Garden starters

I started some lettuce seeds in a tray, and stuck it on the living room windowsill because there's still snow on the ground. While I was at it, I stuck some overgrown potato eyes in the other tray - I waited too long, however, and they're looking pretty ratty, so that might be a fail. No matter. Unfortunately, I only have the two trays until I'm able to get into the shed to grab more, so that was it for today. I may only have to wait a couple of days - we're expecting temperatures as high as 22°C this week.

(I know both F and C scales, but C is easier so I still use it by default even though I moved back into the US. But I'm not very good at converting between them. Anyway, there are conversion apps built right into our browsers; it's not easier for me to do it than for you to do it.)

I really want some spicebush to replace the forsythia with, but that's a whole project unto itself, and I already have more gardening plans than my body or my bank account can handle. First the buckthorn, because it's mixed with invasive bittersweet so that's a two-for-one. And that's where the spotted lanternflies are hanging out, so I can hopefully start eliminating them without insecticides.

I need to make a whole to-do list, and DW is a much better place to do that than FB. The only problem is photos. I'd like to transfer my gardening photo album to my to-do list, but that's just too much effort...

Alien Romance, the Daily comic

"Happy birthday, Ella! Are you throwing a party this year?" Christine asks Ella.

The birthday/Halloween party was a big deal in the graphic novel. Maurice, being crowd-averse, sneaked off and then went to the health clinic to get his arm cast removed, and on his way back, he saw Cathy walking home and proposed to her on the sidewalk. If you enjoy awkward marriage proposals, that was definitely one.

"Of course!" Ella replies. "We're borrowing a lightshow set from the neighbors. It's going to be fantastic! How's med school?"

Med school is difficult, but Christine loves it. She describes how she got caught in the middle of a gender war, and is siding with her fellow female med students even though one prof sometimes mistakes her for a dude.

"I wish I was there to help you harangue those jerks," Ella laments.

"Yeah! We need you," Christine agrees.

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I found a device that allows me to crosspost my comics here from the Patreon, but it's not perfect - it's extremely slow, the keys stick and are prone to typos, and the touchpad works only sporadically so it's difficult to correct those typos. Anyway, here's today's comic too:

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