Late night prototyping a front panel with a daisy chain for a (hopefully) soon-to-be-made bag. There was a casualty of a broken needle, which was supposedly a more durable one for thicker and backed fabrics, but it didn't survive multiple passes through the webbing and fabric. Filed under scraps with tags: Sewing Reply by email or on the Fediverse Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

two trembling bodies tangled together arranging limbs in a way that the greatest amount of skin is touching skin sticky with a taste of salt bodies melting together into a bundle of pulse and breath I am open and raw and yours and with the sharpest inhale I swallow all the air in the room but you still have some left to exhale burning hot air onto me as I squeeze my eyes shut and fail to trap the weight of the waterfalls washing away the fantasy a wish, a dream, a drop of fragile hope

These are some good resources that I’ve found over time. All links tested and working as of October 18 2026.Easier food for folks who are sick or disabledLow Spoons RecipesThe Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don’t Die, a free ebook written by Zilla Novikov & Rachel A. Rosen, illustrated by Marten Norr. For people who have no energy to make food. Real about the struggle of taking care of yourself when sick or depressed. Nearly all vegan or offer vegan options.No More Ramen “a blog…

First fire!

Desk status

Frying greasy Reibekuchen on the balcony.

Jonathon proclaimed that Jonathon Harbeck is Fake, but I have a bit of a hard time believing that while drafting this reply to his post. That aside, his homepage bio, "Let's discover and realize our potential", is a good segue to what piqued my interest in his post: Here's the bloody scab. I didn't build anything significant in the last ten years. No record of writing or ideas I can share with others or my grandkids or anyone. I didn't make anything worth saving. I didn't contribute anything of…

I din't know this phrase was a Japanese proverb. The first time I read it was on this card in high school. I played it in my Goku deck. It's mechanics have nothing to do with starting over, in fact it's just a counterspell that gets exiled after use. I was pulling an eBay order today when I flipped through the DBZ commons to get an energy attack card when I saw it. For whatever reason I thought "Well of course Goku can do this that's his whole bit." You beat a Saiyan to the ground and if they…

So if I'm currently not doing 'too much' (as per docs advice) and not writing anything at the moment, what am I doing all day? A nice mug of rooibos. It's sort of red because that's what the name means; 'red bush' . No caffeine, so safe for the old ticker.

Brunette River, pre-run: Feels like early morning light, but it’s 10 a.m. I was originally planning to run at the lake but headed out a bit later than normal, so changed to a river run to start the week. Now, let me show you on the doll where the run touched me: My left knee has been stiff for a while now, but it’s generally not be an issue and has been a non-factor on runs. Today I could actually feel it for the first few minutes. It didn’t hurt, it just felt stiff. Once I’d warmed up, it went…

Just three weeks after the October 4 bus upgrades, with benefits for Caroline Springs, more bus improvements are coming Sunday week, October 25. These will give some welcome coverage and connectivity gains. There's interesting things about some of the timetabling choices made, which I'll cover here. 140 Rockbank - TarneitThe biggest change is undoubtedly the extension of the 140A, which since June has run from Rockbank to Mt Atkinson. The 140A was only intended as a temporary route to provide…

Hey all, We wanna stay focused on actually progressing on our projects, so… we’re starting a new post series here on the blog. We don’t know how long this series will last, but… if it helps us keep ourselves accountable even once, that’ll be worth it. We’re gonna check in here once a week to share what we’ve been up to. The main thing We’ve picked up Heartbit again. [Read more...]

a long while ago somebody did "silly things I hate" and i posted one and anyway i thought this sounded nice. Numbered to keep count, ordered by when i thought of each one. I started this post in May 2026 & am publishing Oct 19th. "Think of your arms like noodle arms" - (yoga with) Adrienne says this in a video and it makes me so happy every time lol. "Think of your arms like noodles" is my expectation When i'm mowing my back yard & i stop to pickup a big stick and i CHUCK it to my back porch.…

...You should read the Wired interview with Nathan Fielder. It's very good. It's also behind a paywall, so do your best to see it, I guess. I have spent a lot of today thinking about the movie and also about this interview. I have seen a really remarkable amount of life-changingly good cinema this year. It's a very good time to be alive and to be Going To The Movies. I saw Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie this year, AND You Can See Everything. Thank you, Canada, for your cultural gifts! I…

Two sections meetSeen in the street beneath our feet, the proud sections of this bridge joint are shined by wear from vehicular traffic.

A quieter week than most, but a good one regardless. The highlight was the theatre on Saturday to see Matthew Bourne's The Car Man. It was a busy week for reading too as I finished two books and started a third. The weirdest thing that happened this week was watching a car pull out from a side road and completely miss the fact there was a small traffic island in the middle of the road. I watched them cut the corner (to beat the traffic, obviously), drive straight into the traffic island, and…

As anyone who knows me is aware, I have more than a couple of projects going at any one time, but over these 16 years, Birchtree is the one constant that has never gone away. I pushed hard for several years, trying to gain traction. This was back when Twitter was the old Twitter we all miss, and I would try to get into the fray and (probably annoyingly) tag people I looked up to, hoping they’d read what I wrote. But I was constantly writing – I was trying to write sensationalist headlines and…

If you’re in a band and having arguments, which means you’re in a band, because they all have arguments all the time, ask yourself: What do these people want from me? What is my role in the band? And then ask yourself, am I supposed to be doing anything extra? First, check and make sure that you’re doing all these things. And then see if you’re butting in on other things and giving opinions. As you’re well aware, nobody cares what you think about things unless they ask. And they’re not going to…

My shoes are one of my favourite things. A specific pair. I do not have many and they all have different functions. But my main shoes, my two hundred days a year shoes, I love. They are a mid-ankle light walking shoe sort of situation I got six years ago. They have seen some shit both metaphorically and literally. Six years ago they were retailing at £55. I got ten per cent off. They now cost an astonishing £120 and I don't like the new design as much. Maybe it's not so astonishing. My current…

The origins of my CPTSD have been one of the most heartbreaking things I've talked about in therapy this year. I've been going to therapy for almost a decade, on and off and with different therapists, and I'd never had the courage to talk about it as openly and brutally as I have now. Needless to say, it's been difficult. During one of my sessions, after talking for a long time and feeling somewhat overwhelmed by desperation, I asked my therapist why it was so hard to overcome the abuse I'd…

Reviewed by Chris Arnsby"Kickstarting tonight’s Top of the Pops, back with a vengeance is Slade and Radio Wall Of Sound.” [33] SLADE: Radio Wall of Sound. That opening pan across the studio is lovely. Rod Litherland’s lights send beams through the studio smoke and the circular lighting rig at the centre of the ceiling glides over the camera like one of the UFOs from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I didn’t know Slade had such a long career although I do remember their last comeback, in…

Getting into my inbox should be a privilege. Strangers should ask first, every sender should get one line, and everything I keep should be labelled for me.

It’s happening!

In my week notes today, I wrote a semi-nonsensical blurb about resolutions. In short, I find the concept of resolutions silly. Rather, I find the concept of New Year's resolutions silly. There is something admirable to making a resolution, whether it's for self-improvement (I will make better efforts to be in tune with the emotions of other people) or working toward a goal (I will write 2 blog posts per week). The silly part about New Year's resolutions specifically is selecting an arbitrary…

Two people have recently used the phrase "self-imposed house arrest" to describe Bill's current situation and it made me laugh both times - not because it's inaccurate (it's 100% accurate) but because in real house arrests, that time is counted as part of your sentence, but in this instance, because Bill is actively avoiding/evading arrest, this time will almost certainly make his sentence longer. Nevertheless, I bet Bill thinks he's being very clever. Whenever I picture Bill believing he's…

When we wrote this song, both Jon and Clara happened to both be nomadic, living one day at a time in different places. We started wondering, "What makes a home?" And this is where we ended up. Featuring a special guest cameo by the one and only Alan Yamamoto! Lyrics: Bundled up my life inside a backpack With all the things I couldn't leave behind Pulling all the dry and shallow roots I've planted Don't know where I'll lay my head tonight No, it ain't easy packin' up and goin' Truth is that I…

I have, finally, started playing part 3, so now I feel like I can write a post about my brainrot so far. By the way I always love seeing timeskip character designs get updated LOL. Unserious brainrot that has nothing to do with the gameplay or story and everything to do with what I’m enjoying. Fabio: a freak that i loveI started with Dietrich’s route - I really ended up liking that choice since he’s a foreigner character so we were discovering Dagda at the same time (but I also had to replay…

At the end of eight grade, my mom had a painting I did in Mrs. Schmidt’s art class framed. “I love this painting so much,” she said as I held it out in shame before me. The only problem was I didn’t paint it. Nor did I have the courage to tell my mom the truth. I had no idea how long this one little white lie, meant to cover my tracks from a single missed assignment, would follow me throughout my life: from my teens to my twenties, thirties, and beyond. To back up for a moment and reveal the…

I have no hopes to convince anyone of my point that may or may not surface in this post, but heck this is my blog home, and here I am right! Or welcome to be told how I am wrong, Just visit, ok? So I came across this post — er newsletter thing by a Matthew Guay titles “What we lost when we lost comments – Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.” And I land in agreement with the call to come back to our blog homes, to stop spending all day harking at the social media malls. You can…

I’ve been meaning to write something, anything, about my experiences over the last, like, five months–holy shit, it’s been nearly five months since I left the US. Holy shit! I thought just now, sitting on the couch, wondering what I should do with myself, since my wife is traveling for a few weeks and I have essentially nothing going on that doesn’t involve walking and feeding and cuddling with my dog... Today marks four months in Poland. Exactly four months ago I was boarding a train from…