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I decided to take a break from the apartment (which is smelling a little like being in the rainforest back home at the moment, and the amount of dust in the air is a bit hard to take for extended periods of time) and went to the bagel place for a bagel and coding, and then the bookstore. (Where of course I bought books. Though I was mostly there to make sure she'd gotten my emailed book order. It's nice to know I confused the retired professor bookstore owner. Why yes, two academic texts, one collection of highbrow poetry and some trash fiction. And none of it remotely related to my research.)

And I was stopped on the street by someone who apparently sees me practicing most mornings, and complemented on a) my martial arts and b) being dedicated enough to practice every day, even in the rain.

Um.

Okay, more math, or more coding trance?

And does anyone know what to do with an ailing pressure cooker? I think it's a safety valve, that's being overly cautious and not holding pressure. (inaurolillium? This sounds like your sort of thing... Though I'm thinking finding the owner's manual is the first step... and I don't seem to have the hard copy...) ETA - okay, part found and ordered. Hope I can figure out how to install the sucker...

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So I'm finishing this longest day of the year feeling pretty pleased with life. For part of my dinner I harvested the second batch of blue lake string beans. (Seventeen. And last week I got eight. And I think next week I'll get more than seventeen - which really isn't bad at all for an eight inch pot, six dried beans and a bunch of string. Um, and dirt and water and fertilizer... and the beans in the south window, which were planted later, but get better light, are coming along nicely as well) I had them with a little bamboo shoots in chili oil and brown rice, and they were very good indeed.

Things are dry enough that I turned off the fan. There's no point in moving the furniture back into its proper places in my bedroom (which was only wet along one side, so everything is now on the other side) but things are pleasant and between the tidying, the noise reduction, and the great reduction of dust in the air, the sun, the lake and the sky the apartment has a nice sense of serenity about it. I did laundry - goodness, I really do have a lot of green clothing. I also vacuumed, did a light cleaning of the kitchen, swept, and so on. Watered the plants. It was a particularly nice sunset, and while I ate the room was full of gold light and the shadows of all the many leaves on the plants.