this week was one of those weeks where i felt like i was just going through the motions, living in the moment but feeling a bit out of body. i think it was a mix of the heat, the wildfire smoke, my period, and the windup and down of the world cup. earlier this week i shared what i made in my fourth ceramics class. i have been having a pretty good couple of weeks at the wheel, and i feel like i'm starting to find my voice as told through clay. i've been enrolled in classes consistently, no…
The second part with the free wedding ceremony is now also finished. It was such a nice day, thanks to everyone who was there, helped, and made this day the best day in our lives! Cheers on our love and now also our marriage! 🥂♥️ Interactions & Comments
At this point I am a little bit into seeking out the journaling blogs of everyday people writing about their own experiences and frames of reference. A case in point: Americans seem, for some unfathomable reason, to like their coffee big and weak. Shocked emoji. I was going to say something smart about it being similar to their taste in politics — but that would be uncouth. Here is a taster of one person dying on the hill of caffeinated mediocrity. In other countries, it’s not like that. You’re…
# What an amazing couple of days! It was our 31st wedding anniversary on Wednesday (15th) so we went out for a nice meal. My wife booked a night away on Thursday — we stayed in Pontefract — so didn't have to waste time travelling yesterday, my birthday. We went to Pontefract Castle and did some exploring before checking in. Yesterday we headed for York and had a great time at the Minster. I love the architecture and history, and York Minster has a lot of both to explore. We were having such a…
As I was cleaning up the kitchen, Truman kept his eyes on me, trying to guilt me into giving him some treats. I snapped this photo as he was giving me a look over the counter. Then I gave him a treat. Because I’m gullible and he’s so dang cute.
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We are sitting at a locally owned coffee shop in midtown. The shop is called Crave and it is very comfortable. There’s quite a few people on their laptops here; the only one on a Mac is my husband. I don’t usually find this to be the case. I don’t know if anyone else is using Linux; I have noticed quite a few ThinkPads in use. I’m proudly sporting the System76 Darter Pro laptop. It’s currently running RHEL 10.2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). It is a low key weekend. There’s an occasional rumble of…
One thing is for sure. I am incredibly glad I didn’t try to do the market today. I did the usual morning stuff, including watering the garden. My brother had his zero turn mower out already, which amazed me, because the grass was still so very wet from dew. He just did the areas he … Continue reading So… that could have gotten much, much worse
The grid is set for Sunday’s Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, and it didn’t exactly follow the chalk of the points standings. Points leader Alex Palou is not starting on the pole. He will start fourth. While that doesn’t sound like much of an upset, it pretty well describes the starting field. The strength […]
Cleaning up the kids' room. It gets so messy in there at times, that the toys start "overflowing" into all the other rooms. Today it was time for an intervention! 🙂
Disclaimer: the featured image of the Trojan Horse popcorn bucket was likely AI-generated, and was taken without permission from a site that itself seemed likely AI-generated. I’m still anti-AI but will hypocritically use it when it feels thematically appropriate for a topic about things that are manufactured and soulless. This post is solidly in “if I’ve figured it out, everybody else must have figured it out long ago” territory. But I keep seeing online reactions to the…
the moment where sadness shouldn't be present that hurt I can't share no one can carry it for me I lock the door and hold my breath you have taken another piece of me whistling while I gather myself
NOAA’s Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors describes ten different kinds of people who can disrupt meetings and gives advice for handling each. I’ve been a big fan of this taxonomy since I first encountered it several years ago, but going through it again yesterday, I realized that there’s a fair bit of overlap between some of the types. In order to slim it down, I grouped them as follows: AggressiveAssertivePassive People-focusedBlowfish, DolphinSea Otter, Flounder Task-focusedJellyfish,…
Opportunity of a lifetime to watch England play in the World Cup Semi Finals in Atlanta, Georgia.
I saw these miniatures hanging out at a local coffee stand, and I immediately took out my phone to take a pic.
When Eugene of Bhagwan Incense first reached out offering samples I was hesitant to accept them; my experiences with Indian style incense at that point had been less than stellar. After Irene of rauchfahne.de sent me some very nice Indian sticks, however, my mind was opened, and I found myself keen to see what Bhagwan has to offer. Being an exporter rather than a manufacturer, Bhagwan’s product range is fairly broad, spanning from classic sandalwood sticks to modern fragrances like guava. Today…
Recently when re-watching The Last Unicorn for the umpteenth time, I noticed something interesting in a scene I know I had seen so many times before: In King Haggard’s Court, when Schmendrick seeks the role of King Haggard’s Royal Magician, Mabruk is summoned and seems to already *know of* Schmendrick, greeting him with a “My Dear Boy!” and everything. It started me thinking about the implications of a Setting where each and every practitioner of the Arcane Arts knew each other in some way. So…
I used to think healing would look different. I imagined some major moment where everything suddenly clicked into place. Waking up one morning and realizing I was no longer carrying the weight of the past, overthinking every conversation, no longer replaying old memories, or longer waiting for something bad to happen. That isn’t really how […] The post What My Daughter Taught Me About Healing first appeared on About That Jack.
I’ve seen it twice in the theaters now and I picked up more the second time. I was also the oldest person in the theater by a good amount both times. I’m hip.
Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT More Than Just a Railway Town – Exploring Swindon’s Pub Scene Swindon turned out to be a brilliant day exploring a mix of historic pubs, modern taprooms and independent breweries. From the railway heritage of the Great Western Hotel and The Glue Pot to the growing beer scene in Old…
Fun stuff happens in this bi-state area!Much of next week and the weekend will have Comic-Con International/San Diego Comic-Con in the news. A lot of folks will be traveling there and enjoying what is (usually) the biggest comic/television/movie/pop-culture event of the year. However, if you're going to be around my neck of the woods, two cool comic events are happening on the 25th and then the 26th that I'd recommend checking out.On July 25th, the awesome folks over at Bigfoot Comics and…
Pondering arch-mages again, on the lines of 'what do you do when you get total control of reality' - previous I wrote on their goals, the status flexes of individuals beyond want. Now I have been pondering what kind of casual horrors they inflict on those around them through sheer carelessness and self-absorption without any accountability and way too much agency. d20 regional impacts of careless archmages 1. their tower is absolutely crammed with automata who spend more time going excuse me…
Imagine, just for a moment, a world without White people. If you’re White, this will be an exercise in empathy… That’s exactly what the book Sky Full of Elephants invites you to do. The story takes place one year after an event causes every single White person in America, children included, to mysteriously walk into the nearest body of water, never to be seen again. I won’t give too many spoilers, but this book was a 9/10 for me. I would give it a 10 if one of the main characters didn’t piss me…
People used to live hereI went to the beach today and noticed a bunch of weird stuff. I made a small collection of photos with the idea of "a world after humanity". Thinking about the unnaturalness of our own existence and how that shapes the world around us The Photos Just the Beach I also took some other pictures because there was a bunch of interesting stuff around Closing Remarks Oh and I got attacked by seagulls and they took every bite of my kibbeling. Was weird.
When I was in Paris, like, fifteen years ago, I happened past a glassware shop and I saw these dinner plates in the window: That is, out-of-focus night-time surveillance photos. On dinner plates. And I had a sudden vision: A… what’s this style called in English? “Peasant romantic” or something? It sounds less insulting in Norwegian, somehow. Anyway, I was thinking about the juxtaposition of an oldee-tymey romantic dinner plate display shelf of some kind (not as romantic as the above, because…
Several weeks ago I saw my doctor for my annual physical. Thus far into middle age I have been blessed with generally good health, and for the past many years my exams have mostly resulted in routine lab follow-ups that haven't yielded any particular concerns. This time was different, and I went to that appointment with a problem. The Problem I explained to my doctor that I had been experiencing: Brain fog Difficulty maintaining focus on certain types of tasks Lapses in attention during…
Let’s start this post off with a quote from myself back in February last year when I let you all peek into my stationary drawers: I keep telling myself I don’t need more but somehow I think I do. There; the search can already stop before it has properly begun: I don’t need more. But I think I do. Shut up little devil in my head. It’s been three years since I bought a new pen and the ache is real. Especially after seeing a few top list posts appear in my RSS feed such as The Gentleman…
This quilt is one of a series of quilts I generated following Election Day 2024. There were so many changes to laws, funding, access – especially related to my discipline and my research – that I used my sewing machine for Processing the Policies from that time and to represent events and actions moving forward. Explore the collection. The Background In 1981, artist and conservationist Robert Wyland began his journey of painting life-size murals of whales and other marine animals in cities…
We don't believe in the sweater curse in this house.61 words · 1 image
