Wed May 8 09:26:34 EDT 2019 Slept from ten to six. High of fifty-nine and mostly cloudy today. Work: - Order security gear for CM Done. - WN rent updates No. - GM rent updates No. - Start looking at KW unit types Done. No time for a walk at lunch. Home: - Dentist at noon Done. - Call mom about Mother's Day on Sunday Done. 10:30 at First Watch. Twenty-minute walk after work. Ordered the new Google 3a phone, since I cracked the glass on my Moto a few weeks ago. What's a good Mastodon app for Android? Tusky https://tusky.app/ Is there an RSS or Atom feed for toots? Yes: https://mastodon.social/@paulgrmn.rss The Atom feed includes replies and boosts https://mastodon.social/@paulgrmn.atom > […] six out the first nine of Charles Dickens’s Christmases as a young boy were snow-white christmases. This decade in 1800-1810 was the coldest for several hundred years. And still England hasn’t seen Snow White Christmases more than a handful of times in the past 100 years. But, Dickens’s writing always portrayed the winter city blanketed in snow, and his novel A Christmas Carol spurred a revival of celebrating Christmas in Victorian England being the first to paint a perfect Christmas as a snowy one. So, the rare occurrence of Dickens’s childhood with such snowy weather idealized snowy Christmas in Dickens’s writing and has influenced modern day Christmas imagery entirely based on his writings. https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ > Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged man, woman, and (precocious) child to write an atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical bad novel. > > Cassie smiled as she clenched John's hand on the edge of an abandoned pier while the sun set gracefully over the water, and as th efinal rays of light disappeared into a star-filled sky she knew that there was only one thing left to do to finish off this wonderful evening, which was to throw his severed appendage into the ocean's depths so it could never be found again — and maybe get some custard after. "Castle Apehawk" or "Castle Affenfalken"? Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: migas, cucumber, celery, mandarin, banana, coffee Lunch: yogurt, apple, carrots Afternoon snack: coffee Dinner: pizza 106/63