Inside The Perimeter

Looking at my credit card statements I didn’t do a good job of “Low Buy January”. I am more than a little concerned, that every month has a purchase in it that seems frivolous, but adds to the quality of my life. I guess that I will try again next month…

Apparently I also forgot to renew my subscription to Games Magazine back in August, I was probably all consumed about going to Europe. I figured this out when I realized that I’d not received a new issue in months, and my failure was confirmed when I logged into their website to see my lack of renewal.

Wordle: three, my starter was STEAL

Other than mistakenly thinking yesterday was Thursday, I’ve got nothing.

Wordle: four, my starter was STUMP

Regarding yesterday’s Taco Mac discussion, I think that I have over 775 beers. I’d tell you exactly, but I can’t seem to log into the Taco Mac Brewniversity any longer.

Wordle: four, my starter was RABID

WLF has officially spilled into the front yard! After a couple of years of waiting, with a black tarp over a portion of the front lawn, I peeled back half (rediscovering how insidious tree roots can be) and planted some romaine lettuce transplants under a mesh cover to protect them from squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, etc. This section of lawn will only really be useful for winter gardening as it’s too shaded by trees and the house come summertime.

Bit of good news, and not so good news yesterday: I rode the trainer for sixty minutes yesterday, but either in do so, or doing something shortly afterwards, tweaked my left knee.

Wordle: FAIL, my starter was GLARE.

My second failure this month. Good thing I don’t care about my (lack of a) streak. There were two possibilities remaining for my last guess. I could have consulted the list of previous solutions I keep, but I felt that was cheating.

An email from McSweeney’s contained this listicle that made me laugh — Signs You are a Gen-Xer About to Turn Sixty.

Wordle: four, my starter was SIXTY

I can’t make this shit up. After returning home from my choring I started a walk. On this walk I went past a house that had thrown a wire shelving and unit into their trash can! I quickly walked home to get my car, and returned to claim the parts. At first I was confused because I found four shelves, and 3.5 legs (missing the longer part of one leg). I decided that the clips were cheap enough to buy a new set from Amazon instead of cleaning out the garbage can since they were all on the bottom. I was disappointed that one of the leg pieces was missing, until I saw it sticking out of a neighbor’s garbage can, a neighbor that was across the street and a block away! and claimed it.

Wordle: four, my starter was PENIS

Words I could not use as starters this week because they’ve already been solutions:
ANGST
BROKE
CHEAT
CRIME
THIEF

Words I could not use as starters this week because they aren’t valid for Wordle:
ASSHOLE
CHARLATAN
CRIMINAL
NARCISSIST

I nearly dated this post as “2024-01-24”. Ah the halcyon days of 2024 when I truly believed that Donald Trump would not be reelected president…

Having not gone anywhere since Sunday, I’m looking forward to running errands today.

Wordle: five, my starter was POSER

Spring Cleaning started early this year…

This is the recipe for the vegetarian breakfast sausages I made yesterday.

Wordle: four, my starter was ABUSE

Yesterday’s brutally cold weather allowed me the excuse to stay indoors. I set up a new grow light that I’ve owned for a couple of years now (long story, mostly related to 2024 travel insanity), and OMG is it so much better than the cheaper grow lights I bought in 2020. Maybe all of my seedlings won’t be leggy this spring…

Wordle: two, my starter was CLINK

The sequel is never better than the original, and I absolutely hated the original.

Wordle: three, my starter was FELON. Oh NYT how you have failed by not making this today’s solution!