moments

moments here and there - sort of patches of sunlight sneaking through the cloud cover to light up the landscape for a few minutes.

mostly gray

I want to re-read The Starship & the Canoe but it is kind of hard to find and not in the digital library - haven't looked for print copies there yet. I read it in high school and parts of it stick with me. Also this one too Baidarka.  I have both in print, hopefully still at home, perhaps one of my brother's read them and they've moved on to another pile of books. Neither are in the shelves that I've hauled around with me. Def going to be looking for them when I head home in December.

Project Orion also looks like a good read too.

This hit home too. Russ shared it on twitter - was good or not good to read. thoughtful and relateable indeed.

Peter's helmet article also very solid. I can't find fault in it other than the red meat bullshit.

I need to head home, grab groceries on the way home. at least enough stuff to supplement what little is left for cooking. never made it to the grocery this weekend, busy doing other stuff.

Non-stop. Lost a vacation day. oh well. doesn't matter.

Halloween was. headed to one of the close friends of the youngest - everyone was drinking, I turned down a pile of beers, easy, no pressure, no problem. Felt right. No longing. Almost at revulsion level now. Esp smelling beer on other people. My how the tables have turned. And that's a good thing, but it will still take a long time for it to be normal for me and for it to not be constantly part of my thought process. something like that gets ingrained and not easy to change.

well, i'm writing instead of leaving to go shopping.

best cut that shit out so dinner is ready before 9pm...

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