Seven books I own, no caption, no comment. 

11. How organised are you with household paperwork (or is everything just in one big pile)?

I'm so unorganized, it's not even funny. Hubby is very organized. One of us had to be. However, he has boxes and boxes of things from his job before retiring. He worked for the same company for 44 years. So, it's 44 years of his job memories. I have to start cleaning out my closet. It's a huge walk-in-closet. I'm going to ask him if we can clean it all out this weekend. I hope he says yes. It's too much to tackle on my own. We’ll see who is organized this weekend.

Hi Pattrose

mxcatmoon sent you a message on Dreamwidth.

The message is: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I hope you have a great birthday tomorrow!

🧡🎈🎁🧁🎂

Cat

I'm having trouble getting to Dreamwidth. . So, I'm answering here. Is anyone else having a hard time with Dreamwidth? Thank you so much, Cat. If you want to read a kick butt story from Katef. It's on AO3. It's the sentinel. It's so good. https://archiveofourown.org/works/80965876

Topics for talk

Ways I Can Be a Better Friend

One word and one word alone. Listen. Don’t give your opinion, listen while he or she vents. Sometimes it’s the best thing you can do. It’s hard to do this, but do it anyhow. They will thank you later.

90 questions

1. What is something that makes you unique?

I have no idea. This one stumped me. Hopefully it’ll spark some interest for someone else. I was thinking, I’m friendly, but that doesn’t make you unique.

I finished reading Adventures in Calamity Physics yesterday. There was a major plot zig around 85% of the way done, and then a zag after the 90% mark. Did not see either of them coming! Now I'm on Terminal Chaos, the second book in the series that starts with Station Eternity. I like the characters in it— especially the rock-like aliens.

This weekend, I photographed a bunch of stuff and posted it for sale on Craigslist. It included a damaged antique Victrola cabinet, which I thought I'd be lucky to give away for free. Hah! I probably should have charged something for it, just to cut down on the number of flaky people messaging me about it all weekend who couldn't seem to actually follow through. But! It went to someone who is going to strip it and restore it to its former glory, and I couldn't have asked for a better recipient.

Saturday night, HalfshellHusband and I watched Letters To Juliet, in which Amanda Seyfriend was woefully miscast (too callow) and Vanessa Redgrave made up for it. \o?

Sunday afternoon, I went for a bike ride out on the parkway. BIG surprise there— they have finally opened the rest of the lower parkway after closing it for 3 1/2 years while they, IDK, added a lane or two to the Business 80 over-crossing there? It's really nice to have the rest of that downriver option. There are always fewer people there, and I can't go very far upriver on weekends because of the increased amount of idioting that makes biking there (in clip-in pedals) dangerous. This means I don't have to do a bunch of tight loops over and over again to get my 20+ miles in on downriver days anymore. \o/

Not looking forward to the summer heat, though. Two weeks ago, we had our random 53^o day. Next week? It's supposed to hit 89^o. NOoooooooooo!

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown started off as a fun adventure story about a young woman who is given a book that turns 'any door into every door'. Whilst I was enjoying it to begin with, it did feel like there was a disconnect between the simplistic style and light tone versus the quite dark and violent content. But when time travel was introduced and two of the main characters started doing stupid things that seemed out of keeping with their presentation up to that point, I decided to stop reading after about 150 pages.


The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier has been on my TBR shelf for a long time and I finally got around to giving it a try. It's about an artist who is commissioned to create designs for a series of tapestries by his patron. But the initial viewpoint character was so repugnant, I could stand spending any more time in his head so I gave up on it very quickly.

”In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad” by several authors

The details about which countries line up where on the individual issues that Pew chose to use in its survey is interesting, but what really strikes me about this article is the list of issues itself.

• Married ppl having an affair
  
• Using marijuana
  
• Viewing pornography
  
• Gambling
  
• Having an abortion
  
• Homosexuality
  
• Drinking alcohol
  
• Getting a divorce
  
• Using contraceptives

How did they come up with this silly list and what does it have with morality? At first I thought it was based in monotheistic religions, but there’s only one overlap with the Ten Commandments and I don’t remember anything about most of those in the New Testament either. (I don’t know much about the others.) All of the things in this list are either completely morally acceptable (contraceptives, being gay) or are unacceptable only insofar as they often lead to harming others (alcohol). Whereas murdering, stealing, and telling lies about other people should be in any list of potentially immoral behaviors. Because “does it cause lasting harm to others” is the most important determinant of what’s moral and immoral. At least that’s how it looks from here.
/soapbox

How does the concept of morality fit into your life?

Topics for discussion

Ways I Can Control My Anger.

I have little control over my anger. I prefer to get it out of me. I'm not a violent person, but I do get angry. I usually use my voice to speak about what has made me angry. And believe me, everyone would hear. But once I let my anger out, I am able to go back to my sweet self in no time. You just never know with me.

How about you?