Sometimes I’ll see a whole flock of coots at this pond, sometimes a handful. Today I only saw one.
Large White-headed Gulls
Rufous, Allen’s, and Allied Hummingbirds
Kid is issuing a constant stream of complaints about how much he hates the game …
Kid is issuing a constant stream of complaints about how much he hates the game that he insisted on playing.
I saw several monarch butterflies at the botanic gardens up in the hills yesterday
I saw several monarch butterflies at the botanic gardens up in the hills yesterday, but no more than about three at a time. Numbers have dropped drastically over the last few years.
#photo #butterfly #MonarchButterfly #nature
Western Honey Bee (on white flowers)
California Towhee (pecking at the ground)
Black Phoebe
Kid: “My own bananas are sabotaging me!”
Kid: “My own bananas are sabotaging me!”
Kid’s friend catchup (+/-)
The computer repairs were mostly morning. Midday was friend drama. Former neighbors, whose kid used to play with ours (and still does, just online now), came by to visit the relatives who took over their lease when they moved last year. Kids were playing, catching up, wanted to ride bikes (ours fixed up his old bike, which we never got around to finding a home for when he outgrew it), but of course they didn’t bring a helmet, and he was NOT happy when they had to go
Kid just rererred to Minecraft Dungeons as “McDungeons” 😂
Kid just rererred to Minecraft Dungeons as “McDungeons” 😂
Got out for a bike ride with the kid today & he wanted to stop at a local smoothie place.
Got out for a bike ride with the kid today & he wanted to stop at a local smoothie place. We sat outside and drank the smoothies. (Hard to take them home on a bike.) Closest thing I’ve done to eating in a restaurant in ~15 months.
It wasn’t as weird as a couple months ago when I grabbed coffee and a muffin and ate outside at a planter (not in front of the coffee place). Probably because that was the first time I’d eaten away from home *at all* in a year.
Kid had a good day at school today. (This is rare.) Coffee seems to have helped!
Kid had a good day at school today. (This is rare.) Coffee seems to have helped!
Ugh…my home computer clearly needs some hardware help.
Ugh…my home computer clearly needs some hardware help. No Man’s Sky isn’t the only game causing it to shut down under load.
I guess it’s time to figure out whether the power supply needs to be replaced or I just need to blast a couple year’s worth of dust bunnies off of the CPU fan.
Actually it can’t be that long, I replaced the graphics card last summer just before the chip shortage started driving prices sky-high (damn that was lucky timing), and I’m sure I would have cleaned it out at the time.
Not a claw, though it looks remarkably like one.
Not a claw, though it looks remarkably like one. It’s a chunk of iceplant partly buried in the sand.
#photo #blackandwhite #sand #plants
Kid keeps putting on Toccata and Fugue and turning the volume…down.
Kid keeps putting on Toccata and Fugue and turning the volume…down.
#TheFlash vs. the atomic banana peel.Apparently from Justice League of America #154, May 1978. …
#TheFlash vs. the atomic banana peel.
Apparently from Justice League of America #154, May 1978. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that bronze-age #comics could be as goofy as the silver-age ones.
I actually miss degaussing monitors.
In response to a comment about obsolete computer advice
I actually miss degaussing monitors.
covid-adjacent, mailing lists
The insurance company sent the kid a card reminding him it’s important to get the covid-19 vaccine.
Even though they know he’s not old enough.
I figure it’s probably a right hand/left hand thing, where the insurance side gave the outreach side a list without filtering by eligibility, and the outreach side can’t access it for privacy reasons.
