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I've spent some time earlier this week and this morning learning all about Massachusetts' Motor Vehicle Excise tax, as well as excise tax in general. I hit the age of majority in NY and spent the entirety of my 20s living there, and when my marriage went womp-womp and I moved back in with my folks and couldn't get a regular job that still allowed me to be available to parent my Spawn, my parents took care of a lot of stuff on my behalf - up to and including the excise tax on my vehicle. Finally, FINALLY, I am employed and dealing with paying for my own shit the way I wish I could have been doing all along, and so I wanted to find out what I could about this tax I had never heard of when I was living in NY. I learned quite a bit, actually, including the fact that although here in MA people talk about "the excise tax" like it's just this one tax levied on our vehicles, excise taxes are actually built in on a number of goods and activities. I'm still mildly unclear on precisely how it differs from a sales tax really, but I do like that at least the excise tax on vehicles in MA is collected by the town and goes into the general fund for unrestricted use; it's sort of like an emergency fund for my immediate community.

It's Friday, it's My Day! Off, that is. It's one of those days where it feels like I'm running out of time and I look at the clock to discover that mere minutes have ticked by.

I intend to use my time wisely today, which means that I have started a load of laundry, have a roleplaying post to finish and put up for an RP partner, and am going to rescue a project off the pair of knitting needles I accidentally snapped before then trying out my umbrella swift for the first time. I'll probably watch some visual media, too. I'm torn between continuing Community, continuing The Librarians, or diving into Umbrella Academy. I'll decide when my ass is in the chair, I suppose.

I've also got two pen pal letters to which I need respond, and... ::squints at screen:: ....probably upward of fifty open tabs right now, so expect a Linkdump at some point today or tomorrow.

I think I'll also go make that post on the Ploos that I've been avoiding, letting everyone know where to find me elsenet and under what names. And then maybe daydrink a martini or something so that I don't have to feel all those feels too sharply.

Hello, Blisstopia. <3

The Spawn are just about enschoolenated as I begin this post, and surely shall be by the time that I finish. I work today, but have some small time to myself before I do that. I will be catching up on two roleplaying stories, trying to drum up interest in a third, and working on a dragonfly blanket.

I am having some big thinkythoughts about a thing, but that might end up being a Patron post.

For now, a Linkdump, because I think that, (I forgot what I was going to say there because I was so eager to get into the linkdumping; maybe something about the fact that I had what looked like 50 tabs open? >.>)

Opinions/Articles/Listicles:
A Tribly Is Not A Fedora 
Wedding vows from various sects/traditions/religions/cultures

Crochet:
Dragonfly blanket pattern
A rainbow with clouds ... rug, I think

Knittery:
The Krydda Sweater - I have never actually made a sweater. Well, that's not true; I have made an adorable baby sweater that has never actually made its way onto a baby. I have, however, never made an adult sweater. Therefore, I am going to give it a go with this pattern, because it is really beautiful and the lacework is pretty but does not look difficult per se, and I can totally see wearing it to work. 

Learning/Answering Questions:
Jim Henson assisted in the making of the original Yoda puppet, but was otherwise uninvolved with Star Wars.
The Road Not Taken, a poem by Robert Frost.
The Definition of Alacrity: a brisk and cheerful readiness
The Far Darrig if I am reading this right seem to be what the more modern iteration of Redcaps (fairytale, not political) are based on.
What number of the alphabet is the letter S?

Writing Resources:
Girl Names beginning with L
NaNoWriMo - because it is still November, even if I haven't really done much on the thing

Music:
H.1 - Again
Playlist: Dark Country - created with several other people. I still need to go through and weed out some things where there was misunderstanding about the flavor of the list, which is meant less to be American South country songs which are dark, and more music that evokes dark and creeping undeveloped/rural lands, realistic or fantasy.
Beyond the Sea sung by Bobby Darin
Pinkeye on Bandcamp
Dark Forest - an indie/folk playlist
Ruby by Charly Bliss
A Living Human Girl by The Regrettes


::clappyhands:: ooh, Shopping!:
Christopher Ruz writes a period horror piece (set in the 80s) called Rust. I love it. Also, I am in one of them as a character. It's awful. And awesome. 

Random shenanigans:
They Fight Crime!
Path of Adventure - a fun little point-and-click text adventure that is built so that you can play it right in your mobile device, although it is also totally playable on desktop as well.
Free Game Planet - the site whereupon I found the above game.
How to make some really cool paper airplanes
Drunkblog: Holidays - in case you didn't get the chance to enjoy the shenanigans as they were happening realtime

Hello, Blisstopia. <3