@stellagarp.bsky.social I was in a gift shop in Anchorage, Alaska and I stood and stared for a long, long time at the shelf of shot glasses which contained these gems, wondering if you would be amused if I bought one and sent it to you. In the end, I decided a photo would be enough.
Do you recall the first pizza you ever ate? My dad does. In 1964, at age 18, he had his first-ever taste of pizza at Jamico's Pizzaria (their spelling, not mine) in Anchorage, AK and it became a favorite food. Today I took him back there for the first time since he left Alaska in 1965.
BLM Utah:
> This week on #FireFriday, we highlight a case from two years ago involving a wildfire at Toquerville Falls. The fire, which scorched 38 acres of BLM-managed public lands, was ignited by an individual trying to scare spiders away by using a lighter to burn their webs.
My son and his family came by to wish us bon voyage, and while they were here I had them help me apply some vinyl graphics to the truck because its big, white slab sides were boring as hell. There are a couple of Easter eggs in it.
Am I the only person who thinks the monkey emoji in this image looks like someone in cowboy boots and shorts bending over and looking back at you from between their legs?
I've gotten a call from the same number every day for the last few weeks. Google Screen answers and they hang up, every time. Today I decided to call it back from my landline and got the message "The number was rejected by the service provider - Reason 404." Never got a 404 on a voice call before.
Just heard that a former coworker who was let go after he became increasingly unhinged by mental illness has passed. He was brilliant, artistic and innovative, but sadly many people will remember him instead for how his illness consumed him the last few years. Godspeed, friend. Hope you're at peace.
You can tell a lot about a person by these categories:
Eggs: scrambled, if I'm forced to eat eggs
Steak: medium-well
Milk: nope
Alcohol: not since June of 2021
Warm drink: coffee, but only with breakfast
You can tell a lot about a person by these categories:
Eggs: scrambled; sunny side up if with hash browns
Steak: medium
Milk: 2% or whole
Alcohol: Irish whiskey, gin-based cocktails, Guinness extra stout, local beer
Warm drink: coffee or hot lemon water year round; hot chocolate November-January
Used my lunch to take apart the air intake on the truck and prep it for installing a K&N intake. While I have that all out of the way, I'll install a new serpentine belt since I have no idea how long this one's been in there, and I definitely don't want to do a roadside belt change on a Powerstroke.
One of my asthma meds has been mentioned as a possible link to depression ('despair' was the description mentioned a lot) and since I'd been having some pretty dark episodes I stopped taking it a few months ago. While I'm not exactly living in a Disney park now I feel so much better it's remarkable.
Sitting at my computer and heard a "tick tick tick" noise. Muted all sounds, followed it to the laundry room. It's coming from inside the dryer (not in the drum, but in the enclosure that surrounds the drum). Unhooked it, took it outside, took it partially apart and discovered a mouse.
The May 'winter storm' that dropped a bunch of snow earlier this week has now moved east and south, so now we're getting the upper portion of the counter-clockwise rotation and it's brought winds howling downslope and out of the canyons, and intermittent cold rain showers. So that's fun.
I frequently wake up with an earworm (not a real worm in my ear, but a song that I didn't ask for, playing over and over again in my head) and they're often odd, but today's takes the cake.
"Silver Bells". The Bing Crosby/Carol Richards version.
In May.
Sure, why not?
@stellagarp.bsky.social Just tuned in to the Westminster Kennel Club show and they were showing the Australian Shepherds, and I learned they're not Australian at all, they're American.
