Wednesday?

Yes, Wednesday. I checked. There is nothing on the agenda today. Maybe there will be some laundry laundered. Robby is sucking up dust and debris as I type (Biggie is out on the terrace keeping a watchful eye on the process from behind the glass. He's not impressed with robotic vacuuming. He's not really opposed, he just feels like it needs to be watched carefully.)

The sun is coming in this morning like it does in summer. Not a welcome sight but an inevitable one. At least it brings baseball. Tomorrow!

I discovered the other day that my favorite teriyaki place is open again and now with online ordering. I love online ordering. It's a great place. Good, cheap food. A nice walking distance from here. So today might just be teriyaki day.

And I need to find a new book. I found, started and rejected a few. It feels like it's always like this. Especially after finishing a particularly good one. Finding the next one is always tough. But, I can do it.

Biggie just came in when Robby got near the food. Did I mention that I got Robby some googly eyes?

Birthday Answers

(For my birthday, I asked for Ask Me Anything Questions. I got so many wonderful ones. I'm answering them in entries from here until I get to the end. If you think of something you want to ask, just leave a comment or a note. Deadline is totally not a thing.)

miss_ljv asks:

1. Three childhood memories (any kind)

My earliest memory is from when I was 4 and they brought my baby brother home from the hospital. I already had a baby sister of whom I was not fond and now I had even more competition that everyone was ooing and ahhing over. :(

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When I was 7 and 8, we lived next door to an airline pilot and his family. His son, Steven was my age. Steven and his sister got new bicycles that came in a huge, long, wooden box. That box ended up in their backyard and Steven took a crayon inside and turned it into his own airplane. He took us around the world and back. I loved riding in that airplane.*

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On the other side of Steven and his family was Ted and his family. Ted had a teenage sister who I idolized. Every once in a while, she would invite me up into her room. It was like getting to go to Paradise. She, one time, got a new wallet and gave me her old one. I treasured that sucker for years.

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*Steven and all my neighbors were born Southerners and, in those days, American accents were way stronger. Steven called his airplane a Paper Cup. I was in a college physics class, obviously years later, and the professor was talking about aerodynamics of various airplanes when he referred to one of them as a Piper Cub. I’m pretty sure I LOL’d when it hit me that that was what Steven had been saying all those years!

Biggie 2021

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