Mom had a gift of foreknowledge. Yes, she did try to leave Poland and move to British Mandate with her fiance but her dad refused to bless her leaving. Yesterday while walking to the office mailbox, I had this crispy sense on my skin, and heard Mom's voice: "'sgeit zahn a milchumeh." Whelp.

IYKYK

"Chosen" doesn't mean you're somehow better. It means you're the class nerd and the teacher expects you to help the bullies with their homework. Then you start taking self defense classes and everyone gets annoyed because you won't take being bullied anymore.

Yep. Took abt 22 minutes. Someone on X blamed the current excitement in Mexico on t3h j00z.

There's this lady on X I started following for farm and home canning content. But she also thinks Jews are devil worshippers. Where were the Devil Worshipping classes at Beth Judah Hebrew School? Did I miss something fun? Is this why I don't get the World Government Control unlimited debit card?

The Crazy Years

Well, the infection that caused last weekend's vertigo has decided it is tired of the indoor life. It feels like it is trying to escape through my right eardrum. FYI I took exactly two doses of the meclizine, one Sunday, one Monday. It felt like it neatly shaved 15 IQ points off the top.

Some people call it Holocaust Remembrance Day. I prefer to call it Fuck You Hitler Day. I've never been big on my birthday, maybe I should rename it that too. This was Mom's. I still have it.

I did NOT buy a Thank You Gary mug. I did however order three of the stickers.

The latest shooting is starting to show who is a red or blue side fanboi/fangrl and who is a trustworthy 2A advocate. Master Rick (Hapkido) once taught in a lecture that when under stress you don't rise to mastery you sink to competence. Train for competence.

Just watched The Sound of Music for the 1st time in literal decades (buying dvds for $1 from thrift shops/yard sales beats streaming Iike whoa.) I have a couple of thoughts: 1. I forgot how much I identified with Maria when I was little. 2. Uncle Max is almost the platonic ideal of the Gay Uncle.

Good morning! I hope when the Ayatollah's bunker is breached, it will be by a mob of angry Iranian women. I remember when the Mullahs' regime started, and I want to be watching when it ends. And - I have hope that it is the start of a collapse of the misogyny of the surrounding cultures.

Old School Craigslist purchase: Heading into Vegas this morning. Someone's selling a set of dual gas light duty regulators for half of what just one would cost new. Yes, it's been a crap year for jewelry sales. First half of the year was ok, started tapering off.

Let's just say I work in the kind of office where the boss apologizes in groupchat for needing to come in late, and we tell her to stay home and enjoy a rare day off (she also runs a couple local non-profit children's rodeo orgs, just got back from taking her kids to livestock Nationals in Phoenix.)

Happy New Year! I feel like I'm genetically incapable to be pessimistic about long-term things.

May All Good Souls who celebrate have a Christmas of sweetness, and abundance of all that is important in your lives.

I need to study his passage more deeply.

Because tomorrow for the Christmas Week Nosh-Fest I am bringing in that Bar Mitzvah standard, the classic honey cake.

I'm not doing one candle at a time. I'm lighting up all the lights for 8 nights. Because I can.

The Rage is like an old friend welcoming me back to my normal Normal. Firearm work followed my BJJ Seminar, followed by the Culver's Flavor of the Day and a small order of their fries (fried holiday y'know) made a shitty day better.

Sleepy Mars has a blep

Too late for Kiddo but hell yeah. This seems to line up with things I've suspected. Genetics colliding with the environment's New Normal. neurosciencenews.com/genetics-asd...

Oh hey. Dollar Tree now has a policy where if you're not paying cash with exact change, they will round up to the nearest nickel.

The world's gone to hell in a hand basket since @breyers.bsky.social left Philly. Prove me wrong.

I actually am taking today off. Last weekend used me up, Kiddo is hard to be with even when all is going well (and it was.) One of my projects this chill weekend is writing an essay, "The Discomfort Zone," refusing to seek change because it's easier than changing a barely tolerable situation.

Wickenburg , AZ this weekend!

The best thread on Twitter right now: the woman writing about cannibalistic practices in indigenous people, and her spell check converted Anasazi to Ashkenazi. She apologized but I now want to find all the Cliffs Dwellers of my people and see if they use red or white Chrain on thigh bone marrow.

It was a good market this weekend. Along with copper pressure clasp cuffs custom for clients, I made these three lovely bits of silver work. Unakite ring, size 9ish, K2 (granite/Azurite from K2 in the Himalayas) pendant, Unakite pendant. Next weekend I'll be making more stuff in Wickenburg.

Two new pieces made while at the market: 1. K2 Azurite in Granite 2. Unakite in a simple traditional setting. This one sold not long after putting it out. A nice day at the market today.

This cheered me unreasonably this chilly, rainy morning.

I am wearing wool socks and a heater is pointed at my legs. Low 40's and raining all day. Life's pretty darned good.

One can only appreciate the evergreen decorative gourd mind.

Oh hah hah Xwitter is down Oh shite our state's sales tax portal is down less than two days before monthly TPT payment deadline and I still have four client's tpt filing left to do.

The AZ CCW card is downright pretty.

Good morning, from a retired 12ish year old heeler. The feeling of a pre-sunrise morning when a sleeping dog's head rests on a fuzzy wool-sock-clad foot.

I am thoroughly enjoying the drama on X as the infighting over the Epstein stuff has the giant circle jerk turn into a political shark-like feeding frenzy.

Finally getting around to reading the graphic novel "V for Vendetta." It's on openlibrary dot org, a little awkward as the scan cut off one edge of the pages but still a good read.

First actual non-urgent care doc checkup today. This is gonna be fascinating.

Here's what I mean. A torch normally US made, figure at least a hundred bucks used when you can find one used. Or this sue-aside-al fakery. I'd like to not worry about dangerous gasses doing unpredictable things, thanks.

Things: Yesterday I bought a spare dual tank welding set-up for $150. When I was pricing spare tanks at the gas shop woman said "I'll tell ya right now: buy a used set on Marketplace or something. Way cheaper that way." Both the oxy and acet tanks are almost full, so yeah. next: used Little Torch.

Stillness is much harder to accomplish than movement.

My bottle of Abasolo is almost empty. Took about a year - I drink whisky in very small amounts and only when I have the focus and space to cherish the flavor. Lovely textured square bottles. My last one has an herbal raspberry brandy: Malenas, a family recipe cold cure. What goes in this one next?

I have been so wrapped up with office stuff I forgot how much fun a two day show can be. People get to watch me make pieces from sheet and wire to finished piece, I love explaining the process. My eyelids are sunburned, dry air sun and wind have me growing a cold sore on a lip, and I feel happy.

"too soon" is subjective. A friend has left the material dance floor too soon for the people who have not met him yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbD_...

I've responded to the latest news from Glock by asking my favorite FFL to see if there's another used G26 out there for me. He replied with "Two is One and One is None" and he's a good friend so I figure another couple weeks.

Workday today. Accounting would be fun if it wasn't for the clients. Still feeling snotty and "off" so instead of BJJ this morning, and since I have first market of Autumn tomorrow, will be going to the Range for practice before work. Last week's shooting showed my missed two weeks of practice.

Sterling silver and Larimar.

IYKYK

Just finished re-reading Christie's "Postern of Fate." Decades ago I found a paperback sitting atop a trash can, grabbed it and read it on the way to school (I was a ninja at reading while I walked to school.) Really fun, rambling spy mystery. My introduction to her books.

Good morning! 5am class was good. Storm system has annoying muscle under right shoulder blade tweaked and howling but rolling/falling/throwing drills still felt awesome. Now finishing coffee, breakfast to take to office is cooked and cooling, 1st client quarterly review I get to be part of today!