Sitting in the balcony at the McDonald Theatre in Eugene at 1a for the Blair Witch screening with approximately 30 employees from the local theaters. No one wanted to be alone after.

If the road at Ecola State Park doesn't close due to a landslide, was it really a rain event? 🤔

Just checking in with the sisters to see if either one has a river in her yard yet, as one does.

you know who's got some good book titles? The Council for the Care of Churches. "It won't happen to us: a guide to church insurance" "Sounds good! a guide to church organs" "Widening the eye of the needle: a guide to church access" "how not to do it: installing electricity in your church (1940)"

"what skill did you master that you will never ever use again?" Interlocking 35mm film prints through eleven film projectors. In less than 30 minutes.

I'm not sure exactly what hard mode would be for me, as we had two VCRs by the time I was six (and a video rental store was one of the first businesses when entering town), which means I'd seen more than one movie six times by the age of seven.

Having been asleep most of the last four days, I just started up the MLS cup match. Watched twenty seconds straight of nothing but Messi's fucking face and, knowing the outcome of the match, deleted the recording.

Awhile back some mutual somewhere in my feeds was all FUCK YEAH CHEAP CHEX AT SAFEWAY (emphasis possibly mine) and just FYI, if you add all of the relevant digital coupons this week you can get four boxes for five dollars. Which seems good?

This did hold true as Love & Rockets and Tones on Trail bookended the Top 5. I did not listen to music on Spotify much after March, so the two days I listened to Radiohead's output chronologically last February was enough to put them in fourth. Also Depeche Mode and The Walkmen because of course.

One of those weird things I do is check in on the Deep Space Network as I find watching us still communicating with the Voyager spacecraft to be oddly comforting and uplifting.

Everyone who is boosting the popularity of using dried lotus seed heads in decor (current triggering use: wreaths) can get in the fucking sea.

There seriously needs to be constant shuttles from SW Washington and Portland park and ride lots to Woodburn Outlets. This is stupid every year.

Because I'm sure everyone was dying to know just like me, I asked ODOT about the Tombstone traffic camera and received a thorough reply indicative of that camera's beloved status:

What happened to the Tombstone camera? WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?!? I know it was offline a few weeks ago so I gave it awhile to be fixed and now it's GONE FROM THE MAP. I am lying on the couch gesturing wildly in the air with anguish this is not ok I hate it.

"I bet it's nice & quiet out there in the country." Early autumn: cannons (vineyards), frogs. Mid autumn: leaf blowers & chainsaws (burn season). Late autumn: helicopters (Christmas tree harvest). This is not a complaint, though the leaf blowers and that one neighbor's lawn mower can get fucked.

Today is the day I rediscover all of the companies who have my junk email address and only care about my existence for approximately five weeks of the year. Absolute deluge.

Just looked at the stats for Man United v Everton and that is certainly a thing.

Whatever. I don't even like soccer.

I am so sorry I opened bluesky tonight.

The cat map... 💕

Whenever the CPSC puts out another recall or warning list I always wonder why anyone buys baby products from Amazon.

I make Mississippi Vegan's Pantry Pasta with positively obscene frequency, but this was the first time with sauteed chanterelles (thanks to my first mushroom foraging trip) and I'm upset I cannot have it like this always.

Setting up a tent on this hill.

Because I'm not yet old enough for a broken hip to be a likely death sentence, I fetched branches off of a steep, ivy-covered hill for my mother after she hacked down filbert bushes on a ledge of her property. I'm sure the squirrels will be just devastated for the two seconds it takes for regrowth.

Every single time I hear Daniel Radford announced as an official for a Sounders match I just give a little chuckle.

That was a lot of celebration for the first game in a non-championship series. But then, I wanted my team to lose their play-in game, so who am I to judge?

Just realized that with the shutdown there won't be a Bat Beauty Contest by the BLM. Real blow to Oregon as it's pretty much the only thing we're any good at winning.

Left my gartenmeisters outside a hair too long, but I didn't want to take the new, poorly timed flush of flowers away from the hummingbirds. It's just minor frost damage; they'll be fine. Always pains me so much to remove all of the flowers.

🦌 🤝 🐿️ 🤝 🐇 🤝 🐛 🤝 🦃 destroying my garden dreams

For someone who doesn't particularly care for baseball, I am incredibly invested in this game.

Didn't know this rain was going to come with thunder.

It's October 1st, so this has been in my head all day. As much as I love it, I rather hope it's gone tomorrow, but that's unlikely.

Why can't one of the protesters outside the ICE facility blow horn the dude who's been live streaming with Fox News? He's moving and swinging his camera around to make it look like a dynamic situation but clearly everyone is just standing around with signs.

I want to thank the Ducks for rescuing my sports day as I know better than to expect the Timbers to do it.

Almost tossed an old greeting card but decided to check inside and found old photos from a lifetime ago. If someone takes you to Chimney Rock State Park, your answer to their first question when you arrive had better not be, "Oh, I've never seen it." That's been rectified many times over, btw.

Nice of Photos to pause reminding me of my dead cats and plants I've killed to ask me if I remember this day five years ago. Gosh no, nothing comes to mind.

OH FFS.

Trying to figure out what to do with the copious amount of basil in my garden as I've finally admitted to myself that do not, in fact, particularly care for basil pesto. I understand that I must now disavow my Italian heritage. So, I guess I'm Welsh now. I do not know what to do with that.

A red-breasted nut hatch sat on a rhododendron nearby watching what I imagine was its entire winter food stash go crashing to the ground. There's also a very chonky squirrel I imagine is quite miffed (it was in a walnut tree nearby and is, at least, physically fine).

Looks like the lead women might come over Grand Col Ferret at sunrise. 🤞 Tom Evans 🇬🇧 and Ben Dhiman 🇺🇲 leading the men (I do not recognize any Frenchies other than Ludo now that Francois has withdrawn). live.utmb.world/utmb/2025/ut...

I've had a tongue stud for 28 years and I've just now considered removing it for the first time.

That second sign is so very "as per my last email..."

Really feel for RDs, volunteers, and runners for the Cascades 100 and Oregon 200 after they were halted due to wildfires. Well, except for the participants who seem to have forgotten cancellations are a risk for every trail race and have chosen to be dicks in the comments. They can get in the sea.

Because collecting all of the native rhizomatous bastards (looking at you manroot, bracken fern, and blackberry) apparently wasn't enough, guess who has now been blessed with a little invasive nutsedge popping up in the garden? If one could stare a plant to death this battle would already be over.

Do not have great conditions for growing dahlias, but I try a few each year. New one this year for me is Rip City. It's struggling but making a great effort. Doing my best to deter the earwigs but they are BAD this year. Before it gets chewed up:

It's been two years and the "Nature" episode on the platypus still turns me into a complete mess.

The original house owner was one of those burn and bury your trash folk. He hasn't lived here in fifty years, but not all piles have been found. Today's was under the one bearded iris cluster I'd yet to dig up and divide. If I'd used a trowel instead of a shovel I likely would've missed it.

And in the beginning, God said, "Let there be lips!" 🥳🎉🎂

I'm against capital punishment, but for those who spray their fields with liquid manure in 100° temperatures I am considering an exception.