World Enough and Time

I took commodorified up on her offer of reading a story over the phone, and she read me a Vinyl Cafe story I'd never read before, in which Dave sets out to move an electrical outlet in the kitchen. It was delightfully funny and I am most grateful to commodorified for the laugh.

I love being read to. Good readers are worth their weight in gold. It's not like an audiobook - yes, I like them too, but that's a different kind of media. Having a person actually reading in person (even if on the phone a few miles away) is different, and better.

Today: I started cataloging my books. Yesterday I sorted them by author and subject, and put them onto the shelves. Today... well, writing down all the titles and authors into a spreadsheet on my tablet was harder than it sounds. I did two and half shelves - maybe 100 books - and decided to call it a day.

Made shepherd's pie for supper, in the slow cooker, with sweet potatoes. It turned out lovely.

Sheila, Ian and I watched an episode of Luther, which I didn't much like. I don't like stories about serial killers, and it was all rather dark and intense.

Audiobook du jour: "The Talisman Ring" by Georgetter Heyer.

Day 44 of yoga.

Day 127 of Duolingo. I've been doing Duolingo a lot longer than that, but I took a break for a couple of weeks back about 140 days ago.

World of Warcraft: Pet battles and archaeology, bringing Azurdil the Blood Elf Paladin to level 86.

I was excited to have seen daffodils. dewline told me there were tulips in bloom in Orleans - Ottawa's eastern suburb - and I was envious.

Then today, passing the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, I saw this:



Srping is happening very fast.

When I got up this morning, I looked at my computer to see what the temperature was. It said the low today was 4^o, the high 7^o, and the current temperature 0. What I am I make of that?

I dressed warmly, but I think it was well over 5^o: dank and damp, but not so cold. It had been raining, but was dry for the moment. I took pictures that just reek of rainy days in November. Here is the bicycle of the day:

Supper at Bento Sushi: Rocky Mountain Rolls:



Delicious.

Photo du jour: Rodney, one of Pim's new guinea pigs. His companion, Shep, is more shy.

A wonderful thing happened today. I was helping my friend Pim take her dresser to the basement, when she decided she didn't need the shelving in her bedroom. Now, it happens that the shelving was made from the hutch that went with the desk that she had already passed on to me, so... so now I have a bigger, better computer desk.

I was sitting here typing at my computer, and glanced out the window. The light was catching the tree in front of my building in a certain way, almost glowing... I had to take a picture.

I was amused by this photo which I found online. But though I found it in several places, none of the sites explained the context. Who took this photo, and why, and what does the question mean?

What a great photograph. Makes me want to dance just looking at it.

Pretty, twinkly sky with time lapse photography.

http://www.wimp.com/galacticcenter/