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• I put an entirely-green tomato (it came off in me hand) in the fruit bowl with the bananas and it's actually ripening: it's been there about a week, this morning I was at "hmm, is that turning yellow?", and it is now unambiguously turning red. I am very excited about this!
  
• I spent a bunch of this morning sorting out my accounts; I'd not been doing great at keeping up with them since about... April... but a quarterly statement arrived last week and, well, I'm now up to date, so that's one background stressor down.
  
• I have come to the possibly dubious conclusion that in addition to tracking (in my giant nearly decade-old spreadsheet) what I've read when, and author demographics, and brief notes, and so on, I should also track when I bought things (or who I borrowed them from, etc), and thus elapsed time between acquisition and consumption. This in turn means I'm... actually going to set myself up with a list of Things I Haven't Read Yet But Own And Want To, in addition to the "recs received" list, because that's the easiest way to track acquisition date with my current set-up, and long story short I think I might be procrastinating.
  
• I have picked up a reread, however, which is. A doorstop of a hardback. That I want to keep Nice. And it turns out there are in fact many reasons that I mostly don't read hardcopy full stop let alone hardbacks, still, and also that the ebook is currently £4.99, so I think I'll keep going for the first chapter or two and probably then grudgingly admit defeat that discretion is the better part of valour and that I really like this book.
  
• Two days ago, Freecycle went "hey, do you want an exercise bike?" "Hmm," thinks I, "well Adam will probably say we don't have space for it and even if he doesn't it'll probably be gone by the time either of us reply," but I sent him the link and heard nothing back and made mild enquiries later that evening about his thoughts on the topic and, uh, yesterday evening (1) we picked up an exercise bike and (2) A spent a bunch of time Doing Some Tidying to make space for it. It is... very much designed for a 6' tall man, and it is a bare-bones model with minimal scope for adjustment, but I did a slightly incautious three minutes and my knee isn't screaming, so, let's see how it's feeling tomorrow, eh?