Good Things Friday (121) and Link Love
June 18, 2021
1. As a notebook hoarder, I’m pretty excited to discover that I’m within two pages of finishing up a notebook. I’ve been chronicling my day to day completed tasks and checklists since March in a single little book. It’s fun to cycle through my colorful pens and helpful to manage my expectations for work in writing. Now I have to decide which notebook to use next and do I keep the completed books? Probably for a little while, there are some reference bits in there that I may need to look back to.
2. Our insulation is helping! Our floors aren’t nearly so frigid and we don’t need to bundle up in three layers (or run the heat) to stay warm enough to function every day! It’ll be ages before we break even on the money front but I don’t care. We’re feeling the benefit every day and we’re not wasting heat when and if we do run the furnace.
Challenges this week: Our friend has passed and we’re all grieving deeply.
‘My God, I’m in a whale’s mouth’: lobster diver on brush with hungry humpback
Two friends in the PF world have welcomed little ones! Done By Forty and Penny at She Picks up Pennies.
Hot Divorcée Summer: We are burnt out, overloaded, overworked, and under showered.This is not a summer of pretending things are fine. Of going back to normal. This is the summer of calling this shit out.
China’s tech workers pushed to their limits by surveillance software
This home listing is really something else: INVESTOR SPECIAL! This formerly majestic 5 bed/4 bath/3 car garage home was once the seller’s pride and joy. Now it’s every landlord’s nightmare and needs someone with firm resolve to appreciate its potential. If you dream of owning your own little slice of hell and turning it into a piece of heaven, then look no further! This house is not for the faint of heart but for that special person who can see through the rough diamond to the polished gem inside. As you enter, there are soaring ceilings and an open floor plan with a second-floor overlook. You will also notice there is not one surface of the home that has not been enhanced with black spray paint or a swinging hammer – damage done by an angry departing tenant who didn’t want to pay rent. But don’t let that slow you down. It’s not nearly as daunting as the freezer in the basement that’s full of meat and hasn’t had electricity to it for over a year. So be sure to wear your mask. Not for anyone else’s protection but your own. You may not be able to endure the smell if you don’t. The floorplan is wonderful and open. The main floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen with dining area, family room with fireplace, laundry, and main floor bedroom and bath. There is a walk-out to a back deck – but don’t go out there as the deck is not necessarily attached to the house in the manner you might hope. The upstairs has a catwalk, large master with soaking tub and dual sinks, plus two additional bedrooms and bath – all covered in black spray paint, vulgarities, and other substances which are no longer identifiable. The basement is amazing – or at least it will be once all the debris is cleared out, the floor coverings are replaced, and the obscenities are painted over. The home has AC and a radon mitigation system and sits on a large lot. Oh, and did I mention it’s in the pink of a geological landslide area? Come feast your senses. DO NOT GO ON BACK DECK. DO NOT OPEN FREEZER IN BASEMENT.
London Kaye, a street artist and crochet artist who uses yarn as her medium, based in New York and LA #womensart
I’m so sorry about the loss of yore friend I know it’s been a long hard time and I hope you’re able to grieve with your community somehow.
Thank you, Beth.
Also very sorry to hear about your friend. 🙁
Thank you. <3
I’m so sorry to hear about your friend. 🙁
And I’m so sorry about the loss of Seamus.
And your mom.
And the horrible way your father and brother treated you (yes, I have been lurking for a while)
And all the losses you’ve suffered. Way too many.
I remember an earlier post where you talked about some defense mechanism of yours, that to brace yourself for loss, convincing yourself people don’t really care about you, things like that. I have some nasty defense mechanisms myself, so I can at least partly relate. I’m sure it’s not true though. You seem like a very caring, very trustworthy and very deep person. Any reasonably decent person in your life is bound to care about you.
I’m sorry if this comment brings up too much old stuff, or was inappropriate or too much in some way.
For whatever it’s worth, coming from an internet stranger and everything, I just wanted to say all of this.
Thank you for reading all these years, and taking the time to comment today, Maria. You haven’t brought anything that hasn’t already resurfaced with all the losses of this year, so no worries on that front. I appreciate your vote of confidence, and hope that I always do my best to prove you right.
I’m so sorry to hear about your friend. I’m around on Twitter DM if you want to talk.
Thanks, bud.