Yay it’s arrived 😍 thank you @thelifeofsharks.com 🦈🦈🦈

Flowers o'the week. There wasn't a batch that particularly grabbed me this time, but these are nice.

So the mom cat I've been trying to catch because I think she is pregnant again is neither a mom nor pregnant. In fact she is a dude. I got a look today at a mighty pair of balls. Which doesn't mean he doesn't need to be fixed, but the emergency has wound down a little.

Just finished "Nuclear War" by Annie Jacobsen. Wow.

I hate the expression "If I can do it, anyone can." Not only is it unkind, it's not true. We all have different strengths and difficulties. I, for example, am never gonna climb Mt. Everest. It is just not in my wheelhouse. But I make a hell of a cool beaded necklace.

You guys! 1750 meters this morning!! 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️

My wife took this pic of Cricket.

Did you guys know the thermonuclear weapons we have today are an estimated 4,000 times more powerful than the bomb that hit Hiroshima? And we have an estimated 5,000 of them. Back in the 1960s we had 30,000 of them and it's not entirely clear where they all went.

So when I feel bad, I don't do the things that would make me feel better because I feel bad. It's a vicious cycle.

So about a year ago, the Dallas Symphony performed a concert version of the ENTIRE Ring Cycle. (Think singers and musicians but no sets or costumes.) My wife took me. It was my first opera and she took me to the Iron Man Triathlon of operas. 1

I'm watching Ken Burns' The Revolutionary War, and I think the repression that's happening now is almost a mirror of what started happening in the mid-1750s.

Can somebody tell me what the Sam Hill an "ultraprocessed" food even is?

Stations are just longer playlists. Prove me wrong.

Flowers o'the week.

It's not Caturday but here's Cricket with bed head.

1550 meters again. I serm to be stuck there. Well, it's not a horrible place to be stuck. 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️

It's Caturday! Here's Artemis.

I just went out and checked the cat trap. I caught a wily opossum. Sigh. Well, at least I know the trap works. Try again Sunday.

Hey, pro lifer in the black Acura minivan: if you care so much about human life, maybe you should STOP CUTTING IN AND OUT OF TRAFFIC LIKE A MANIAC.

Hey whatever happened to the DOGE? Do they still exist? Or have they been broken up and disbanded because they weren't making headlines anymore?

1550 meters. 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️

You guys, I had 2 eggs for breakfast and my glucose meter went up from 150 to 255. THERE IS NO FUCKING SUGAR IN EGGS. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK.

1550 meters. 🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️

I did not trap mom cat last night. Will try again tonight. And every night.

Normalize saying no to shit you don't want to do. And don't feel even a smidgen guilty.

So we've moved to the permanent office space. They gave me a cube clear on the end, but unfortunately it's the end everybody walks by. And we have bright lights again. I'm gonna order some of those migraine glasses.I mean it's not an autism/ADHD worst case scenario, but it is not great either.

Flowers o'the week.

The older I get, the less I feel like explaining why I do things. Or don't do things. Nine times out of ten other people don't really care why I do things. They only ask so they'll have something to argue with me about after I've said no. So now I just say no.

Blog post! House of Dynamite. bigbadbuddhist.blogspot.com/2025/11/hous...

About to take in a live broadcast of La Boheme at my local movie theater. If you guys have never done this, it is kind of awesome. Opera and popcorn.

Why is there only one song by Dire Straits?And why is it Sultans of Swing?

1600 meters tonight in the pool. A mighty mile.

My frickin' blood sugar monitor looks like the Himalayas today.

Omg you guys my EGFR went all the way back up to 58, that's literally one point below Stage Two, yay I'm not gonna need dialysis! (At least not for a while.) It was 47 last time which is not good. I thought maybe I was just dehydrated and it seems that I was right.

Well, there it is, folks. My brain.

I am here for my date with the big magnet. The tech is saying he thinks I need a wide bore MRI and is kind of asking me to argue with him about it. It's like he wants me to say, "Nah, I"ll be fine." I'm not saying it.

There's an hour and a half left in the work day and I am out of snacks. 😬

Hi guys. I had a biopsy on a suspicious mark on my leg last week. This morning the biopsy report came back. Benign. Yay!!

Flowers o'the week.

It's also because a) they don't have one, except for 2) trying to destroy what little healthcare benefits we have.

So for the first time in living memory, I lost track of how many meters I swam today. 1300? 1600? I can't say. Probably a World Series hangover.

What a ride tho. Best World Series ever.

Well. Goodnight.

I've had at least three heart attacks, and I'm a Rangers fan.

Do scarecrows actually scare crows? I mean crows are pretty smart. They might work on a casual flyby, but I doubt they would do anything for close scrutiny.

THESE BLUE JAYS MAN I TELL YOU WHAT

So it's time to establish a new rule here in the Jeniverse. No more than two doctor's appointments per week. I literally had an appointment every day this week and it just messed with me.

YOU GUYS, I WAS NOT PLANNING ON A NAIL BITING PHOTO FINISH SEVENTH GAME. I HAVE A MEDITATION WORKSHOP TOMORROW NIGHT FOR GOD'S SAKE.

Where was the team that was playing L.A.? I think they left them there. I don't know who these guys are.

So my Regular Doc doesn't want me to take ketamine but my psychiatrist does and the psych always wins but now I'm full of Doubts.