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Purrcy was inside, enjoying the sun and breeze, when suddenly there was a human outside! Taking pictures! And it's Mommy! Hi Mommy!
Hi fuzzzy baby! What a loving face you have

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It was a really chilly night a couple days ago, so there was a VERY cuddly #Purrcy next to my legs & feet all night. Very choice.
#cats #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby lies on his side looking at the camera, with his front paws curled up against his chest and his back paw extended toward the viewer. He is endlessly adorable.

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There is too much. I will sum up:

I'm having to reduce social media AGAIN due to The Horrors, but also I'm promoting stuff the Oct.18th No Kings protests, so I see more than is good for me. PLEASE come out if you can, we need this to be overwhelmingly large, peaceful, joyful. Wear yellow, it's the color people seem to be settling on as the No Kings "movement" color.

They say that old people need less sleep but in order to actually feel rested I need 10 hours of sack time -- in part because I have to get up to pee so often. So I've started putting myself to bed at 10 (!!) and using my Happy Light in the morning, which is definitely needed at this time of year if it's going to rain like this, I was starting to feel Depression creeping back in. At least that's going back into its cave, hissing.

One reason I need so much sleep is because I'm often in pain, from sciatica or otherwise. I frequently have to lie down to stop it hurting, and all I can do is read, so I read a LOT. SO MUCH.

All of Us Murderers, KJ Charles: Trademark KJC steamy m/m sex with great characterization as Zeb Wyckham, called to the family pseudo-Gothic manse, tries to patch things up with his ex Gideon while dealing with his horrible relatives and their bizarre demands. I was never able to suspend my disbelief, because this is set in the 20s yet WWI doesn't seem to have happened.

I think of it as taking place in an "Agatha Christie AU", because IIRC Agatha Christie's stories written in the 20s & 30s mostly happen in a world where WWI doesn't seem to have happened (when you look at timelines, backstories, etc). I strongly prefer Dorothy Sayers, all of whose Lord Peter novels have the long-term effects of the War as at least subtext if not text. And Gaudy Night is a useful witness to the coming storm, whereas Christie's "The Moving Finger", written during WWII and featuring an injured pilot, seems to take place in Jo Walton's Small Change universe, which is actually that of Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar.

But I digress! The point is, All of Us Murderers didn't work for me, because I couldn't feel like I knew when it was actually *set*.