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Was that the massive snowstorm in 1978? I lived downstate and had an interview for the medical illustration program at the medical center in Chicago that day. A friend of my dad’s flew us up to midway in a tiny plane and some kind soul picked us up on the street and took us there - me with a massive portfolio and a life sized humanoid soft sculpture (we couldn’t find a taxi). It was a bit of a nightmare. (Happy Anniversary)

I was at the Seattle concert. Funny - I was just listening to their CD yesterday.

Omgosh, Andy, I wouldn’t change a thing about that fireplace. That “eclectic mess” is beautiful. Those Victorian tiles! ️

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Pretty!

This one is one of my favorites. I never learned it all the way - but I still like to muddle through it. So beautiful.

@ShiroKuro said in Anybody doing wild New Year's Eve stuff?:

My mother came over and Mr SK made toshi-koshi soba (year’s end soba noodles) for dinner. We visited for a while, she went home at 8pm maybe. Then we watched a movie, and were in bed 11pm.

Today we’ll take down our christmas trees (which will break my heart) while watching a recording of the 4-hour New Year’s Eve Japanese song contest Kohaku.

Taking down the tree makes me sad too. I also do it on New Year’s Day. It’s quite beautiful this year (even though the lower limbs are sparse and it’s slightly crooked - we cut it in the forest south of town) and I finally realized how much I hate LED christmas lights (the brightness and intensity of the colors) and I purchased some good old mini incandescents like I used to put on the tree. It made me very happy.

Crazy warm here. Too warm. 44 degrees today, supposed to hit above 40 all week, dipping into the teens at night.

Wildly boring here. We made pot stickers (from scratch), rice and steamed broccoli. Leftover Christmas chocolates. NA beer. Might open the patio door to look if the neighbors light off fireworks.

I had never heard that song until recently, now I hear it all the time and it gets stuck in my head.

How excellent!

We discovered cast iron skillets late in the game, and are completely hooked. Those look really nice!

Love the saxophone gift! We don’t really do gifts anymore (just $), but got all nostalgic walking down the toy aisle at Walmart yesterday and impulse bought a Lego set for junior to open this morning. He is building it now.

Sourdough cinnamon rolls.

My adult kid uses a subscription AI all the time as a software engineer. If you know what you are doing it is game changing from a productivity standpoint. It’s a much faster way to get all the information you need to solve a problem. (Which is all coding is, solving problems). He says it’s like a mirror. The more of an expert you are about coding, the better it will work for you.

I love that story. Wow.

They are good for small areas. I kept my insulated tack room above freezing in the barn in Maine. We have one near the desk at the gallery (plus several others that blow air) since the rooms in the lower level of our building have no heat. I like that they don’t make noise, and are so much safer than the ones that get red hot. They are easy to move around too. Just don’t get a cheap one. Our cheap one from Walmart quit working after the first winter.

I don’t suppose airlines offer the little chat box to help in a situation like this.