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the_rckThe local libraries are planning to re-open for browsing on Monday. We'll probably keep doing our hold pickups at Traverwood rather than downtown. I dislike Traverwood's design (it's an attractive building with an attractive interior; I dislike it as a library where I, at 5'2", can see over the top of all of the shelving. I care considerably more about a library having a large and varied and immediately accessible collection than I do about pretty. Also, I can't browse anything on the bottom shelf at all).
Still, I'm not going along on book pick up these days and wasn't even before quarantine. Traverwood is more convenient by car than the downtown branch is. It's not much out of Scott's way home when he's coming home from work or picking up groceries.
Going downtown let me play Ingress, of course, and going to Traverwood has only about 5% the portal opportunities, but if I'm not going anyway, it's a much better choice.
I'm still playing Ingress. They added a 'drone' which can fly a certain distance from its starting point to another portal which I can then hack. I'm in an area where that lets me reach a lot of portals. Most of the time, the drone can only move once every hour, and during those times, I could just hack portals one step from home without repeating as long as I didn't care about who owned them (points for hacking portals belonging to the other team) or what sort of gear I get (most of the portals are unclaimed and therefor only yield things that I'll recycle).
There's a portal out by Scott's parents' place that I've owned since Labor Day 2019. I take this mostly as a sign that people haven't been playing Ingress nearly as much in low portal density areas. The nearest other portal is at least a kilometer away, and it's not a walking friendly road.
I'm assuming that people haven't been playing Ingress as much more generally. The turnover in ownership of the portals I see from home has been very limited and mostly involves the same 3-4 people.
Scott and I had our 28th wedding anniversary in late June. Since I'm 54 and he's 55, 28 years is more than half of our lives. It's kind of mind boggling. We didn't do much to celebrate.
I got Scott to sit with me and listen to the first four Murderbot books. He enjoyed them. He was also surprised how short they are. I think he hadn't realized they were novellas. I really enjoyed being able to share that with him.
Scott has taken up kayaking with our friend, Cheryl. They don't go every weekend, more like every other. Scott likes it enough that he asked his folks about the kayaks they were getting rid of. Those turned out to be too small for him, however, so he's hoping to buy one that fits.
I don't enjoy outdoor activities generally or being on the water more specifically, so I'm really glad that Scott's found company for this. He's enjoying kayaking as a form of exercise. He's been looking for a fun physical activity for a while, and I don't think he'd have tried it if Cheryl hadn't invited him along.
Still, I'm not going along on book pick up these days and wasn't even before quarantine. Traverwood is more convenient by car than the downtown branch is. It's not much out of Scott's way home when he's coming home from work or picking up groceries.
Going downtown let me play Ingress, of course, and going to Traverwood has only about 5% the portal opportunities, but if I'm not going anyway, it's a much better choice.
I'm still playing Ingress. They added a 'drone' which can fly a certain distance from its starting point to another portal which I can then hack. I'm in an area where that lets me reach a lot of portals. Most of the time, the drone can only move once every hour, and during those times, I could just hack portals one step from home without repeating as long as I didn't care about who owned them (points for hacking portals belonging to the other team) or what sort of gear I get (most of the portals are unclaimed and therefor only yield things that I'll recycle).
There's a portal out by Scott's parents' place that I've owned since Labor Day 2019. I take this mostly as a sign that people haven't been playing Ingress nearly as much in low portal density areas. The nearest other portal is at least a kilometer away, and it's not a walking friendly road.
I'm assuming that people haven't been playing Ingress as much more generally. The turnover in ownership of the portals I see from home has been very limited and mostly involves the same 3-4 people.
Scott and I had our 28th wedding anniversary in late June. Since I'm 54 and he's 55, 28 years is more than half of our lives. It's kind of mind boggling. We didn't do much to celebrate.
I got Scott to sit with me and listen to the first four Murderbot books. He enjoyed them. He was also surprised how short they are. I think he hadn't realized they were novellas. I really enjoyed being able to share that with him.
Scott has taken up kayaking with our friend, Cheryl. They don't go every weekend, more like every other. Scott likes it enough that he asked his folks about the kayaks they were getting rid of. Those turned out to be too small for him, however, so he's hoping to buy one that fits.
I don't enjoy outdoor activities generally or being on the water more specifically, so I'm really glad that Scott's found company for this. He's enjoying kayaking as a form of exercise. He's been looking for a fun physical activity for a while, and I don't think he'd have tried it if Cheryl hadn't invited him along.
