Ludibriumventis

Things that people have left at the security checkpoint since I’ve been here:

An arm brace
A toddler’s shoe

Goooooooooood morning, everyone else up at an absurd hour to head out to Worldcon!

May you nap well on your flights!

Blegghhh, it is hot and soupy, and it's barely 4am!

Last day of work before I leave for Worldcon.

So much to finish in the next 6 hours!

I am checked in to my flight.

I am NOT packed.

Aieeeeeee!

Huzzah!

* Immediately goes to work concocting a mocktail version *

Blerghhh. 15 minutes of weedwhacking in the yard, this morning (when the feels-like temperature was "only" 90F) was enough to do me in with a textbook case of heat exhaustion that I'm still trying to shake off.

There is more wood in that pile than I saw anywhere outside of Þingvellir...

Where did it come from?

Update:

Weedwhacked the heck out of the jungle-ier parts of the yard, overheated, came in and took a cold shower.

I'm working up the motivation to get dressed and go do some yard work before the heat index hits triple digits.

I'm so glad you had a good time!

♥️♥️♥️♥️

Juvenile Heermann's gull (very dark all over) in flight, flying over very very shallow water. Flying to the right maybe two feet off the ground. It's shadow is to the right. Just below the shadow is a reflection on the sheen of water.

Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection.

#birds

a man wearing a wig and a fur coat has a laurel wreath on his head .. Alt: A scene from Spaceballs - King Roland (in a grey curled wig and an ermine stole) turns his head and smiles in delight, because there is AIR!!!!!!

I re-upped the refrigerant in the car. I couldn't make it long enough to completely top it off, because it was just too damn hot hovering over a running motor. But it's enough to get cool air inside the cabin!

AIR!!!!!!

xiaq Follow Ever since I found out that earthworms have taste buds all over the delicate pink strings of their bodies, I pause dropping apple peels into the compost bin, imagine the dark, writhing ecstasy, the sweetness of apples permeating their pores. I offer beets and parsley, avocado, and melon, the feathery tops of carrots. I'd always thought theirs a menial life, eyeless and hidden, almost vulgar-though now, it seems, they bear a pleasure so sublime, so decadent, I want to contribute however I can, forgetting, a moment, my place on the menu. Feeding the Worms by Danusha Laméris Source: xiaq 31,645 notes

I found this in the mess of things I have been deleting:

Forrealz.

photo of Jack Black in 'School of Rock' standing by the blackboard filled with the Timeline of Rock Music captioned when you laugh at a dumb meme and ur partner, who is not an internet person, asks what's funny but it's like a tier 3 meme and you gotta explain about 7 years of internet for them to understand the nuances

😔

😭

(It's great for going outside during those very few and far between times that the temperature gets down around -40...)

Dang, I am impressed! I did one project using thick, stiff fabric (a cloak made from brushed denim, lined with wool... with a rain cape layer), and I cried multiple times in the process and swore I'd only use very pliable fabrics forevermore.

I have a dumb idea for a silly game, inspired by the Way Too Friendly squirrels in the local parks.

So, I've ordered a deck of blank playing cards, to see if what I came up with in my head actually makes sense in reality.

I'm going to need a time machine to go to all of the WorldCon panels that I want to go to. SOOOO many conflicting sessions! 😭

Also, WTF does this guy think girls' first purchase of sanitary products is like? A mysterious ceremony where women gather around the new inductee and perform some sort of magcial ritual?

Long ago, I worked at a not-so-secret underwear store, where we measured people for bras all the time.

In curtained changing rooms.

The only things that ever disturbed anyone or anything were the jackass men who'd stand around and comment and make jokes.

A picture of my left hand, covered with patches of black grime from futzing around inside the engine compartment. In the background, a bunch of tools, lay on the grass, out of focus.

Fixed the car!

But now I have to recharge the freon, but I don't want to go out in the heat to buy it.

#CarRepair
#PotatoCar

SE: ...That Person needs to fill it out *fwds to TP*

TP: Due to restructuring, this type of request now has to go to Someone Different.

Me: *Fwds to SD*

Now we wait to see if I need to pull in yet another person for this thing. We're up to 6, so far!

Client: *Forwards a weird government form* The recruiter said that we need to fill and return this form so they can pay us!

Me: Fwds form to Accounts Receivable

AR: *Copies Someone Else* Hi, can you help with this?

SE: Actually...

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Don't even get me started on Superman-flavored ice cream!

UPDATE: THEY'VE FILLED THE POTHOLES!!!

They didn't really tamp down the asphalt, so I'll be curious to see how long it lasts; but at least my tires are safe... for now.