Plumb cobbler

b1-66er: "An estimated $9 billion in global trade was delayed EACH DAY until the ship was dislodged."

(my caps)

D4rw1n: Unfathomable

Anticipating pits

D4rw1n: <big>

Cherries in peak bloom here 

b1-67er: <little>

Great! Mine too!

D4: That is gorgeous

b1-66er: Truly is.

The attention and perseverance is really beginning to shine through en tus arboles.

67: Perseverance is really rewarded in bonsai. Mistakes often turn into features in the long haul. Also time sort of smooths out styling errors.  Mediocre styled trees can become great trees with enough age.

Or maybe you just convince yourself they are great after staring at them for twenty years.

We built this tenement on mock and vole

b1-66er: "Why does the Starship keep EXPLODING?"

(Their caps)

Special K: Because they built this city on rock and roll!

b1-66er: Don't make me start ANOTHER blog

K-DREX

K: Knee-deep in the hoopla.¹

¹ The editorial committee has never been so torn in its decision to include this line. Such is the environment of 21st century publishing on a 20th century mechanism. As always, we decided to lean toward the "stupid."

San Antonio sunset

© Former Flyer

(posted by permission)

The scream-yourself-to-death shot

b1-66er: Vaccine today.

I'm the tiniest tiniest bit nervous about it.

Special K: Understandable. Can you identify why?

b1: 1. It's out in public, which I don't do. If you're in Scorpion Manor, you don't get Cv.

K: 1. Yeah. At our vax site, I was around more people than I'd been around in a year. 

b1: 2. There's the SMALL chance I could react to the vaccine (if I don't jab chemicals into my body, nothing happens -- I've proven that EVERYDAY for YEARS ... and you better believe they haven't cross tested it with obscure MS oral meds).

K: Yes.

b1: 3. It means I'm going to have to actually quit acting like an expert on every goddamn thing and live a real life...

K: You're good at that.

b1: {was good at it, mmmmaaaayyybe.}

... So:

Get a passport and license plates and fix the kitchen floor and arrange to see my mom and rebalance my retirement accounts and learn a foreign language and start gathering my writing and begin more seriously reading and get the exercise bike fixed and figure out why I'm leaning so heavily to the right when I'm walking on my cane and go to the dentist to repair the two chipped teeth and set up an appointment with my GP.

All this giving me less time to meditate and clear my mind.

That kinda stuff.

K: Oh yeah. I definitely hear you on all that kind of stuff.

Put your plug where your conscience is

b1-66er: From Special K--

"VW to plug electric car shift with new name: Voltswagen"

Suttonhoo: The Economist thinks VW may have it over Tesla, which is interesting

And all because they're monumental liars and had to promise to spend money on sustainable tech

I hate them and I really want that new electric SUV, goddammit

...Nothing to lose and nothing to prove...

K-pi: Blixi, my ex-half sister, posted this pic of her and Billy Idol back in the day...

b1-66er: Super great.

You better believe Billy wasn't dancing with himself THAT night.

pi: Oh-oh-uhoh!