Sonata (Op. 19) - Paul Creston I. With vigor From my first masters recital on 4/17 😇 🎹: Amy Au

Concerto (Op. 109) - Alexander Glazunov From my first masters recital on 4/17 🎹: Amy Au

Finished DS9. Odo is a dumbass. Starting Voyager

Snake count on my walk: 3 2 of them were coiled together. This guy was mad his warmer wiggled off.

From my recital last night 😇 I’m still fundraising for my summer festival! Support my endeavors here: gofund.me/74250e497

I see Madonna is being dissed again. Shout out to that time during distance learning that I found this gem by Pearson. A whole ass lesson on how Madonna sucks. Nothing comparable for a male performer. You better believe I pitched a fit. She’s being dealing with sexism & ageism her entire career

Someone with more skill than me needs to make a Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck gif of the Strait being open and the strait being closed

This one was my favorite. Black & Blue by Barry Cockcroft. It has lots of fancy techniques I can’t explain.

Recital was a success. So proud of this guy.

For the Oldest fans : starts at 27 min mark m.youtube.com/watch?v=edFn...

The guardian at the gate

I honestly don’t give 2 shits about Kegsbreath and his fake Bible crap. I care that we’re murdering people at sea. We’re endangering the world. And we’re not feeding the PEOPLE serving in our military who are at risk.

Fellow Californians, for your consideration: youtu.be/CPLsT1Jp9ic?...

Fundraising Update! TLDR: $150 away from booking flights, $1,380.05 owed by May 15th for Room and Board Thank you to everyone who has donated and/or shared so far!!! 🥹 gofund.me/d17612845

Oldest’s first master’s recital is tonight! He’s still raising funds for a summer fellowship out east of you can spare a little bit for a broke grad student. gofund.me/4f7d48ba4

NBC is putting up paywalls on their articles now. Not sure what the purpose is except to assure none of the public will read them.

Making a chocolate cheesecake today. Have baked the crust. Made the ganache. Am now procrastinating the actual filling because the cream cheese is cold. Could I do some tricks to warm it up? Yes. Am I going to do that? Probably not.

The Odyssey has to be my least favorite classic that keeps getting reboots. I just hate the entire thing. All of it.

It’s a very blustery day up here. The Canyon was still full of blooms, though.

Stopped along the highway today to take some wildflower photos and caught a bald eagle cruising above me.

Rural places will get extra screwed by this. We already got screwed by the end of local cancellations (thanks anthrax scare). My local mail travels 3 hrs to a sorting center before getting postmarked and sent back. Sometimes it’s next day. Sometimes it’s a week later.

Everyone’s situation is different, but even as a family making what should be a decent wage (although we’re in an expensive state) things have gotten noticeably tighter. Home insurance has doubled in the last five years. 5x what it was when we bought the house.

Changed my text alert sound. It just went off and scared me.

Fun little wiggle here. Majorly shook western NV.

Log yard geese surveying their kingdom

ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Swalwell’s campaign. Pass it on.

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Most of the older Gen X people I know are very selfish/racist. Gen Xers like me born in the 70s are different. I’d like to see the 45-55 broken out.

History doesn’t repeat, but it absolutely rhymes. The oligarchs need to realize that if they drag us back to the 19th century, the public will react like the 19th century workers did.

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!! We’ve officially made it to $375 which is only $200 away from covering the flights! 🥹🫶🙌

Currently listening to this one www.audible.com/pd/B00MYHALD...

Still didn’t happen. A shame. There’s always tomorrow.

Actual LOL

Well if we do fuck this up, there’s always a recall.

It’s like the California Democrats are *trying* to lose the governorship.

Snickerdoodles! Ended up having to make a second batch because the first one was flat. Butter was too soft, I think. Had to wait for the power to stay on.

And we just lost power.

On the last season of DS9 & … meh.

This guy was hopping from post to post

King Goose

The automatic draft thing is less nefarious than it sounds. It was already required of young men to register within 30 days of their 18th birthday with penalties ranging from jail time and fines to not being eligible for student loans or government employment. Is it creepy? Absolutely.

I was too lazy to go out there again, but the UP4014 Big Boy was through my area again today. Lots of people were down at the Keddie Wye. Here’s my photo from 2024. Largest operating steam engine in the world. It’s down in the valley and will be coming back over I-80 on Sunday.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Oldest was accepted into a summer program, but is fundraising to afford it. He is currently in grad school and didn’t take out loans, so money is tight. gofund.me/8cdfd810f

It is officially snek season. Usually walk before it gets warm enough for them to be out, but went this afternoon instead. Four different garter snakes. 🐍

🚨 Winter Storm Watch issued April 8 at 12:19PM PDT until April 12 at 11:00PM PDT by NWS Sacramento CA 🚨 Additional Details Here.

In the valley and have access to a Dutch Bros. Tried a shark bite lemonade. It’s a good thing I do not have access to a Dutch Bros on the regular.

Oh FFS. We have a winter storm watch this week.

Happy Wednesday! Here’s a lizard doing pushups

Oldest @mcmichael-music.bsky.social is hoping for some help to attend a Chamber Winds Festival in Virginia this summer if you’re inclined to help a poor graduate student :) gofund.me/309bf66e4