It’s really amazing how far smoke can travel, isn’t it?! 🙁

• New releases: AAR (romance), Tor.com (YA SFF)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “16 Jane Eyre retellings“.
• “Hobbits [are] basically step-down voltage converters for magic.“
• What if our planet isn’t as unmagical as we think it is?
• After the Robot Apocalypse…
• The intersection of Minnesota and California.
• Bison frolicking under a double rainbow. That’s it.
• Cursed facts about spiders.
• Advanced Mobiusing in progress.
• Cinnamon roll pancakes.
• Sheet pan chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches.
• “Whoever runs Steak-Umm’s social media knows what’s at steak and deserves a beefy raise“.
• Dragaroons.
• Cat alphabet.
• The truth about tumblr. 😀
• Too true!
• “10 wind energy stock photos that make me extremely uncomfortable“.

I wish I had a better picture of this! All three of them exhausted from snoopervising the neighborhood.

Polly is such a pretty, loving sweetheart!

Harry reaching out to touch someone…

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “Real and fictional librarians leading resistance“.
• “Critical race theory books to help you make sense of all the hubbub“.
• “A bookish cross-country US road trip: I-90“.
• Some cursed facts about toucans.
• Some tectonic differences between Venus and Earth.
• Swiss roll ice cream cake.
• Definitely the best way to explore Zillow home listings.
• “Keanus abound in this excellent art piece“.
• Cat ears that “move based on your brain waves”.
• :facepalm:

Bonded siblings!

Mayhem seems to blame me for Polly having joined her in the kitty hammock…

Mayhem once again thrilled that Harry’s hanging out by her. LOL! Very much a “you kids get off my lawn!” expression.

It wasn’t a vacation – I had a surprise recurrence of the bursitis in my right hip after seven years and wasn’t very coherent until the steroid shot started to work. D’oh! Back today for a shot to help deal with the bursitis in my left hip, which I hadn’t had before. Apparently not terribly uncommon – my gait changed to accommodate my bunions over decades and then abruptly changed back again after surgery. My hips were not ok with that, lol! But physical therapy will help them adjust…

Oh! And I have now been with my employer (under the usual array of names that’s typical of telecom) for 25 years. 😮

• New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre-benders, YA SFF, fantasy, SF), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
• Linkity from Book Wyrm Knits.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• About the Ursula K Le Guin stamp.
• Maurice Sendak awwww.
• Fantasy as escapism.
• “Summer reading for conspiracy theorists“.
• “Fandom saves“.
• Faster than a speeding bullet… and then some.
• The spouse of a NASA flight controller weighs in on the feasibility of billionaires escaping earth.
• Cursed facts about the necks of seals.
• “How 4000 physicists gave a Vegas casino its worst week ever“.
• Crochet a winged snake.
• Strawberry pound cake. (via The Kitchn)
• Red velvet waffles with cream cheese glaze.
• The adventures of the caterpillar known as “chicken nugget”.
• “Antarctic” research stations, but on fantasy worlds.
• BOOM.
• The Tragic 8-Ball.
• “Tiny TVs with working remotes that play clips from popular shows“.
• Little washing machine for glasses.
• :blink blink:
• WHA…….?! And EWWWWWW.
• “Terrifying magnetic mouth clamp“.
• “A spherical cat of uniform happiness“…
• Very curious about how much that dumbbell weighs!
• “What if Cerberus from Hades was a goose?“
• “What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done while your brain was on autopilot?” Please make sure you’re someone where you can laugh yourself silly before following this link!

Reading Update
Many, many things from Kindle Unlimited. Moving right along…

Harry and Polly keeping an eye on Mayhem.

Polly and Harry looking out the window. (Definitely working on their weight – such a challenge with Mayhem, who’s mostly fur at this point…)

A (chonky) boy and his sparkle ball.

Not sure there will be any linkity for the rest of this month, because I have a class during my linkity-making time for the next three weeks. Winging it! 🙂

• New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, SF, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Bookwyrm Knits.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Some thoughts on “YA”.
• LOLOLOLOL.
• A tale of three witches and a child.
• A tale of a chicken hatching a dragon.
• When a cat stares into a dark corner…
• This was unexpected.
• “Every back is a bad back.”
• WHOA. The confirmation from wikipedia.
• Unexpected caniformes.
• I know I had the comparison of European and North American semi trucks, but skim that for the addition about Australia…
• “Morgan Freeman encourages you to get the COVID-19 vaccine.”
• Sticky rice cake.
• Vintage advertising flashback.
• Some nifty supercells.
• An unusual dragon hoard…
• HARD SAME.
• A particularly cursed house.
• “Robotic eye webcam“.
• “Chainsaw-equipped robot arm“.
• “Ghostbusters: Afterlife“.
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Suez Canal! 😉
• Ok, I will try, thank you.

No reading update – too tired to pull that bit together.

“Is that photo going to make my tail look big?!” -Mayhem

Polly firmly bathing Harry and Harry reacting with DRAMA.

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Polly

Harry creeping on the neighbors.