ohhhhhhhh my GOODNESS 901jr is being ADORABLE right now!!!
GIRL HOW ARE YOU SO FLUFFY 😭
OH COME ON
glad to see that we are all being very normal about 901jr
upcoming shopping goals: muji, topdrawer (handkerchief), sunglasses, 1-2 paperback books, a fancy soap
i got home and totally filled out my backpacking inventory spreadsheet while unpacking and was pretty pleased my base weight is like 21 pounds*. and then carrot quinn dropped her alaska guided hikes for next year and i was poking around in a daydreamy way and she wants you to have a 17 pound base weight. girl… how… (i could not carry two pounds worth of watercolors+little folding chair is maybe how)
*boyfriend carried bearcan & food and i carried all the rest of a two people sleeping/cooking/water filtration/first aid kit setup plus my clothes. we did not weigh the bearcan but i probably got the better end of the deal
so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men’s workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he’d printed.
I said “what” and he explained, helpfully, “it’s a William Carlos William themed workout.” I asked what inspired it and he said “I’ve been planning this for months.”
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.
It's weird to think about how long Undertale has existed by now and how influential it's been on contemporary indie creatives. For example, Gooseworx (Amazing Digital Circus) was originally popular for making Undertale remixes. Joel G (ENA)'s first video uploads are Undertale fan animations. Even the Deltarune guy started off making Undertale stuff
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ALTSketch dump from my time at Wayward this summer. Watercolor and brush pens and light and time.
books review from my vacation glamping in the sierras
trees in paradise: a california history, jared farmer - only read the first bit. i loved it but i had to stop because i knew reading about sequoias getting logged as i hung out in the mountains next to sequoia national forest would make me viscerally insane. hope to finish later. got to see a sequoia and observe to myself “it is broccoli-like as he described, as well as redder than a redwood”
florence lake, population 3, 1935 to 1938 - found in lounge. vanity published, badly written, FASCINATING true tale of a 26 year old man w/ 23 year old wife posted up at florence lake (manmade, elevation like 7500) to take snow level and water flow readings for cal edison THROUGH THE WINTER. they got married the day before they left for the job. the wife tries to run (ski) away back to civilization after burning a dinner and nearly dies in the snow and the husband has to wisely fetch her and remind her of the covenant they made before god. still better than being unemployed in the great depression ?
first three master and commanders, patrick o'brien - found first one in lounge, had the next several on my e-reader. liked em. cannot understand the pacing/plot structure but that seems realistic to the subject matter of puttering about at sea w/ interludes of intense violence. excited to understand memes better. i do like the guys who are friends
in her boots, kj dell'antonia - found in the lounge. archetypal chick lit. quite liked one inspirational sentence (“if you can’t be yourself when you get there, don’t go”). central deception/plot hook didn’t really work for me. i liked getting to announce “there’s a hunk” and “the hunk has been kissed” when appropriate.
crooked letter, crooked letter, tom franklin - found in lounge. perfectly serviceable southern crime novel. did kind of make me wish i was reading gillian flynn instead.
say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in northern ireland, patrick radden keefe - found in the lounge. not to minimize the real human tragedy here but what an incredible banger of a book. i know some mutuals read this. hit my line
the raven scholar, antonia hodgson - it’s like ½ fourth wing, ¼ game of thrones, smidgen of terry pratchett? but not like the thoughtful humanist terry pratchett, it’s just trying to be funny and is sometimes successful and i can’t think of a better comp? kind of like a big tasty cheese puff.
New York empties out on holidays, so this little Dachshund had Madison Avenue at 30th Street all to himself. July 4, 1958.
Photo: Associated Press via Stuff Nobody Cares About
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ALTI am not particularly content with this year’s crop of backpacking watercolors but they have a lot of extenuating circumstances including
- walked the long way in and out for the first time in a while [27 miles over three days on the way in; 22 over two days on the way out]
- walked in without my/our dad for the first time and with a newbie for the first time; de facto project manager as oldest and bossiest (the dad is fine. he went in a shorter way)
- had a little bit of a cold
- brought too good of watercolor paper and it handled paint differently
oh well!
