Kate

Cat woke from a dead sleep apparently out of a bad dream, panicked, parkoured off my desk, and took out like half the stuff on it.

Went to early voting, came home, put up laundry, pretty sure my "I voted" sticker is in the washing machine ;_;

Here's hoping none of these games go past midnight eastern.

I was correct: Birmingham Blues is amazing on LP on the good stereo.

I know he's mad at me when he does it, but this cat has the most ridiculous little growl. (I made him get off the router.)

Considering giving these orca I'm doing stats for for game tomorrow Improved Sunder. >.>

Okay I don't remember how/why Imzadi came up (or if it was over at Tumblr), but they had it in hard cover at the library book sale, so now I have it. (There were probably 30 Star Trek paper backs that I was not motivated enough to compare with the already-owned list.)

Yeah, the downside of an everything bagel is that the everything gets everywhere.

Unpopped popcorn - not the kernels at the bottom of a bowl of popcorn, but straight out of the container of kernels. Usually just one, like it was hard candy.

We are diving headlong into my preferred weather season (high 60s daytime/above freezing overnight), which also means we have entered "when do we take out the window a/c?" guessing season.

Somehow I'm still picking zucchini.

Non-zero chance my dad has met this cow

Got a bag of gingergold apples at the grocery and it's a good thing they were only 99 cents/lb. because they are sad.

Ugh we're up to 98% humidity and my shirt feels damp. I'm not even outside.

The cat does not understand that I cannot stay in bed all day (so he can sleep on me) because it will wreck my back.

Oh no, I have finally tried an everything bagel, and it is both amazing and horrifyingly messy

Mostly just trying to reflect on what I want to do with the second half of my life, and kind of pencilling in how to do that. (It would be a lot easier if I won the lottery first.)

ANYWAY WICKHILLS IS COMING OUT TOMORROW it is an BOOKE (it is not a novella, you can read page counts, I know you can) And the LAUNCH PARTY IS ON THE 15TH so you better BE THERE OR BE A RECTANGULAR THING (also I am trying to make arrangements to livestream it, stay tuned) 🫡

Apparently the one thing all alignments of deities agree on in d20-based TTRPGs is good sleep habits for their followers: 8 hours of rest or no spells.

I should probably put a clock on the piano so I'm not up too late with new sheet music, lol. (Was gifted a book of Philip Glass piano solos.)

I got a weather station for my birthday and I'm ridiculously excited to be able to easily see the weekly rain totals next garden season.

Hi, I'm Kate, a librarian and hobby collector. I like the transition between De Selby pt. 1 and De Selby pt. 2 on Hozier's Unreal Unearth, as part one slides down into part two.

'Tis the season for canceling ILL requests because the book is on course reserve.

Was afraid my Bluetooth keyboard was dead, but it turns out my spare batteries have been in my bag so long, they were also dead.

Okay I'm adding the LPs to LibraryThing finally so I stop buying duplicates of those, too. >.<

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Okay now that it's far enough past the 6+ inches of rain we got in 36 hours last month, the San Marzanos are producing faster than the slugs can ruin them, but oh no, they are indeterminate tomatoes, and oh no. I'm going to be making sauce into late September again.

For me, Clue.

Nooo all my library holds are becoming available at the same time. And since they're all new books, they're only 2 week loans.

I guess I'm adding "I will always love you" to the playlist of songs that make me cry now.

My cat's superpower is apparently infinite fur.

ALSO reminder! THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (which was up for a Hugo, Ignyte, Nebula, Locus, blah blah etc award) is still just $1.99 in eBook from whomsoever your favourite purveyor might be! :) (Check the buy buttons!) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Yes, but I have issues that make it slower than printing for me. (Letters don't always come out in the correct order so it's easier if I can squeeze them in where they go when they do come out.)

I'm sure one day my BFF (ibuprofen) will betray me, but I'll stick with it for now.

Thinking about the mistranslations and miscopied words that came down to us in the sole surviving known copies of various ancient works that became canon and how the digitization and destruction of old/rare books is going to create new ones through failures of OCR.