Ok. Padma does have one flaw:she marks the drinking end of straws. Considering I periodically have to clean the brown gunky residue she leaves behind on wall corners, I do not love this.

Once again I try to help Sweetie, once again she makes sure I know it’s torture. She got some damage in this time. Hoping the spray antiseptic I have is sufficient. Sweetie: I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DORK. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?

Hair stylist asked if I thought my hair was getting curlier and I said idk, but if you think so when you don’t see me every day, then it probably is? (I guess as a function of age/hormone shifts? Idk.)

Elementary backstroke pros: easy! fun! smooth! faster than you think! EB cons: your hands are never above your head; faster than you think; fairly painful when you smack into the side of the pool. Ow.

For a change of pace, today I’ll see if I can both repeat “chicken airplane solider” and do the movements that make up the elementary backstroke while going one direction and try out sidestroke going the other. All thanks to non-social-media friend who swam in high school and maybe college too?

Did my chores before my hair cut intending to get swimming as soon as I got back from haircut/errands. Then I was hit with a wave of Don’t Wannas. So I went to start my shower and was in my suit & grabbing sunscreen before it registered. Yay for rote habits & extreme absentmindedness.

A piece of Big Curly broke off on Monday so, in line with instructions for propagation of orchid cactuses, I just left it to sit for a while bc they do better if they callus 1st. This morning, I saw that roots had already started to show! They’re the pale blur on the bottom left in the image below.

Reminder that when House members like Chuck Edwards leave, the Ethics Committee just packs up their investigation and puts it away and we don't know all that happened. Its an accountability dodge and Ethics should required to release what it has

This happened Monday and the video is pretty amazing: weartv.com/news/local/2...

21-year-old pilot who landed plane on Pensacola highway credits training for safe landing

We now know the pilot of the small plane that made an emergency landing Monday morning on I-10 east in Pensacola.

weartv.com

This Bombing of Pan Am 103 show uses a lot of real footage including comments from Thatcher right after the bombing before they knew much. And she, a genuine villain, is capable of feeling and expressing real empathy and horror. It’s always jarring to be reminded how aberrant Trump is.

Taking a break to check out an episode of the Netflix series on the Pan Am bombing, mostly if I’m honest, just to hear some Scottish accents.

Cadaver King has a good structure. The first few chapters tell a pair of harrowing stories so the step back into the history of forensic investigations & coroners, none of which I knew before an hour ago, is a relief and also fascinating.

Legumes, pulses and fruit OTOH sometimes are satisfying and sometimes don’t leave me daydreaming about more food immediately. Which makes them superior to p much every other thing out there for me.

Pet peeve about all these keto/paleo/carnivore/similar diets: they always say “oh meat fills you up so you don’t eat as much” and let me tell you something: NOT FOR EVERYBODY IT DOESN’T. I’ve tried those stupid things & I always ate as many or more calories nor was I ever satisfied but I spent more.

It’s a little worrying how useful Find Devices is when the device in question hasn’t left the inside of the house bc I haven’t done so since I put it down. Phones are as good as cats at disappearing while simultaneously being in plain sight.

Idk. Maybe Trump can keep up the market juicing for the next two years. Stock traders seem quite happy to accept whatever bullshit he says even though there’s never any evidence it’s any truer this time than the last eleventy billion times. And how often can the Fed keep on propping up t-bills?

14 minutes into the Cadaver King and I exclaimed my first “well that’s fucked up” about a now county library building that used to be a jail & execution location and still has some of the gear for that. FFS.

Ok. Heard back on Sweetie. Gonna try the prednisolone daily for “a few days” which I choose to interpret as 5 days and the sleeveless onesie comes tomorrow. Worst case scenario in the short term is she has to go back for a 3rd antibiotic injection. But maybe if the onesie works out, we can skip that

Babylon, South Dakota by Tom Lin was so beautiful a book that I think I need to wait just a little while before starting the next fiction. So maybe I’ll listen to the beginning of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by @radleybalko.bsky.social and Tucker Carrington.

Not the picture I’d intended, but this squirrel gazing in seeming amazement at the top of the kitchen windows is cute.

And now the dining room is vacuumed and the kitchen vacuumed and mopped. Just need to get back to the bathrooms, shower and I will feel justified in having lunch. (Which I want already and have for like the last 40 minutes)

Not sure what got into me, but I not only vacuumed the bathroom floors, but washed them w/a sponge & vinegar water. Only one problem: they’re still not dry after half hour & all the cleaning cloths Id use to dry a path thru are on the other side of the wet floor. Oops.

Watching Wind River, a 2017 film by Taylor Sheridan. Like Sicario, it’s beautiful to look at, well written, well acted, and deeply conservative in orientation.

Incoming Green Heron, on a mission for tiny fish and tadpoles.

Going to have to read about Chuck Edwards, the latest inappropriate-sexual-relationship member of Congress and I do not want to. Gonna be so gross and tawdry. And meanwhile, Cory Mills is just hanging out with leadership support. Hmph.

I guess I might as well take it the rest of the way off of her. A+ for effort to retain the ability to groom her own skin into inflamed infection. Sigh.

OMG Sweetie’s on the ottoman. Almost 3 years and I don’t think she’s ever sat here before. She also gave Padma a friendly nose sniff. She must be even more miserable in the onesie than she seems. (But her belly is so inflamed; I think she’s got to stay in it)

After my lunch, I peeked into the sunroom where Sweetie had relocated and been extremely quiet to see that she had been busy. One front paw was out of the onesie & she was making progress on the 2nd. I had already ordered a sleeveless one & I think that was an extra good idea now.

Ok. Trying beans on the stovetop again as opposed to crockpot. Got ‘em on low & covered. 🤞 I don’t burn them. Again. Assuming they come out ok, I’ll make us a sausage to go with and maybe some Parmesan too?

Sweetie: I am forsaken and I will have vengeance.