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Say yes to everything and always take the stairs Some sage advice from my retired parents

This is good advice

https://ev-fae.quest/say-yes-to-everything-and-always-take-the-stairs/

Snow coming down heavily and starting to stick on cars and grass

It's was 87F (28C) 24 hours ago.

@SPF I'm guessing he isn't building his Pirates collection. Nobody is that passionate about the Pirates, sadly. Ownership has ruined what was once an amazing fanbase.

It's is currently 87F (28C). The forecast calls for a slight change of snow tonight.

WTF? The predicted low is right at the freezing line, so technically possible.

I ordered new license plates, as ours are at least a dozen years old and looking terrible. For @reasons the VA DMV sent them to my old address that we left in Jan 2024, even though I've renewed my plates twice from the new place and the stickers were sent here both times.

So now I have to call […]

I discovered the YouTube channel Hot Ones tonight and I'm losing it. Watching Gordon Ramsey suffer through eating stupidly hot wings is freaking hilarious.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ttntm/116138362575960658

I did this a few years back, and updated it last year.
I did this in 2017, then updated it in 2024. So I need to add a 2025 aldum to the list now.
https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/favorite-albums-for-every-year-of-my-life.html

Natural Resources Youth Education Extension Specialist - Hybrid, Virginia, United States Job Description The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment is seeking a calendar-year, restricted, Administrative and Professional (AP) faculty member to serve as Natural Resources Youth Education Extension Specialist. This is a highly active, statewide leadership role for an energetic, organized, and results-driven professional who enjoys a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoys building programs from vision to measurable impact. The successful candidate will develop, coordinate, and deliver high-impact youth education programming focused on Virginia’s forests, wildlife, water resources, and the sustainable use and management of these natural resources. Programming will be...

Job opportunity in VA. #fedihired

https://jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/natural-resources-youth-education-extension-specialist-hybrid-virginia-united-states

After volunteering to clean up garbage at a conservation area yesterday I'm much more sympathetic to the idea of surveillance cameras trained to ID assholes who litter. WTF people.

Moe Q. McGlutch : he smoked too much : Raskin, Ellen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Moe Q. McGlutch paid no attention to the advice he received from his visiting young cousin

Book club today was bring your favorite picture book from when you were a kid.

This was mine.

Moe Q. McGlutch : he smoked too much : Raskin, Ellen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/moeqmcglutchhesm00rask/mode/1

#books

Spent the morning doing trash pickup at Dutch Gap with the Richmond Audubon Society.

I was working around the boat launch.

Boaters are pigs.

And they have terrible taste in beer. So many Natural Light cans...

Did some quality volunteer time this morning bagging oyster shells for the oyster reef restoration efforts.

My back would like to suggest that I bagged too many oyster shells.

Also learned that most male oysters start life as male, and many will transition to female as they age […]

📝 At happy hour, because the last few weeks have been brutal.

Is something up with social.lol? No images are loading for me. @adam

TIL tonight. Richmond has an Urban Forester.

The not even close to weekly update.

https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/occasional_update_26-2.html#occasional_update_26-2

@stumblewyk I watched some Spring Training baseball this weekend.

Tesla albums, ranked by Chris ODonnell on Album Whale I had to make decisions about what to include, as they have several live albums, a cover album, an acoustic album, etc.

It's a cold and rainy day. I could be productive, or I could rank Tesla's albums.

https://albumwhale.com/chris-odonnell/tesla-albums-ranked

#music #metal #heavymetal #80s #albumwhale

Today is the 39th anniversary of the day I met my wife. It was not love at first sight. She asked my friend out and when he cancelled the date the next day and set me up with her, she didn't really remember me from the previous might.

We celebrated by standing in a field trying to observe the […]

Lee Enterprises, who owns a bunch of failing newspapers in the US, got sued for unauthorized Facebook tracking. I opted into the class action lawsuit in hopes of the usual $10 payout.

I got it this week.

It's $198. I opted for the Visa gift card because I didn't want to hand my PayPal account […]

@RamenJunkie

Yep. I spent $10,000 on my 2012 Ford Edge last year, and I don't regret it at all. Beats a $600+ payment for 4 or 5 years.

@jackyan I got my Gmail account in 2004. I constantly get hotel receipts, food delivery receipts, etc. when people erroneously use my email address. It am assume it's mostly people typo'ing their email address in web forms.

Remove Your Ring Camera With a Claw Hammer Home and life improvement.

Solid advice.

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/remove-your-ring-camera-with-a-claw

Trump: the best thing I have read on him and his fans To me, below is the final thing that needs to be said. It says it all. It -mercifully- means that if anyone wants to talk about Trump, I can simply send that...

I have a filter on the president's name, so I'm going to filter myself on this share, but it is worth it. This absolutely nails it.

https://anon0.bearblog.dev/trump-the-best-thing-i-have-read-on-him-and-his-fans/

Hammock Coast Birding Festival We really need to try a warm weather birding festival.

Trip report on the Hammock Coast Birding Festival last weekend.

#birds #birding #southcarolina #travel

https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/hammock_coast_birding_festival_2026.html

My RVA Valentine's Day plans. Going to the Branch Museum of Design because my wife wants to see the Christian Siranio exhibit. Then tonight the ballet for Giselle.

Very cultured, we are.

Green winged teal sitting floating above an aquatic plant

Green-winged Teal - Huntington Beach State Park, SC.
#birds #birding

A red wolf lying in grass

A red wolf, one of only about 300 still alive on the planet. From Brookgreen Gardens in SC last week. The small zoo there is involved with the repopulation effort.

@jcrabapple TBF, butthurt racist crusades are what he was elected to do.