steve daines has decided not to run for reelection as a senator from Montana, and i like to think it has to do with the number of times i have called his office in anger, please do not disabuse me
moral objections to the trump administration feel this way, too, but it doesn't mean i'm going to stop making them
oh no
trying so hard to get this guy to start a philosophy of technology newsletter with me
nothing ever makes me feel so incompetent as this does
this is the second time in a 2-week period, too. just keep that in mind if it seems like i'm crying for no reason.
last night when i went to bed, i was tired and i was also sleepy. i had exercised and been out in the sunshine during the day. i had not been looking at my phone near bedtime. &c.
yet i did not fall asleep. at all. all night.
how does this happen? how can my body simply fail to do this thing?
i have lived in Great Falls, and believe me, it is eastern Montana
this is so messed up. the only correct answer to where "eastern Montana" starts is the Rocky Mountain Front.
there are absolutely no stakes here, but, still, i am now looking askance at every Montanan wondering if they were one of the idiots who picked Billings or Continental Divide.
right now the hens are out in the garden shredding last year's fallen leaves and dead plants so they will rot into the soil more quickly, relieving us of the work of doing that ourselves
and you can easily appear kind and generous to people who don't have chickens by giving them one dozen of the hundred or so eggs you currently have stored up because you have more hens than you strictly need. keeping chickens is prosocial.
This table of contents, my G'd
but muh tourists
never forget
this email exchange is just giving big "paging yud on the plausibility of ladyqualia" vibes, iykyk
oh boy
i need to make peach-chamomile ice cream next time
a closeup picture of a dish of peach cobbler, with a couple of chamomile buds sitting on top of the peaches
when i froze these peaches last summer, i put chamomile flowers from the garden into them and now i just made peach cobbler with them. the chamomile taste is very subtle but adds such a fresh note to summery peaches, i love this.
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the roosters do seem to be able to tell which hens are not laying eggs, whether due to being too old or too young (or, in Dulcinea del Taboso's case, maybe some third, mysterious problem) and ignore those hens
the roosters, god love em, do not care and will absolutely cross breed lines. they show a preference for giving food to hens they want to mate with, rather than hens that are in their same breed.
to me, this raises an important question:
how does a hen know enough about herself, her breed, to know when another hen is the same breed as her?
the more attention i pay to the chickens, the more questions i have. we have a mixed flock, several different breeds (barred rocks, polish, silkies) and the hens of one breed do not really mingle with the hens of different breeds. the hens make friends and organize themselves on strict breed lines.
ok, that's fair. points to the old ladies of the Friends of the Library.
i'm not convinced they have really thought through what they are going to do with *one* tank of gas in the event that gas becomes unavailable. maybe they use it to go to a family member's house or something where they can ride out this war? not sure.
i went to the library book sale yesterday and all the little old ladies running it were talking about how you should make sure to keep your gas tank full in case trump starts a war overnight. i'm sure it's from like facebook memes or something but prepper-ism seems to be filtering down to the masses
my "pantry" is nearly all of our basement so i do not have to make these hard choices
yeah, that's how i would summarize a lot of what i'm seeing, from the wailing desperation to the cries of relief and everything in between
it is kind of weird to have written an actually very popular software book, about an obscure and allegedly difficult language, and then to have just quit software entirely, but life is a roller coaster ain't it
i admit to being more of a purist about using japanese short-grain rice for japanese food than i probably should be, but for everything else, i am with you
