Uu, Villeneuve is supposedly making Randezvois with Rama!

 Tight!

Ups and downs, weekly

Still waiting for the pigment, still suspended in a sense of restlessness and forced vacation - and it's sunny, so it's even worse :))) Energised AND grounded :))

On the minus side, the RAM has still not yet arrived and I still can't edit any of the new stuff, although I've since figured out how to get the shots directly onto the phone, if I were so inclined as to post them unedited. Gotta give it to Bluetooth and all that jazz - that stuff's tight!

On the minus, I got the coveted Klevercase sleeve for my poor Kindle and it looks awful. I mean, it looks cute, but it is a 30 euro cardboard fold with a printed-on pattern and a magnet. I almost cried when I realised what I bought. Dunno, maybe I miss my old protective cover so much, I expected something similar. That old ugly thing was wonderful, great if you dropped it, great if it rained, great to carry it stuffed in the bag for ages. This is ... Like something I could do myself. Honestly. I feel so bad. I've wanted this for quite a while and they look so cool in the photos. I need to hide it from G, he'll kill me if he sees what I've wasted 30 bucks on :/

But oh, hey, I want to commemorate another idiotic tiny triumph: yesterday morning I smelled TWO things at the same time!! Since it is so insanely rare for me to be able to smell anything at all, during a doggy walk not one but TWO smells, at the SAME time, found me! (It was some other doggy's poop and a torn grass they were kicking). I've never had that before. Two defined, distinct, separate smells. Nuts :))

Florence weekend: The burial crests of St. Croce

 Walked all over, but lovely.

A trip to Krapina, in my absolute awe of Neanderthals and the tiny museum they managed to build there, literally from a handful of bones. Respect!

 I really need to expand on Aranna, my half-Denisovan character in the book. These humans were so awesome. There are some such nice books about them! (If sad as fuck.)