The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Here's a song for us creaky ladies.

Lovely sounding combination of flowering foliage … Swamp hibiscus .. sounds like a water loving plant , “thank you”“for the advise on these . Not sure if my zone will support some of those …
Filling right up your tea cup … . And sets down at the table , as I straighten the fringed plaid tablecloth out .

What would bloom for you in hot summers in the north are native prairie flowers. Purple coneflower. Coreopsis. Native flax (gorgeous blue.) false indigo. Rattlesnake master. Joe-pye weed. Black-eyed Susan.

Sounds like a lovely combination,, do already have the black eyed Susan’s but they do not blossom for a very long period . , Will be researching some of the others and figuring out if I have a place for them in my yard .

Ah well, just over a year since my last appearance. I ATEN'T DEAD (yet).

Gosh. Nothing much to say. Just finishing up the last few TP books that I had been saving up.

Only just discovered Blue Man Group. Where have I been, all these years?

Typing the above made me think to look for my favourite drummers and I came across a new set of snippets of The Royal Drummers of Burundi. You might even see me in the crowd watching them in 1982.

Off I go. See you all next year.

I just turned 40. I feel old and young at the same time I guess.

Ah! Less than a quarter of a century before I get into three digits. Then I'll be 10% of the way to getting through my first thousand years.

Things I've been doing...

From AliExpress I bought a nice robot insect: six 3-servo legs, a camera, ultrasound and pretty LEDs. It took me two days (and a blister, after the first 72 screws, before getting on to the 72 nuts and bolts) to assemble it. It walks (dances?) along rather nicely. I must get back to reprogramming its Python code so it can chase (slowly) my dog. I even think I might be able to get it to climb stairs. Levitating like a Dalek might take a bit more effort.

Not a lot else. I repaired a mouse a few days ago. It was out in my recycling, but I got distracted into seeing if I could steal a microswitch out of it to repair another mouse. The other mouse repaired itself (somehow), so I just repaired the one I'd thought to throw away. I now have a ridiculous number of mice... but only (currently) two hands.

My "Green Thumb" guys have just aerated and dethatched my lawns - plus they've ripped the boundary wire for my robot lawnmower into at least four pieces. Fortunately, I have enough wire to replace the whole thing - but it's just started raining and blowing a gale, so I'll put that off and wait for a drier, calmer day. As that mower has not been working properly since the end of last year, it's not too big a pain. My OTHER robot lawnmower is having to fill in for it.

I also have a robot vacuum cleaner, which scurries (slowly, again) around the bungalow... at times.

Then there's the robot cart, which doesn't do much, and the robot arm (which I've never really got around to programming). And the two Rubik's Cube solving robots. Plus the Tesla 3 Performance with FSD.

I have quite a lot of... robots... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdKpr2AQEs

(What does the "YouTube" BBCode do?)

I want to build one of these:

And, out of interest, I took the latest RDOS Aspie Quiz http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php. I forget my earlier scores, but this was 119 out of 200:

When I first joined WP, I scored 161. It would appear I'm nearly normal now! but maybe that's because I have a headache.

That annoying "life" thing. I again slipped into tachycardia at 2 am this morning - and had to use the third Bisoprolol since they were prescribed in Oct '21. That's almost one 2.5mg tablet per year! I must be addicted to them. Anyway, I was down from 150 bpm to 50 bpm by 4 am, when I had a cup of oxtail soup, put down the book and went back to sleep.

The book is Stephen King's Gunslinger - Dark Tower Volume 1. I have been loaned the set, which takes up a full foot of shelf space. I tried reading some of his stuff a long time ago... and didn't care for it. I'm not sure about this hepatology + one. I don't find his style very engaging.

When I've churned through the above, I might re-read the Corwin Cycle from The Chronicles of Amber, plus I've just noticed that there was a sequel pentology that I don't recall reading.

All the above while waiting for Philip Pullman to finish writing "The third (and last!) book" of The Book of Dust.

Of course, I could try to catch up with the 48 volumes of Xanth. I recently re-read the first seven books of the Incarnations of Immortality trilogy(!) plus the 17-year-later published eighth book, which was the most expensive book I've ever bought at 25p per page (£55 for 220 pages). Piers Antony is one of my favourite authors.

I seem to have waffled.