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I Baked a Mini Cherry Pie Into a Dark Chocolate Cupcake.

Lol, did you see this linked on nothmartha?  Ed says, “if you buy the stuff, I’ll make it.”  Heh.

I’ve been reading a lot. Other People’s Mail was good. I did not like and did not finish Inkspell, although I like the first book well enough. I read and enjoyed The Devil’s Rooming House: The True Story of America’s Deadliest Female Serial Killer. I read and REALLY enjoyed Where Am I Wearing? by Kelsey Timmerman. He went on a trip around the world to find the factories where his clothes were made and to meet the people who made them. It’s not a story about sweatshops, it’s about people who work in the garment industry, and Timmerman found the issue isn’t so simple as to ban sweatshops. I’m currently reading Sugar of the Crop by Sana Butler, which is very good. Butler traveled the country meeting people whose parents had been slaves. And I’m reading Eating Fire, poetry by Margaret Atwood.

Phew. So many books. In addition to my own reading, I’m reading Akiko: The Training Master with Rebecca and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven with Ed.

I was looong overdue for glasses. Long. I finally went. And was given a choice between having two pairs of glasses or having bifocals (see me rolling my old-lady eyes?). I opted for two pairs, a pair for reading and a pair for when I’m not reading! I got the reading glasses at the place where I had my exam, and then ordered the other from Zenni Optical.

I knew I might do this, so I tried on a LOT of glasses at the eye place so I would have an idea what kind of frames to get. These were $8.00. I was a little nervous about buying glasses I couldn’t try on, ya know? I paid the extra few bucks for anti-reflection coating (which seems to be working). With shipping, they were just under $20, and if I’d ordered more pairs, shipping wouldn’t have increased. I ordered them on the 13th and they came today. I’m pretty pleased with them! I like them better than the ones I got at the place where I got my reading glasses.

So I actually did write a comment to Mozilla when I dumped Firefox the other day. They wrote back to me today and basically told me that it’s all my fault, like I don’t know how to use a browser, install a program, or pick my nose. Gee, that’s nice. Makes me even more sure to never go back, library password issue or no!

Well. Amy mentioned in the comments below that her computer was running slow since she’d updated Firefox. My computer is so old, I didn’t really put it together, but mine had been acting wonky lately. I only really noticed it in a few situations, some of which I tried out today and it really seemed much better. So in that respect, I’m happy. And I’m adjusting to buttons being different and such, it’s fine.

One thing I’m peeved about, though, is that it won’t save my library password, which is about fifty numbers long. I’ve looked in the Chrome forums and it seems I’m not the only one. I tried some of the suggestions (at least one of which I did not like doing, not one bit), but nothing works. It looks like I’m just going to have to enter that fifty-number password all the time. I log onto my library account pretty much daily and let me tell you, it’s very nearly a deal-breaker for me! I guess I’ll memorize it soon enough, right? Pfft. I want it to just remember! My damn library password! I’ve got to figure out an easy work-around for this, keybind my password to one of my mouse buttons or something, heh.

The Tallest Man on Earth is playing at the Fillmore in San Francisco next month and I won’t be going which makes me sooo.very.sad! I adore his latest album.

I finally switched to Chrome. I even wrote to Firefox to tell them that their browser had pissed me off for the last time. I closed my note with, “Wish me luck with Chrome because if it treats me the way Firefox has, I’m quitting the internet.” Heh. I spent some time going through the extensions and I think I’ve set it up so my usability is about the same as I had with Firefox. I miss my Tardis theme, though!

So after all summer of no summer, heat came to bite us in the ass this week! It was about 100 today and ew, it was just gross. It still feels gross, 78 at 12:30 a.m. Yuck. One of our neighbors is pregnant, her due date is about five weeks away, this weather must be really unpleasant for her.

Rebecca and I went swimming late yesterday afternoon and it was loads of fun, she and I hadn’t horsed around in the pool together in ages. And it just hasn’t been warm enough for swimming in our frigid pool very much this summer. She went to San Francisco with Ed today or we’d have been in the pool all day today. Tomorrow. Pool tomorrow.

This song is seeing heavy rotation today.

I keep opening the “add new post” thing for my blog and then sitting here… …. duuuuh. Ed is on staycation this week and we’re just hanging out. Since we found out his hours have been cut at work, we’re afraid to spend two pennies, yeesh.

I don’t know. Everything’s mostly fine, I just don’t have diddly-poop to say for myself today. I’ve been writing a few letters, knitting on some dishcloths for a friend (while I watch season 4 of Entourage, I can’t help myself, I love Ari and Drama, heh). Zoe was here for a few days and now Rebecca is sort of wallowing in stunned silence. I’m going to be sad when Ed goes back to work (not half as sad as he will be, though, right?), he’s been making coffee and breakfast every morning and I’m very spoiled by this.

*shrug*

I’m sure I’ll get my bloggy mojo back. If I really wanted to get it back, all I’d have to do is say I don’t feel like blogging anymore, isn’t that always the way it goes?

I’ve been wanting to buy some ink for my fountain pens, moving away from the boring blue and black cartridges. I’m having a hard time choosing, though, and a whole bottle of ink for $10+ that I might hate seems… blech. So I ordered some samples from Pear Tree Pens. You can order a sample of any ink they sell. They come in these teensy jars, with just enough ink them to fill your pen maybe two or three times, plenty to know if you want to buy a whole bottle or not. I haven’t opened them yet, but I’m going to later. Meanwhile, they look so pretty:

And some of the latest outgoing mail: