Today I went to the library to hang out while the cleaners were at work. While I was there I remembered the wild weather forecast for the weekend, so I picked a puzzle as weather prep.
The exhibit in the library gallery, very appropriate for lunar new year was
Half oil paintings in Western style, half Chinese brush painting. I liked the brush painting more than the oils, not a fan of oils, and I loved the table with the artist's book and visitor signatures, to which I added mine.
I think I like the concept here better than the execution, but I'm glad she did it. The weird angles are to avoid the reflections.
Then I thought you'd like a surprise. While I was roasting potato dice to go with an egg, upscale Brit egg 'n chips, I did this
Would you look at that? Labeled cannellini beans, and in fact, vye-ola, cannellini beans. Now in containers in the freezer.
Meanwhile there's heartening news on the cute winter boots and sand front. Turns out E***n's Doggy website, flung together, is full of flaws and has been joyfully hacked with rude messages.
They're also finding that the third graders he's brought in can't read the gov website language, the old COBOL. Before their time and they're floundering. Can't find their way around the Treasury site.
Remember Y2K, when gov agencies all set up with COBOL since the ark, frantically recruited retirees to come back and help, same problem?
Here we seem to have user error sand.
Also, federal attorneys in New York Southern District are resigning rather than agree to withdraw charges against the corrupt ny Mayor Eric Adams (no relation!).
Danielle Sassoon, a T***p appointee in his first term, went first, it's always a brave woman, followed by others. Here's a great email from another civic hero
They are certified conservatives, right wingers, who still know business from law and follow the law.
Latest is an attempt to pressure other attorneys to sign. We'll see how that goes.
My own resistance step today, after I had a hilarious run-in with a charter boat company using the new name for that Gulf, which I think I won on points, was to ditch Goo*** as a search engine, and replace it with Duck duck go. No tracking, better information, and a fun option.
Happy day everyone, try to get a bit of fun out of the grimness, you may as well.
