Paper! Paper! Git yer paper here!
I’m sure this clarion call is something that will soon vanish from the annals of the U.S. very soon, if it hasn’t already. Maybe I’m showing my age…do you remember “newsstands”? In my experience, wooden sheds with an older guy who wears an apron with lots of pockets jingling with change; all three city newspapers arrayed in metal paper holders; a fine selection of news magazines and Analog and Ellery Queen and a few crossword puzzle books. My memory has these wooden sheds tucked under the El tracks at corners, and it’s usually twilight or dark and raining.
That aside. Paper. Here’s a pic with lots of paper:
With the help of the most modern of technologies, the 5-year-old child, the above paper can be compacted to fit into a large-ish packing box.
We’ve found the plates and cups and silverware. Mixing bowls are still AWOL.
OmegaDad has spent the day gallivanting off to Home Debit to get manly-man stuff to replace switchplates and fix a poorly installed phone jack and paint…the dotter’s room. We promised. Pink. Sigh. But we picked a pale shade of pink, so maybe it won’t be too bad. There’s a light fixture in that room that the dotter has said, “Ooooh! I like it! I want to keep it!” about. Mrs. Figby would be much more appalled by this light fixture than she is with the deco-esque lavender tulip fixture she is saddled with in her new house in NJ. This thing is fugly. But it’s pink(ish) and has pink flowers and purple flowers. What more does any girl need?
Anyway, the majority of the day after the visit to the money pit has been spent by himself taping trim, replacing fixtures, putting down plastic…sooner or later, paint will actually be applied.
I, striving to be helpful, took the dotter out of his hair by hauling her off to purchase some clothes that fit, as she seems to have grown.
SheOfLittleBrain tagged me with a meme, which reminds me I have a few other memes to complete, and you may be inundated with memes so I can avoid any substance for a while. 
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