01: bad burritos and a reluctant Neville - A poor choice for an airplane meal and Neville decides he doesn't want to get in our Subaru with a strange lady.
02: about that Cricket eSIM lockout - A purported human at Cricket explains that it's perfectly normal for them to lock someone out of WiFi when they take their phone overseas.
03: sformato for a younger generation - Our niece comes to visit, so we take her out to La Florentina.
04: the recent history of cigarettes - Telling our young niece all about how the world used to smell.
05: still avoiding Gretchen's illness - Sleeping in the laboratory seems ot be working.
06: Neville's nails get too long - And he complains while they are professionally Dremeled.
07: compelling a walk in the abandoned bluestone quarry - Charlotte hadn't gone on a walk in days because Gretchen has been sick and she won't walk with me when she is around.
08: replumbed kitchen sink - I get showered with mouse droppings and fibreglass while working on that. Also, the suspiciously short life of a tank of MAP gas.
09: stringy asparagus stir fry - Making Chinese food on the warmest day of the season so far.
10: unpleasant tasks I didn't have to do - An overwhelmed Gretchen had chores for me to do that I don't exactly have the skills for.
11: urinal revived for the first time since '25 - One of my most useful inventions is working again.
12: all auto repair places are right-wing - So why bother boycotting one particular one?
13: Peach the survivor - Charlotte and Neville get to meet a dog who was lost for over a week in the most brutal part of winter.
14: Pat Ryan at the Golden Notebook - An event organized by Gretchen for a congressman other than her own.
15: old man aches after replacing one of the brakes - A first stab at getting the Subaru Forester street legal once more.
16: somewhat unsuccessful dogsitting experiment - The neighbor dog Henry figures out the pet door and starts walking back home.
17: a St. Patrick's day use for a shillelagh - It coerces a 17 mm bolt on my Subaru Forester to turn.
18: slightly too big - Eventually I have to file down the edges of a set of brake pads.
19: another bad bolt - I give up on replacing the one last brake on my Subaru Forester while Henry the Dog again spends most of the day with us.
20: the uncanopied sidewalks of Uptown - Things seen before and after a lunch comprised of dumplings.
21: Ken Jenning's start - We watch an old episode of Jeopardy!.
22: having neither purple nor rain - A visit to New Paltz and then seeing a movie in Kingston set in Niger.
23: short-lived snowflakes - Vanishing as they hit the ground while I work on a stone wall.
24: Neville trolls the neighbor dogs - Blithely wagging his tail and kicking dirt in their faces while they scramble around not knowing quite what to do.
25: pappardelle and a new British comedy - I make dinner, start reading an Andy Weir book, and get file uploads working in my ESP8266 Remote system.
26: activist-FOMO - Gretchen wants to get arrested to save beagles being bred for lab experiments.
27: maybe the omega-3s are working - Some of my recent health problems seem to be going away.
28: third No Kings march - Gretchen and participate with a neighbor.
29: doggy play date on Ohayo Mountain - Archery in the morning and then doggy socializing in the afternoon.
30: first tank of gas since the war - A beautiful day for eating outside, but we have dinner inside the Bear Cantina.
31: as long as I have a plan - Cast into a momentary funk by some troubling automotive news, I feel a lot better after ordering a set of bolt extractors.