Today I have procrastinated by rearranging books. I have far too many for such a small house.
(Doing this reminded me of a piece by a #Palestinian academic I read recently. He has just started teaching again, but all his books have been lost or destroyed. To be without my books would be very hard for me)

I been awfully quiet for most of a month cause busy. So far, I have:
✔️ Rebuilt/replaced half the front door steps.
✔️ Repaired the front/back entry doors so they open and shut properly, and installed deadbolts.
✔️ Installed a new toilet, discovering "my friend can fix that for cheap" horrors. (this whole house reeks of that thought process, btw.)
✔️ Installed a new range hood
✔️ Planed the bedroom doors so they'd open and close properly.
✔️ &quot…

The timing of this exhibit feels resonant – and a bit ominous.
In January, news broke that Kerouac’s 37-metre-long first-draft scroll of
"On the Road" will be up for auction.
When it was last for sale in 2001, Carolyn Cassady
– Neal Cassady’s former wife
– denounced the auction as “blasphemy”, saying the scroll belonged in a library, not a private collection.
"Jack loved public libraries,” she said at the time, adding:
“If they auction…

They have taken the bedroom and the hallway. We have barred the doors but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes...meows, meows in the deep. We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming... :dbl_paw:

>Buys new AP to cover a deadspot when going from attic to bedroom.
>Moves old AP from attic to bedroom.
>Installs new AP.
>Phone: *proceeds to ignore the existence of the 5GHz channels*
>*sigh*
(this is just my phone being stupid btw, it is known to be stupid)

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Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

I learned that female cats often hunt, in big cats, and I see this in our cats. Our female is a better hunter. She's strange and protective of the bedroom, she sits right at the end of the bed, looking at the door. I read they do that to protect. Also, she's such a narc, she likes all of us to be in the bedroom at night, and at a certain time of night, she will go to the far hallway and/or follow me around meowing LOUDLY, purposefully, until I go to the room and go to bed. It's b…

“How does she keep getting in the building?!”
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