Food run day. Needed brown sugar for apple pie. Never made one before. Even weirder, the recipe I'm going to use doesn't even have cinnamon or nutmeg! Didn't think you could even have an apple pie without those.

Additions to the virtual library. (Today was magazine day in the mail.)

TV Guide --- I know this basic information is available for free in the Net but I like the format and find it useful. Worth the cost to me. I've been a reader since childhood. (From 1953 when Dragnet, Martin & Lewis and Ed Sullivan were on the covers to today's Supergirl cover.) Next to Discover magazine, the Guide may be my most useful regular publication.

Drawing --- Love to check out each issue before passing it along to my granddaughter who is a wonderful artist for her age,  Thumbing through it when I came across Boy With a Laptop by David Haines (pg 39). Made me stop. Wondered why a photo was included in a magazine about drawing. Turns out it is actually a drawing in graphite (pencil, I presume?).  Other artists wowed me with how few strokes some people needed to depict distinguishable human visages.

Maxim --- Don't even know where this one comes from. Has my name as subscriber til May of 2016 but somebody must have gotten it for me because I sure didn't. Every issue seems to be like the last. Current issue is perfect representative. Contents: Sports, smelly ads for colognes I will never buy, men's fashion, scantily clad young women, and some times, more sports. Holy smokers. This is the perfect anti-Ken magazine. Everyone of those topics holds the same complete irrelevancy to me.

Nah. Not for the library after all. Maxim is garbage, Drawing is going to GD, Guide of little value after its schedule has run.

Brought AC into basement and freed up window for Buddy. He sits on the sill and looks out. Wait until the birds arrive for winter seeds.

TV tonight includes three of my favorite comedies (Middle, Modern Family, Blackish), Mysteries of Laura (still not sure why I watch),  NOVA covering sinkholes, Nature doing spy cameras watching pets (maybe some Buddy insights), Little Women: LA (OK, so I'm a little strange).

Back to my Russian sci-fi book.

Are you there yet, AI?