I’ve always picked up wiper blades from my local auto parts store, but I have two really short blades on this Buick that are hard to find. So I went to Amazon and found a company that will assemble a set of all three blades specifically for my car. Massive timesaver and significantly cheaper.

Now that the semester is over and I’m not teaching classes or taking classes, I’m really looking forward to working on some personal projects. I want to do a little more customization to my Micro.Blog theme, I’ve got some fonts to finalize, and some merch to design.

Connections Puzzle #329
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I haven’t been playing Connections lately, but today, I got them all, but from the hardest answers to the easiest. Never done that before.

Strands #61 “A shade envious?”
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I’ve been playing the NY Times’ Strands for a couple of months. Still in beta, but a lot of fun. Didn’t need any hints today…

Bad Batch finale was wonderful. Loved every moment.

Glad to see Instagram is trying to shut down the accounts that simply rip off original content. I’m interested to see how well the algorithm changes work.

Every time I’m reading online and a “subscribe today” box pops up over the top of what I’m reading, I just leave the page.

Explaining to my teenage daughter what microfiche is, and how we used it for research before the internet.

Today was rough. Not sure why, exactly. Nothing particularly significant happened. It just sucked the life out of me.

My inlaws were getting “Breaking News Alerts” from Messenger. Someone was sending them “news” through Facebook, and because they have notifications on, they looked like legitimate news updates.. But they were a bunch of MAGA nonsense that was probably actually Russian disinformation.