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 The Patch is trashy, trashy news and sometimes I feel lightly ashamed for subscribing to it.  (I think I started reading it back when there was a local election, but it also might have been my news source for bridge closures.)  However, all my shame was alleviated today when it also became te news source that alerted me first to suspicious packages at local residents and then clarified it was that glitter and bible verses were sent to some of the Straight Pride organizers' homes.

 

If you havne't heard of straight pride, don't google it.  it's exactly what you think it is and it will just make you sad.

 

I'm like 60% better from my lung demons (I was like 80% this morning, but phlegm production has increased and energy levels have dipped proportionally as the day went on.

 

Another weekend that feels a little bit like I lost it, not really doing or seeing anyone (tentative Hands and Hips plans were made, but staying home with my possibly infectous ass seemed wisest to all concerned and so subsequently canceled)

 

I'm fighting an uphill battle of a book that I'm convinced I really should be into and am just not, despite having made it halfway through.  I just want to find out why so many people like it and it shows up on so many lists of books that otherwise appeal to me.   But, since it means I keep finding excuses not to listen to the book I should probably just give up and find another book.  In other, better news a handful of Max Gladstone books are finally available as audio books so I can listen to them with Abundance.   However, that means I need to wait for Abundance to listen to them and none of them can be my next book.

 

I finally abandoned my TBR list to begin again. About 600 fiction and 400 nonfiction cast aside (by which I mean saved as something other than 2019 reading list).  This triggered some serious thinking about whether or not to try to engage in goodreads.  I told myself once upon a time that when we moved and I was reunited with all of my books., I'd either start a brand new library things or goodreads, to keep track of everything I actually own, and then add everything I've read to that.  But it really does seem to bring some people joy and I suspect I'd really enjoy the time-sink aspect of adding and classifying so many books.  

 

Bedtime. Tomorrow, I hope to manage to post the June roundup.  Today I'll just count posting as a win.