Think of the Pets
This is a depressing but important article.
I’m glad they discussed the consequences people face when not complying with evacuation orders due to not wanting to leave their pets and that it stressed the importance of having plans and provisions for evacuating and rescuing pets for the sake of not only the pets (of course) but of people who don’t want to leave their animals and the evacuation crews put at risk.
I couldn’t imagine leaving Pepper behind in an emergency. Before Nate started working from home, I’d always worry that an unforeseeable incident (like a fire in our condo building) would happen and we’d both be too far away from home to get the animals to safety.
Scary stuff.
Sports Twitter
(No, I will never call it “X”; fight me, Musky Boy)
This is why Twitter is my go-to for all sports-related content.
Let’s Be Buds
So I got some Airpod Pros (AirPods Pros? Airpods Pro? The hell do you pluralize that? Is it already plural?) as a present for myself for getting tenure.
Nobody really cares (including me), but hey…new headphones, right?
I’ve already got them a case to match my “apparently red is now my accent color” scheme.
BYE!
Thun-Dah
We had a mega storm yesterday and the freaking airport flooded but I can’t take it seriously because TRÈS GROSSE GRÊLE sounds like a badass French metal band.
Are My Teeth Made of GLASS??
So I lost a chunk of another one of my teeth this afternoon, YIPPEE!
Now I have to go to the freaking DENTIST, even though I should have already been going to the freaking DENTIST because I still need to get that bridge that I’ve been putting off since like September 2020 because I’m an adult who can handle the dentist.
(I cannot handle the dentist.)
At least it doesn’t hurt.
But ugggggggggggggh.
So I’m formatting my printed blog archives and…
…I’m currently in early- to mid-2020 and am having some pretty wild flashbacks to early Covid times. Remember how scared people were? Remember how much people cared?
Remember how we all agreed to shut down and stay home and try to eradicate this thing?
It’s weird re-living all that stuff via my blog posts. I’ve got one post in mid-March when I was sure that everything would be back to normal enough by the end of the summer so that I could still go down and visit my mom before fall semester started.
Ha.
Though as depressing as those first 1.5 years were, it’s even more depressing now because nobody takes it seriously anymore despite all the deaths, illnesses, and damage to everyone’s bodies.
Humans: the dumbest of the dumb.
Did You Know…
That the area of the in which many water-related (and few land-related) constellations are located is called “The Sea” or “The Water?” And that it is suspected that this clustering of water-themed constellations exists because the sun passed through this part of the sky (at least where Ptolemy was naming constellations) during the rainy season?
Such constellations in “The Sea” include:
- Aquarius (the water-bearer)
- Capricorn (the sea-goat)
- Cetus (the whale)
- Delphinus (the dolphin)
- Eridanus (the river)
- Hydra (the water serpent)
- Pisces (the fishes)
Cool!
It’s Migraine o’ Clock!
I know my “I had a migraine today!” blog posts aren’t the most riveting*, but I basically use this blog to record when they happen in case there ever appears to be some sort of consistent pattern to them.
As far as I know, there isn’t a consistent pattern, but you never know. The universe may surprise me one day.
OKAY THAT’S ALL
*NONE of my blog posts are riveting, let’s be real.
Paint Away!
Another watercolor! This one was hard; the watercolor palette I usually use doesn’t really have any true reds, so I had to use a different one. These colors blend soooo differently, haha.
Eight Years!
So today is our eighth wedding anniversary! A lot has happened (both personally and worldwide) since we got married in 2016, but we’re still going strong.
I love you, Nate!
Well that was an experience I didn’t need at 3 AM.
Soooooo I got pepper sprayed on my run this morning.
Inadvertently. Indirectly.
Let me explain.
So we’re still in the “go run at 2 AM because it’s too damn hot during the day” period of the summer, and that’s what I did this morning. I did my usual route on the river path towards and through Bowness. Bowness is pretty quiet that time of night (I run through there around…3:00-ish?), but I do see one or two “regulars” walking around as I’m heading toward Bowness Park.
This morning, though, there appeared to be a confrontation going on in the parking lot by the Esso station. A man and a woman were arguing very loudly. There were two guys at the bus stop next to the gas station and I heard one of them say he was going to call the cops, so I figured I would just keep running and let the cops deal with whatever was going on.
I was running on the sidewalk next to the parking lot; there was no traffic, so I ran out to the other side of the road to get as far away from the confrontation as I could (the sidewalk, conveniently, doesn’t exist on the other side of the road across from that lot. Because why would it?).
Well, apparently I didn’t get far enough away, because at that moment she must have blasted him with pepper spray or something and I ended up getting the downwind gust of it right as I ran past. Right in my eyes, right in my mouth.
My eyes immediately started tearing up big time; I produced about a gallon of snot in half a second and I could feel the sting of the spray down my throat since I was breathing hard from running.
I had to stop behind the church about half a block away and just snot out the entire contents of my sinuses for about five minutes before I could see/breathe/function again.
So let’s pause for a second. Any reasonable person, upon getting (slightly) pepper sprayed during their run, would probably stop, right? Get a taxi or bus home and take care of the damage.
But remember: I am not a reasonable person.
So I kept running.
My reasoning was that I’d get to the water fountain in Bowness Park faster than I could ever get home regardless of transportation method, and I could use the fountain to wash out my eyes/mouth/etc. The water fountain was about a mile and a half away and it actually wasn’t too bad running down there. Once I got to it, I flushed the hell out of my eyes and mouth and even washed the insides of my ears a bit. I don’t know the physics of pepper spray so I figured I’d just try to stay away from touching my shirt/running pack as much as possible in case they got anything on them that would transfer to my skin. Then I continued my run for about three more miles, turned around, and headed home.
And took a proper shower once I got there.
So yeah. Not the ideal way to start the day and interrupt a nice run, but whatevs.
At least I didn’t get point-blank blasted with it, I guess.
ISN’T SUMMER FUN?
So 30% of Jasper is gone.
https://twitter.com/JaneotN/status/1816295777016090769
https://x.com/ryanjespersen/status/1816494189338566866
(WordPress is being stupid and doesn’t want to embed those Tweets, sorry)
Man, summer used to be my favorite season. Now every year it’s “how many sever forest fires are we going to get?” and “how many days are we going to be in the 11+ air quality because of the smoke?” and “what ridiculous heat records are going to be broken this year?” and “how bad are the droughts going to be?” and “which major city will experience a water crisis?” and “WHY DID WE DO THIS TO THE PLANET?”
Fun.
zomg (lowercase title balances out all the caps lock within)
COLDPLAY IS SELLING SIGNED EDITIONS OF THEIR NEW ALBUM
BUT THEY’RE NOT SHIPPING TO CANADA SO I HAD TO PANIC-BUY IT AND SEND IT TO MY MOM IN THE STATES
BUT I’M NOT ON HER P.O. BOX SO THEY MIGHT NOT DELIVER IT TO HER
I WAS IN A COLDPLAY FOG AND NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT THAT ALLDSLHGDLHGLDFG
I JUST WANT SIGNATURES OF MY BOYZ
(Sorry, I’m hyper today)
Half Life (not the game this time, haha)
Counting today, I have now blogged for half my life.
Not half my adult life, but half of my 36-ish years of life.
That’s…pretty wild.
So from now on, I will have spent more of my life daily blogging than not.
Woo?
Olympics: Paris 2024 Edition
Y’all, that was honestly the coolest opening ceremony I can remember watching. I love how they brought all the athletes in on the boats. I loved that they had Gojira playing and had all those pyrotechnics.
Hopefully Covid won’t rip through everyone there, but…who knows.
Alpha…Wanna Bet?
So everyone’s saying how this new generation is screwed and are citing stuff like skibidi toilet and other weird-ass internet stuff that has made its way into the generational slang.
But I think y’all are forgetting the incredibly weird internet stuff that Millennials were exposed to and referenced and absorbed into offline culture.
Like…we all remember early Newgrounds and Albino Blacksheep, right?
Animutation was its own weird world.
Just sayin’.
NDP, NO
*Me on Twitter* Why is “Venn Diagrams” trending?
*explores*
(link)
Oh god.
That’s…that’s not how those work.
Can we all just agree that the end is nigh?
I am slowly losing my ability to comprehend how so many people can be in denial that the climate is changing. Not even just being in denial that there’s a human-caused component to it – just the fact that the climate is changing.
Why are people so quick to shun this idea? Why are people so quick to criticize it? Why are people so…in denial about this?
Can’t they see?
Can’t they feel?
Can’t they remember that things were not this dramatic climate- and weather-wise even just like 10 years ago?
Every time someone posts something about the extreme wet bulb temps in Dubai or the unprecedented cold in Texas or the heat dome that brutalized the Pacific Northwest in 2021 or the forest fire rampage in BC and Alberta or the fact that Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on the planet, you get idiots going “duhhhh summer is always hot” or “wildfires have always happened” or “Dubai is in the desert” or “if Texas is so cold, that means that there’s no global WARMING, right?”
Just…
WHY
IS
EVERYONE
SO
FREAKING
DELUSIONAL
It’s like we’re the frogs sitting in the pan of room temperature water where that water is slowly being brought to a boil. THE WATER IS BOILING, FROG PEOPLE, IT’S TIME TO PAY ATTENTION.
And all those people who are like “heehee I have air conditioning, I’ll be fine” or “heehee I’ll just move to a better place” or “heehee I don’t live where the problems are so I don’t care,” guess what: your money can let you live in a bubble of comfort, but only for so long.
Don’t get used to it.
New Weird Al AND an animation compilation?
WOOOOOOO
Also, I knew immediately that that first animation was made by Cyriak, haha.
Also, that WAP part is amazing, hahaha.
Petooooooonya
I PAINTED ANOTHER THING
This one’s pretty eh. I mostly did it so I could practice that fade from black to color in the center.
(And to watch more SolarBalls while I paint.)
Hahahaha what the hell is going on
Montgomery just can’t catch a break, can it?
(Source is the article linked above)
The hilarious (?) thing is that this is just one block parallel to the major water main break that just got resolved a few weeks ago. Totally different and totally unrelated, apparently, but still.
I know exactly where this is, too. I’ve been running right through that area because my usual running route was closed because of the bigger water main break.
Fun fun.
The 3 AM Run
Pros:
- No sun
- No sunscreen
- Nobody’s out on the trail
- Minimal traffic
- 18 miles done by 6 AM
- The ambient temperature is actually still decreasing until like 5:30 AM, so there’s that to look forward to rather than a constantly increasing temperature like I’d get if I left at my usual 6 AM
Cons:
- Getting up at 2 AM
- Moose encounters (namely, the heart-stopping experience of seeing a silhouette slowly emerge in your headlamp beam and realizing that it’s a big-ass moose that’s looking right at you)
- Bowness Park is pretty creepy in the pitch black
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