Generally, not much. The boxes of trauma the boy so thoughtfully dropped off remain largely unpacked, amongst which there are 2 full boxes of rocks. Completely unnecessary.
The daughter visited over Easter, she's on her way to planting. Tom Yum Kung Soup with Coconut milk (more of a Tom Kha Kai), lunch, happy hour tacos(elevenses), Dinner, Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Asparagus, and she invited Lester over. I never have people over, for good reason, and look at the place now, it’s never been worse, but Lester sprawls on the floor like a champ and I - on a matter, several matters actually, of principal refused to clean for her arrival, she'd know it was a hoax, she's been there, and - bloody hell, this is on the daughter's say-so, why on earth would you invite anyone over to my place? I don't!!!!
For the daughter, lightening my load, a dozen books she'll have to summarize via ChatGPT - "Godel, Escher and Bach", "Lolita", "The Master and Margarita", "The Abortion", etc, etc. Dull, staid classics.
Facebook news, child saved by wolves in Minnesota, not news, yes, a child was lost, and then found in the wilds of Minnesota but wolves were not mentioned in all 3 of the articles I found. Too bad. It would have done them some good press. Fact check EVERYTHING you read on Facebook!!
And I started the Carolina Reaper seeds, pots on my windowsill, sunlight only allowed in by giving my daughter a stack of useless (???!!!) books and taking the rest to the one remaining used bookstore in Nelson.
6 weeks until they germinate and the temperature increases enough that I can move them outdoors.
The books I took to the bookstore, they rejected all the Blaise Cendrars that I rejected as well, "Hollywood", "Dan Yack", "Confessions of Dan Yack", others, I kept "The Astonished Man", more to my taste, the others I'd never return to. A shame, $20 USD to ship, $20 USD to buy, and not even a $1.00 CAN credit...
The 1000 Kikkoman Soy Sauce Lids arrived, the economy of fools, while Soy Sauce lids are in fact an in-demand item for Sushi & Chinese restaurants alike, not a single person has ordered some. Despite my discount pricing. SO I'm out $250. Not really pissed off so much as ... well, it'd be nice to recoup some of my investment...
I found the hard drive. My digital life over the past 20 odd years. Old bookmarks, files, “movies” that I’d missed, and wow - did I ever!!! My digital life, nice thing, you can encrypt it, not like finding old photos of ma and pa, or letters, this, to some extent, you can reduce a photo album, a genealogy, to a flash drive, to Google Storage, if you want to pay the rent...
Then there were the products listed on my facebook that reflect conversations I’ve had with Lester, the privacy-keeping microphone-blocking case for your phone, I had never seen such a thing, suggested it, and a few weeks later there it is, China, AI, Russia, they're all mining me for ideas…
And people, still connecting Michael, Faye (friend of Michaels, Cat Lady) - talking, about common interests, shared past experiences, with Michelle (Yoga, Nelsonite, drank all of the Kool-Aide and left nothing for me.) about film and books, The people you meet, that you're glad to see, while volunteering, or at work.
For the moment this is the news.