Month: April 2021

Hives continue

Lost a good chunk of sleep last night to them. Topical creams help a little but it was kinda rough.

I’m going to try not to doomscroll today, even though Horgan is doing his best to try to kill me.

It’s possible that what I’ve got, hive wise, is actually a mild and late reaction to the AZ shot. If so this will slowly pass. Sigh.

Jeff’s doing a timmy ho’s run and then we’re going to watch Time Team in our LA-Z-BOY CHAIR. Did I tell you folks that we set it up? I had to mess with my half, but it sure is comfy.

RIP MICHAEL COLLINS. You were, as Phil Plait remarked this am, the ultimate team player.

well, that was strange

so I’m scrolling through twitter and two of the sf people I follow say they’re going to edit a bunch of short Quaker Speculative Fiction and I think… man, I been throwing around the idea of Henry Thomas Wake going to space for a decade now, mebbe I should write the story.

In the course of the morning I wrote the story, got my mOm to correct it, and SUBMITTED IT. Yes I HAVE SUBMITTED A STORY TO A MAGAZINE.

I’m only 62, but it did take a while.

still covered in hives

I am miserably uncomfortable and I have absolutely no idea what’s triggering them.

It’s not as bad at night. It gets worse when I get up and put clothes on. I recently changed laundry detergent, so it’s a possibility in the hopper of tree pollen, cat dander and general porousness of the building envelope that we’re dealing with.

Anyway, off to the shower, maybe that’s all it will take. (wrong, the heat of the shower made it worse. WHAT IS IT? ALLERGIES? VIRAL? A NEW MIGRAINE SYMPTOM (I’VE BEEN GETTING TRIANGULAR RAINBOW DRAGONS FOR DAYS NOW) wat wat is it

Weather was SO GLORIOUS yesterday, we had a lovely walk in at Deer Lake. Paul is being rather stiff and formal with me as if he’s expecting me to outburst on him, but all I did yesterday was tell him that not putting the mask over his nose isn’t a good look.

The crows telling the raven to sod off was pretty funny.

The frogs were out but not talking.

We heard a waterfowl that we’ve never heard before, could have been a hooded merganser; they certainly appear in the park.

Katie took the day off yesterday, and I had a brief and bracing phone call with Keith when I tried to stealth-check up on her.

Allergies

I’m getting hives, probably from the brazil nuts, heavy sigh.

Just ordered doubles and Chicken Roti and Shrimp with Rice from D Roti Shak.

SO DAMNED GOOD

Here’s a funny pic, courtesy of Liz M. shows two old people in a really old car in front of a building called St. Luke’s with a JUST VACCINATED sign like a just married sign.

here’s another funny one, it spells ACAB in cherry blossoms and is apparently from this week in Portland

t’aint funny M’Gee

on the subject of white guys who don’t know when the fuck to shut up, imagine being Jordan Peterson getting this review for his latest JUST OUTTA REHAB special.

While 12 Rules for Life was a snapshot of an intellectual moment, however paltry, Beyond Order is the literary equivalent of colonoscopy by cake shovel, writes Richard Poplak.

Family addition

Katie has announced that she is expecting her second child in November.

She has already had a prophetic dream about the sex of the child, but we will wait upon events. We were laughing to each other that if the child is trans at least they will be born into the right family.

So much love and hope, but also terror.

A little nod and wink to Dave

The elytra of a Elaphrus sp ground beetle, Oklahoma. Practically invisible on mud, according to the photographer, Thomas Shahan, but up close HOLY CRAP

 

MY NUTS were RETURNED TO SENDER. and now they are going to have them redelivered at their expense.

It was perfect weather and the number on the house couldn’t be bigger AND JEFF AND I NEVER LEFT THE HOUSE DURING DELIVERY HOURS how they could have said they couldn’t effect delivery BLOWS MY MIND. Fuck Canada Post.

Earth day

I think I need to mow the lawn, and I’ve asked Jeff to set out ant traps, so go me for being a goddamned booj-hippie on Earth day. The blue bells are up, hopefully I can mow around them.

Buster saw that I’d picked up some more Temmptation Chicken cat treats and nearly lost his tiny mind, it was quite funny. He trained SO HARD this morning, many paw claps, and one spectacularly casual single-pawed treat catch. INTO MAH MOUF SHALT THOU GOOOOO nom nom crunch. After I told him we were done training he came back twice for more. He also showed anxiety when we went out for the shopping, and was very happy that we came home.

I really like the staff at the 6th and 6th Save-on. They are all really good people. I want to do something nice for them when the pandemic’s died back a bit

Apparently Jensen Ackles’ bare butt is going to make the scene for season 3 The Boys, so they show will likely inherit 74% of Supernatural’s former watchers. Show was too violent for me when Jeff and I tried it, so whatever. I guess I’m more interested in Misha Collins’ next project.

Load of laundry in; I have some foodicles to prep but not too much; it’s YET ANOTHER GORGEOUS DAY in the world’s biggest small town.

Worked on a couple of Kaossilator tunes this morning.