Kaburi, Exuberant Explorer

The Rocky Mountain Butter Divide was the weirdest thing about living in Seattle, which is saying something.

(For those who don't play Mewgenics, you don't get to name the cats. They come with pre-generated names.)

This familiar fella showed up in my Mewgenics run this morning, which is how I knew it was going to be a good run.

(Did I mention my back property line is the Framingham/Sudbury town line, and that Sudbury is one of *those* New England Bougie Suburbs?)

(Adorable downtown, though. Lots of cute shops. My second favorite Starbucks and my favorite Dunkin.)

Y'all it is 72 and sunny and I just sat on my deck and read for an hour while Zelda tried to figure out where the weird noises were coming from.

(The day school/farm behind the house apparently got a rooster since last we went outside together, and boy is he excited about the warm weather.)

(See also "Emrakul on Innistrad" which, like with Azor, I was on the wrong side of)

I did not realize until this was already posted that I was pointing a giant red arrow at Ral and Jace's respective crotches.

an overlay of the "Orzhov Ral Zarek" art by Billy Christian from DailyMTG's first Strixhaven story with an inset of Jace's clothing cropped from the Spark Double art by Eric Deschamps, with red circles highlighting the use of the Silverquill sigil on "Ral"'s costuming to echo Jace's recurring sigil

It's "Azor on Ixalan" all over again, only this time I'm on the side of the conspiracy...

A freshman girl my sophomore year (when my friend's fiancee was RA for the freshman dorm) smuggled a baby chick in and kept it as a secret pet until it hit puberty and started crowing at sunrise every morning.

Needless to say they revised the dorm pets policy to "no fur, no feathers".

Anyway I'm wearing shorts on my Trader Joe's run because I need to feel things.

The migraine-inducing dissonance of it being 64 F out with snow on the ground is one of those fucked up New England realities I will never adjust to.

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."

--Ian Flemming, "Goldfinger"

Current Theory: "Professor Zarek" is Jace.

I am dangerously obsessed with Trader Joe's Fish Nuggets.

They had strawberries on sale this week so I'm going to have berries and pound cake tomorrow. 🤤

Also baked another one of my mom's pound cakes (this one for me)

Pasta with lemon, dill, capers, and bay scallops

I wasn't as excited about this one anyway because they don't have a wet lab. All the actual chemistry is outsourced to external contractors, and I'm very much a lab goblin.

Yes, I'm a world-class expert in peptide drug molecular design and optimization, but I like doing my own syntheses.

Every morning when I look out at my still snow-covered lawn I think "this is why Stephen King is how he is".

Well, I did not get the job. They had positive feedback: my expertise is impressive but it doesn't align with their needs right now, however they will keep in contact as they continue to grow their team.

Well that was a fun night full of nightmares about exorcising demons, being trapped in a twisted Disney sitcom, and being a very confused boy scout constantly disappointing my father.

(Three separate nightmares, with brief awakenings between.)

I bought groceries today out of boredom.

What language is he speaking here?

The last time a government fucked with Boston's beverages we started a revolution.

So happy for you!!!

Third day in a row I've had job interviews this week and I have officially hit my limit on human interaction.

You know, I expect this sort of thing on my furry alt, not so much on main.

It's gonna be great for 2-24" of fresh snow. Not quite as good with stuff that's been through a month of freeze-thaw.

Unfortunately the places he ran off the drive turned to ice so the snow blower can't quite cut it, but I did clear off the section in front of the second garage door just to learn how the blower works.