Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@social.cleverlibre.org

Having recently been put on supplemental oxygen and now having to drag a tube around behind me at home. tripping and tangling with furniture, I think I see a need for WiOx-- wireless oxygen. Let's get with it, technology masters!

I was flipping though the photos on my phone to track down a photo I wanted to send somebody, and happened across this one I'd forgotten about. It's a local cicada from their last big outbreak here a couple of years ago.

It's on my front porch, hence the detritus on the surface. The standard Zippo lighter is for scale.

Handsome, colorful beasts, ain't they?

"There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
--Samwise Gamgee

A little over a week ago, I wrote a post about how much I enjoyed using Moleskine pocket notebooks for everyday jotting. I noted how much pleasure I managed to get out of such a simple, though well-designed, product.

Ms. AB, @galand2dogs, replied to ask if I'd ever tried the similar Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks, and I hadn't, so I went in search of those to see if I could get my hands on one. It turned out that I could, so I did, based on little more than her mention that it had TWO silk bookmarks. TWO, can you believe it?

So now that I've been using one for a couple of days, I can safely say that these are undoubtedly a step above even my beloved Moleskines. Not only does it have two bookmark ribbons, the pages are pre-numbered and the front contains an index to fill in. It also comes with a pen-holder loop should I choose to install it (not something I need) and label stickers for both the front and spine so that one can title the collection before putting it away on the bookshelf. That is AMAZING. The spine is nice and flat, so the sticker will attach well when I need it.

I like it well enough that I'm copying one of my existing daily records books over from a softcover Moleskine, even though it will take a couple of hours.

Thanks, Ms. AB! You have improved my life in a small way, and that's the best way. 😉

Though American, I've been listening to BBC World Service for about thirty years. Maybe more. Today, when I opened the streaming application on my phone, I was presented with an ad for some phone game, and couldn't even figure out how to make that go away. So I deleted it from my phone, which makes me a little sad. I felt like I kind of knew some of those presenters.