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The big news of the day is I finally settled on a Charlotte apartment. It's probably pretty standard fare for a lot of middle-class apartments outside of huge cities, but it's definitely bigger and has some things I'd count as luxuries, like in-unit washer/dryer, (small) dishwasher, even a balcony. It's actually slightly more expensive than my NY ( Read more... ) -
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This weekend's biggest accomplishment was managing to survive the heat. It's now 73 F (just under 23 C) and past midnight on one of the coolest days we've had in a week and change. Most days it gets to 87-88 F / 31 C if not higher. That's not totally unreasonable for July I guess, but there's a reason why areas where it's regularly that high have ( Read more... ) -
Happy birthday, America
... and a very happy Tuesday to the rest of us.
Youtube being Youtube, I'm not 100% sure this video will be visible to the non-Americans, but then being a bit US-centric on today of all days feels about par for the course. So for the rest of you, the words are a treat in themself.
A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts anywhere
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I had a half-day off and wasn't meeting up with the Kid until later, so I read the first chapter of my legal philosophy textbook this afternoon. It was a mini-essay on natural law along with a series of selections from Aquinas. Which is such an odd place to start in a lot of ways because it's so based in a whole other political system than our ( Read more... ) -
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A friend over at Tumblr was having financial troubles and I donated to their Kofi. As an unexpected gift she drew me a kid Sherlock with a bee plushie. So cute! If you like that kind of thing I hope you'll check it out.
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Kid Sherlock with Bee, for dear @marta-bee who was kind enough to buy me some coffees ❤️ I’m very grateful ( Read more... ) -
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I know current events in the UK are hurting actual real people, but at least from my safe distance, the memes are certainly LOL-worthy.
To wit:
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This lovely fall weather has me thinking, as I usually do, about a passage from my favorite poem:
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Wes Thu Hal, Angela Lansbury
Here's some fun videos of her singing with Jerry Orbach and Bea Arthur. All I can say is, St. Peter's in for a grand old show tonight.
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