Just a few links...
I'm still having to trudge into town to connect to the Internet at McDonald's. The telephone company keeps trying to sit on their pudgy seats and tell me how to click on the button, pull up the Internet account they claim to have re-connected in my neighborhood, and enter the password. Hello? The button pulls up "No connections are available." The computer does not recognize the thing with which they replaced the storm-destroyed router as being a router. It doesn't look like one to me, either. The computer has no problem with other people's routers...
Books
Linda Goudsmit's Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier has been e-mailed to me by chapters, but some chapters got lost during the hurricane snafu last fall. I'm glad to report that the remaining chapters were in my Reading List today. The book has been published, is currently showing five stars on Amazon, has so many "celebrity" endorsements it didn't need mine, and is currently the featured and only book in the Current & Recent Events collection on my Bookshop. (I know. I just didn't get over to Bookshop.) Buying it there will support this web site and support Linda Goudsmit, and it's also a fascinating, formidably researched book.
Another new book...this one shouldn't intimidate anyone. It's an Enchanted Lion picture book from Ukrainian author/artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv. I don't know why those people spell things the way they do but I do know that this particular team make picture books as works of art. They did a book about "motion," not so much to teach tots about physics as to explore ways to suggest motion in drawings and paintings. Guaranteed lovable, whimsical, informative, and fun for adults as well as six-year-olds. Might not be silly enough for three-year-olds, but I'd guess they'd like the pictures too, especially if you read this one to the six-year-old.
(Enchanted Lion is the publisher that sent me six gorgeous books for my New Book Retailer of Then, and she went out of business while they were in shipping. I still have them. One's by Romanyshyn and Lesiv.)
The Greying of America
Some people's Grandma was looking at this all winter, and the first young men who showed up to help were from Texas. Hello? This is Michigan. I recommend that all of The Nephews, male and female, take all the construction jobs they can get. Landscaping, carpentry, plumbing, electrical repairs, roofing, even just painting skills, come in handy...especially if you have a truck full of tools, and, as someone noted at this web site years ago, a Carhartt. Your neighbors should not be walking around trees that fell in January when the surviving trees are covered in leaves. (Your Auntie Pris has skills, but the neighborhood sociopath made off with some of my favorite tools last year...I would have lent anyone contending with a fallen tree the spare axe, even him, but the one Dad used was left to me not him.)
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