Today holds visits to both of Minnesota's senators offices in order to convince them that the farm bill subsidies of corn, rice, wheat, soybeans, and cotton need to be discontinued. I'm more than a bit nervous about this, as I had not been as active in the campaign as I had planned. I have no idea what to even say to these senators. "Hi. I don't ( Read more... )

30-ish hours until kittenbeer; is in the same state as me!

Skymaps, to help you locate the constellations in their positions each month.

Earth & Sky, to give you things to look for in the sky. Also, podcasts and things.

Farmer's Almanac, for random bits of information, like when the next meteor shower will be or what time the sun sets and what moon phase it is.

the middle prong thing broke out of the power charger thing for my computer. this makes charging sort of an acrobatic feat that requires precision placement and absolute stillness once the position is found that allows charging ( Read more... )

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The farm that Harveytchainsaw and I get vegetables from each week was flooded in August with this massive succession of rainstorms that followed the severe-t-extreme drought that was plaguing us in Minnesota. Floooded with like 17 inches of rain, and I'm not even joking. They're still trying to figure out where to go from here, how to recover from a loss to the ( Read more... )

You know how people often wish "there were more hours in a day"? Well, I wish there was one more day per week, in which I'd actually get a day off to take care of everything that gets pushed to "the next week" and then never done. Like hanging up pictures, organizing a massive box of paper/mail/whatever, and all that nonsense. An extra day every ( Read more... )

I'm wandering around the hospital waiting for a friend to get out of surgery so I can take her loopy anesthesia-ass home and what do I see? An early 20s man in a wheelchair with a system who's playing some very triple-X rated rap very loudly. His speakers were about a thousand times more awesome than the ones in my car. Although his were duct taped ( Read more... )

I am supposed to be sleeping now, in preparation of my next shift in another two hours. But I am not, as it's pretty much impossible to take an hour long nap at 8pm. I was going to attempt this nap at about 5pm, however, after an afternoon of lazy and cuddling and food prep, I ended up cooking and eating instead. As well as interneting, which has ( Read more... )

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