@jnl

Hey, I know you have scads of free time these days for reading for pleasure, but I was curious — since you were the person who first mentioned Becky Chambers’ writing to me — if you’d read her The Galaxy and the Ground Within.

It feels like a beautiful argument for how and why to create a caring and tolerant/accepting community — or society, or world.

Just spent five days driving 2650 miles. Which is longer when you consider that the time also included a very important family visit and three meal-and-a-too-short-visit visits with various friends.

And that we started fatigued from a week of hard work.

And that we three were packed into a car for which I won a Tetris close-packing award, and the sardines in the can protested every time we got in.

Tired. Sore.

One of the bolgia is renovating a kitchen.

And the worst part of that bolgia is doing it from a distance. With multiple time zones separating you from the vendors and contractors, so that on top of everything else going wrong that can, you get calls at unspeakable and implausible hours — most of them from bots that only 50-50 work right.