Gardening, Our Deteriorating Bureaucracy, and the ALL CAPS LABRAHODL

The story of our Hawaii garden: The tools were about the last thing to get organized, after the UHaul box finally arrived.  They got scattered out onto the workbench area attached to the side of the house and left there for a long time, while we organized the interior of the house and had disagreements …

Cowboys and Indians

I’ve seen stuff going around about Canadians with negative COVID tests forced to quarantine at home (?!?) and those with positive tests to relocate to designated facilities. Lost a little sleep last night worrying about my Canadian brothers and sisters to the north (well, I’m in Hawaii now, so like…the north and 2500 miles to …

Nectarines Are For Everyone

I received my new Overtone color conditioner in the mail, yesterday, and I’m excited to see how much it darkens my hair!  I’ve moved away from salon color, but I like being darker brunette, and was using something that was more natural but time intensive (Aveda Clove conditioner).  Overtone apparently has the balls to turn …

Axor the Mighty

Tickets are booked and we’re leaving a week from today to go trucking, trailering, trailer-converting, roof rack fabricating, and otherwise little dogging all over the CONUS in preparation for our new biz start-up.  About two months from now, I’ll be able to add “custom trailer conversions” to my schizophrenic resume; who woulda thought.   Let’s …

Femsogyny

Too tired to do anything else but write another blog — today’s deadlift workout came too close on the heels of yesterday’s squats, so I only got one set and then bar-no-movey.   So, I had come across this interesting perspective on Twitter:  I was just like ‘huh’ and moved on.  I’ve felt for a …

It’s Business Time

Coffee tastes good every morning but some mornings it’s like DAMN.  Maybe it’s the extra cinnamon.   Nick and I are looking at only being in Hawaii for about two more weeks!  We have an entire wildland fire contracting business to erect, prior to the 2021 season getting under way (ie burning shit down as …

Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

This morning I am half-tickled, half-appalled about the New York Times’ article, Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole: Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.  I mean, I just got done commenting on this problem, directly and peripherally, in a couple of recent posts, which I will …

Retire in 2030 by Weaponizing Toxic Masculinity

A liberal said an insane thing, and it was so insane I had to spend some time with it, and in the course of that I gained some clarity about a psychological tic I hadn’t quite understood before.   Okay, first: the insane thing.  Eric Holthaus, an apparent climate journalist — I never heard of …

Lady Contractor Life

This online chatter about a 2024 run from Trump, again, or Candace Owens, or the Rock, etc., is really giving me a rash.  Either other people are misunderstanding the severity of the situation, or…I don’t know.  If we don’t unfuck our obviously rigged election situation, it doesn’t matter what motions we go through, or for …

Party Lines and End Times

I wish I would have marked on the calendar with a big X the mornings in 2021 when I woke up to a new Bitcoin all time high but I didn’t.  Anyway, today’s another.   I’m in this situation, and I think a lot of others are too, where I’m keeping so little in my …