Me: *chillin in my car* New Work Bestie: *opens door, lobs a cold bottle of water like a grenade* they had cold ones now. *closes door*

Great location to live without a car. Weekday buses w/in one block walk: - Route 7: Downtown - College Ave: Every 12 min. - Route 10: Old Town - College Ave (University Ave express): Every 15 min. - Route 2: Downtown - Adams via 30th: Every 15/20 min. - Route 6: Mission Valley - every 20/30 min.

Bicycle infrastructure has a minimal footprint that preserves nature and enhances our surroundings. Car infrastructure demands the opposite. It clears the landscape and sterilizes our environment, quite literally paving over the very things that make our world enjoyable.

I spent most of the 70s and early 80s preparing for this exact scenario...

Good cat

Montana too.

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What it is like waking up in 2026

Theres a flash mob of 200 runners in North Park, Im so confused.

Update I am allowed to tax the snacks, regardless.

On a Sustainable Kobe Japan press tour last week, this reclaimed materials stockyard was a highlight - handcrafted parts of traditional houses stockyard: high-quality, beautiful & feature traditional Japanese culture & craftsmanship - we need more like this ReUse shop! youtube.com/shorts/EK9PQ...

I am in such a bad mood today and am looking forward to going to bed by 8.

That “Amanda” song by Boston.

Is that a Jimny? Cc: @keitrucksna.bsky.social @momberymochi.bsky.social

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

“Hey Gurl. I hope you don’t enjoy having ankles and shins.” - my cargo bike pedals

Social media gassed people into thinking “Did you eat today?” is some sort of thoughtful, caring question. It’s really not if you’re not following with an action plan.

Me, grumbling: Hey brother. My son is at a sleepover tonight and I know you have a dayshift tomorrow with me. If you want, I can take your watch maybe two, so you can get some sleep. New Work Bestie: you’d do that? Me: I’d bitch about it, but I’d do it.

Not looking forward to the range day/day shift. Poor New Work Bestie is gonna work 12 hrs all night to roll into this like 18 hr shift. I already expect to find him asleep under random trees every possible moment

Look man, if it’s 4:40 am and I done worked all night up onto this point just don’t talk to me for 20 mins before and after turnover. Just let me scowl at my watch.

Got lectured by a 20 year old E2 about how I am not working hard enough nor doing enough for my future children because I dont have a degree, nor have a plan to get one.

I know it’s likely not true, and probably has no true value but it would be entertaining to know what lifetime you shared with someone. Like “oh you were fishermen together” or “you were roommates” or whatever

🌿ROYAL ESCAPE🙏 Plum blossoms aren't the only flowers in town🤔 For two brief periods each year the once-imperial nunnery of Reikan-ji (霊鑑寺) opens its gate to the public. Until mid-April visitors can enjoy over 100 species of camellia dotted around the hillside gardens. #霊鑑寺 #Reikanji

Spring's arrival in Kyōto is marked by the blooming of the sakura tree at Modori-bashi, the 'Resurrection Bridge'. The tree's early flowering blossoms are some of the first to appear, and can gather quite the crowd🌸😅 #Kyoto #桜 #sakura #cherrryblossoms #京都 #Japan #Modoribashi #戻橋

I have a cargo omafiets that my oversized 10 year old sits on the back of. I daily drive it to work. I drive it to get groceries. I do the school runs with it. It’s fun.

The anti-spandex social club: In praise of slow biking. momentummag.com/the-anti-spa...

🌸HANAMI🧺 gate's cherry tree all this flit-flit flitting is work! 門桜ちらちら散るが仕事哉 -Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶). Tr. David G. Lanoue. With cherry blossoms already blooming in Gifu, Kōchi and Kōfu, it looks like sakura season will be starting slightly earlier in Kyōto this year. #京都 #Kyoto

And just like that Kyōto enters sakura season... 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 blended in with people of Kyōto... cherry blossoms 京人にせつちうされし桜哉 -Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1804. Trans. David G. Lanoue. 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🍡👀 #Kyoto #cherryblossoms #🌸 #桜 #京都

Someone from the base was caught going 61 in a school zone during school drop off. Damn near made front page news

Thought of this again

Almost everything is in biking distance from everything else and we have the best year round bike weather in the world. It's crazy making when people vehemently insist that you have to drive everywhere here.

Moving from DC to San Diego really made this clear. We were really surprised when we finally started paying attention to how short the distances were that we were driving in SD. Getting an ebike changed that thankfully.

Me: hey pass me the braincell will ya? New Work Bestie: I don’t have it. Me: … Him: you misplaced the braincell. Me: I misplaced the braincell. Him: it’ll buff out.

Me: hey so not to get your hopes up, but fortune may shine upon you soon. New Work Bestie: WHAT DID YOU DO? Me: huh? Him: You heard me. Me: just because Im a miracle worker doesn’t make every miracle my fault

I need more friends in Japan time zone to chat with

Me: hey your nametag is ready, I can toss you the car keys and you can go get it. Or I can go tomorrow. New Work Bestie: you’re the one with the braincell right now, I can’t figure that out tonight. Me: well shit, okay I’ll just grab it tomorrow. Him: You ok there, MJ?

I lived in Japan without leaving Japan for 4 yrs, lets do this.

As promised, it is very warm out. Pushing 90s (32°C) on the mesas, currently. 🥵

The Lesbians came through. I could not have survived with week without my lesbifriends going “I aint doin nothing, I can watch your son”

Éirinn go brách #StPatricksDay

So about 6 people I ask for help with childcare all went to Japan at the exact same time, and holy fuck thats hard to figure out

Okay. Got woken up at 11, but went to bed around 6. So going to try and get something done, catnap another hour, and go from there.

Live look at me after my first shift: got slammed right off the gate and had a sick kid at home

I am already dreading how this week is gonna go but 65% or more of me is like “YEAAAAAH! PLAY THE BALL WHERE IT LANDS! Wooooo!”

Well I got a solid 3 hours of sleep and an hr long catnap. Jesus might have to forgive me if I have to have a cup of coffee at 2 am.

Columbia Gold Rush Park, Mission San Juan Bautista, 6th Grade Camp, somewhere up by the San Joaquin River to see Pre Colonial Era villages. Taking the Amtrak to Hanford and back. Cc: @templetonpeck.bsky.social