When I started my keto diet back in January, I still really wanted some kind of purchasable breakfast option for days when packing two meals didn’t work. Turns out you can order a Chick-fil-a grilled chicken filet with egg and cheese on top. I’ve eaten a lot of them this year. Still tasty.

2024 Reads: Moonbound by Robin Sloan 📚

Well, this was delightful. Hints of Monk & Robot as well as Narnia. So imaginative.

My daughter is soon to need her own car, and one option is to give her my RAV4 and find something else for me. Looking around, though, not sure there’s any current car I’m too excited about. Figure I’d best just keep driving what I’ve got!

Visitor underneath our bird feeders tonight.

A fairly large raccoon eating seeds underneath some small sunflowers.

Cleaning up cast iron cookware with SCIENCE! (Ok, it’s an electrolysis tank.)

A large white plastic bucket mostly full of dirty water, with a power supply wired up to a piece of steel going into the bucket and also to a cast iron skillet hanging from above the bucket.

Just got an email from the library that I have a book available to pick up. I don’t remember putting it on hold, but it looks like a good book, so I’ll trust my past self on this one. 😂

With all the mess going on with Wordpress these days, I’m happier than ever that I took the leap this year to move my 20 years of blog history to micro.blog.

Tony Bennett, men’s basketball coach at Virginia, reportedly retiring immediately, right before the beginning of the season. He’s only 55. Ton of respect for this guy, hope things are ok with him and his family.

I made it through an audition and will be joining the Orchestra Iowa Chorus this year. In the spring we’re doing Mozart’s Requiem. I bought the score and did a first listen/read through the other night… I’ve got some work to do! 😯I needed a challenge. This will be a good one.

Ah, the typical library visit: return two books, borrow six more.