Okay, so maybe the pyramids of Egypt were not built built by aliens, but I know a couple of highway interchanges here in #Indiana that had to be designed and built by them.
Search for “water enhancer” on Amazon. I didn’t know they were a thing, but it’s a neat idea. Except it seems like everything is fruit flavors.
Do we understand that carrying firearms in a peaceful demonstration is not wise, nor is it normal?
Somebody told me Twitter is considering charging a fee for use and wanted to know if I would pay. I haven’t laughed so hard in months.
Pfft. To be an anti-vaxxer is so 1990’s. I want to know, is are you pro Alternating Current or anti Alternating Current? And what are the links between Alternating Current, Spontanious Human Combustion, Tele-Tubbies and the Kremlin?
It’s a shame when the Left gets things wrong. When you get it wrong, you undermine the legitimacy of a worthwhile cause.
I just finished reading a series of 20 (so far) cozy mystery novels that make up The Pitkirtly Mysteries by Cecilia Peartree. There are also a couple of short story collections in the same setting but I haven’t gotten around to reading them yet.
The Pitkirtly Mysteries are very character driven books. While the plots were interesting, it was the characters that kept me on my reading marathon through the series. The main protagonists are a quirky, eccentric, mainly introverted group who range from middle age to retirees. I wasn’t completely charmed by the characters with the first book “Crime in the Community,” but by the second book, “Reunited in Death” I started really liking them.
Things I liked about these cozies is that they work their charm without becoming sickeningly sweet:
Some of the above might sound like negatives, but the author blends all these together very deftly over the series. She avoids what I consider the pitfall of many modern cozies by not getting too cute, too sweet or overdoing the romance.
The characters, make this mystery series. As I started each novel I felt like I was hanging out with old friends. And yet the mysteries kept me engaged. I give them a solid 4 out of 5 stars because I enjoyed them so much.
I bought these on Kobo at US .99 cents per book (with some freebies), so for less than US $20 you can immerse yourself in this cozy world without breaking the budget. It also shows that it’s worth browsing through the self published ebooks wherever you buy. There are some real gems out there.
Besides Kobo, the Pitkirtly novels are also available on Amazon US, Amazon UK, Smashwords and others you can find some quick links on “Cecilia Peartree’s” blog (look at the blogroll for links.)
Just looking through Twitter, there is a whole lot of totalitarian thinking going on there and it isn’t all just from the extreme Right either.
With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, we may have to tweek the Green New Deal (GND). Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
Personally, I like the slow and dumb zombies over the faster than goose shit swarm zombies. How about you?
Remember the dateline in newspapers? It seems to have fallen out of favor but I wish newspapers and news websites would start using it again.
Everything is keto diet these days and I have no clue what that means. But “Kato” was the “Green Hornet’s” sidekick who was cooler than the Green Hornet himself. Vowels.
The problem with ebooks, online book stores and ebook platform readers is it’s creating a Balkanization of ebook title availability. Each online ebook store has a different list of book titles by a given author, especially with self published or small press publishers. Amazon, generally has the most titles of any ebook retailer with other reader/platform/retailers being more hit and miss on title counts.
And it’s a pain in the ass.
Largely because each retailer has their own ebook reader which means you end up trying to remember “do I have this author’s other books on Amazon Kindle, Kobo Reader, Barnes and Noble’s thingy or Apple Books?”
And it’s a pain in the ass.
Okay an extra bonus rant: I still miss the late Fictionwise.com. They were the best online ebook store. To bad they got borged by B&N.
Crime TV: Murder by the Lake. Series: German with subtitles.
Murder by the Lake streams on Mhz Choice. I just finished off Series 2. Good series, interesting setting and characters.
9 out of 10 horses recommend oat milk for your morning cereal.
It’s Monday the 1st. Per the USPS, the 3-Day Priority Mail envelope will take 5 days to be delivered Est. on Friday the 5th. If it takes 5 days why call it 3 day Mail? It’s a long time for something to be delivered 25 miles away. #newmath
Isolation Department Report: New Norelco shaver blades delivered. Small, rotary, self distanced, celebrations are breaking out here at Galactic HQ.
My neighborhood is overrun with packs of feral children, and dogs. I think somebody has been dumping kids and dogs here over the winter. On nice days everybody is out walking their dogs and airing out the kids.
I’ve been sort of quiet (at least for me.) I can only say “Trump is a Fink,” so many different ways before I’m repeating myself.
Trump reminds me of Benito Mussolini. Just saying.
People who have been safely sheltering at home are protesting, demanding to go back to work.
Meanwhile, workers who have been, very bravely, working throughout the lockdown without proper PPE (grocery workers, delivery workers, caregivers) are striking for better protection, pay, some time off.
Hair Report: My hair now looks like that of most of my professors at Uni way back when. Growing on to full hippie. What lies beyond Hippie hair? Full Bozo. Trimmed my sideburns which have gone completely white. #peace #love #groovy #freedomrock
I just ordered hand sanitizer from APR Bio-Tech. The thing that caught my eye was it continues to kill germs for 4 hours after application to your hands. For me, worth trying.
It’s not called Spring anymore. It’s Pressure Washing Season (PWS cos everything has to have 3 initials these days.) I’ll be hearing pressure washers in the ‘hood, continuously for the next few weeks.
With so much Wrongness about I had the urge to “do the right thing”. So I had Coco Wheats for breakfast.