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I made sugar cookies with all 30 mlb teamdidn't play favorites.. they are diabetic friendly and gluten free friendly too.
Taking a Blue Jay. Not that I am into baseball, but I have a nest of actual blue jays, ie. the bird, next to my deck so they are my favorite birdy right now.
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life has been crazy busy but very Interesting
At least it is interesting busy and not dull busy.
Coffee is on. Tea is Earl Grey and English Breakfast. Going to be hot here later, so iced tea and lemonade are in the fridge along with restocked pop.
Later.
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What do you mean? This is exciting news. May be a while if you have to wait for the 2023, huh? I have an old 2001 Subaru Forester and I love it but the black rubber around windows, doors, etc. is melting which is quite a mess on a white car. Other than that, and the fact I can't figure out how to reprogram the remote to open and lock doors, it's fine. If someone accidently locks the doors though. Horrors. It screams and beeps if you try to get in and makes you go through 12 turns of the key in ignition within two minutes to stop it. So embarrassing.
My CRV (and the new Civic) can be set so that as long as the key fob is in your pocket, the car will unlock when you pull on one of the front door handles or the liftgate (but not the back doors for some reason). There is no actual key, save an emergency one that you can use if the fob's battery is dead or something. And it has push button start. Again, the fob just has to be in your pocket. But, yeah, you absolutely cannot get into the car without a fob in range (normally, there's ways to defeat it).
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When I get a new (used) car, it’ll be like Elizabeth’s, a Subaru. I loved my Outback.
If I ever go off Honda for some reason, Subaru is definitely an option. A guy who use to work for me had a Crosstrek (until some drip t-boned it) and it's as nice an SUV as I have ever seen.
So I am drinking something called Guangdong Milk Tea and is it ever delish. It's oolong with natural dairy flavouring. I don't usually put milk in tea, but this is good. I've put on a pot for others to try and some green tea in the other pot. Coffee pot is refreshed for those what might need a fix. There's iced tea in the fridge, too.
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I actually have to drive across town to deliver proof to the IRS that I paid them.
😲Apparently, the US government's accountants are no better than Canada's. If they received a payment and it was applied to your account, they should be able to see that, which likely means some drip didn't post the cash application or something (yes, I admin an accounting system among other things).
Good afternoon! Some heavy showers this morning but it let up by lunch time and was clearing. I have put in an order on a new set of wheels (don't get too excited, I'm replacing a Honda Civic LX with a newer Civic LX, nothing fancy). Not sure when I will actually get it other than the dealership has already told me the 2022 LX trim is sold out so I'll be getting a 2023 when they come in.
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I battle the IRS on whether I owe them money or not (I already paid you!).
If it makes you feel better, CRA is just as big a PITA as your revenuers. And I say that as the son of someone who worked there for like 30 years (and married a former colleague as his third wife). He was in property appraisal though so only got to make life hellish for people incurring capital gains on property sales or inheritances.
Coffee is perking to perk you up. Tea is a steeping. Iced tea and lemonade are made and in the fridge.
After a cooler day yesterday, things are warming up again here.
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Scott, you know my answer to that will always be PUBLISH it! Especially since you already have the formatting part down. You can always pull it back down.
We shall see. With no other writing projects on the go, fixing this up for publication might just be my current writing project. Need to refine my process for creating ePubs, too.
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I won't mention what it is, but it's very angry, which should give you a clue
Let's see, an American writing for an anthology on a very angry topic. There's a few options there, eh, but perhaps one of the recent ones involving SCOTUS?
Nice day here after a rather muggy Sunday. Cool, sunny, breezy. Too bad I have to work, eh. Working at home this morning so wife can have the wheels, but have to go in this afternoon to do an interview for my still-unfilled vacancy.
As an experiment, I tried putting the three Tana stories together and used that to play with creating an ePub of them, mostly just to experiment with creating ePubs, something I have never done before. There's some editing needed (e.g. since they were published over such a long period, there's some redundancy to keep them standalone) if I want to make this into a novellette or novella but it might be a project to keep my mind active until I get something new going. Not sure I would actually take this one all the way to selling it on Amazon or Smashwords since it is more about me learning the technology, but maybe something I would distribute privately or under a Creative Commons license of some form.
Cool trivia: ePub-formatted ebooks are just html (web pages) with some associated files all zipped up. Of course, if you're selling them, there's additional security built in so it is not just a zipped up website, but for minor format fixes and edits, I can just dust off my HTML coding skills (used to run a church's website).
Coffee is hot and ready. Teas are Earl Grey and Irish Breakfast. Iced tea is in the fridge for those needing something cool. Have a nice one!
