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1. We finished another puzzle today. This one was a lot of fun!



2. I got the shipping notification from Best Buy on my Switch 2! It's supposed to arrive tomorrow, which I was not expecting at all because when I did the preorder they weren't guaranteeing launch day delivery. I never did get an email from Nintendo about preordering directly from them, so we're planning to check out Target tomorrow and see if they have any for sale in store, so we can each have one.

3. We had a nice morning at Disneyland. It was a little muggy but the temps were fairly low and it was nice and overcast. Started to get busy as we were leaving, but it wasn't very crowded at all earlier, which was nice.

4. Uploading the picture of the lego shelf yesterday made me realize I still haven't posted pics of the inside of the garage since it's been completed. It's still got a ways to go decorating-wise. We've got art we want to put on the walls, and more stuff to display, and it could use a few more pieces of furniture, but it has enough that it feels pretty lived-in now. I use it every day for the exercise machine and working on puzzles, and Carla goes out daily to read and listen to music (and also work on puzzles).

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5. The other day I looked in the cat tree and saw Chloe was lying on her back in one of the cubbies like a silly girl.

1. The bathroom faucet was dripping for a couple days and could not get it to stop, but it miraculously stopped dripping yesterday. Not sure why, but I'm glad.

2. I have been meaning to upload a picture for a while, but I have pretty much completed my flowers & nature lego shelf in the garage. There are still more nature sets, so I will probably remove some things and put out others eventually, but for now this is all of our nature-related stuff. I really like how this looks together.



3. I was not expecting rain today but it rained a bit! Not a ton, but it did get things damp. No rain tomorrow, though, which is good because we're going to Disneyland.

4. I decided to take tomorrow off. No reason. My usual Wednesday meeting was cancelled and we'd been planning on going to Disneyland tomorrow as Carla's last visit before she'll be out of town for a week and a half visiting her family, so I just decided what the hell, why not just take the day off.

5. Molly's getting that sun!

1. I made rhubarb custard pie today with the rhubarb we got yesterday from the farmers market. It didn't even use half the rhubarb, so we've got a ton left to make a cake or something as well.

2. Tuxie has been spending more and more time away from our yard. Last weekend he was away for a couple days, then came back for one day, then has been gone the rest of the week. Because he's been spending more time away and often when he's here, not acting as hungry, I'm confident that he's being fed somewhere else and if he did disappear for good, it would be because he's decided to stay at his new home permanently (maybe even to become an indoor cat, which I would love for him), and I wouldn't be worried the way I might have been if he just disappeared without warning. But he was back today and spent the whole day in the yard and got several meals. I hope he continues to spend at least some time here!

1. They had rhubarb this morning at the farmers market! It's so rare to see here so it was such a pleasant surprise. Going to make a rhubarb custard pie tomorrow and then freeze the rest to make something else when Carla gets back from visiting her folks (she's leaving next Friday so don't want to make a whole lot of baked goods when it will just be me to eat them up).

2. We did a later Disneyland trip today and saw the Paint the Night parade. It was so cool! This isn't a brand new parade but it's new to me as it only ran for a couple years ten years ago.

3. Ollie!

Currently Reading
Murder in Masquerade
47%. Sequel to Murder in Postscript. As enjoyable as the first.

Riding the Rails
No progress.

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
24%.

Red Hail
27%.

Architectural Follies in America
47%.

Recently Finished
Murder in Postscript
I liked this. Glad there are already two more books in the series.

The Clockwork Ghost
Big twist at the end! I'm looking forward to reading the third and final book in the series.

Cosmoknights vol. 1-2
Volume one of this was a reread as I started volume two only to realize I remembered absolutely nothing about the first one. I expected this to be the conclusion to the series but it looks like there's going to be more. I liked this second volume just as much as the first and am looking forward to the next one.

Boku ga Shinu Dake no Hyaku Monogatari vol. 9-10
I really enjoyed this series. Neat framing story to link together a bunch of stand-alone horror shorts (all of which I enjoyed as well).

1. Finally done with the last of the yearly evaluations today.

2. Carla took some old games and the Wii U to Book Off today and was able to get some cash for them. (She took the PS2 as well, but apparently we were missing a cord, so they wouldn't take it. Will have to look around the house and see if it's here anywhere. If we can't find it, I'll probably just put it out on the curb.)

3. Despite the crowds we had a nice dinner at Disneyland tonight.

4. Molly!

1. I had a lot of catching up to do today after the three day weekend and not a lot of time to do it as I had a store visit in the morning and then two meetings in the afternoon, but I did manage to get caught up.

2. Jasper is so handsome.

1. We finished up another puzzle this morning. After doing that 500 piece one last week, I decided to do the last of the 300 piece ones I'd bought, and it definitely felt a lot easier, so I think we'll probably stick to 500s for the time being. (Though the multi-pack puzzle I bought from Disneyland yesterday does have two 300 piece ones in it, so we'll do those just for completetion's sake, but I probably won't buy any more of that size.)



2. Tonight we went to see Paul F. Tompkins' Varietopia with Alexander. It was a lot of fun!

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3. Gemma was kind enough to let me take her picture today.

We usually go early morning or later in the afternoon/evening and hardly ever just go mid afternoon, but we specifically wanted to see the anniversary cavalcade, which is only at 1:30 and 2:45, so we went down late morning and got there around eleven.

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Currently Reading
Murder in Postscript
67%. My current audiobook and the first in a new historical murder mystery series. I'm enjoying it so far.

Riding the Rails
8%. Nonfiction about teenage hobos during the Depression. I picked this up from the library because it was mentioned on Tasting History in an episode where he did some sort of hobo stew. I only just got started but it's interesting so far, and reminds me of The Journey of Natty Gann, which I loved as a kid.

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
14%.

Red Hail
11%.

The Clockwork Ghost
25%.

Architectural Follies in America
40%.

Recently Finished
The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
At first I was finding this sequel a bit tiresome compared to the first as there was a really heavy focus on the romance and the adventure/mystery parts were really taking a backseat, but it picked up a lot in the second half and now I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series (which unfortunately is not out yet).

Parallel
Graphic novel about a gay German man who wants to reconcile with his estranged daughter. It goes back and forth between the past (from when he was young in WWII) through his two failed marriages, and the present day of the comic, which is the 80s, when homosexuality was still illegal. I didn't love the art style (it was sometimes hard to tell characters apart, especially with the two timelines) but I enjoyed the story.

Boku ga Shinu Dake no Hyaku Monogatari vol. 4-8