cool

From the Marketplace Midday Report: "Carmaker Honda says it plans to
lower the price of hybrid cars over the next five years. And it plans to
phase out pure gas-powered vehicles entirely in some markets."

more joyful bundles

My brother just called. His wife is pregnant with child #9. They're
thrilled, and I'm thrilled for them. This will be my 14th nibling in 15
years. I am so totally off the babymaking hook (though my mom still bugs
me for kids).

(If you're tempted to express shock/dismay at my brother's happy news,
please keep it to yourself. They're good parents, and their kids are
happy, healthy, and well taken care of, and I don't want to hear any
negativity about this.)

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Feels odd to plug my blog in my LJ, but I'm finding that it's (the blog is, that is) the first thing in a while that's encouraging me to write every day. I'm working on an essay for today, but my newest one is called "Solstice and Winter and Sunlight, oh my!", and it's unpolished and very much in my casual voice, and I kinda like it.