Mark Sykes

Chicken tacos for dinner

So glad Merrick Garland did such a great job of prosecuting Trump. Detractors kept saying he was not working fast enough, but he showed them.

No, all 435 get reelected every two years.

Ukraine drone attack destroys 34% of Russia's cruise missile bombers, totaling $7B damage. Russia is one of two major geopolitical threats to the US.
Has Donald Trump even thanked Zelensky?

So when does JFK Jr. emerge and assume the presidency? Is that still a thing?

It's 'put the air conditioner back into the window' degrees here.

Prurple violets and a yellow dandelion growing in a lawn

Lawn flowers. Nearly complimentary colors, and free. Bonus: no 2,4-D.

Today MAGA conservatives unironically celebrate the rebirth of someone who taught compassion to the poor and kindness to strangers

Voting on my absentee ballot here in red state Ohio: there's state bonds for infrastructure, a municipal income tax and a school levy. These did poorly before Trump, but now is different: Red voters LOVE taxes as long as the rich aren't impacted (even if you have to call them tariffs). They'll pass

Yes, but you have to tolerate the orange filter I use for the Moon. Bring caramel corn.

$23 bag of coffee beans is now $35 because we're pwning the Chinese, or something.

Received my absentee ballot for the May election which for my area is levy issues.

Can a Keyboard Interlock Device like those car breathalyzers be installed on Hegseth's computer?

Looking forward to this year's mandatory OPSEC refresher course. I need clarification about when posting classified info in group chats, do I then say "It wasn't classified" and follow up with "Everyone makes mistakes, let's just move on."

Star Trek ideals: The Federation, Klingons, and Romulans can come together peacefully and better a society that has eliminated poverty and hunger and values collectivism and knowledge..
Star Trek Games: You're the Captain and your assignment is to kill, kill, kill!

"Get off my lawn!" transmits as "QSY off my freqency!"

So Trump can read. Big if true.

It's just about tomato seed starting time.
They surely can't take that away.

So the clock says 11 PM but it's actually 10, however I'm tired like it's midnight. I's doing DST wrong.

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios Alita: Battle Angel | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

Movie & a Meal was Battle Angle Alita (2019, dir. Robert Rodriguez), and pork chops (plus a freshly baked loaf of bread).

Would love pics and stories of the construction process!

My own not-up-to-hype story: Tried Portillo's in Chicago. I guess you have to live there.

Album cover of Franz Schmidt Oran Works

Listening to one of the lot of LPs that I ordered off eBay. It took two weeks to arrive as the USPS was bouncing it between Massachusetts and Indiana a couple times prior to arriving.
First up is Franz Schmidt Organ Works, Kurt Rapf organist, MHS 3767, recorded in the early seventies.

A few moments of Senior Confusion this morning as I checked my phone time before napping then woke up to read an un-DST-adjusted wall clock. "I napped 10 minutes? That seemed like an hour!"

Doing that makes me happy too, as long as 'space jewelry' means lenses and filters.

Very similar to my story, 62, first licensed in 1978.

WTH.

Airing the house out for a few hours. Feels nice.