Friday, August 07, 2026

Greetings from the Customs House

Friday was extremely hot and humid here. I didn't sleep well and woke up with a headache, so I was dragging all morning. I did some reading and watched a couple of Lestat fan vids, then after lunch I got a pair of boot stretchers delivered and spent an hour oiling and stretching my Renfaire boots. I also did some computer and photo stuff and went looking for a set of dice I had put away so safely I couldn't find them. We ate dinner early and took a walk when the temperature had dropped a very little, though it remained humid and didn't really become tolerable until after the huge thunderstorm we just had. 

I watched this week's Strange New Worlds with Cheryl -- okay, it's crack, but it's also pure joy with original series references everywhere (Tribbles! Mugato! "It's green!") and the most canonical Kirk/Spock scenes we've ever had in canon, with references to everything from "This Side of Paradise" to "The Naked Time" and that's not even including "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in the original Klingon. We saw the Orioles lose, then watched the season finale of Sugar -- best episode of the season -- and now this week's Silo. The Custom House, where Hawthorne worked, with old and new eagles, in Salem:

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