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Some Favorite Things

Some Favorite Things

Today I need to write something positive, just cuz.  So, here’s a blog post about some random ‘favorites’ of mine…with certain follow-ups. First up: Favorite Colors Yes, kindergarten is over thirty years behind me, and yet I am still going to tell you about my favorite colors.  I really, really like colors, okay?  …Which means I can’t possibly have a favorite.  But some colors I adore are: So, what’s more wonderful than gorgeous colors?  Gorgeous color-combinations.  A single, flat color…

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fly-by-posting: 2024/10/11

fly-by-posting: 2024/10/11

When you’ve got a sick kid, the job of the parent is the push any sort of real food that they’ll willingly eat like it’s crack. (bagels here today) Note, if they’re still pretty little, the other job is to watch the same Disney movie 3-4 times in one day. (Tangled, back in the day, and so glad Frozen hadn’t come out yet at that point)

fly-by-posting: 2024/09/25

fly-by-posting: 2024/09/25

My brain is like a bureaucracy. Sometimes it can take a very long time for new or unexpected inputs to work their way through the system. Not because they’re not important, but because there may be bureaucratic structural reorganization that needs to happen before movement can occur. And then ditto if you want some action output.

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 2: Cartoon Physics

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 2: Cartoon Physics

Well, it is time for another round of Quirky (true) Stories.  This time, I have a theme, which is: The evidence I have so far accumulated that many cartoon tropes (and cartoon-style physics) are, in fact, based on pure reality. Evidence the first: Cockroach encounters. Okay, to start, I grew up in Montana, where we kinda, mostly don’t have cockroaches?  I mean, maybe we do, but if so, they keep a very low profile.  So, the first time I ever…

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fly-by-posting: 2024/08/02

fly-by-posting: 2024/08/02

Guess what amazing and rare thing I did today? I properly indexed and labeled the lab book I finished with a few days ago. This is a task I haven’t managed in over 2 years (and I’ve finished with 8 lab books in that time period). Feeling hopeful there really is a Light at the end of the Burnout.

fly-by-posting: 2024/07/18 (w/pics)

fly-by-posting: 2024/07/18 (w/pics)

I got a treat this evening! I went on a walk and saw no less than 3 separate frogs (or toads – I’m not actually sure how to tell the difference; they were in the grass by the sidewalk(s)). The littlest one especially was so cute! hiding next to a fake rock by the play-ground set. In other news, this was our local squirrel today: I think this squirrel is actually part dog, the way it likes to plop down…

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fly-by-posting: 2024/06/27 (w/pic)

fly-by-posting: 2024/06/27 (w/pic)

In honor of the season of cotton-flying-everywhere, here is a picture I took a month ago. Because it was only a month ago that I realized that this town I’ve been living in for 20 years has trees that bloom with lots of pretty white flowers (that sort of look like cotton fluff, but are not cotton fluff, because they’re pretty flowers).

When an Award Doesn’t Feel Like an Award

When an Award Doesn’t Feel Like an Award

So, last year I was on a small team at work that won one of my company’s annual recognition awards.  Which should be at least a small ‘Yay!’  But, the circumstances of the win were such that it actually just made me kind of annoyed, and that flipped the switch in my brain that goes into rant mode.  For some reason, the rant that came out was formatted as an explanatory rant to my TaeKwonDo Instructor, even though he had…

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