Daisy 🪺🔪📚

I found out last year that the Library for the Blind gives out free braille displays to members, and since I've been a member for most of my life even though I haven't used their services in years, I reached out to ask for one and they sent it to me within a couple of days. I wouldn't be able to do poetry readings without one and braille displays in general are prohibitively expensive, so I can't imagine a life where I could ever buy my own.

Now I have this cute compact little guy with 20 cells and a carrying case and strap, and I can read again without the aid of a screen reader. I've missed braille a lot during the years when I didn't have access to it. I'm terrible at writing it now, but still very good at reading it, which is a relief, and anyway libraries are so cool and good and technology is (mostly) so cool and good and I'm very grateful for both.

Here are #3GoodThings, not specifically for today, just recently.

1. My front porch, which is the best feature of this house and which has been decorated and outfitted with a swing and a rocking chair and a table and chair set and wind chimes. It's the best thing to sit out there near the bird feeder and bird bath and listen to all the birds and try to identify them. Cardinals and sparrows and doves and starlings and grackles and an occasional crow.

2. Small but meaningful upgrades to my house, a new shower curtain that's thicker and heavier and made of that waffle-textured cloth instead of plastic and stainless steel litter boxes and a new blender.

3. The sleep supplement I've been taking continuing to work so well that I don't know what to do with my new routine where I wake up so much earlier and am actually functional more days than I'm not. I'm mad that it took me all this time to find something that works, but I'm getting the best sleep of my life, so I'm not *that* mad.

It's always funny to me when I see posts with alt text that was clearly not written out by a human and AI is transcribed as Al. Everybody really hates Al, poor guy. Although I guess to be fair, Al does seem like kind of a dick, stealing everyone's creative work and jobs and destroying the environment. He's an ambitious dick, you have to give him that.