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– ASSIDUOUS AND AGOG –
Just got back from Michigan yesterday. There’s too much to write about here. I’ll post a separate entry on the trip.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
You can replace 1 egg in 3 with a tablespoon of cornstarch.

– I know I said I wasn’t going to post until Monday, but I have a couple of birthday shout outs real quick.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Jen (Saturday) and Barb (Sunday)!

– Sorry I haven’t been posting much this week. I’ve been caught between the Rats revision and getting ready for my trip to Michigan. I won’t be posting until next Tuesday, when things will be back to normal.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Plant new lawns or reseed thin ones now.

– I went to work yesterday, and finished the fifth revision of Hungry Rats. That alone was enough to keep me up until 3 AM.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
A compress of decocted witch hazel is cooling to sunburned skin.

– What a frustrating week. I got almost nothing done. Although Jess did have a nice visit from Dan, who was in from Seattle, and we got a free meal from Pequena’s because they closed after making us wait a half-hour for a table.

– Was very sleepy all day yesterday. Later, I met Dan at Penn Station (which has the dumbest setup of any depot ever; imagine Union Station x 2, with multiple entrances/exits per track, and no information on arrival track more ten minutes to arrival.

– Yesterday was better, though I still didn’t get enough done.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
According to the Greek poet Hesiod (c. 800 B.C.), the 16th is an unlucky day for plants.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
The Creation Museum.

– I’ve had a rough couple of days: insomnia, distraction, lack of productivity. There were some good things too, and I’m going to try to hold on to those. Extricate them from the moment. As for the rest, I will seal it up in a bubble running from Monday afternoon until about two hours ago, and move forward unimpeded.

– Yesterday. Profoundly uneventful. Read a book in Thompkins Square Park. Went home. Drank too much coffee to sleep.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
For good luck, always remove the left shoe before the right.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned.

– Great weekend!
Friday I went to the Met for the first time. It truly is the hugest museum I’ve ever been, and I’m pretty sure the FIA could fit in maybe two-third of the Egyptian collection. I’ve planned on returning, so it was never my intention to take in the whole place.