ischade @ischade@mastodon.technology

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friends' toddler totally has my number. I ran her around yelling "flying toddler wooooooooo" which she enjoyed. she got hungry in the middle of this, so I dropped her off with her parents. when she was done, she came over, put her hands on my leg and said 'woogh!' so I ran her around some more.

I feel very doomed, somehow. like I'll be doing this for several more years.

"Benedict Cumberbatch - The hobbit - The best scene - Smaug-"

ok, I'm impressed. that's full commit on the dragon role.

https://youtu.be/sXN9IHrnVVU

also got a bunch of blood oranges while I was out. the whole house is very fragrant now.
assuming I don't eat them all, I'm planning to turn them into blood orange port marmalade. ^^

sat in traffic behind a WRX which was clearly being used a commuter car. poor little car. it's meant for autocross. :(

also sat behind a raised jeep.
like, some models of jeep *already* roll at the drop of a hat. this was one of those models. it was a modest raise, but wow, really? I was happy to see the owner at least had a custom roll cage around the exterior. hopefully 5-point seat belts as well.

lunch wasn't nearly as traumatic as I was expecting. friend has been meditating, so I didn't get regaled with conspiracy theories and uspol. instead we had conversations about other things, and it was quite nice.

friend is still refusing to contact our mutual associate about a job which would pay better, probably be more enjoyable, and have a shorter commute. *smh*
oh well, I tried.

It's just another day....
It's just another day
It's just another day....
It's just another day....

(stuck on oingo boingo.)

reading some Peter Ackroyd tonight. reading about 400-500 year old concerns is not as stressful as other things I could be reading. >.>

clerk: here you go.
me: ah, thank you very much.
clerk: of course, thank you so much.
second clerk: thank you twice as much.
all: *snerk*
clerk: niiiiiice.
second clerk: hee hee hee.

me: maybe if I add a cardigan to my reading glasses look, it'll finally get people much younger than me to stop assuming I have no idea how SSH2 works.
me: 🤣 ah ha ha, no, that's not how that works.
maybe some angry stickers on my laptop. *sigh*

talked with someone I haven't seen for a year. confirmed that even tho the unit across from her exploded from a gas leak almost 2 years ago, it's taken the owner this long to start repairing the other unit.
I guess it took this long for the insurance investigation to get completed.
I'm glad she's able to laugh about the experience now. bleck. she had a rough couple of months that year.

last year's results after a winter cover crop + various composts:

earthworm population: ++++
solitary ground bee population: +
ladybugs: +
praying mantis: +
spiders: +++++++
lizard population: ++
ants: no obvious change
rocks: + (WTF where did more rocks come from???)

crop results:
potato crop until critters ran off with _everything_: healthy, no scarring, no blight, low pests. on track for a small yield probably because I didn't water often enough.

I should really go dig out the raised beds soon.
while I've improved the soil quality in the raised beds with compost, etc, this is taking a long time, and I'd like to have a better crop this year.

"soil" in the raised beds refers to clay. (previous occupants appear unclear about how raised beds are supposed to work.)
I looked at the soil surveys from UC Davis. survey says, clay! the entire area is like, +60% clay. 50 years ago there was a brick manufacturing facility just 2 miles away.

bah, desk cleaning day.
done for now at least!

today, on short attention span theater, I would really like to get a laser cutter.
(I probably won't. this mood will pass.)