For the record

Christine learned the truth of the murderous way silk is produced Saturday night as we were watching an episode of Wild China. I know ethical silk can be obtained, but not easily.

I'm happy to discover that i can count the thirty minutes mucking about in the garden yesterday towards my Corporate Incentivised Health Activity. And housework is also listed in cardio activity. Ha, well, i'm all for gaming the system.

There were a reasonable number of folks doing laundry Sunday morning.

Collard flowers taste more like broccoli than like mustard. Unfortunately i don't know when i will get more. The remaining stalk of collard flowers i intend to let go to seed. But i wonder: didn't i let a whole bunch of collards seeds fall all over the garden?

Christine is off to the east coast for a week. Yesterday i focussed on her except for Meeting for Business. There's certainly plenty to do to keep me out of trouble while she's gone.

She's scooping litter right now. I just heard a duck coming in for a landing at our pool.

We did our taxes, we did out taxes, we did our taxes (before they were due)!

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I am such a pouting child when Christine is away.

I have also binged on the snacks i bought for her to take but she left, carmel popcorn and candied pecans, oh my.

In other news, i have discovered a flaw in multiple TV mysteries. Christine had left her phone here, so she's bought one of those prepaid disposable phones, and we've joked about her being a spy with her untraceable unit. (Online searches say the number is a land line in Boston.) So, on TV the person calls, and they trace the call, and they're disappointed that the number offers no clue. But they understood what the person said! No "What? What? I just have the first three numbers -- say again? I give up, let me skype you."

Skype audio was fine, but the video got about three minutes delayed. It was rather entertaining, and her smile three minutes delayed is still seeing her smile.

Meanwhile, i had a lexulous hand with three S, a blank, an N, and a few vowels. Depressingly i had gotten rid of the As i had had in the previous round when i was one S short of having the word "assassin."

I did do my monthly report today, huzzah. And is suppose the sweeping up on the deck i did might count as half an hour of moderate house work. I guess i ought to give the cats their meds.