They just play it like that

And now I get an e-mail from someone who seems to be connected with the Lansing parking authority somehow. It reads, in all-caps, that the ``message for the Strada pals and passport app'' should be updated. I don't know what Strada is. Possibly it's the app that they've replaced actual parking meters with. But the e-mail says that it's to change the ``verbiage'' to say ``Free on-street parking - time limits enforced - Happy Holidays'', with paid parking to resume the 3rd of January, 2022.

This really feels like I've somehow been looped into an internal department e-mail. So I'm asking my friends among the fey folk for a little advice: how can I use this accident to talk my way into a paid position with the city parking authority? I'd most like one where I have no discernable specific duties, but I'm willing to do something where I have to answer e-mails, if I must.

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Now to close out the Tannenbaum Farms visit with the not-fruit-bearing fruits of our labor.

Here's the downstairs tree, still bundled up and readying for its unleashing.

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And here it is! You can see the nice fire we had going too, if you like.

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And here's the living room, ready for the decorating. Note that Sunshine has noped out of there while the fire's going on.

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Trivia: In 1678 the English Parliament ruled that the dead must be buried in wool. Source: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, William J Bernstein.

Currently Reading: The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, David Nasaw.