HOLY SHIT THINGS HAPPENED

 NEWS- 

The upstairs neighbor has moved out!  Of course she took her damn time about it; a whole month in fact, while we glimpsed her and her funky bunch sauntering up and down the stairs with a box here and a lamp there, all the while hoping to Christ they were actually leaving.  

Did I go upstairs and check the place out once it was empty?  Yes I absolutely did.  Wonder of wonders, it was pristine.  And I was happy about that. Well done, annoying neighbor. And while I am generally a sociable and tolerant old lady, good motherfucking riddance you skanky goddamn ghetto RAT.

Too harsh? 

NEWS- 

The raccoons have moved on!  Why did the raccoons move their communal outhouse, you ask?  Because the Biker took a shovel and scattered their haystack of crap out in the weeds, and kept doing that until the nasty animals got tired of anally re-establishing their shit collection and opted for other locales. 

Aren't you glad you know this?  Didn't you come here specifically to read about people flinging raccoon shit? I know you did. That's why I wrote about it.

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I have started another study project, which makes eight now.  This study project is about old, weird, rare cookbooks. I have been online typing my fingers to the damn bone digging this stuff out; and making folders and organizing the information so that it slots in with other study projects I have going - hence my absence from your personal blogospheres.  

Yes. This is what I do for fun. Obsessively.

I hate to tell you how many ongoing study projects I've been pursuing. OK eight. OK fine there's one I've been engaged in for fifty-one years. 

Seriously. It's what I do for fun.

The Internet has been my fondest dream come true. You'd be surprised at how much amazing stuff is out there is in the public domain, for FREE! - and by just how many 'public domains' there are!  Any title I might be interested in has a 90% chance of being on Hathi Trust, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg or JSTOR - but there are thousands of other open sources! This is why another project of mine consists of amassing a folder full of those links and an explanatory blurb for each one. God I love tabulation. 

The worst side effect of all this study is Needing Desperately To Own Source Volumes.  

There I am in front of the screen, and looky at that - there's Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, and all the other sales platforms, and me with a PayPal account. WHAM a package hits the door, and I scuttle out and grab it, unwrap it, gloat over the contents, then dispose of the wrapping in the dumpster lest the Biker see it and sigh that sigh he does.

So on the one hand I'm a bitter vengeful old harridan who glories in the absence of my young, ignorant and sadly obsessed with sleaze upstairs neighbor; and on the other I am an ivory tower self-isolating nerd who loves obscure shit and is an obsessive organizer.

I fart in your general direction. Sue me.