs weekly.
Dinner with my BFFs and “nephew” was great. Nephew makes a mean roast beef, and while there was not Yorkshire pudding there was fresh corn on the cob (bought that morning at a farmer’s market) and roasted potatoes…and WifeBFF’s famous layered chili/cheese dip while we waited, and fresh homemade chocolate chip cookies for afterwards. WifeBFF sent me home with a container of the latter. 
We didn’t eat until around 7pm and I didn’t leave their place until around 9pm, and by the time I stopped at Safeway (which I’d intended to do on Friday, but knew I wouldn’t feel like dealing with today) and made it back home it was already after 10pm – so, I went right to bed after putting the groceries away.
When I finish this post I’ll fire up my work laptop and take care of a few things – approve timesheets, draft some emails for tomorrow morning, complete a promotion request form for one of my staff (I know I won’t have time for that during the week), etc. I’m hoping everything won’t take more than 1-2 hours, after which I’ll head down to the kitchen for lunch and Lego. Then I might do some more main-floor reading around dinnertime, before I move to the first floor for the evening (and do laundry, which I’ve already tossed down both flights of stairs…I love my drawstring laundry bag! 
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I get why you’d think so, but 295 is actually so far out of the way that even with the 1-hour delay 95/495 was still faster!
My driving/flying needs are not the same as your Camino needs, but I still figure I’ll share that I recently ordered a new 20L backpack for travel. 
The old Eddie Bauer backpack I’ve been using for ~25 years no longer holds drink bottles (or anything) securely on the sides, and it has a good capacity but is completely unstructured – making it kind of a PITA to both carry and organize when it isn’t full. My nephew has this LTT model and recommended it when he learned that I was in the market, and after seeing his I pulled the trigger.
Please do!
I, too, enjoy “challenge” packing.
I’m a huge Beatles fan: I’ve seen Paul McCartney a few times, and after the Ringo Starr concert I’ll be able to say that I’ve seen half of them.
(I was only 9 when John was murdered; I was 30 when George died, but I didn’t yet appreciate his music enough to have gone to a show.)
I’ve read a few Alex Cross books in the past, but not the whole series – and not recently. I do like the TV show (Cross) on Amazon that started in 2024, though.
Last night I finally started reading a new book…I hadn’t picked up my Kindle since the move, either! A few months ago I was in a Barnes & Noble and the title caught my eye: I’m Not The Only Murderer In My Retirement Home. I downloaded a sample that day, and finally got around to starting it. I only made it a chapter in before falling asleep, but initial impressions are promising.
That was my parents’ anniversary, and also an uncle and aunt’s: my mom got married on her brother’s 5th anniversary. I knew the story at one point, but no longer remember it…maybe I’ll ask my dad sometime.
I recently realized that I haven’t seen any of the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, and decided that needs to be rectified! At some point I’ll spend some quality time with Disney+.
For some reason I got a mental image of a doggy softly woofing while struggling to poop (as a form of complaining), which made me laugh!
That’s how old WifeBFF was when she and HusbandBFF adopted their son as a newborn (they were at the hospital the day he was born); HusbandBFF was 43. They both look and act younger than they are, so it hasn’t really been an issue, but it is kinda weird that they’re now both in their late 60s while nephew is only 25. When he was a kid and I’d be out with them, many people would assume I was the mom.
This is the best thing I’ve read in a long time. 
HAPPY DOPERVERSARY!!!
then mouth goes, “Ooohhhh!” usually accompanied by eyeballs going BIG