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1) My nephew (who is currently thinking thoughts about either being transgender or non-binary) is now 7. Time flies. We had a brief family party today before the incursion of 20 1st and 2nd graders, which I bailed from to go back to work.

My niece, who is 4 3/4, is reading to the extent that she has conversations with my brother about a pluralization on her cereal box without having talked to him/been read to from it before, so that's ... impressive.

2) We have a very nice washing machine (LG, but not "smart") which started throwing errors at us today, and which we then fixed. This involved a minor flood because I didn't put one of the three different filters back the right way, but we set up a fan and a bunch of towels and *that's* fine. So: hey, we fixed a thing! On our own!

3) Apparently people in Somerville are seeing the aurora without artificial enhancements; what we got up here was, basically, a faintly green sky, but it was measurably different and pretty cool.

This is currently erroring at me, but will presumably get better soon: NOAA Aurora predictor.