OK, got all my cutting boards washed and bleached some grout. Not as dramatic an improvement as I hoped for, that second one. Oh well.

I'm getting dangerously close to the point where I have to think about where I want things to be stored rather than just stashing them wherever there happens to be room right now. That's going to slow things down considerably.

How do they do that, Lee?

It's sort of a cross between an x-ray and a cat scan. You don't have to be inside the tube, since they were only checking my spine and hips and the imaging device can be focused there, but they made me lie down and strapped my feet down so I couldn't move them out of pigeon toed position.

I've been idly searching for indoor planters for succulents, and I think I must own Totoro and Catbus: [link]

Sounds uncomfortable, Lee, but I hope you get good results.

So I did get a bunch of work done, but still need to finish it up. And kids both got their homework finished before dinner, so they get to file the weekend as a win.

nice, shrift!

We are all the time trying to train people (coworkers, that is) to put important information in the subject line

Our ED titles all his emails as "First name here". Boss man doesn't read past the first two words, gets bored or sees something shiny, never looks at it again, declares you never sent it, admits he doesn't read them, and doesn't apologize. He does this with texts as well. It's four words!

When I was in school our social studies/history teacher would show us a video of the "I Have A Dream" speech every year on the 15th. This year I was happy to hear that my son's 5th grade teacher showed it to her class on Friday, which was of course the 15th.

I've taught this and we have watched it. I also have shared a NYT piece that looks at how the most famous part of the speech is improvised. [link] The part he had prewritten was very different in tone and rhetoric.

But what you can see in the video is after Mahalia Jackson says, "Tell them about the dream, Martin", Dr. King puts the speech aside on the lecturn and from there his language changes. So cool.

Those planters are super cute.

I hope you get favorable results, Lee.

I do not want to move onto cleaning out my kitchen drawers. Maybe I will put that off. I am also having trouble getting myself psyched up to go out to dinner, but if I am going to try all the restaurants participating in Restaurant Week I really need to.

Maybe if I start with feeding the cats I ca keep that momentum going.

~ma for quick and excellent results, Lee.

Aims, those pictures just fill me with joy. I love seeing you with your kids.

I also have shared a NYT piece that looks at how the most famous part of the speech is improvised.

We were talking about that today, Kat.