This person has an airplane seat in their living room?

Antihistamine loading seems to have done the trick for dodging most vaccine side effects, although the arm shot site is really sore and I crashed the fuck out after the day's excursion to an apple orchard for pick-your-own and a winery for vino, wood-fired pizza, and killing spotted lanternflies.

Get you someone who can commit to you the way the Washington Nationals bullpen and defense commits to blowing leads

OK, finally beat the system (my work schedule and recalcitrant local pharmacists), got my jab, and am brimming with immunities. Now let's see if I'm physically capable of executing the social engagement I signed up for in 18 hours.

I'd go D. Easiest miss for me is A, although I confess to not knowing enough about Central Asian food to really know what I'm missing out on in C.

Have my dog being cute, everyone.

I have 29 things to do on my work "to do" list and that only reflects what I know for sure I needed to do before I took off on 2 weeks' vacation, AMA (actually pls don't, I'm very busy)

Has anyone used a custom Braille printing service they can vouch for? We normally do farewell posters for rotational officers leaving my work team and I'd like to print one in Braille, but I'm nervous about just ordering one from some random outfit online since I can't verify it's right.

Two snake day at Huntley Meadows! Black racer and a garter. Meatball meanwhile only seemed into the grass.

Cedar waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) eating apple blossoms during spring migration on Monhegan Island, Maine. The red waxy tips on their wing feathers and yellow tail tip are colored by pigments from the fruits they consume. #birds #cedarwaxwing #maine #monheganisland

Salute, the American Coot #birds

CVS in Landsdowne Center, Alexandria, is refusing to issue COVID vaccines even with scheduled appointments. Guess I'm in for a bit of a side quest today!

Love Libro. I know I'm a Luddite, but I want to download the files for audiobooks to my computer and then upload them to a device that I'll use to listen to the book, and their process for doing that is absolutely seamless. (I assume they also play well with streaming, I just don't use it.)

Peachy! Saves me a cross-border raid into Maryland.

Congrats to Miguel Cairo on his ejection tonight! Truly and proudly honoring the traditions of his predecessor.

Our bullpen is making a very serious effort to help us lose a game we were leading 13-2 a couple hours back

Legends of Tomorrow. I completely respected how balls-out bonkers they went with the last few seasons and they deserved a chance to land the thing.

In case anyone was desperately in need of cat toys or tote bags, the shop is back open. ko-fi.com/octopusgalle...

Whoa whoa whoa, hold the fucking phone - are Virginia-based CVS pharmacies not scheduling COVID vaccinations for ANYONE, statewide? I'll drive my happy middle-aged ass to Maryland in a heartbeat but my senior citizen mother will the fuck not. She's (way) over 65. Why is this an issue?

OMG it actually happened! I won* the Powerball! *$4. After spending more than $4.

Watching this feed this morning. Really interesting to see the differences between this ROV setup and Okeanos Explorer, and they've gotten some cool sightings so far!

My therapist: Grimace the rodeo rider isn't real, he can't hurt you Grimace the rodeo rider:

Meatball is inhibiting my dinner-making/obtaining duties

I was Iiterally stung in the head by a bee today and lived, none of Friday's news can hurt me

Ponder with me the immutable mysteries of the rental house with two (2) stovetop kettles and a hand mixer but no mixing bowls or large bowls of any kind

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Your dog won't be autistic, but if it were...who cares? What would that look like...an extra awesome stick collection?

Happy Monday from the summit of Harkening Hill, Peaks of Otter, VA. Elevation 3364 feet.

Second vacation rental we've been to in a row this year where the ignition switch on the gas grill has been busted. Good thing we travel with matches! (Now much fresher matches, since I replaced them after our last vacation.)

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Sleeping Bear Dunes is one of those places I wish I could teleport myself to whenever the urge struck.

He really did try to bring more complexity, originality, and scientific literacy to his scripts for the show, and he wrote what must have been one of the hardest Doctor transitions in the classic era, Baker to Davison. Even Frontios, though suffering from criminally bad design work, is underrated.

I know, I know, but I had a good day at work and now I'm off for 2 weeks and I'm just going to coast on that for a while.

@octopusgallery.bsky.social ...

@octopusgallery.bsky.social <3

LMAO we get a grand slam in the game we're losing 10-1. Sure why not.

I'd give this guy a clip of me and within 0.1 seconds he'd be like "You don't sound like you're from anywhere. NOVA." Boom. Actually, I do vaguely wonder what I sound like to someone who can do this stuff. I tend to think that I don't sound like I'm from anywhere, but what do I know!

Mom's senior poodle models for her himbo bf Meatball the right way to wear an e-collar!

apnews.com/article/corg... Things I learned from the Local Newspaper while visiting my mom

"The American President" (1995). It's a romantic comedy, but Michael J. Fox as a presidential adviser in the framing plot struck me that a regular person could have a job like that and help steer the country towards good things. I didn't go into politics, but it did shape me toward public service.

After a week of 5 straight 11-12-hour days at work, time to kick back, relax, and spend a beautiful weekend (checks notes) ... driving across half the state and back to do financial paperwork with my mother to better insulate her against scams. Can... can I draw another card?

there is a new evangelical church-run coffee shop in Durham, and they really did not think through their interior design

no cheating, last photo of your pet A sleepy Meatball!

"He's ready to uncork one somewhere." #baseballorerotica

I know they've been doing it for a few years now but my local public school system starting the year in August will always be foreign and strange. My entire childhood, school never started until after Labor Day (year ended in late June). I was in college before I realized that was unusual.

As summer winds down, celebrate with a potato salad loaf

Slightly diminish a band: Flavor Additive Girls

So much to say! Osprey is being loud, but look at those hooks. #birds #raptors #omsystem #pamkeenwilliams

Give them a chance

This really did make a difference in my mood the last couple of weeks. More like this please!