Bonsai show today 🌱 Courtesy of the American Bonsai Association
A Blast from the Past: “Looks just aren’t as Important Online as IRL”. This blog post really took me back to the old Internet days, because this was totally true! One rarely shared personal photos in the olden days of say, LiveJournal. It was kind of hard to upload them. How times change
Ugh why is chess.com premium so expensive (this is whining I actually expect it’s reasonable for the server costs etc I just can’t justify such an expensive subscription to just one game)
The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick A Novel by Ariel Lawhon 📚
Historical fiction, pretty anachronistic (our protagonists all have very modern values) but I didn’t mind that. Near the end there was a description of several young kids dying of disease that kept me up late last night though.
Happy Hanamatsuri! 🌺
My children will know analog time
My baby is an excellent walker for 12 months but has suddenly realized that’s not always to his benefit. This morning he’s dramatically staggering around, bent over, looking like he’s been shot (he’s fine, if you pick him up he’s fine)
Took the family out to #NoKings Sacramento this morning
The Caves Of Steel
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov 📚 This was a childhood favorite of mine, I hadn’t revisited in probably 25 or 30 years but I still remembered the mystery! It holds up better than I expected. Asimov gets a bad rap for his character writing, and certainly they serve the plot more than the other way around, but now that I’m not literally a child I am surprised to find I relate to Asimov characters a lot more, since many of them are motivated by things like maintaining their workplace reputation or getting new stuff for their apartment or hating their colleagues or whatever.
Watched: The Incubus 🍿
Perhaps the most incredible attempt at (what I think is) a Southern accent ever put to film