This is about the soonest it can be in the year. Not that we’re doing much about it. I haven’t even gone looking for a Cadbury egg.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a PM to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
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Alternative walking tours. Recently homeless people have been trained as tour guides to show people a different side of the city they are in.
The dominant emotion in 400 years of women’s diaries.
One of Earth’s oldest sand dunes.
Coolcationing. Whoopee.
Merriam-Webster: beautiful, obscure and useless words.
The World. 165 luxury apartments on a cruise ship sailing around the globe. Rich people can buy an apartment if they are nominated by a resident and seconded by another and have enough money. Apparently, one ex-resident has turned his diaries into fiction.
Which crops will work where in a changing climate?
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I have one of those adjustable seats to deal with showers now. Getting in and out of the bathtub is still a bit of an adventure, but it is doable — and I felt really good after my shower the other day.
Next step, laundry. The grandkids helped sort it on Friday, but there is rather a lot of it — I did buy some new clothes because I didn’t want to deal with laundry. Actually getting a load or two done got postponed due to the arrival of one of my grandson’s classmates and his little brother.
My granddaughter has till April 30th to get registered to vote. That was going to happen this week, I thought, since getting an Oregon ID is necessary and you have to opt out of registering to vote when you do that.
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I sorted out a list of the Celia Lake books and extras (set in Albion, the magical community mixed in with the non-magical community in England, Scotland and Wales) I have and am going through them in rough chronological order. Several items overlap chronologically, and she doesn’t write them in chronological order for her world. The first in chronological order has one chapter in 1879 and the rest of the book in 1883. There are a couple others in the 1880s — and a trilogy almost through the first draft that will happen at the end of the 1880s, then one chapter of another book in 1899 and the rest mostly in 1906. There’s a novel or two, a novella and odds and ends of stories from 1901 up to 1915, several items including two books in the course of WWI. Most of the books and stories right now are set in the 1920s. I’m reading one set in 1926 at the moment. After 1927, there’s a gap till 1932, then multiple scenes and stories and a couple of books in the 1930s, the one in 1939 involves the beginning of WWII. Three books and assorted stories cover the period of WWII and just after. At the moment, the most recent chronologically is set during the fall school term of 1945. The next book will involve the same set of characters in 1946, when they will be age 14. I know she has plans for two or three more books with an end date for her timeline of 1950. She is also working on the research for several books set in the late 1400s, which is when the magical system she’s using for her characters was originally set up. This means at least three more years of fun every three months for me.
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