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3 good things for yesterday

• Good documentation written for colleagues

• Found a nice tune for the harp, composed by Anne Crosby Gaudet. It's called Mavilette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecODZ9ync2w

• Good story-writing.

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3 good things for yesterday

• Good onsite visit with a customer
• Mostly sunshine on the drive back
• Saw an accident on the road but no one got hurt.

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Three plus good things for today: 10/13/2026

1. The birds have found the bird feeders.
2. The shear joy of watching the birds that found the feeders!
3. Grocery shopping done for the week.
4. Took care of a couple of small chores.

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Three good things for today: 10/12/2026

1. Been watching the small, short sporadic lava flows from the Kilauea volcano.
2. Some birds have found the birdseed on the ground. Hopefully, they will discover the feeders.
3. Happy Indigenous People's Day!

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3 good things for yesterday

• Visited my sister

• A mostly sunny and relaxed day

• Managed another drawing

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Three good things for today: 10/2/2026

1. Bacon 🥓 and eggs 🍳 for brunch. 😋
2. Watched Formula 1 auto racing.
3. Finally pinned up a "No Solicitations" sign.

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Three good things for today: 10/9/2026

1. Lawn mowed.
2. The Boston ivy infesting the yard is at a minimum. This year's earlier chemical warfare for the win!
3. Blooming blooms: day lily, white roses, begonias, plumbago, snapdragons, fuchsias, impatiens, and asters.
4. Fall colors starting to appear.

Today's exercise: 1 hour of yard work.

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3 good things for today.

• Happy with my inktober drawing of a space mushroom, including its space-nauts.

• Laughed at the new, quite silly scifi I'm writing.

• Lovely to make and listen to music.

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Three good things for today: 10/8/2026

1. New finch bird feeder purchases, filled, and hung up. Feeding station is now complete. Just need the birds to find it.
2. Panda Express for lunch.
3. The asters are blooming.

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3 good things, double.

For yesterday:

• Managed to cover for sick coworker
• Got the inktober drawing done
• Some good practice on the harp

For today

• Short workday (yay)
• Was out for a walk and back in just before the rains came
• The weekend has officially started.

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Three good things for today: 10/7/2026

1. Finally set up the bird 🦤 feeders after a long hiatus.
2. Ran several errands.
3. Necessary adulting: Made the 2nd of the 2 extortion payments to the county. Well, they call them 'property taxes' but...

Bonus: 4. Quality time on the patio in the warm afternoon, chilling, listen to the birds. and sipping wine. 🍷

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3 good things for yesterday

• A drawing of an 'ogre' (not really an ogre, but I drew)

• Short workday (yay)

• A walk in the sun after work.

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Three good things for today: 10/6/2026

1. A very entertaining HashTagGames.
2. Grocery shopping done for the week.
3. Watched a couple of interesting YouTube videos.

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Three good things for today: 10/5/2026

1. Slow, smoke-cooked cooked a beef brisket to gnaw on for the next week. 😋
2. The slow-cooker Cowboy Pinto Beans turned out OK. The dried beans (properly soaked in water) took twice as long as it should have to get softened up.
3. Did some necessary first-of-the-month adulting in the 1st week instead of in the 3rd week. 😜

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Three good things for today: 10/4/2026

1. Quality time on the patio, sipping whisky, and listening to the birds
2. The asters have started blooming.
3. Watched F1 auto racing.

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Three good things for today: 10/1/2026

1. Survived the dentist. First appointment in getting a crown replaced. 🦷 🛠️ 💰
2. Continuing nice weather.
3. Watching the sporadic lava flows from the Kīlauea 🌋 volcano.

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3 good things for yesterday:

• a nice walk (it was very warm)

• drew a candle (satisfied)

• physio exercises (needed but not a fan yet!)

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1. My BFF has been here this weekend helping out. She felt horrible when it looked for a second like she couldn't come. I knew she must have... but it worked out!

2. Husband had my Prius towed to Toyota today for the damage report. $3700 later I'll have a new car... which means the big battery isn't fucked and I was sooo worried about that.

3. Ten days til I'm in a new home.

Three good things for today: 10/2/2026

1. Watch the first of this fall's geology lectures from Nick Zentner and Central Washington University (CWU). This was on the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in WA from a now retired ranger.
2. Got out and exercised (walked).
3. Quality time on the patio after walking.

Today's exercise: 2.58 mi walk in 47 minutes.

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3 good things for yesterday

• Started with inktober (no idea how long I can keep it up.

• Got a USB-C->Ethernet hub and that solves a speed issue.

• Had a nice walk in the afternoon, after the rains.

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