1. Tacked a few days before a wedding to visit burlington, vermont for a day (lovely) and stay in a lake house on upper saranac lake (pictured, also lovely) for a two

    upper saranac lake, 150 aqi, a small sail boat named "She Troll" anchored in the right foreground
    Figure 1. upper saranac lake, 150 aqi, a small sail boat named "She Troll" anchored in the right foreground.
    a lake house on upper saranac lake, side view, flower gardens surround the path to the porch, lane in the bottom right
    Figure 2. a lake house on upper saranac lake, side view, flower gardens surround the path to the porch, lane in the bottom right.
    a map of the north east coast of north america including washington dc, new york, boston,  toronto, and montreal, a blue dot near the center indicating about where we stayed
    Figure 3. a map of the north east coast of north america including washington dc, new york, boston, toronto, and montreal, a blue dot near the center indicating about where we stayed.
    peony
    Figure 4. peony.
    idk, a kind of lily?
    Figure 5. idk, a kind of lily?
    pink flowers, idk what kind!
    Figure 6. pink flowers, idk what kind!
    daisies?
    Figure 7. daisies?
  2. preschool drop off

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a six and a quarter mile (10 and a quarter kilometer) e-bike ride is indicated. About 223 feet (68 meters) elevation over three quarters of an hour, (half an hour moving).
  3. Had to “Draw a bunny" for a work training thing and there weren’t any rules so I printed someone else’s garfield sonic chimera, placed the paper out over my ipad, and used an apple pencil to trace their illustration into a notes.app note.

    nothing about this is mine except for the ears, tail, and color

    a garfield-sonic-bunny illustration bastardization I lined in apple notes over another artists’s illustartion with garfield’s legs, crossed arms, head, and stripes, Sonic’s spikes and shoes, and (my only additions) a rabbits ears and tail, watercolored with gray fur and carrot-orange shoes
    Figure 1. a garfield-sonic-bunny illustration bastardization I lined in apple notes over another artists’s illustartion with garfield’s legs, crossed arms, head, and stripes, Sonic’s spikes and shoes, and (my only additions) a rabbits ears and tail, watercolored with gray fur and carrot-orange shoes.

    previously https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109888018102369079

  4. Content warning: cw #sfbike

    People double park in the center turn lane between chavez and 22n on Sundays mostly, to go to https://realitysf.com or when the lot overflows at the https://www.driscollsmortuary.com

    afaik there is no legitimate other reason for the center lane to even exist. Lefts from Valencia are not causing traffic jams like lefts off of east bound Cesar Chavez do

    Given they can just as easily double park on the new death-lane, why didn’t the city extend the death-lane to Mission??

    #sfbike

    the center lane should instead be an overhead-wire trolly (modern or historical, w/e) that just bounces between mission and market all day long, back and forth, back and forth. I wonder what the headways would be with such a short route and where the shunting or passing spots might fit?

  5. I had to buy a new suit to wear to friend’s wedding because I’ve been [smug pause] working out often enough that my size 40 jacket doesn’t fit anymore. turns out i’m a 42 now.

  6. Extremely bored with our neo-gilded age and the affairs of our aristocrats. nonsense.

  7. Fourteen: Greg Egan again, “Luminous”. It is out of print, but available self published by the author. The stories from just after those in Axiomatic (previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083),

    Some fun stuff, although I would have liked it a lot more had I read it contemporaneously, when I was in my own more annoying atheist phase.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156782.Luminous?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=oFOAcY8oac&rank=1.

    the cover of Egan’s self-published edition from 2022, as I read it, a mostly white cover with a star burst illustration in the center in tints and shades of orange, title in author’s name in all-caps san serif red
    Figure 3. the cover of Egan’s self-published edition from 2022, as I read it, a mostly white cover with a star burst illustration in the center in tints and shades of orange, title in author’s name in all-caps san serif red.
  8. Threading “Black Water 2” stories w/ the “Black Water” stories

    "The Phoenix” by Sylvia Townsend Warner

    https://www.poeticous.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/the-phoenix-many-authorities-on-bird-life-had-assured-lord-strawberry-t

  9. Zz of unstoppable force

    side view of the top eight inches of a heavy zz plant bud finally opening after being all weird for a month
    Figure 1. side view of the top eight inches of a heavy zz plant bud finally opening after being all weird for a month.
    top down view of the unfurling leaves of a heavy zz plant bud finally opening after being all weird for a month
    Figure 2. top down view of the unfurling leaves of a heavy zz plant bud finally opening after being all weird for a month.

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