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1. We saw 43 dogs today. A new record!

2. We walked up to the farmers market this morning and I finally got a jar of the orange almond butter I love so much. The last time I bought some, they were out of the orange so I just got the honey almond butter, which is good, but not nearly as good as the orange one. But I didn't want to buy a jar of the orange until I finished the honey, which I just did yesterday.

3. Apparently there are some interactive things for the Disneyland 70th anniversary, so I found my magic band and got that charged up today so I'm ready for tomorrow's trip. I can't wait to see all the anniversary stuff.

4. Gemma hardly ever goes in these little cat apartments but she was in there yesterday.

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Hi everyone. Several years ago I posted here requesting assistance with some websites. Now I'm back to do the same thing. About 2 months ago I received an email on a list to which I am subscribed, regarding a website that was being launched about Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. They wanted people to sign up for their newsletter, but as I recently found out there is a problem. Actually 2 problems on the site, but I'll get to the other one in a bit. The newsletter sign-up form uses CloudFlare, which I believe Dreamwidth used at one point for security purposes or something like that. I might open a support ticket regarding this, but thought I'd ask here first. I've only encountered CloudFlare a little bit, but each time I attempted to fill in that form a box popped up prompting me to verify myself. I tried dismissing this pop-up to no avail. The verification checkbox is a good alternative imho, but it seems this one has been incorrectly implemented. The other problem on that website is with the forum registration. There is evidently some kind of CAPTCHA on the registration form, which was hopefully meant to be accessible for screen reader users such as myself. But there's some kind of site owner error. I attempted to contact them via their contact form, but again was met with that CloudFlare pop-up. I'm wondering if any of you who don't use screen readers could check out the website and see what happens. Oddly enough, it seems a couple of forum posts were made there, which to me seems impossible given that there is a forum registration. The website in question is http://www.title2.info , and I was able to read a few news articles on there but nothing else.

Current Mood: perplexed
Current Location: IL

torachan

Currently Reading
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
11%. I read a similar book by the same author a couple years ago, but this seems different enough not to be retreading the same exact stuff.

Red Hail
3%. Told in two timelines, the present day and the early 60s. A mysterious plague hits a small town in Arizona, and the MC in the present timeline has to figure out how to stop it by finding out how it was stopped the first time. I only read the first couple chapters so far, but it seems promising.

The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
67%.

The Clockwork Ghost
No progress.

Architectural Follies in America
No progress.

Recently Finished
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
Well, this turned out to be a big dud. I didn't feel like the twists worked very well, and the MC was just kind of annoying. There was also some really unpleasant ablism that didn't just seem to be the MC's POV, but rather presented as fact.

Death Row
Short story from the author of the Housemaid series. A woman is on death row for killing her husband, but days before she's scheduled to be executed, she sees a man visiting the prison she's convinced is her husband. ( spoilers )

Love Languages
Cute graphic novel about a young English woman working in France who meets a woman from Hong Kong there as an au pair and they become friends and then more than friends despite the language barrier. I really like how the comic used a mix of English, French, and Cantonese (with in line translations for the latter two) to show how they struggle to communicate.

Boku ga Shinu Dake no Hyaku Monogatari vol. 1-3
Spotted this on Amazon Japan and when I clicked on it, there was a limited time read-free promo for the first three volumes. An elementary school girl sees her classmate about to climb out a window and tells him about the "hundred ghost stories" in hopes of keeping him from killing himself. After a hundred days of telling ghost stories, a real ghost will appear. The rest of the manga is the boy telling the stories, one story per chapter. Each story is pretty good for a short horror story, and there is the framing story of what's going on with the boy. There's usually a couple of pages before and after each ghost story, and things in his house get weirder and weirder as the series goes on. I'm enjoying this a lot and definitely going to read the rest.

lizbee

You can read my thoughts (along with spoilery stuff for TLoU and Andor) in my newsletter, but to save you scrolling past a lot of spoilers for other things, I'll also pop them here.

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sholio

I watched the first two episodes of the Murderbot show. With no particular associated feelings about the books, I'm really enjoying it!

( Some things about that )

troisoiseaux

Read The Fact Checker by Austin Kelley, about a fact-checker at a magazine that is clearly the New Yorker (although, in retrospect, I don't think it's ever actually name-dropped?) in early 2000s NYC, who plays detective when an attractively eccentric young woman he meets as a source disappears shortly after making vague comments about something "nefarious" going on at the farmer's market where she works. It reminded me a bit of Dwyer Murphy's An Honest Living, but more picaresque than neo-noir. I enjoyed the narrative voice, with its scattered references of a brain full of trivia - particularly about 19th century American communal societies like the Shakers, Oneida, and Amos Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands - and turns of phrase like: "There was a long theremin solo, which sounded slightly like a little girl soprano and slightly like the inside of a lemon."

Two... warnings, I guess? ( Major spoiler, but I knew it going in because of another review. ) Second, there is one wildly unexpected, deeply weird scene involving ( animal death. )

torachan

Last time we saw They Might Be Giants it was an outdoor venue and was raining the whole time, so while it was a great show, it was not the most pleasant experience. Thankfully this time it was indoors (and not raining).

It was at the Orpheum, which is one of the many old theaters in downtown LA. This was my first time seeing a show there and it's really nice, as well as being just a few blocks from a train station, so we were able to take the train down there and save ourselves the hassle of rush hour traffic and money on parking, too.

I had checked the venue's website the day before to see if there were any opening acts and there weren't, but instead TMBG were going to play two sets (which is what they'd done at the previous show we'd gone to as well).

Doors were at seven and I wasn't sure how long it would take us to get down there so allowed plenty of time. We got there a bit after doors opened and there was no line outside anymore. Carla wanted to get some merch, so we got in the merch line, which was pretty long at that point, but there was still like 45 minutes before the show, so what else were we doing.

After that, we got some food (a very tasty cheeseburger and very mid fries) and ate awkwardly in our seats before the show started. They actually started at about 8:15, so we ended up having plenty of time to finish our food first.

For the first set they played mostly songs from Mint Car, and I did not know any of them. I'm not as big a fan of the band as Carla is, so while I like the songs I know, I am not actually that familiar with their whole discography. But it was still very enjoyable.

They took a twenty minute break, during which Carla got some lemonade (which had mint in it and was super tasty) and a surprisingly good chocolate chip cookie, and then they came back on for another set, which also ended up being almost all songs I didn't know lol.

After the encore, we started heading out and the lights didn't immediately come on so I wasn't sure if they were just waiting for the band to get on stage or there would be a second encore. In the lobby, a woman was telling someone they should go back since it looked like the band was going to come back on, but we decided to just head out. As it happens they played two more songs, including Birdhouse in Your Soul, which we both really like, so I wish we had stayed, but oh well.

( set list )

This was them performing Dr Worm:

Despite not knowing most of the songs, I had a great time (and Carla had an even better time since she actually did know the songs). For sure would go to that venue again, too. Very nice and convenient.

sonia

Sinking Feelings by Rebecca Boyle on Last Word On Nothing.

I am not saying we should not struggle at all. We want to fight to survive, and it’s hard to turn off that instinct. I am saying we should think about other ways to struggle, which might be counterintuitive but more effective. Getting safe might look a little different than we expect. The bog will not stop trying to destroy us, so we have to be creative. We have to be lithe and loose, quick-footed, maybe a little sneaky, maybe hew a bit closer to the darkness than we’re used to. There are ways out of every quagmire.

Via

redbird, obituaries and articles about her mother, may her memory be a blessing. Eve Kugler BEM from Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, and How Eve Kugler Changed the World by Karen Pollock, and Shattered Crystals by Eve Kugler about her experiences as a child survivor of the Holocaust.

The Best Part of Researching Trans History Is When I’m Wrong by Milo Todd.

In The Lilac People, my debut novel about trans people in Weimar Berlin and Nazi Germany, I have a side character so small, they’re downright tertiary. Dora Richter has no speaking role, nor does she have any impact on the plot. And yet she’s included because she’s important, and she was real.
[...]
But perhaps most importantly, we now know that such stories sometimes come with a happy ending. The reality is there. All we have to do is look.

batwrangler

I just posted a bunch of chicken and duck photos to Flickr (Click thorough to see them all):

Mostly roosters:

Some Muskovies:

And some mallard-derived domestic ducks:

silveradept

Let us begin with continuations in the war against the public receiving accurate, unbiased information. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was told it would receive zero support from the U.S. government, in the same veins of executive orders that proclaim that the executive has the real power of the purse and Congressional appropriations and their amounts mean nothing to his whims. Like other such orders, the actual validity and power of the executive to do this is suspect at best and nonexistent in reality. And, of course, there's always a group of ghouls ready to step in and take over - A spokesmodel for the administration said the conservative propaganda network OAN would take over providing content for Voice of America broadcasts. Swift backlash about the degraded quality and obvious partisan slant of OAN followed from those who actually understand and know what Voice of America broadcasts were supposed to do.

A federal judge granted an injunction against the current administration's intent to zero out the funding of the Institute for Museum and Library Services. With the news, coming just a little after the person currently in charge of IMLS indicated he wanted libraries to be an essential part of propaganda efforts, and strongly suggesting that the people suing would win their case on the merits, there is now flux on funding, but also, a need to have Congresscritters continue to insist upon a budget that contains funds for IMLS in fiscal year 2026.

The administrator dismissed the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, by e-mail after the injunctions were announced, because of pressure against her by people who think that a Black woman is completely unqualified to do anything that might have white people subordinate to her, and possibly in petty revenge for being told no that he couldn't simply zero out the IMLS budget. When questioned on the matter, a spokesmodel for the executive proclaimed that Dr. Hayden was involved in unacceptable DEI and in promoting harmful materials to children, proving that the spokesmodel and her bosses have zero idea of what the Library of Congress actually does.

The Copyright Office dropped a pre-print of a report that excoriated LLMs and is poised to rule that the widespread copyright violation and stealing of copyrighted works involved in creating datasets for LLMs are, in fact, widespread copyright violations and not simply the cost of doing business. Almost immediately after, the administration dismissed the Register of Copyrights, which could be merely convenient timing or could also be a revenge firing for the Copyright Office telling all the techbros that they do have to respect the copyright law and the copyrights of the people they're stealing from.

Persons appointed by the Executive who claim to be the new Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights were turned away by the actual interim Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights and the staff of the Library of Congress. Because those people who were supposedly appointed are very likely not to be the people in the job according to statute.

All of these actions, however, are things that the Congress could possibly assert that it, nor the Executive, have exclusive or primary control over, and therefore tell the Executive to pound sand. This, however, requires a Congress that actually wants to maintain its independence, rather than functioning as the Duma of the United States.

( As usual, plenty of US Politics, but many other objects as well )

Going out for this post, the legacy of Dave Brubeck is in good music, yes, but also in a staunch refusal to allow segregation to break up his groups or to prevent Black people from enjoying jazz wherever in the venue they wanted to. (Older piece, but also, lots of people say May 4th, or 5/4 in the US nomenclature, is Dave Brubeck day, based on his iconic Take Five.)

A takedown of the Tesla Cybertruck that focuses entirely on how much it fails at being a truck, doing truck tasks, and fostering a healthy truck culture.

And Studio Ghibli releasing hundreds of images form their films for people to use within the boundaries of common sense and for individuals to further enjoy the films. Which is lovely, because of the lushness of the images in the films, but also because this is a continual shot against people using plagiarism machines to replicate their style (poorly.) and others who do not find these films worthwhile on their own

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lilysea,

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rydra_wong,

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sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

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vass, the

meta_warehouse community,

little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: LukHash - Carrier Wave

chomiji

In 2005, artist Rhea Ewing had a lot of questions about their own gender identity. Some of those questions were so big and so formless that they didn't even know how to ask them.

They started a kind of study, gathering people who were willing to talk to Ewing about their gender identities. Because Ewing thought in visuals, they turned it into a comic. It was originally meant to be maybe 30 pages, a little project for their final university project. Ewing soon realized that this work was too complex and multifaceted to be that simple booklet, and in fact, they didn't finish the comic until the early 2020s.

The book is arranged by topics, starting with Femininity and Masculinity and then working through more of the interviewees' experiences within themselves and then out in the world of other people, through Hormones, Healthcare, Queer Community, and much more. Under each topic are relevant snippets of the actual interviews, drawn as lively, expressive comics, and the words of the interviewees are thought-provoking and sometimes heart-rending.

Some reviewers I've read are miffed with Ewing, because the artist doesn't come up with a specific plan or specific answers to the issue of gender in today's society (and yes, there is acknowledgement and discussion of variations in culture within that society). But in fact, there are conclusions, expressed on the last couple of pages before the acknowledgments. What there isn't is a step-by-step recipe for "solving" the question of gender. And if you really read that far, you should appreciate why.

Current Mood: contemplative

nanila

You're holding a dinner party and can invite three famous people from the past or present; who would they be?

I never understood the appeal of this. I hardly get to see my friends and family. I would rather invite them to dinner than a group of people I don't know. That just sounds exhausting.
You have the opportunity to question someone about something you've always wanted to know and receive a truthful answer; what would your question be?

No no no. In my experience, if someone is holding back on telling you a truth, it's because it is not going to make you feel happy. I'll pass.
If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?

My workload. See answer to Q1.
If you could save other people's lives by completing an act that would lead to your own death, would you do it?

As ever, answers depend on the context. If we are talking about an overstuffed inflatable raft full of vulnerable children floundering in the English Channel, then unequivocally yes. If we are talking about an autocratic dictator and his henchmen, then absolutely not.
Would you commit murder if you knew that you could get away with it?

No.

ludy

In conversation with one of the (not so)Smalls today I realised what a silly expression “mate for life” is - it’s not like the gibbons or swans or whatever are getting put into arranged marriages as soon as they are born!

It also seems to conflate non-monogamy with only short-term relationships/~~casual~~ recreational sex. Which is not my (human) experience of being polyamorous. Wondering now which, if any, non-human species have a pattern of multiple long term relationships?

regshoe

Once Upon a Fic works are revealed, and I have received this weird and lovely femslash story for the poem 'Christabel', which I picked up shortly before sign-ups. It develops the mystery of canon in an intriguing way without quite explaining everything, and its mysterious, richly-descriptive mood is very fitting!

Why Have You Called me Forth? (4437 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Christabel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Christabel/Geraldine (Christabel)
Characters: Christabel (Christabel), Geraldine (Christabel)
Additional Tags: Supernatural Elements, Haunting, Ghosts, Religious Guilt, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Dreams and Nightmares, Dreams vs. Reality, Psychic Abilities, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Implied Relationships, Secret Crush, Emotionally Repressed, Sexual Repression, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Unreliable Narrator
Summary:

Christabel closes her eyes.

Within the dream, Geraldine waits.

oursin

There’s no excuse for ugly people’: controversial dentist Mike Mew on how ‘mewing’ can make you more attractive:

The orthodontist’s strange mouth exercises are beloved by incels seeking a manlier shape – and a fast-growing TikTok trend in classrooms around the world. So why has he been struck off the dentists’ register?

I don't know if the General Dental Council is like the General Medical Council and strikes off for ADVERTISING (quite aside from the horrendous things this awful guy is doing) but it strikes me that the way he is promoting himself would have been way, way beyond a lot of the things the GMC was taking exception to. But maybe times change.

But honestly. This is probably because I have an perhaps unusual knowledge of medical (including dental) quackery and its promotion, and common themes are:

There Is One Big Reason For All Your Problems

And

One Simple Trick (which I have) To Fix Them.

(Cites here, so that you know that I am not making this up all out of my own head, to Alex Comfort, The Anxiety Makers, Ann Dally, Fantasy Surgery, and a tip of the hat to Rob Darby, A Surgical Temptation.)

Okay, this is at the other end of the alimentary canal to Sir Arbuthnot Lane's Cure For All Evils (caused by Chronic Intestinal Stasis), but I think we can see the pattern repeating here.

Not saying that maybe, somewhere in this, there is something that may be helpful in some, specific cases, but let us consider e.g. radium in the 1920s. Yes, it was really, really useful in treating certain forms of cancer: it was not a cure-all and downing massive amounts of radium tonic just left a person, well, radioactive, if the tonic actually contained any active principle at all.

I am also boggled at the assumptions about beauty, and trying not to comment on this guy's own appearance, but to remark that the Hapsburgs ruled swathes of Europe for centuries without manly square jaws, hmmm, plus, has this chap ever been into an art gallery in his life??? Is there one pattern of beauty or are there many?

Just reading what he thinks the epitome makes me want to assert the true loveliness of consumptive pallor, heightened by just a touch of hectic feverish flush, wilting picturesquely on a fainting couch.

jemck

Bringing this from writer Joseph Malik over from Bluesky. I think it's spot on.

"Subtext separates a novel from a novel-length story. Subtext is the part that AI can't--and never will--generate. It can't read for subtext. It can read Cliff's Notes to determine an existing novel's subtext, but there is no mathematical or logical process to create it. Subtext is uniquely human."

It's the conclusion to a 3-post thread. You can find that via my mentions over there if you're so inclined.

james_davis_nicoll

16 works new to me. 8 fantasies, 1 horror, one mainstream, one mystery, one non-fiction (about SF), and four science fiction... although it wasn't always clear into which category works fell. Only 11 works are clearly identified as series, 11 do not appear to be part of series, and there are 3 for which that question does not apply.

Books Received, May 3 — May 16

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The Age of Calamities by Senaa Ahmad (January 2026)
6 (18.8%)

Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud (October 2025)
3 (9.4%)

Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories by Terry Bisson (October 2025)
14 (43.8%)

A Fate So Cold by Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman (November 2025)
0 (0.0%)

The Last Vampire by Romina Garber (December 2025)
5 (15.6%)

Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibanez (January 2026)
2 (6.2%)

Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff (November 2025)
1 (3.1%)

The Monster and the Last Blood Match by K. A. Linde (June 2025)
3 (9.4%)

Westward Women by Alice Martin (March 2026)
7 (21.9%)

Dead Fake by Vincent Ralph (January 2026)
0 (0.0%)

The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross (January 2026)
5 (15.6%)

The Bone Queen by Will Shindler (February 2026)
2 (6.2%)

This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne (November 2025)
5 (15.6%)

A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo (October 2025)
13 (40.6%)

Trace Elements by Jo Walton & Ada Palmer (March 2026)
22 (68.8%)

Good Intentions by Marisa Walz (February 2026)
1 (3.1%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
21 (65.6%)

thistleingrey

What I wish I'd knitted already (compiled over weeks, instead of starting and dropping any specific project that my current hands can't ...handle): one or more of

* Luminos, with unusual construction

* Reposado, purchased late June 2019 together with the yarn (Best Friend from Yarn on the House, heh---discontinued, YOTH out of business)

* Joinery, maybe

* Caine, which looks comfy, whereas every similar but French-designed pattern I've seen would require me to be longer of torso and generally narrower across (not thinner but with less oxlike shoulder bones) if I wanted to wear the thing, not just knit it; relatedly, any pattern Petiteknit offers in this form factor is not for me---proportions and assumptions thereto

* A fingering- or sport-weight version of Palette, which is aran-weight and was designed originally for a Finnish publication

* Mooncrush, maybe

* Pier 39, maybe---too predictable; the same designer's Emsworth might be better

* Hatsuki, maybe

* Rockhound, which I'd wear if it appeared magically by no effort whatsoever, but I doubt I could modify it to fit me

* Same goes for Starnkeeker, whose designer's garment assumptions are opposite my proportions

?Hon. mention, crochet: someone's thought about how to do a giant granny-square slipover. Not for me, but it fits its designer much better than those granny-square cardigans that people have been making. I wonder why people don't add a bit of shoulder shaping to the latter.

netgirl_y2k

The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo - So this is a horror-ish novella set in 1920s Appalachia where a trans man (not the language used, obvs) working as a sort of roaming nurse comes to a small town that's suffering a fit of religious mania that's manifesting both as hostility to outsiders and the town collectively trying to take their local gender nonconforming teenager in hand. And it was working for me as a tale of 'we have always been here/some places can be basically safe to be a weird kid in right up until they aren't.'

Then it took a turn towards rape revenge fantasy that I wasn't wholly onboard with, then a sharp right turn towards graphic monsterfucking.

So, uh, that was a bit weird.

Hot Summer by Elle Everhart - I don't like reality television. I don't think it's bad, I don't think liking it is some kind moral failing, it's just by and large not my cup of tea. That said, there is one reality show that I do think should not exist and no one should watch, and that's Love Island, a show that has a death toll.

So if you can forget that this is a lightly fictionalised version of Love Island (something I only could intermittently) and if you are lucky enough to have never seen the show and so not get hungup on 'Hang on, there's no way there would ever be a queer love story on Heterosexuality: The Show' then this is a cute enough contemporary f/f romance.

A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling - Obviously I read this because of the title, and the actual book doesn't quite live up to it, but this tale of a bunch of libertarians who move to a small town to prove that their ideas can work, and run smack bang into that fact that, like most things government does, there were bear control laws in place for a reason was pretty compelling, especially now that *gestures at everything*

Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Hostile Alien Planets and Why You Should Not Get Trapped On Them. My new favourite Tchaikovsky; yes, more than the spider planet one, yes, more than the one narrated by the Good Boy. It's just that good.

I got outbid on some fancy Tchaikovsky special editions in the genre creators for trans rights auction, which was fine, good cause and all. But I saw Tchaikovsky talking about the auction on bluesky, and he said something like if you'd read his work he hoped you'd already know he was a a supporter of trans rights, and, like, it's always good to get confirmation that someone you're a fan of is a good egg, but I have read thousands of pages of that man's work and all I could have said about him with any certainty is 'I think that man likes bugs.'

Private Rites by Julia Armfield - 'King Lear and his dyke daughters.' I'm not paraphrasing, that's a line in the book. I really enjoyed Armfield's novella Our Wives Under the Sea, and her first full length novel has a lot of the same themes, to whit, queer women being sad while soaking wet. It is longer, so, um, there's that.

torachan

1. We went to see They Might Be Giants tonight and it was a fun show. (I'll have a separate post tomorrow.) The venue was downtown and since Carla is in better shape now and able to walk more, I checked the other day to see if we could take the train down there instead of driving, since rush hour traffic heading downtown any night is terrible, and even worse on a Friday night. Plus we'd have to pay at least $20 for parking. Turns out the venue is just about half a mile from a train stop, and the stop by our house is about half a mile from us, so not much walking at all. And the train is only $1.75 each way.

Because of how bad traffic is, the train took less time to get down there than it would have taken driving, but took longer going home (since it was late at night and would have had no traffic), but was much more pleasant since I could just read. I wish more of the places I regularly go for concerts were easier to get to on public transport (probably all of them could be gotten to, but usually only on buses and with more transfers, rather than just one straight shot on the train), but I will definitely keep it in mind next time we go to a show downtown. (I did take the train to see a concert at the Staples Center once, which is also right near a train stop (even closer, actually), but have not been to another show downtown that was convenient to the train since then, alas.)

2. I got an email from Nintendo today about Switch 2 preorders, and from the subject line I was afraid it was going to be saying they're sold out, but it was just saying not to worry, I'm still in the queue. So that's good to know! (We do have a preorder locked in with Best Buy, but would like to get one for each of us.)

3. I thought ahead and did not make Disney reservations tomorrow since I knew we'd be out late for the concert tonight, so tomorrow we can just have a relaxing day at home. (We will be going to Disneyland on Sunday, though, and today was the first day of the 70th anniversary celebration so there's going to be tons of stuff to see/do/eat.)

4. Molly!

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