- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- “You’re not imagining it: Google search results are getting worse…” Might I suggest DuckDuckGo? I switched a month or so ago and I must say it’s a relief to not have to wade through all the ads and sponsored crap.
- Also, apparently Google News “is infested with AI garbage”.
- The “Visit Oregon” site has Oregon Trail on it!
- You’ll be able to buy a portable cassette player again soon, if you’ve been needing one in your life.
- “MCM” but built in 1991 – I love how colorful it is.
- A modernish Irish castle with a grotto swimming pool.
- It has a wishing well and a castlesque interior.
- All of the eclectic furnishings are included.
- It’s very dramatic, but that’s just too much glass.
- Another dramatic house, but with an unfortunate excess of taxidermy.
- Converted mill that looks challenging to heat.
- If you’ve always wanted your own bunker…
- “Brutalist lite“.
- What the heck is going on with stairs above her head in the background?!
- That pole is not placed well for gripping.
- Stairs on which tiptoeing seems to be required.
- Huh.
And the last pair of socks I gifted over the holiday season. These aren’t perfectly matchy matchy because of a knot in the skein. Grrrr. But really only the heel flaps differ.
Mayhem enjoying the new fancy sherpa “mink” blanket (from a vendor) (and of course the pet warmer is under the blanket).
Winking Polly!
Harry apparently doesn’t trust me, based on that look.
I usually use DuckDuckGo, but it’s still full of crappy AI-generated results. I was searching on some medical term the other day (forgot now what it was, so I’ll call it xxxxx). I was getting results like “Best xxxxx of 2023!” “Top 10 xxxxx”, even though it wasn’t anything that would get reviews.
I wouldn’t mind having a 2-week vacation in that Irish castle.
Those last stairs are clearly for cats.
Omg those stairs. Always the stairs
Thanks for the nudge about Google Search. I’ve added Duck Duck Go to my favorites bar, and if I like its results I’ll make it my default search engine.
Yay more stripey socks! I can see where it would be annoying that they’re not properly matchy-matchy, but those stripes are thin and multicolored enough that I didn’t notice until you pointed it out. Still. How did you get it so only the heels were off? That worked out really nicely.
Hi cute kitties!
I would never have guessed that quirky and colorful and fun MCM was built in 1991. I love that Irish castle! The place in NJ with the wishing well is really cool, too!
So. Many. Death. Stairs. Though, I’ve been to Amsterdam, and just looking at the houses from outside I’m not surprised that the stairs would be narrow and steep like that.