Our TV has been advertising daily trivia in their main menu, but it only intermittently gives us access. Very weird. It’s 10 questions, and they aren’t hard, but the most I had correctly answered was 9, either by myself or with Matt.
But tonight we finally got 10 out of 10 questions! I was a little disappointed to see that the congratulations screen is just the same as for 9 out of 10 correct.
They could have thrown in some fireworks or something.
This is much larger than real life, it’s the artist trading card size. I did it during a long meeting at work. Also, I have glasses now, and still this is out of focus! Grrr.
I asked Matt if he wanted to do a fun advent project, the Advent of Tess, where we fold Origami Tessellations every day. Matt said yes, I’ve been going through the Foundations course. It’s kind of a lot, complicated by the fact that I’ve been using brown kraft paper, which I first must cut to size.
But here I have completed one of the first foundations projects, an example of pleat reordering. I had to have Matt help me, but I got it done. This is a 32×32 grid, which is a lot to fold before you even get to the pleat reordering.
I messed up in the middle; the horizontal middle band is supposed to be 2 grids, not three, but other than that, I did it. Onto the next thing.
Me walking back from the library:
Oh, they’ve still got their Harris/Walz sign up. I wonder when they will take it down?
Oh, it’s the one that says, “We’re not going back.”
Me after reading the sign: A bark of rueful laughter.
I’m a sucker for a harmonica and some wistful lyrics.
Another postcard from the historic Albany, Oregon, site! But posted from Arcata, California.
Sara reports that Shawn is volunteering at the elections office from Saturday through Tuesday and that she is enjoying a quiet house.
My Google timeline dutifully reported my visit to Boise and surrounding towns.
But what’s this? Parma is some patchy grass near a fence? You can do better, Parma. At the very least you could have a picture of Parma Furniture.
AAAAAArrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!
I did my part, but I’m feeling worried…
*Book Group Selection | Bolded Means Favorite
*Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
How did the Muslim ban affect individual U.S. Citizens? This book answers the question in an interesting and enlightening way. Alas, though, the poetry depended often on words
f
a
l
l
i
n
g
down the page, and the use of dramatic spacing.
Both of which felt cliched to this reader. None of the poems stood out, and I was left wondering why this novel in verse didn’t abandon the verse and write the interesting story it was telling in prose.
Dead Things Are Closer than They Appear by Robin Wasley
*Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay
*Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo
*Twenty-Four Seconds from Now… by Jason Reynolds
*How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith
*The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté
Pick the Lock by A.S. King
One of my peccadillos is that I cringe when story-created song lyrics are present. And this is stuffed with story-created song lyrics. It was a rough go for me, but the book had an interesting way into how domestic violence affects families.
Red in Tooth and Claw by Lish McBride
Lish McBride does her thing (fantasy that doesn’t bug me, found family), but it’s a Western! What can she not do?
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
I picked a book by Karen White off the shelf at my library, and by page 25, I realized that the book I was reading was one from later on in a series. I put it down and put a hold on this book, the first in the series.
There were a few things I didn’t love like the cliche of the main character subsisting on sugar and remaining slim and the love interest grabbing the main character’s arm to get her to stay and listen to him. (Not okay! Not only that, but later in the book, he hit another character in the jaw for doing the exact same thing.).
But this managed to hit the sweet spot of having ghosts but not being too scary. As someone who loves ghost stories but doesn’t want them to haunt her dreams, I will be checking out the second in the series.
p.s. The book I initially started reading was the seventh in the series! Seventh!
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
The book that has forever changed my use of the phrase “verbal communication.”
Well, nearly voted. She’s filled out her ballot, for sure.
It took a while. And it took a spreadsheet. This was the first election we got to experience ranked choice voting.
I had to rank six candidates for mayor (a bit difficult, due to quality of candidates) and another six for the three District 2 representatives. 22 were running, but happily some of those 22 hadn’t submitted a statement to the voter’s pamphlet, which is my lowest bar to clear.
I’m excited to see how the ranked choice voting goes. I’m noticing that by ranking six candidates, my feelings of needing ONE person to win have dissipated. I look at that as progress.
