I got caught in a storm on the way home last night and Teen and I had to pull over for a bit. We stopped at Braum’s and I discovered that they sell this bagged Neapolitan Bean Soup that I absolutely LOVE and haven’t been able to find in other stores in several years.

Re: Pasteurization: “… Women should “form a relationship with a local farmer, understand his integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide” if the milk is safe.” 😂

I just finished rereading Speaker for the Dead yesterday. It’s been a few years since I read it last and I’m trying to keep a little ahead of Teen’s reading so it’s fresh in my mind when he wants to talk about it.

Someone said “what does this mean” So I’ll try this My mom once told me “Sometimes the only way to be a good Christian you gotta stop going to a bad church” If you believe in love and peace , and they CHOOSE otherwise It becomes your duty to leave

#pixel #pixelart

“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

to congratulate franky on her viral post on bluesky(dot)com she has received a promotion (Senior Kitten Associate), and been given this new automated feather toy. 🎶: とんでもマウンテン2/Mount Amazing 2 - Soichi Terada

I picked up this meme just today. Timely.

By some miracle my wife had my special request meal done within two minutes of my walking thru the door tonight. My schedule is unpredictable. How?! It was chicken teriyaki w veggies and rice.

Some people say, “living well is the best revenge.” But, it also happens to be a great way to not waste your time being concerned about getting revenge.

One good thing today: a nice little chat with my ex hubs who I actually like.

Was talking to my wife about some of these same things a couple of nights ago. Really feeling that bit about how “we don’t live in the same reality as these people.” youtu.be/-Q5nQVUSdfs?...

It‘s ridiculous how common this view is that you (as an educator / librarian) have to force kids back to their section of the library when they start aiming for more advanced books.

When I was in middle school my school library had a full collection of adult grade novels, including the full collection of Stephen King and a bunch of fantasy pulp novels. I devoured that stuff at that age and it meant way more to me than anything officially assigned in class or parent approved

Some really good movies on this list and a few I haven’t seen.

I do daily quests IRL. I’ve got several but they’re always small things like: “Before you go to bed, name at least one good that happened to you today.”

Does anyone else have the version of ADHD where you seem like an airhead half (or more) of the time even though you're really not? It just like short circuits your brain and you end up seeming dumb because your brain fails to word how the words should word?

Beautifully worded statement from AOC.

One good thing today: wife made shrimp fettuccine Alfredo with broccoli and it was tasty enough it made up for the rest of the day.

Watching All of Us Are Dead tonight. It’s funny that the students in South Korea look like they’re eating actual real food instead of scraps from the killing room floor pressed into dinosaur shapes.

Ya know I usually only comment on “art” when I enjoy it / want to say something appreciative to the artist. Live by the adage: “if you can’t say something nice…” But this isn‘t art, it’s a cursed object that escaped the Warren’s special basement room. bsky.app/profile/cult...

God bless her. The days when small cities like Grand Forks had papers that could afford dedicated food columnists, sports columnists, and movie critics were better days.

If you think about it: the fact that Buzz Lightyear wakes up believing he’s on a space mission to save the planet and help everyone, only to learn that he’s a toy, and all his memories are a lie, kinda makes Toy Story a horror movie.

Teen finally graduated into the good section of the school library this year and picked Ender’s Game for his first book. It’s been like pulling teeth trying to get him to read for fun because the library would only let him pick from a small selection of mostly crap.

Better photo. Only the most important illustration of my life so far.

If you're having trouble changing your perspective, do something "off tha wall" with respect to your normal routine. Sometimes I have to uproot myself out of the doldrums of my normal day-to-day by... Well, let's just say you can do myriad thingies like 𝓂𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒, 𝖊𝖓𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊, etc. Sky's the limit☁️✨

Tonight over Yellowstone you might just catch a view of our own Galaxy the Milky Way. Photo by David Omar

Gary Oldman in this movie was the best Dracula.

It’s funny seeing conservatives talking about trans people being well funded when we’re all just sharing the same $5 around to whoever needs to pay rent this week.

it’s a really good time to pick up reading as a leisure form of escapism

This evening has been a bit of a cat-ass-trophe. Literally. The fluffy one apparently had a bathroom problem. She decided the solution to this problem was to drag herself across the carpet leaving ummm… a trail. So the cat got a bath and the bathroom got cleaned and the floors got cleaned.

One good thing today: A flock of 250 - 300 American White Pelicans spotted on the lake this morning. They were thick in the shallows like a carpet.

One good thing: The coworker who set up on the back dock for a catfish fry. Another good thing: The coworker who brought enough potato salad for the entire crew. No I don’t miss being a desk jockey.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Just look at this beautiful bread.

The new ruler of the universe has had enough of your nonsense.

The latest episode of Alien Earth … I’m gonna be on pins and needles for the next week waiting for the next one to drop. Argh!!! This show is soooo good.

Happy Tuesday! 👁️

When I find myself in times of trouble Ellen Ripley comes to me Speaking words of wisdom I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.

Teen insisted we watch Predator: Killer of Killers tonight. Good story. Loved the Grendel references and wanna see more of that backstory.

As a parent, a former schoolteacher, and now a grandparent it's amazing to me how so much of 'cracking the code' with getting along with kids of all ages is just to ... treat them like they're people?! Because they are. #Parenting #KidSky

I just got chased by an emu. 🤣

Farm workers are some kind of heros ❤️ I’m grateful for the good hard working people that help put food on my table.

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

It’s funny but I sort of dreaded returning to work the day after the events. Most of my co-workers are deeply conservative and I was certain this would the topic du jour and I’d get a dose of some of the vitriol I’ve seen online. But no. I don’t think his name was even spoken aloud that day.

Laid down for a cuddle and a quick chat with my wife at 5:30 yesterday afternoon. Slept for almost eleven hours. Feeling slightly feverish but my body temperature is normally weird and that might mean nothing.

I was driving by the cemetery today and seeing all the markers lined up in a field thought to myself how weird it is that our last social event is attending an assembly of the dead.

My wife didn’t go to the Demon Slayer with us yesterday. Not her thing. But she made it possible for us to go by having dinner ready the minute I walked in the door. We only spent about 10 minutes together yesterday but I made sure to thank her today for all the ways she makes our lives better.