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Blog entries by southwestforests
Deliberately 😁 avoiding all thoughts about how it might or might not intersect with all the various things going on with my health I went last night and bought a pumpkin pie and a container Cool Whip.
Where the idea came from is a mystery, but decided to see what the taste experience would be 🤔...
Body is being difficult this morning, but look at this really cool distraction from that!
New record! 19 people are orbiting Earth right now
Just saw this via, you guessed it, Tumblr. 😁
That bit about struggling with the scope of large projects ...
... and easily handling bite sized bits ...
🤔
Maybe it's just me, but that sounds very ME/CFS ...
:)
Had salad and pizza for lunch while out paying bills, getting gasoline, and doing some grocery shopping, today.
Funny how closely the cloud line paralleled the pizza place's roofline.
We now return to our theme of fun and interesting stuff;
Moon Time Is a Thing Now—Here’s Why It Matters
Physicists recently created Coordinated Lunar Time, a time zone for our Moon.
by Rebecca Boyle August 28, 2024
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moon-time-zone
Currently have a thunderstorm approaching on edge of a large area of rain and storms.
In healthier years I'd go park my buns at the model building table and work on model planes, model rockets, model trains, while enjoying the sound of rain against the window and the intermittent rolls of...
Getting to creative writers group meeting yesterday was something of an adventure given the thunderstorm and massive buckets downpour right at the time I pulled up at the location.
There were only 4 of us there, me, Liz, Alan, Tom, but we had enough fun for a dozen people! 😁
And we did one of...
And then your La Rosa macaroni space wheels get caught in the Ragu nebula ...
Hmm, 🤔 don't remember if we had these way back when I was a child, that was so long ago.
"Don't play with your food!"
"But Mom, this isn't playing, this is the creation of dramatic composition for compelling...
Yes, it happens every year and, yes, I say the same thing every year ...
What's the deal with sunrise being after 6am now?
That ain't right.
That just ain't right.
Hey Y'all;
A little bit ago got done vacuuming/hoovering the living room, dining area, entry to hallway, for something like the first time in a month.
Had long ago set vacuuming time as "2 on Tuesday".
Have been increasingly frequent, "Ehh, I'm not up to that today. Maybe tomorrow or next...
Space Exploration Human Spaceflight
Para-astronaut John McFall hopes to see an ISS astronaut with a disability fly by 2030 (exclusive, video)
News
By Elizabeth Howell
published 18 August 2024
"By the end of this decade, hopefully that would have happened."
Having what is termed "brain fog"...
Hello again; Say, that's an interesting idea!
Also, would be an interesting creative writing thing to wrote about the doing of it, about the people doing it.
Hey Y'all; something enjoyable to do both simply because it is enjoyable and also because it is easy to do on low energy days, is watch YouTube videos done by people in UK who live on their canal boats.
Some samples:
Am I Isolated Living and Working on a Narrowboat?#196
May 31, 2024
Every...
Body is being difficult.
Life is being life.
In various and sundry ways.
Just shy of 84 years old Dad is in hospital 3rd time in 3 months;
June-covid.
July-stroke.
Yesterday-not discovered yet.
And his health is plenty messy to begin with.
And I can not drive the 100 miles between here and...
Just now on my Tumblr. and my 2 little treasures turned 16 and 15 this year, can ya believe it.
Yes. Up front and point blank, I hate housing insecurity.
Earlier today did lease renewal paperwork for apartment.
NOW, right here, right now, this very moment, comes a massive hit of stress and anxiety and previous decades where a loss of health led to a loss of income which led to a loss of...
Yep, I'd say that one gets it right ...
Will bet that's the kind of understanding which comes from living the experience ...