Hey, Kate?

And anybody else who's got a desire to write using proper period written English for Jane Austen, or who knows Open Office reasonably well?

There's a writer who's trying to make a spellcheck dictionary using only the words found in everything Jane Austin ever wrote.

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Skipped the stairs yesterday because I got a phone call- my new bike was available and the store was only open until 7. To make up for it, I took the bike on the T today so I could get to the office and finish a few things that had to be done in off hours, then rode home, stopping at Charlestown Navy Yard and the Bunker Hill Monument along the way. The monument's only 294 steps but I figure if you put that together with a total of about 12 miles of bicycling it probably counts as enough quad exercise to make do.

Side note: I've only been up the monument once before. I'd forgotten how absolutely unnerving it is to climb a lot a lot a lot of stairs with no means of seeing anything above or below you. Kudos to the masons who built that thing, though. That had to have been one hell of an engineering feat in the 1800s.

Also, I plan on going back to the Navy Yard when it gets warmer. The Constitution and the museum on the premises and such are all free of charge to visit, and it's not that hard to get to, so why not.