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Thu, 14 May 2026 02:30:25 GMT

There was a book & plant sale near my work today. I went to check it out as a break, not expecting to find anything, but I was mistaken: I found something I wanted after all, a thin not-a-book called Douglas Adams’ London, which is a folding map of London with 42 locations relevant to Douglas Adams’ life, with information about each on the back, plus a postcard with a picture of the Babel fish.
(I ignored the plants: they were species more for folks with yards, plus there’s a plant and seed swap next week in the same space.)

Market Basket has failed me twice recently. Apparently, they no longer carry wooden matches, only matchbooks with the flimsy cardboard ones, which I dislike. I’m not so near to being out of them, though, so I should be able to find another place that carries them (I’ll check the local hardware store first.) And after a couple of shopping trips without 5-lb bags of regular onions (ie not Vidalia), I asked a worker in the produce section, and apparently now while 2-lb bags of yellow onions are available year round, 5-lb bags of onions are a seasonal item? I do not understand this; I use onions throughout the year at approximately the same levels. (Of course the smaller bags cost more per pound.)

Thanks to conuly, I now know that some gifted people can make dumplings in the shape of goldfish. I aspire to be half as talented at dumplings. (Though I now have a dumpling cookbook from the minoanmiss collection, so perhaps there’s some chance of achieving this goal.)

I got notification at work that there’s yet another thing I have to do as part of $BasicJobTask, which has been getting progressively more onerous since they introduced the new app late last year. It’s frustrating how much slower it all is, and it feels like each month, there’s a new restriction or added requirement. I wouldn’t mind it nearly as much if there were one big set of changes; instead it’s the dribs and drabs of change that I find out when something gets rejected despite being correct for all the previously known constraints. This month I started tracking tasks done (not time taken, however), and somehow that’s just enough gamification that I’m getting through it all despite my annoyance.

Last week’s achievement: getting the bathroom sink back to full functionality. I hadn’t realized there’s a filter in the faucet that can get wholly blocked. Oops.

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N things make a post