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Adulting achievement unlocked. I bought a dinner table. Aglaia approves.

Every time I get my hair cut, I realize that there is less work for him to do. Someday, I will come in looking like Charlie Brown, a single strand of hair sticking up from the middle of my head. But I will go. As the hair on my head diminishes, my eyebrows continue to expand. My father’s legacy.

My doctor suggested a blend of herbs in hot water to help me with my mild feeling of pervasive dread. It’s called anti anxietea.

Aglaia is unimpressed with my explanations for why I have to go to work rather than staying home and tending to her needs.

It has been (00) days since last successful escape attempt. She was only foiled by her inability to reach the elevator call button before being caught.

I am trying to write. She thinks there are important things to do. She is probably right.

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild: Black Bear Fox Coyote Humpback whale Dolphin.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Reason #266 why I don't work from home.

My kitten turned into a Cat when I was not looking.

Visiting SF from Seattle. At breakfast. As soon as I ordered, old friend and their partner walk in. Of all the French cafes in all the cities in all the world, they walk in to mine. I am delighted.

Smells Like Nirvana still works. youtu.be/FklUAoZ6KxY?...

Grief is a funny thing. Doing in person banking today. One of the security questions was "Mother's full maiden name?" And my first thought was "Shes dead." But that is not the answer, and so I did answer. A reminder that this is a pain I carry all the time.

About to go to from Seattle to Bainbridge island. The provisions for the crossing are expensive. Heed the old warnings about Ferry Food.

So, there's that feeling? You know the one? Where you're tired, bloaty, icky, but you go to the farmers market anyway because you know you need Food for the week, and there's someone selling Vietnamese Noodle Salad, so you get one for lunch and you eat it and Suddenly, Everything is Okay again?

Look, I know there is both chronic and immediate shitstorms happening right now. But my cat woke me up by announcing her hairball, I got a nosebleed for no known reason (only the second time in my life), and my toilet is backed up. So you will have to forgive me taking a couple hours off.

If i am very careful, I may run out of Murderbot books just in time for the next Rivers of London novel. Now, if the US Publishers would get themselves sorted out and publish @nickharkaway.com Sleeper Beach in the US, that would be just about perfect.

Uncounted weekends spent at this beach in my childhood. Times a awastin. -Dad

Santa Barbara is a College Town!!! How can it have such a terrible coffee shop culture? Everything closes at 6!!!

Road trip!

This is the statue of Terry Pratchett’s Librarian in front of a library in Oulu, Finland, made in 1987 by Raimo Metsänheimo. Discworld novels are available in Finnish. The statue is in front of the library in the district called Kaijonharju.

Aglaia enjoying the spring breeze while she lays in bed.

I look forward to the day a guest asks where my spare towels are, and i get to tell them; Bottom Drawer, under the cat.

So, seriously. What is the difference between (American) Biscuits and Scones?

There is nothing in this world like beans and rice, to feed body and soul. Thank you, Mom. GNU Emma Sue Barr

A cat in her natural environment.

This came up over Dim Sum, yesterday. (and having spend formative years in a place nobody cares about, I don't mess with NYC). www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNpo...

My stuffed animal collective.

Is there a Geologist in the house? If I say there's a natural cave with easily mined copper ore, am i violating laws of how stuff actually works?

Just discovered the ExoLore podcast. Fact based world building hosted by an Astrophysicist / Folklorist. @l-duck-scott.bsky.social

Anthropology friends. Is throwing living people into active volcanoes a racist myth, or something like something that actually happened somewhere somehow? @l-duck-scott.bsky.social

New Home Discovery #36. I had previously determined there is an electrical outlet controlled by a light switch. I have just now discovered, there are, in fact, two outlets controlled by the light switch. But only the bottom plug of each outlet. How weird is that? Harmless, but weird.

sleep is important not in college anymore spiders need a break.

Question for my Tech Inclined bsky folks. What is your favorite VPN?

it's true! many of us don't even KNOW what nearby houses look like when viewed from the bushes www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Across time and space, Somehow we found each other Roll initiative

Do you have a favorite VPN? Tell me about it.

Is soup in a bread bowl just a logical extension of Biscuits and Gravy? Or is this a case of parallel evolution?

For those counting, as of last week, i have moved out of the old apartment. Still moving in to the new condo (there are boxes to unpack, books to put away, shelves to organize, a cat to convince not to get stuck in the laundry room...). It is an ongoing process.

@synita.bsky.social Happy birthday! Hug kiss hug!! Hope you have a wonderful day full of love and joy and all good things!! I am glad you are here and that you are my friend.

I have officially moved out. Moving in* is an ongoing process. *"Everything unboxed and put away" = moved in.

I am still adjusting to my new flat. I can take out the garbage without leaving the building. This is awesome.