EXCHANGE INTERFACE

Clearing accounts at the start of the month is the easiest time to do it. Updating payment information, deciding to cancel a couple of old Patreon subscriptions since it's been months since I've listened to an episode of that podcast, remembering which family members I can piggyback off of for which streaming services so I don't need to pay for them myself - it's hard to forget to get around to it when it's the start of the billing cycle.

It's not a lot on a month to month basis, and it doesn't add up to a huge amount each year. But it's nice to get it done. To say goodbye without looking back.

What I found worth looking back on was when I last replaced my computer mouse, mostly for my own curiosity. I've used the same make and model of mouse for about as long as I've owned personal computers, and I last got a box of five new ones three years ago, around when I last got a new one - the thought was that if I bought several, I'd be good for a while. Three years seems about the amount of time these things can deliver a good performance, and with four left in the set, I've got a while before I need to start thinking about either buying more or transitioning to another kind of mouse.

Blue moons are more common than most people might think, and they're still rare enough to be worth marking. They're not necessarily an omen or a portent, the way a crow isn't indicative of anything other than a crow. But crows are worth marking, too - stopping everything I was doing to watch one for a few minutes as it rested and called out from the very top of a nearby water tower before setting off. I know other people don't think highly of them, and I don't think highly of those people. They're suitably handsome birds.

Spending a couple hours hanging out with people online and chatting about potential convention panels is, also, worth remarking on, because it's always good to write it down and remember the times you make someone laugh.