this morning (still alive)

The universe has been trying to tell me something and I fear it is not something good

Happy #Caturday and more importantly HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY TO MY BABY BOY!!! I love you my boy!!!

Cathartic use of an axe today. Chopping down bushes in the heat. Soaked in sweat and enjoying it. Thank you little helper

On Tuesday the hospice nurse said my dad probably had a week or two left. But it looks like he’s going today. You can’t plan for life I guess

My sister and her family are lights out and asleep by 9pm every night. I on the other hand am an extreme night owl (because DSPD), who would prefer a bed time of about 4-5am (went to bed last night at 2:30, on a work night, for example). So…always interesting when they come for a visit

They finally added Community back to a streaming platform that isn’t Peacock (it’s on Hulu). This is a top comfort show for me “I thought you had a bachelor’s from Columbia?” “And now I have to get one from America”

My only ambition these days is to work hard for the next 10 years and then leave society. Maybe embrace van life or maybe a tiny home. My goal is to not work except when I want to and on what I want to

Little yearling this evening. Off to do goth stuff in the graveyard 💀

My sister and her family are coming to stay with me tomorrow and instead of cleaning my house I spent an hour trying to fix a turns-out-unfixable shower head and all that happened is I got really wet

Saying goodbye to my long hair soon. RIP (2020-2025) 🪦🕊️

Your author with a tulip poplar, the original giants of the east coast (along with the chestnuts, RIP)

A useful sign

Tilting at windmills I know but AI is a windmill I tilt at

Morning, afternoon, evening, night flowers

How can you catch the sun? Can you breathe when you’re on the run? Slow down, my darling Every now and then Come and take my hand For every little lie you tell so you can hide Will grow inside your chest Your heart will need to rest So come into my arms open.spotify.com/track/7BsF2M...

Anyway those videos would be much nicer if Bluesky would support video quality better than 56k dialup </3

And a few hours later <3

Beautiful sun shower (or insert your regional name for this) this evening

(Psst if you want a cozy, warm, and inviting space it’s mostly about lighting)

Sharing because more is coming and people are tapped out! I am tapped out apnews.com/article/infl...

Inflation has increased by 24% since the pandemic and I’ve gotten about a third of that, total, over the years in “cost of living adjustments.” The cause of a lot of that inflation was of course “supply chain disruptions” that conveniently never disappeared after the supply chains were fixed

Your author with a tulip poplar, the original giants of the east coast (along with the chestnuts, RIP)

having fun with light, at night

Flowers before they were watered: 😔😵💀 Flowers a few hours after they were watered: ✨😎💥 (and a hummingbird came and visited them)

For now? How do you come back from cuts already made…???

Now why won’t my hair part down the middle and look normal…

Speaking of the Smokies (I could talk about them all day), way atop Mount Le Conte (third highest peak in the park) there is an old lodge you can stay in. It’s the highest lodge in the eastern US and you can only hike in — no roads. They get their supplies via…pack llamas!

The Great Smoky Mountains still have that lovable blue haze but no longer due (mostly) to pollutants. The Smokies have a lot of trees and other plants, and they release VOCs that scatter blue light from sun 🌞

The United States summed up in two headlines.

I have to do an RFP to buy a paperclip but they can just be available to every federal department and agency no questions asked…?

Morning sun on my sun… flowers…

Recent example. A job I’m very much qualified for (has the same title/responsibilities as previous roles I’ve served in) sent me a form rejection blah blah so many good candidates blah blah going in a different direction. Then reposted the job the next day? They are just farming data I swear

Also couldn’t Kamala Harris sue them for $20 million for not airing the entire interview? 🤔

Okay good I’m not going insane

Long lost cousins from an ancient mountain chain once connected. (This is Hanging Rock out in North Carolina)

I watched this last week and it’s beautiful but will fill you with angst about your purpose/life if you are still doing office work. So maybe just what your Monday morning needs!

It *is* collapsing and researchers who are shouting and waving their arms about current/future implications are ignored by the media and the US population in general. The canary in the coal mine is dead, Nero fiddling as Rome burns, etcetera etcetera

Have to wake up early to drive to Knoxville for a meeting that doesn’t need to be in person so popped a melatonin and starting 825 Forest Road. The preview had me at “by the creator of Hell House LLC” (one of my favorites) #FilmSky #HorrorSky

One of the most nefarious forms of anxiety is anticipatory anxiety because you can never be fully in the moment until that future event is over and dealt with. But guess what? There is always another future event to be anxious about!!!

Hatefully not letting me change these sheets. A lot of malice in his heart at this moment!

#NowWatching Daniel Kokotajlo’s STARVE ACRE, based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurley. I’ve read his Devil’s Day, and I think I have The Loney, but not Starve Acre. Been on a bit of a folk horror kick lately (always) #FilmSky #HorrorSky

Not to mention I don’t know anyone who subscribes to all of the streaming services at once. People save up shows and skip around the services

This is so true. I regularly start watching “new” shows that are anywhere from 1-3 years old because you can’t help but have a backlist. A new show I want to watch usually gets added to the backlist instead of me putting it to the head of the queue, and I don’t see that changing, so…

To me it seems that Substack just replaced Tumblr + RSS feeds or Wordpress sites + Google Reader (probably more the former because it also wants to be a social media platform)

Spending some time with American Midnight: Tales of the Dark put out by Pushkin Press. American writers of the macabre featured are Poe, Hawthorne, Wharton, Chambers, Shirley Jackson, Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Emma Frances Dawson 💀🔥 #booksky #horrorsky #nowreading

I know very few people would be interested in going back to rhythm of nature time, versus clock/calendar time. But I am. I am interested

I went downstairs to change over a load of laundry and he was crashed out on my guest bed like this. He did not follow me back up. Happy #Caturday!

Now watching Fréwaka, Irish folk horror written and directed by Aislinn Clarke #filmsky #horrorsky

Dusted off the ol banjo after a long long while and am back to just practicing frailing and the bare minimum fretwork :/ But gotta start back somewhere!