Penny Cooper is wearing her new dress (below).
"But only till Monday morning:
I have to wear my plaid dress to school."
Like every spring, they will be graduating 2nd grade this year,
and then in the fall, they will start 3rd grade...
...only to graduate from 2nd again in the coming spring.
They live in a Moibus strip of time when it comes to school, and every year they travel this school loop.
Penny Cooper was given a little rabbit toy by the friend-of-a-friend where I was sewing yesterday.
Note the tiny, oblong cigarette ashtray ^ behind her.
By Eschenbach in Bavaria, maker of porcelains for hotels & restaurants.
Ah--I found it--it would've been one of four mini-ashtrays that stacked in a porcelain holder.
Nesting ashtrays!
I
may start bringing home more ashtrays--they intrigue me because as
society changed its view of cigarettes, so ashtrays fell from favor.
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I keep saying, I'm not going for purity. I'm just noodling my little karmic choo-choo on down the line.
At this time, I am going to stay on Blogger. Though I'm not happy with Google, I don't see any other blogging site I love. My best option would be to start my own freestanding blog, and pay for a domain name – – I’m just not up for that at this time, while I’m switching over my email and other stuff.
Here's a 2014 TED Talk about it from Andy Yen, physicist, founder, and CEO of Proton, and a long-time advocate for privacy rights.
"Without this [control of our own data], we really can't live in a free society."
ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_private_think_again
Proton itself says it's politically neutral, but weirdly, this year Yen said Trump is better for small businesses than the Democrats.
? ? ?
But also Andy Yen said...
. . . Europe should "step up" and "be aggressive" to counter U.S. Big Tech firms' tight grip on many important technologies, such as web browsing, cloud computing, smartphones — and now artificial intelligence.
--via CNBC
Lordy, lordy, we are in pickle.
Do what you think is best, eh?
Right now, that's making Sunday banana pancakes for bink.
Have a good day, evening, whatever, everyone!
