My Brain is Nauseous* – Can I Go Home Now?

My Brain is Nauseous* – Can I Go Home Now?

(*) Well, dang.  It looks like mental fatigue is a beast I still haven’t licked yet. That’s the thought that crossed my mind last year after I’d been hammering away at assembling a formal code update and found myself (once again) feeling extremely mentally rundown. Except that ‘mental fatigue’ and ‘run down’ really don’t cover what it feels like, and, taking another look at that sentiment from this perspective of a year later, there’s also this whole extra layer of…

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SSCS 02: Installment 8 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 8 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 8 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Now that –” he started, the tiny scales around his eyes flashing a brief gold.  But before he could say anything else, the kraken gave another of its bone-grindingly loud and…

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photo taken February 10th 2024 of a snowy tree branches.
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 6

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 6

See Previous | See Next The snow from last week melted a bit.  And then we got another round of snow.  And then it started to warm up and get a bit soggy again.  For a minute or two it felt like Winter is Here! but then we moved briskly on to This Is What The Snowy Garden Feels Like When Spring Is Almost Here! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years does confirm that this is the correct time…

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SSCS 02: Installment 7 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 7 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 7 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Just then, though, they became aware of a low, sweet-edged humming throbbing through the air, slowly building in volume, as some sort of mist (or bits of dust?) spattered down around…

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photo taken February 3rd 2024 of a very snowy garden.
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 5

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 5

See Previous | See Next The snow has re-arrived!  Very muchly.  Heavy and wet and very white, and enough of it to bow down the bushes and the tree branches, and to mean that the warmer temperatures immediately following the snow aren’t going to melt all of it at all soon. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years seems to be in the firm agreement camp that this snow is how things should be, and the sunny greenery of last…

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SSCS 02: Installment 6 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 6 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 6 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… She’d only ever seen the kraken on the holy days of the full moon, when gran-Tom sang the songs that were more, the Moon songs, and the kraken was let out…

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The Lost Art of Video Stores

The Lost Art of Video Stores

So, I wanted to do a post that was going to be, sorta kinda, about one of my favorite fairy tales.  But then I realized there were a lot of different layers to that, not even necessarily relating to said fairy tale at all, and that what I really need to post about was Video Stores! I spent a non-insubstantial fraction of my formative years in video stores. From the time when I was little and slammed my sister’s hand…

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photo taken January 25th 2024 of sunlit hellebores leaves.
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 4

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 4

See Previous | See Next Sorry for the late posting!  My only excuse is that I was traveling this weekend and that apparently turned my brain to mush. Things are mostly warming up again around here, most of the snow melted again or persisting in huddled clumps here and there.  My garden isn’t fooled into thinking its spring quite yet, but the (tough and kind of sharp!) hellebores leaves are evergreen.  The dianthus really aren’t, but so far they’ve gotten…

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SSCS 02: Installment 5 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 5 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 5 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Because of course, just because a pig could fly, didn’t mean it would fly, …or keep doing so.  And what happens when a greedy pig that’s eaten flying fruit flies up…

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