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Yesterday P came with me to campus to power cycle the machine under my desk. It was constantly filling the terminal screen with notices about full disks and trying to write to read-only volumes, and wouldn’t take any keyboard input. On reboot, there was no record of any such thing in any of the logs, and all the local disks had plenty of space, so, ydifkjcxsrskghgibbbt. 👻 I guess. Home, lunch, put the laundry in, crossword, then started patch runs of the surveys pipeline. Ordered a clothes experiment for summer: lightweight merino tees. Went out to the garden and ripped out most of the arugula so I could plant squash, beans, nasturtiums, borage, cilantro, basil, carrots, and a pollinator mix. I have new gardening gloves that go nearly up to my elbow and they are fantastic for ripping out cleavers too.

Inside, hung the clothes out on the line, made and ate snack, watched more Discovery of Witches. Late dinner, scrabble (650s, no bingos, but we did build DEFUSING which was quite satisfying), direct to sleep. Dreamt of accidentally and unwearably shrinking all my favorite summer clothes, largely because dream-me had sewn them (1) without prewashing the fabric first and (2) on the cross grain. In real life I shrink the snot out of everything first, even wools and silks, so I’m not sure what that’s about.

Finished Jackdaw, which is incredibly sweet and soft if you need a gay criminals-to-innkeepers story in your life (and who doesn’t). Started reading Rag And Bone, the last I have from this series.