Kitchen aid

I figured out how to wash my dirty pots inside my boat without running water. It involves a bucket of warm water with a little soap, a cardboard sheet as a holding rack, and a jar of water over the sink.

It's the little things. Honestly, no other rational American would consider success in such a tedious chore any kind of bonus.

More impressively, I took my laptop over to DriveSavers to resuscitate the hard drive. This is entirely owing to Jean K,, my friend from high school who got back in touch with me out of the blue late last year, and started working on a book with me. (The book is on that hard drive.) I don't deserve such friends as her, but then, I don't know who does, except my other excellent friends.