In my mind thee is always the idea I can just get a flip phone and only do internet when I feel like booting up the laptop and use my time being productive, or watching tv on the dvd. It wasn’t a utopia living like that, but the 24/7 panic of the smartphone ain’t healthy

I decided to go through my blue sky feed to weed out the phony data collector followers, and it was a lot, and I have like 200? Yuck social media.

When you’ve left New Orleans due to well you know why people leave red states, and you find yourself explaining the nuances of the Westwego shrimp lot to person confused about what the hell your talking about but being polite.

Every time you burn sage a ghost becomes homeless.

The seafood game in Portland is strong.

Remember when how to blogs were useful before AI slop ruined all that? I sure do.

Induction stoves get a lot of hype, I don’t know maybe people like buying all new cookware and burning their food, but I don’t get it.

If you took notes with a peoncil, then your my age or older and from south Louisiana.

Polishing my Eddie Bauer boots, no longer on business, with Kiwi shoe polish, also no longer made.

My main beef with Bluesky is that people don’t seem to like interacting with each other much. At least now, when you had to get on a waitlist to even participate it was more friendly.

The only bossy beepy electronic gadget I actually like is my sonic toothbrush.

The state of Louisiana sure has a pathological hatred of New Orleans.

Jeff Landry is basically David Duke had that guy won, yet so much worse since the worst person in the world is in charge of the country. Damn Louisiana, pay attention to something other than the Saints and start voting

Looks like Louisiana is going full steam ahead on returning to segregation. Jeff Landry is a disgrace, this is worst case type of stuff here.

Say it forget it, write it regret it.

I feel like I should throw a retirement party for my Nikon d80. Well over a decade of fun. Probably will still use it when I want this look.

🌱 Pacific rhododendron this morning.

www.nola.com/news/busines... I grew up in Lafayette, my grandparents lived in vermillion parish, even in the 90s people spoke French as a first language, I know those marshes and swamps well. It was always a mess due to oil companies, and now it looks to get worse.

Canada is really working on getting the talent from Americas brain drain. If you can show a direct line to a Canadian ancestor you probably can get citizenship. And baptism records are accepted.

thank god the internet got so bad. I swear my attention is growing back. I read two books this week! that's insane. last year I could barely read an article without long breaks lol

My kitchen helper got very tired.

Here’s how my day is going and went, tried to open a bag of rice, pretty easy right? Bag split half and rice went all over the floor and behind the stove, so yay a big old invitation for mice if I don’t get it all.

Just pulled the trigger on a new to me camera. I realize a 14 year old dslr isn’t groundbreaking or anything, but my previous camera is old enough to graduate college and was rockin a whole ten megapixels. Jumping to 36, do I need new lenses, should I have done this, am I getting too fancy?

🌱 California poppies in bloom this morning.

When you get a little dark on the group text and a friend call with the you all right question maybe it’s time to step back from news events a bit.

www.wwltv.com/article/news... This is horrible. No borders, no ice, no dehumanizing language.

I had a lovely day outdoors, and then I open my phone and see yet another phony baloney fake attempt. This country is a joke.

I really need to quit procrastinating on trying to get this Canadian citizenship thing done.

What they don’t tell you about being over 50 is that you have to adjust your font to 120% all the time.

In New Orleans the weed that was the biggest pain was the cats claw vine, which would cover your house and get you termites. In Portland it’s been foxtails, looks like grass but has a seed that will embed in your pets, and maybe your skin. I’ll be on foxtail duty this weekend.

My very old kitchen utensils wood handles are getting rough. Does anyone know what finish to get them back, Tung oil? Danish oils? Linseed oil?

Way to go Portland, massive budget cuts all around, but they want to give a professional sports team hundreds of millions. This stuff is a huge reason I left Louisiana in the first place.

One of those, is it my computer, is it my company’s software, or it is just Microsoft being micro soft days.

www.wwltv.com/article/news... always interesting stuff going on in New Orleans

If you have Brussels Sprout plants that are about to bolt, the leaves cook very similar to collards

🌱 Spring blooms.

🌱 The internet tells me this is poison Hemlock. It’s on the bed where I recently planted parsley. Not sure what to do now.

Looking at used cameras on e bay is like, it’s 15 years old, shutter count is 750k, glass has dust and fungus, might be infested with scabies mites and or bedbugs, minimum bid $900.00

My mental health is so much better than it was a year ago, all it took was quitting reddit and blocking it from my search results on my browser.

Years ago when I had time I’d just go drive to the swamps outside of New Orleans to look for birds where most people didn’t go. Here is a prothonotary warbler from one of those trips

This was my first winter in Portland, and my first full winter north of I10, it was hard, and I’m glad the big dark is behind me for now, but, there were some pretty scenes too.

Swalwell is out. This is good news for California

Stallwell needs to get out of the CA governors race now. I always felt like he was a Fetterman type anyway.

Looking at used cameras on eBay is like hey, it’s 17 years old, doesn’t work, somehow causes seizures, starting bid $12,00.00

Sometimes I think about tv shows, and how they would be better with no Joel McHale

You think your job has strange characters? You’re probably right, but check out who I used to share office space with.

🌱 warm winter, plus getting the seeds on too late, no Brussels sprouts for this year .

1984 me thought grown up life would look like a Duran Duran video, 2026 me realizes it looks like the novel, 1984, except really really stupid and sleazy.

I think ther need to be a fruit themed Duran Duran cover band. Called Durian Durian

Why is Bluesky trying to show me these dreadful videos?