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You know a typewriter is being used as flimsy filler decoration when it’s sitting on a shelf and simultaneously serving as a book support.

A real writer’s typewriter is free and clear so that the carriage can move its full length.

Samhain or All Hallows Eve when the boundary between the living and the dead has been blurred seems the best time to pull out the Remington 666 with the blood red ribbon and brew up a similarly colored Boulevardier cocktail to write about our wishes for the coming new year. Sláinte!

How are you celebrating?

A black wooden "altar" with a black and cream colored Remington 666 typewriter sits next to a cocktail glass of blood red liquid. In the corner stands a kindergartener's black bat Halloween craft/decoration.

I finished the Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair dorm room LEGO set in time for Halloween. 

A LEGO version of the Nevermore dorm room of Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair sits on top of a copy of Edgar Allen Poe's collected works which sits on top of a shiny black enamel flat top portable typewriter.

The typewriter is  a tiny custom LEGO with a pre-affixed sticker and a small white LEGO attached as a simulacrum of paper. 

A close up of Wednesday Addams side of her dorm room constructed in LEGO featuring a small LEGO brick with a sticker that stands in as her typewriter. At the back of the typewriter is a piece holding a white LEGO representing paper.

 

Text message with a Public Safety Message to prepare for potential emergency evacuation

We’re spending an hour to batten down the hatches and do some preparation (yet again) for another potential emergency evacuation in Altadena, CA. This one due to potential mud slides and debris flows expected in the Eaton Fire burn scar areas with impending heavy rains this afternoon. I suspect we’re probably reasonably safe  due to our neighborhood’s location with respect to Eaton Canyon (i.e. the mountain and the canyon walls should divert flow to the Southeast of our neighborhood). This being said, having endured one catastrophe this year, I know to anticipate the worst. 

The notice came at about noon as dark clouds impinge on us from the mountains North of us and from the East. Weather reports began last night and some have predicted intermittent rain, highly uncommon for us this time of year, which may see rates as high as 2 inches per hour.  We have several evacuation routes and plans ready (including escape to the roof if necessary).

The sun is still shining overhead with a sustained breeze of about 5 miles per hour.

Fingers crossed. 

Thinking about the current storage capacity of my card index collection, I made a back-of-the-index-card calculation:  

172,000 index cards * 150 words / card [average maximum, using front only] * 1,200 bytes / 150 words [rough average with Unicode encoding] * 1 kb / 1024 bytes * 1MB/1024 kb = approximately 200 MB of text storage

Having it well organized and indexed… Priceless.

A bright room with a green steel table on top of which sits a 1950 gray Royal KMG typewriter, a two drawer Shaw-Walker oak card index and some papers and mathematics textbooks. Behind the table is a barrister's bookcase full of books, and two card index filing cabinets.

Close up of a LEGO version of Wednesday Addams dorm room at Nevermore featuring a tiny black LEGO brick typewriter

For fans of the Juwel 3 typewriter that appears in the Netflix series Wednesday, there’s a tiny little simulacra in LEGO set 76781 Wednesday & Enid’s Dorm Room. 

Back of a LEGO box for Wednesday and Enid's dorm room showing the interior contents.

With the recent drop of the second season and Halloween around the corner, I was surprised to see the set on clearance at Target for about $30.