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Great. I'm waiting on the grow bags for my cherry tomatoes, and USPS can't find the tracking number. I might have to temporarily plant them elsewhere until this snafu is fixed.

I was heating up a snack, and did some steps on the treadmill. Zara is fascinated because IT MOVES! She can't figure out why it moves and why it stops. (She won't get hurt by it because it's manual. In fact, she likes to lie on it.)

I haven't done any Tarot readings for some thirty-odd years, but floatingleaf wrote about a deck that really spoke to me, so I ordered it and a basic Tarot book. They should get here on Wednesday. (I'm continually amused at what Amazon thinks is "essential" and "non-essential".) Should be interesting. I really would like a reading on what the rest of the year will be like. (Don't we all!) I have an image of me doing Tarot readings on the California Zephyr.

I could throw the I-Ching also, although I'm not sure where my book went. I ordered a copy. I just "threw" the online I-Ching, asking what the rest of the year would be like, and got told:

Wei Chi / The End In Sight

Fire ascends above the Water:
The Superior Person examines the nature of things and keeps each in its proper place.

Too anxious the young fox gets his tail wet, just as he completes his crossing.
To attain success, be like the man and not like the fox.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Resist the rush to completion.
Anticipation of fulfillment may cause you to be careless before you have fully absorbed the lessons of the journey.
The endpoint of this Quest will only prove to be the threshold for another.
You are short steps from Mastery on this plane, yet you stride toward Ignorance of the challenges lying beyond.
Savor this accomplishment.
Fully Become.
Take full possession of your world before embarking to discover the next one.
That voyage begins soon enough, and you will reminisce about this one.

Okay then. I guess that the summary is "Chill". And enjoy the journey.

I discovered that World Bank has economic reports for the various regions of the world for free. I want to read more about macroeconomics, so I'm downloading a free ("Open Educational Resource'") textbook onto my Kindle. Apparently I'm already enrolled in a Macroeconomics class on Coursera, so I'll pursue it. (I think that I just summed myself up. Tarot and Economics. Cats and Plants. I-Ching and Programming.)

I temporarily planted the cherry tomatoes. They already look too big for the pot, but they'll do for a while. The basil plants look no worse for their mishap yesterday.

I got my other Nikon D3100 book.

Goodwill now has some drop off locations open, but the one in Lincoln isn't one of them. Drat.

Dinnerly was a miss this time. The food should have been good, but the way that they had me cook it scorched the tortellini. I could make my normal pesto tortellini and add broccoli and garlic to it. I discovered in cooking that I don't have a skillet with a lid. (I used my pasta pot. I don't know if that contributed to the scorching.) I found one that I'd like to get once I get paid.

I'm going to put away groceries (done), do dishes (done), and study some macroeconomics.