Good news and catch-up, and pearl unfurling

 Today is turning out well. From the feds finally depositing relief in my account, overnight, after a delegation of NJ members of congress recently shamed the SocSec into handing over the files to the IRS

To a wonderful upcoming gift of yarn from dear C, a rl as well as virtual friend, in support of the Mitered Square Caper. She asked what would be good, and these warm colors will be great for lifting up the rather gloomy shades I'm down to.

Then, yesterday the backup phone,  the one repaired with tape, that has been playing the part of a tablet.gave out. Black screen no matter what I do.   

Soooo, wondering if I'd finally have to spring for a tablet, I pulled out the old tablet which stopped working weeks ago. It's now, after a rest and recharge,  partly working, luckily the parts I want. I can access and play audiobooks, and a nice version of solitaire, yay. 

They're a sleep aid, same few favorites, like a kid's favorite stories. So it will stick around a while. This happened after I'd been looking up electronic recycling, right in front of it. It knew.

And since tomorrow Handsome Son and I will finally celebrate Easter, there was today the Unfurling of the Pearls.

When I opened the box I noticed they'd worked themselves into a map of the UK. This would never do, Albion being in the rear view mirror, 

So this happened, an approximation of my home state, New Jersey.  Only moderately accurate, but they didn't have cartography in mind when they strung the pearls.

And the Easter eggs, cats, dogs and Dollivers are reunited

You see the white cat, foreground, guarding the two remaining cockatiel eggs, the other having collapsed from the weight of the air, I'm guessing.

Dogs guarding whatever they can find to guard, and the Boehm bunny in place. The blue and pink plastic eggs were a present from a little girl down the street.

Good day, all things considered. I've heard that phrase before somewhere.

Field and Fen -- Suitable for Work! 6WS

So my laptop started doing all kinds of strange tricks, illogical error messages, refusal to print from Word, demands to shut down before the juice ran out when I had only a browser open, etc.  And I decided perhaps I'd better invest in a tablet so that if all else failed I could still access email and a few favorite sites, maybe even learn to blog from it, so I finally did it.

And spent an interesting afternoon trying to open it, get it started, get it to respond to my pressing -- too gentle for Android, evidently -- and on the way to finding what I wanted, found myself in places I don't usually. 

One of them, on a search for Field and Fen, was a review of this site!  who knew.  Not any kind of indepth stuff, just a notation that it's moderately popular, suitable for family reading, and get this -- Suitable for Work!! I think we're all familiar with the NSFW alerts here and there when people post links.  Usually it's related to stuff your boss wouldn't like the computer system used for.  

But I'm oddly annoyed that we're considered so mild and inoffensive to these readers, over whose heads all the bitter political observations and the underlying subversiveness of the Dollivers, the all inclusive and wildly parodic group, complete with real life counterparts, appear to have flown. And I doubt if some of the writers we've reviewed think we're suitable for work...

So now I'm tempted to be Very Unsuitable.  

 
You have no idea what those bears might be about to get up to..

On the subject of techie equipment, I find that these electronic machines  have a mind of their own, and a certain consciousness, on the level of houseplants.  You know how when a plant just fails to thrive, starts withering and cringing, and you threaten to toss it out, and suddenly it puts out new leaves, straightens up and grows right?  

Case in point, the snake plant I put in the cuttings for last August.
See the three new leaves finally showing up?  I know they're slow growers, but these seemed to have been moving in reverse up till recently.  This growth took on a spurt when they saw me tossing dead stuff and upcycling their pots.

Anyway, electronics:  my laptop, the minute I placed my order for the tablet, suddenly started working right. Haven't tried the print function yet, but everything else appears to have decided it's not ready to be a big paperweight yet.