{"id":506,"date":"2010-03-08T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-03-08T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T22:30:39","slug":"public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sun is out for the fourth day in a row<\/i>. I’m liking March so far. Sunlight, warmth… my mood is so much better. I would probably even have snowdrops, if they weren’t under here.<\/p>\n

\"snow<\/p>\n

The front flowerbed is by the front walk so that it can be admired several times a day. But it’s also the only place to put all the snow from the front walk, and we’ve had a lot this year. Most of the yard is melting out, but this pile has a way to go. <\/p>\n

Would it be weird to shovel my flower bed? I could put the snow back on the sidewalk…<\/p>\n

I spent Friday night curled up on the couch with a pile of books working on a big research project. This made me very content. Nick called me a “knowledge-based life form” last week, and I think he may be onto something. Anyway, I mentioned online that I was happily ensconced with my reference materials and a tin of book darts<\/a>. Judging from the replies, many of my friends have never heard of<\/i> these invaluable items. This must be remedied!<\/p>\n

\"book<\/p>\n

This is my stack of books at the end of the evening. If you look closely at the edges, you can see, oh, maybe 50 book darts marking places I need to refer to later. They don’t add any appreciable bulk, they don’t move or fall out, the cat can’t remove them.<\/p>\n

\"book<\/p>\n

One side has a little pointer so I can mark the exact line of interest. They make acceptable bookmarks, but nothing beats them for this kind of extensive survey project. <\/p>\n

(Note: sticky notes leave adhesive residue in your books, and it’s acidic<\/i> — please don’t use them in library books or books you care about because the paper will eventually degrade. And if I catch you putting sticky notes in my books, you’d better be prepared to prove that they are archival-grade!)<\/p>\n

\"book<\/p>\n

Best of all, I can buy them by the hundreds<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sun is out for the fourth day in a row. I’m liking March so far. Sunlight, warmth… my mood is so much better. I would probably even have snowdrops, if they weren’t under here. The front flowerbed is by the front walk so that it can be admired several times a day. But it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-must-be-spring","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}