2026-06-17

Good day yesterday, some rain fell upon Wee Little Farm.

Later Allan was able to extract my Excalibur pedal from Steve’s crank, so I rewarded his efforts with beer at Schoolhouse Brewing. We were joined by ITP-Reader Sal, and my buddy Chip.

I am considering crashing Trees Atlanta’s volunteer day today. The signup says that it’s full this week, and next, so I might show up and see if they turn me away. If I don’t, I will wander over to WLF@UFO and see how that raised bed is doing.

I may be picking up my new, as yet unnamed, bicycle tomorrow.

Though it won’t renew for another month, I’ve run out of Audible credits. Since I have enough audiobooks to last me until my demise, I decided to cancel my account and save the $150/year cost.

Wordle: five, my starter was CLAIM

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19 Responses to 2026-06-17

  1. Barb says:

    Audible is $150/year? Seems like a good one to give up, when the Libby app is free – Allan used the Libby app all the time.

  2. Barb says:

    My back is a little sore from my “fun” lumbar puncture at the Emory brain study appt – but its not too bad. 3rd time doing this – they had a new test- watching an iPad with a bunch of pictures – I guess measuring your eye movements? MRI will be in July, then I guess I will get paid? I’ll have to check my emails.

    I got a message from Ebay that the new to Paulie frame will be here Friday too.
    (I told Allan we need to start listing some of the bikes in the attic – but getting all the details, year, etc will be a pain)

  3. Decided not to crash Trees Atlanta. I walked over to check WLF@UFO. About half of my okra and beans seem to be surviving, one of my peppers plants seems diseased. I met a crop neighbor, a friendly woman named Irena, who was digging her potatoes. I have to attend a workday from 9-12 on Saturday, it’s part of being in the community.

    Stopped at Betsy’s house to say hello, and the wandered to Emerald City Bagels where I bought a bagel and coffee.

    FYI- it’s humid out there…

  4. Jenka says:

    Hmm, my Audible is 14.99 per month, which is $180 per year. I always thought you couldn’t keep your Audible downloads unless you kept paying, but you’re saying you can? If so, I will cancel my subscription, because listening to 30 hour Victorian novels on my 12 minute commute every day means I listen to about two books per year. And half the time they’re not even under copyright anymore so they are free downloads.

    Had a good day yesterday, except for the fact that my co-workers gave me a party. Like, anyone who has known me more than 5 minutes should know that I hate those things. Anyway, I survived. Kevin and I went to Double Zero for dinner and had their amazing cacio e pepe, then I watched the Red Sox lose and was in bed before 10:00.

    • I am of the belief that I own (a license) to the books in perpetuity. If not, I will be pissed but not surprised.

      Even it I listen to thirty books a year it will take me ten years to listen to my entire catalog!

      • Jenka says:

        Well please report back if you lose any of the downloads for which you paid. I would love to stop losing credits every month.

  5. David says:

    I discovered last night that I am simply not lazy enough to ride on a bicycle-shaped scooter, as my son called it. Last year Denver had e-bike sharing, but now that program has been dumbed down to this infernal fucking scooters. I’d rather just walk, thank you.

  6. Steve says:

    Wordle in 5

    I’ve been getting moving so early in the last 2 weeks, I wondered how there were already 8 comments and then I saw it was 9:30!! Time flies…

    As I rode South, I kept watching the weather and saw it was moving away mostly. Right through the heart of town in the HOV lane and I moved along pretty well once we were passed the North Avenue curve. 13 days, 12 states, 3200 miles, 6 days camping. A very good trip. I’ve already looked at next years’s rally- Great Falls, MT- on the map. Would take Debbie and the trailer for that one.

    -FP

  7. Sweating to the gardening, trying to learn how to save lettuce seed so that I don’t have to buy any for next year.

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