I don’t know what the rest of you are doing; but I didn’t decorate, and I’m not even listening to my Christmas music. This evening I will spend some time with the offspring.
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Thirteen years of excavation at the site of a Roman town that wasn’t a backwater after all.
No surprise, this. A lot of students and teachers didn’t show up for the December make-up days after the strike. I suspect travel plans played into a lot of it.
The I5 bridge over the Columbia is about a hundred years old. The infrastructure funding President Biden encouraged is providing a $600 million grant to replace it.
Barber-surgeons in medieval Europe.
Artificial glaciers in India.
Cookie Monster’s cookies.
While a family was decorating for Christmas, their Roomba made a break for it.
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On Wednesday, I got an email from Amazon saying that a preorder for my Kindle, supposed to be released on Friday, was canceled. I could not for the life of me understand why. It’s not the most popular series out there — but enough people are fond of it that the preorder was #10 in the series. Well, I found out why the preorder was canceled when I checked the series list on Amazon and found a price with no publication date. I guess it was released on Tuesday, because I was certainly able to buy it.
I am going to be taking the grandkids out for sushi again. They have to decide when, but it will be sometime between Christmas and New Year.
I will be much happier when my finances settle into their new configuration. Not there yet. I am not worried about anything — between my pension and my SSA, my living expenses are well covered, and I can indulge any of my admittedly fairly inexpensive tastes as much as I want. It’s the not knowing quite what’s going on that gets to me.
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Love you guys!