Done Since 2023-04-30

Today is International Bereaved Mothers Day. If that label applies to you, you have all my sympathy. I know Colleen's thoughts would be with you, if she was here, and I wish we'd known about it earlier -- it was founded in 2010, and like International Widow's Day and National Widow's Day (which was Wednesday) doesn't get a lot of recognition.

I have started learning Dutch, via Mondly. (I was studying French with it a few years ago, but let it drop. We'll see how I do this time.) N, G, and I are vacationing in the Netherlands for a couple of weeks this summer.

This functional but totally useless Lego construction is a gearbox with a reduction ratio of approximately 10^100:1. It's a bit like the legendary (apocryphal, really) Towers of Hanoi, only with a much longer cycle.

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