Deadbeat Club

We have been to Many Shopping the last couple days since getting the car back, and the day before last we saw some ducklings :D there are 2 groups of babies in this photo, one regular duck. One group was obviously the outgoing extrovert children and the other group was anxious stragglers. They were really fun to watch.



A couple yard pics ( Under here )

Some not great Ghost news (warning: illness? injury?) ( nothing gory )

Oh, ETA: in unrelated news and tonal whiplash - does anyone else use focumon? It's a focus app with a pokemon knockoff theme. If you liked habitica, same kinda thing. We should be friends if you try it! I am only on day 1, so idk if I will stick to it. It seems very complicated at first, so I'm trying to streamline it for myself. I basically only need the "focus now" bit.

Still not doing much, but last week:

Played some What Remains of Edith Finch, on switch. What a cool and pretty game! I am not very far into it.

Read several people are typing by Calvin Kasulke, been wanting to read this for ages, because it takes place in slack, and I have slack nostalgia, but I was expecting a "workplace lulz about capitalism gone awry" kind of book - which it definitely is! But it's also very Weird Existential Horror. LOL. I had no idea that was coming, but I enjoyed it a lot. The end is kind of abrupt & easy, but I still rec it. Very weird book & a very quick read (bc slack chat format). (I need more Lydia!!)

Didn't write anything!!

Still reading a ton of fic, mostly rereads but some new.

I think that's it, tbh.

updated to add:



Iphoto tells me it's a northern pearly eye. I WAS VERY BRAVE!

Kelly is home :D and to welcome him home, the car did the thing I told him it was doing, right before we were supposed to go shopping! Disastrous >:( It doesn't like to shift out of park, sometimes. Like one of those times, when I was in the drive thru, which was extremely anxiety provoking (trapped AND inconveniencing someone?? NIGHTMARE). But anyway, we put off shopping and he took it to the mechanic on his way to work yesterday morning and they were like "lol we had no idea what you meant until we tried to move the car later." :D Anyway, needs a new shift assembly. They don't have the part, so they have our car a couple days. And we have no car (but a full fridge, so it's fine, just kinda stir crazy)..

Of course, Sunny's eye immediately starts watering. Just clear, no conjunctivitis, but what's with that, Sunny?? I start panicking because our vet is 40 minutes away because I hate change. Anyway, seems resolved today. She slept by my head purring like a machine, which only worried me more, lol.

And then yesterday the AC broke! HAHA 🫠 it's getting pretty sticky here. The dog and cat are into it, though. We are mid-heatwave and it is melting my entire insides. An upside: I have ice cream cones!! Idk how, bc ice cream is already so great, but cones really do make it 300% better. Appt for the AC to be looked at tomorrow morning (hopefully)

Some crow pics ( 4 of em )

It looks like he's missing a couple feathers - you can see the down poking out. There was a whole tree full of crows yelling about something (no hawk that I could see, but man, I looked!) and this guy was the straggler who stuck around a little longer.