The Mizz v. McClaren which one is more fun?

This little donkey got separated from the flock after venturing through a gate. While attempting to herd him back he instead made a 90° turn and ran headlong into the electric fence then tumbled down a hill all bound up. At that point he went limp and gave up on life as sheep tend to do.

Got to take the northern passage today. It’s been gummed up with 90 minute delays the last few weeks due to I suppose tourist traffic.

I’m bewitched by the composition it turned out quite interesting

When we transplanted from the grinding bubble of DC to this pinch of land on a remote green corner of the country I had faith our wisdom was yet to be revealed. Four years on it arrives as the colossus Ai consumes the state and competes with the Everyman for essential resources in a rigged game

A work up of Musk that could apply quite broadly to this administration. It is a very primitive psychology to be incapable of comprehending the benefit to oneself of an increase in the common good, which is a more durable improvement than purely personal gain.

When I changed out oil/trans/diff fluids this weekend I found that the old girl is still running on the factory struts from 1995. Need replacing to be sure but I’m honestly impressed how not terrible they are after 30 years and 170k. Lightweight must be the secret.

Joie de vivre inside of the AM commute yesterday. We really lost the feel of driving in modern ‘by wire’ cars. An honest cable between the foot and throttle, a shifter straight down into the transmission, only an LCD clock instead of screens. It’s detoxifying.

It’s been my week for timing. Made my flight out of Amsterdam with minutes to spare, flew through customs, made it onto the 7pm ferry tonight at 6:58. Also, I haven’t had a second to spare all week which.. has not been restful.

I had the mostly pleasantly unexpected ease through customs yesterday. I stopped to buy a package of frozen herring and a block of cheese at duty free figuring it would probably be a headache. Nope, I declared my goods and was through in three minutes, wild. Then I volunteered for a disease swab

Sitting on the ferrytron, the best thing perhaps about this old Miata are reactions from people. People really get a kick out of it.

Oi, finally, nearly on the way back home. East->West is a cruel transit, landing only an hour after taking off in local times. Much prefer the overnighter running eastbound.

A war crime against tacos. Mexican-American still hasn’t arrived in the EU in any genuine sense

Staugefar and the intoxicating bouquet of koe poep In de ochtend

I really wish American hotels would come see what an actual continental breakfast looks like. German hotel frühstück is the best.

Oh man, memories.. I vividly recall driving this length of A road in early December 2009. Eight months married, newly moved to Europe, Ash and I visited Amsterdam, Brussels and Bruge a week before I left for Afghanistan. What a lovely memory to greet a brief night’s morning. ❤️

If Don Quixote only had a Galleon, tilting at windmills on the Tulip Riviera

Offshore platform, ships in transit, North Sea

Good morning moonrise over the North Atlantic, east of 🇬🇱

Yet who still will have the lights on still? Give you a clue, massive buildings with hardly any humans in them. generators go rumble rumble, gas turbines go whoooosh.

Cascades of the North

House lamb got banded this morning, poor little eunuch. I practiced on a walnut in a little sack 😳, it made me wince sympathetically. Credit to Ash for the suggestion because I wanted to be smooth and quick. Lidoband seems to have helped, he showed very little distress at all.

Not enough hours in the day. A morning of egg hunting (chicken & plastic), lamb handling and wild things. Afternoon hustle to the plane station, followed by a night in the liminal space between continents.

Is urgent speculation necessary when it’s trivial for a reputable source to just go and see? As tantalizing a possibility it may be, I’m wary that the consequences are not likely to be as promising as we might hope. The pedantic and callow Vance seems more liable to extremes to justify himself.

I bought this print of an original in quilt by a DC artist about 2018. The caption, “when the last humans are gone we will rise up and rule the earth”, seems darkly prescient in the moment. Its meaning has certainly evolved for me.

A DUSTWUN call is one you never hope to hear and there’s few things that excite more urgency and focus in the military. It’s a unique privilege of American fighters to know that no risk or resource will be spared to bring you home. Keep those folks in mind, it’s an exceptionally dangerous time.

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

ROFL - etymology of the “ALPHA MALE” (a) chimps (b) consolers-in-chief (c) didn’t read the book but will misapply the term to describe oneself, call it ‘misappropriation’ which is just.. very on brand Should land like a hot turd on eX

Leaving work I stopped for gas next to a Porsche and a garish Lamborghini with a “killinVR” license plate. Real Redmond class

It’s nice to get a rain free Friday

What are we doing? I’m going to cringe at myself for saying this, there might actually be a compelling case for putting these monsters in space as a least worst alternative.

Hey that flight wasn’t so bad!

War:Space Both require the talents and energy of the best and brightest, both are immensely expensive. While the latter is fueled by hope with vision toward the future, the former is powered by malice and looks to the past. It’s a choice.

A colleague’s flight east was cancelled, I’m just 10 minutes late. Racing the storms! Pilot advised flight in from Seattle was a rough one, not surprising looking at the radar. Spent all day in a the plant where wing spars for my plane were made!

I was joined my future wife on a babysitting gig and for a reason I can’t remember we watched the Space Shuttle Columbia burn in. It might have been because there had been concerns about the the heat shield the after ex-tank foam broke free during launch. We forgot how hard space was.

4.2.26 | Lafayette Indiana, Wildly packed flight from SeaTac to Indianapolis yesterday, NCAA what? Fox sports goons! Nasty headache before bed, 2:30am windy plains states storm whips through, reminds me of back east times. Today, industry! Big metal, then haul ass back west. Tomorrow-home ❤️

This stinks, I think that EV’s are still the future, but the Trump gang have postponed many positive futures while accelerating the worst ones. If I had the cashflow I’d buy an electric right now. It’s a pragmatic answer for commuting especially when I could charge at work for free.

What a joke, add strategically bankrupt to the list.

Saying hello to my neighbor after a moonlight run before bed.

Animals of all species were testing me this weekend. Dogs on the run, dogs trash diving, rams jumping fences, ewes strangling themselves. At least the kittens and birds were all easy.

We say the runt might have been left for dead, but who’s living the life?

With the flock having grown from 4 to 9 with the arrival of lambs we are working through our management plan and deciding who to sell/wether/eat/breed. To prioritize humane management we’ve decided not to dock tails and sourced some new lidocaine impregnated bands. We’ll see how they work.

The rot that permeates every crevice of our government, makes me retch.

Well, golly, when you put it that way it kinda makes me think we might be in trouble.

Home on the horizon, can’t get there soon enough.

Seattle gas prices near all-time record in 2026 as Iran war drives diesel to historic highs; analyst warns of 1970s-style oil crisis - MyNorthwest Winning or whining?

I’m such a tourist. I left home this morning to drive to work and it was clear enough for the first time to see Mount Rainier on the horizon and I said “wow” out loud, to myself 🙃

Morning horse snoot

Reusable rockets were genuinely revolutionary, tunnels for cars, not so much.

Of the 430k cars sold in Uzbekistan last year, 83% were Chevy’s, 1/3rd being Cobalts…. Weird man.