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Garden update:

Volunteer sunflower (we think) is about four feet high.

I finally got impatient and picked the one carrot that actually grew -- it was too teeny to even eat. Oh, well. I'll have to tell the little boy who planted it that I messed up and picked it too soon.

The cauliflower is flowering -- it never made a head of cauliflower, but the flowers are beautiful.

There's a big, fat blossom on one of the zucchini plants, and tons of buds on all of them. I think zucchini will be successful.

There are 20 or so flowers on the tomato plant.

There are 20 or so strawberries, in varying stages of ripeness, and I finally harvested our first strawberry -- that is, the first one that didn't get eaten by slugs the second it started to turn red. It only took three years to get that one strawberry! :-)

Let's see, what else? Oh, yes, the bean plant looks like it's doing fine. I may plant a couple more hills of zucchini, though, if that's going to be the real thriver in this garden.

Oh! And the apple tree has hundreds of lovely apples on it. In a couple months, I'm thinking we'll have a lot of pie and strudel around here.

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Things I learned to do in Linux today, after I finished venting my frustration on the longsuffering someotherguy:

* find files (even protected ones)
* delete protected files
* list files

Babysteps, yes, but wow, I feel so powerful.

(I have been longing to return to a command-line interface since I left DOS behind. It makes more sense to my linear, non-visual brain.)

Collections

Copied over from a comment I made on porcinea's LJ:

Things I collect, with "collection" defined as "I already have more items than any sane person would consider reasonable or necessary, *and* I would cheerfully welcome additional inputs to the collection (and indeed have no compunction about buying)".

* books, including cookbooks (but I do cull them regularly). The ones that take up the most category-specific shelfspace are comics/graphic novels, books on writing, books about atheism/skepticism/etc., and of course cookbooks, which threaten daily to take over my apartment, even though I give away dozens of them a year.
* spheres (the only actual, conscious collection we have -- in the sense that we *decided* to collect them, when a friend gave us a cool fiber-optic sphere as a housewarming gift)
* books and art (including jewelry (including the way-fab bracelet porcinea made me)) by people we know
* fridge magnets
* building toys
* cooking magazines (filed in magazine organizers by month)
* sex-related toys, gadgets, gear, and clothing (they have their own dresser, but they've overflowed it)
* schlocky old horror/sci-fi movies on DVD

I think that's it, but I'll probably think of more.

What do you collect?