On my humor blog it was a week of mostly non-humor, non-review pieces! If you saw it in your RSS feed you already saw such posts as:
- MiSTed: Eating for Death, Part 2 of 2
- Retail now available wholesale
- Statistics Saturday: How Much States Are Messing With You by When They Observe Arbor Day
- 60s Popeye: Model Muddle, featuring one model, who's not confused about it
- Statistics April: how Mark Trail once again gets people to sort of notice me
- What's Going On In Mark Trail? What makes crickets ``land shrimp''? January – May 2021
- Here's how to get rid of WordPress's Block Editor and get the good editor back because the people need to know!
- MiSTed: Dreams of a Lost Past/Loss, Part 1 of 4 which dips back to the 90s for old Mystery Science Theater 3000 fanfiction, riffing on a Legion of Superheroes fan fiction. This is one I really like, like, I think I got the Brains's voice right.
And a happy new year! I have finally reached 2021 in my photo roll! Nothing to speak of from the 1st of the year, but the day after? We begin our journey with ...
Snow! This was not a snowy winter, but the 2nd of January brought a storm big enough to need serious shoveling and to give us that transformative cover on the world. Here's what our backyard looked like.
And the front. You can see our sidewalk partly shoveled, apparently by the house to the south of us. I can't explain why they would start shoveling the walk, or why they would stop partway through, but it is churlish to complain that someone only did half the sidewalk-shoveling for you for free.
Looking up the street through one of the gel decals that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger puts on the windows. Also you can kind of make out my car, underneath that heap of snow.
Looking up the street through two of the gel decals, this time.
Looking out front from the upstairs and getting a better view of who's already shoveled by late morning and who hasn't.
View of the backyard from upstairs and don't the trees look fantastic like this?
Peering at our bird feeder and our squirrel feeder through the snow.
Also a view of the bird and squirrel feeders, but mostly a view of the bushes beside our fence.
Trivia: In 1896 the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the company-owned town George Pullman built for his workers was illegal, finding such a construct ``opposed to good public policy and incompatible with the theory and spirit of our institutions''. Source: A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters, Scott Reynolds Nelson.
Currently Reading: This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, Loyd S Swenson Jr, James M Grimwood, Charles C Alexander. NASA SP-4201.
