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An Update on Working From Home
1. I have been going to the gym every day. I don't know how this keeps happening.
2. I have been showering every day. I don't know how this keeps happening either.
3. I now have full conversations with the cats when they do stuff like this:
Yes, that printer is doing something miraculous. (Note cat on top of scanner. Sigh.)


Yes, that is my breakfast. Oh, kibble-eater, like you are even in a position to judge a handful of vitamins and a couple of Cadbury mini-eggs.

4. Speaking of, I've had to throw out all the candy in the house. Now I make myself walk to the store and buy the stupid little single serving bag of mini-eggs.
5. I hate to clean, hate the sound of the vacuum, but have been cleaning every day. Something new and obsessive compulsive about me I never knew!
6. I'm reading less, which sucks. But I'm still reading, which is good.
7. God, I miss Manhattan.



P.S. Does anyone else like The Notwist? Awesome German band that hasn't put out an album in like, four years? Yeah, well new song! Here.

Thanksgiving Vacation

Light posts this week due to my brain heading out early for the holiday. By the way, does anybody else go out of their way to avoid the holidays with the fam?



BF and I are heading to Cooperstown for the big day. He's looking forward to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and I am eager to get a glimpse of the Cardiff Giant. We almost always try to escape during the holidays, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. We're also a Weird US couple, and we've traveled to a couple of incredible places.


The Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont was amazing. It had snowed just the day before, and everything was so pure and blinding.

Pics from Roadside America. Ours are better, but I have no idea where the files are. Oh well!


Centralia, PA: an old town disbanded by an underground fire that's been burning for decades. Fascinating and eerie place to visit. This was our first trip as a couple, on my birthday. I remember most vividly driving along quiet old highways buffeted by sheer drops into coal pits on either side, coming to a Danger sign as smoke wafted from cracks in the asphalt.

Picture from Offroader


Fonthill Castle, in Doylestown, PA warranted a second visit, with it's never-ending tile and hidden rooms. We went back for the candlelight tour in December and explored the concrete rooms as a small orchestra played on the ground floor. I can't recommend this enough.

Outside and Inside. That's the Columbus room on the bottom; the tile details the history of Columbus' missions. It's beautiful and overwhelming.


We've seen old mining villages in the middle of nowhere, and winced as a tour guide at Howe Caverns regaled us with off-the-record stories about people defecating in the underground streams. We've had perfect little dinners in places that don't show up on most maps. We've oohed over homemade shanks at Sing Sing Prison, and aahed at ancient magic tricks at the Mercer Museum. I hope that Cooperstown knows what it's up against...