*fumbles around networking inventory* I’m pretty sure I need to get a new network switch installed there this week.

Look, I remember the Ms putting Randy Johnson in as a reliever in the single game playoff in 1995, and we all know how that worked out.

That's a wrap on the 2025 monsoon season. ~75% of New Mexico ended with near to above average rainfall! Some mountain ranges picked up >20" of rain! Northwest New Mexico missed out on most of the monsoon this year with <50% of their average rainfall.

A record number of Flash Flood Warning were issued in New Mexico during this year's monsoon season. 379 in total, beating the old record from 2022 by just 13 warnings. Lincoln County, where Ruidoso is, had the second highest on record. Props to the NWS offices in New Mexico!

Albuquerque had consistent and overall above average dew points almost all monsoon season. Despite that, we ended up 1.41" below average with 3.07" of rain this year. The 32nd driest monsoon on record of 134 years. It was also the 5th warmest.

Tomorrow will be the delivery of last major component of my home energy overhaul, the heat pump. MFers, this kind of project has been my dream for like 20 years, and I’d like to thank this shitty-ass, myopic administration for making it happen. I should never pay another gas or electric bill again.

Anyway people were generally super angy and rude at work today 🥲🥲, at least I have this muppet 🥹

Saving you with this for the evening…

Apropos of nothing. youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7F...

I struggle with thoughts of afterlife. Tonight, in a venue I would love nothing more than to share with an old friend, I can’t, and I want to be okay with that. Jeff, bro, I miss you, and tho you will never know I said this, I say it anyway. I say it into the ether and hope I’m wrong.

A couple of years ago I bought a cassette player from someone on Craigslist and the guy offered to sell me a box of tapes, both commercially produced and someone’s mix tapes. I just put in a random mix tape and am now unexpectedly listening to the Star Wars soundtrack.

Mexican chile crisp, and I already want to do it all over again, but better.

Figures that the evening I decide to sit down and make some DX contacts the sun also decided it wanted to be heard. FTR, I am pro-sun, just wanna make that clear.

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

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Leaving you with this for the evening… Every color in this evenings sunset. Taos NM

What does it say, exactly, that I bought a new gaming PC and ridiculously-sized monitor and I just want to see how three five-years-old games are going to perform? Bonus: can you guess which games?

This fuckin’ guy.

I have a small space I’m not used to customizing for the kind of audio I like. First challenge: What’s “front”?

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, really, is just fucking brilliant. I feel like I’m supposed to be ashamed of this opinion, but I ain’t.

Oh, lawdy, the sky is boomin’. Please please please please please bring some rain.

Aww. I have a Charlie Brown tomato plant.

I bought my home last winter. The previous owner showed me the part of the property where she kept her chickens and excitedly gesticulated how good they were are keeping weeds down. I don’t have chickens and that area has been left largely untouched, and now I have plants that are feeding wildlife.

I have reached that stage of life where the magnifying glass I inherited from my grandparents has become an actual, everyday tool.

If you're visiting Minneapolis, a trip to Can Can Wonderland is *totally* worth it. Free play arcade games and pinball, boozy milkshakes, and some really unique mini golf.

I’ve somewhat readjusted to seeing lizards on the daily, but there are just SO MANY, and today I saw two little black lizards 🦎 I don’t remember seeing at all when I lived here before. Then there’s the angry avocado, Avi, who has been an unexpected pleasure. I’m reintegrating.

As someone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife, one of my biggest challenges is to accept that someone who could have been a beautiful, positive influence on others simply won’t be able to do that in this life or any other. I must, instead, internalize and emulate the influence they did have.

I would like the Merlin app, just once, to show me it heard a “stupid dog, jeez”.

Me to my friend’s cat: lol. it’s almost like you like the box better than the toy! haha! that is so funny. what the heck. Cat: If you loved a joke as much as the laugh, the sun as much as its warmth, your lover as much as their love, you too would love the box as much as the toy, two-legs.

One kitty really, really likes to have her fur roughed. She’s the sweetest, quietest, least in-your-face of the three, but she’ll take a good, hard scratch well beyond the point the other two will get pissy.

Drove up to the crest today and it was brilliant.

Happy 45th US Anniversary The Shining

The smell of the neighbor’s honeysuckle is flashing me back to late spring at my grandmother’s house, and the fact that I inadvertently massacred my own honeysuckle has me on the verge of tears.

I must have missed something in history class.

Started hard in the garden this morning but flagging quickly. I’m too old, too out of shape, and still not well-adjusted enough to high desert living to go balls-to-the-wall and expect to push through.

"The “House of the Pets: All Must Choose” event happens this weekend, May 24 and 25, at the Eastside and Westside shelters. Adoption fee is waived, and every adoption gets you a spin of the wheel to win a prize!" via ABQ Animal Welfare www.cabq.gov/pets/

Nothing like a local wildfire to make for an exciting evening! Got to put the drone to use, tho, and the radios.

Year 1 back in the desert. Average soil temp of 55 comes with the stealth danger of an unexpected hard freeze. It’s 90F today. Soil will stay above 55F tonight. Hrm…

First comfortable night outdoors since moving in to the new place. Crickets ✅ Barky dogs ✅ Traffic noise ✅ NGL, crickets are like +100 to the mental health scale. Dogs and traffic -50, so still good stuffs.

There is a particular type of dog owner, namely the kind that lets their dog(s) out and then forget or ignore them while they bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark. I would like to have a word with that type of owner.

It’s 82F as the sun sets on the middle Rio Grande valley. A cricket chirps in the distance. The beer isn’t as cold as it was, but it’s almost gone, time for another. The garden beds have enough water to get to tomorrow. I, on the other hand, probably don’t.

The government is supposed to be there to serve you, to support you, to help make your life easier. You shouldn't need to earn it, we all pay into it so it can help support people's needs. It shouldn't be profitable or business-like, because it's not a business, it's a service you are co-owner of.

The artist behind our Native Plant series, @megstampede.bsky.social made prints of her flower+ pollinator designs! 20% of sales from this poster set go to Skype a Scientist so we can buy more seeds 😘 Get 'em here: www.etsy.com/listing/1882...

I’m debating ordering food when I get home but what’s actually going to happen is I’ll scroll through 30 restaurants and not be happy with any of them and just end up eating dried mango slices and biscoff cookies.

Having the cleaning staff clean the bathrooms during the typical lunch hour seems like poor planning.

Yay! My floor pillow was delivered! Now can start meditating in comfort.

Without saying your age, who was your first animated crush?

Today, I will accept the title of Dumbass for ignoring both a reminder email and a calendar reminder that my meeting was yesterday and not today, as I had been assuming. Dumbassuming?

Damn, I really want a drink tonight. This is why I don’t keep booze in the house.