Green

I’m glad I adopted blogging, as a written form, when I did.  The worst thing for a writer is when the project isn’t as relevant when you finish it as when you started, because of circumstances changing, internally, externally, or both.  I can’t imagine doing something long form right now and hoping to have it …

When the PhD Hunter Becomes the PhD Hunted

Sigh.  I’m going to say something, and to anyone who knows my circumstances a little more personally, it’s going to sound like I’m taking something private and making it into a vendetta, but I’m not.  Here’s the thing: If this vicious, highly contrived narrative (you know the one) were a predator (and it is), then …

Buns and Guns

Tomorrow is what we’re officially calling Day 1 of our competition prep, as per the spreadsheet!  And because you have to just pick some day, eventually, and call it Day 1!   So: what I’m worried about, blog-wise, is that a year-long competition prep — which is infinitely fascinating to me, with gripping chills and …

Sit-Ups and Sit-Reps

Brand new at bikini fitness posing, here, but apparently the whole skill rests upon your ability to  square your hips up to one plane, but then twist your entire upper torso 90 degrees to another plane, and then smile and flex.   Nick made us a spreadsheet yesterday, while I was watching posing tutorials, and …

Vlog: The Peanut Gallery

https://youtu.be/Nq75dImGpxc

Rawr.

Ah, I feel so so good!  Nick’s off today and still sleeping, the roosters are engaged in their usual apocalypse, and my dad’s playing his keyboard with headphones so it fills the house with softly percussive patterns.   I looked at the ocean — I always make a point to do that in the morning, …

Vlog: Tall Grass Plus

https://youtu.be/JoIuL9OuRIc Thanks for being readers AND watchers! Feel free to subscribe to YouTube channel but I will generally cross-post here. And bear with me as I continue post-op from a surgery, my mouth isn't moving quite right yet but it's better every day. xoxo

The Tall Grass

My viewing of Biden’s inauguration was interrupted by a little errand — our humane mousetraps had caught lil’ booger number…5?  6?, last night.  Anyway, I had to drive up the hill to a big open field and let him out, which has become a regular thing.  I could have waited, but he’d already spent all …

The Smarmy Smarm Act of 1871

Okay, so I’d run across the contention that the United States is actually a corporation, not a country, several times over the years.  A corporation owned by London and the Royal Family or something.  My default reaction was not so much disbelief, because call me a pessimist but probably no level of boardroom cuckery would …

Bitcoin Works No Matter What Color You Are

I wrote this on May 29th, shortly after George Floyd's death: "There was a picture of a big sign or graffiti or I forget what it was, of this ask: 'White people — do something.'  I’m white so I guess this is me doing something?   "I have the solution, which would actually work in …