Red Mosquito

daft twat wrote:Went to a retirement party last night for a teacher who was probably the best teacher in my school for 40 years. I’ve been at this school for 21 of those years. It felt like A Christmas Carol. Pretty much everyone who retired or left in the past 10-15 years was there, and while they all aged as you’d expect, it was a trip just seeing them and remembering what our school was like when they were there or where I was in my life when they were a regular part of it. I do not like big social gatherings, but last night was pretty great. I still left early, obviously, but I enjoyed myself and was happy to see so many people doing well.

Peeps wrote:

daft twat wrote:Went to a retirement party last night for a teacher who was probably the best teacher in my school for 40 years. I’ve been at this school for 21 of those years. It felt like A Christmas Carol. Pretty much everyone who retired or left in the past 10-15 years was there, and while they all aged as you’d expect, it was a trip just seeing them and remembering what our school was like when they were there or where I was in my life when they were a regular part of it. I do not like big social gatherings, but last night was pretty great. I still left early, obviously, but I enjoyed myself and was happy to see so many people doing well.

is this the same school you went to as a youngster?

96583UP wrote:bike ride this morning

listened to No Code

i love that album on headphones

took a little swim

enjoying the sunshine

some new kind of finch appears to have arrived in my yard

maybe there is an app i can use to ID

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

wease wrote:Two weekends ago, the drive belt broke on the riding mower. I have neither the skill to fix it myself nor have had the time to take it to a repair person since then. I got 90% of the front done that day but none of the back so it’s been roughly a month since the back was done. I’m about 70% complete right now with the push mower and have already drained 2 of my 3 batteries. I think I’ll have enough juice to finish, but it’ll be close. Then the weedeating. I have 2 new batteries and 2 old shitty batteries. We’ll see if I can at least get the back finished today.

I tried to start before it got super hot but it was already 80 degrees by 8:00 this morning. It’s a hot motherfucker out there, team.

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:Get thee to the repair shop. Although work/life balance is so fricking unbalanced. To really do the balance well is impossible sometimes. F!ck those self help gurus, and their lies.

At least take a hot minute to enjoy your surroundings wease? Whatever you do for a moments peace? A beer. Swim, fishing, hiking, boating, video games, whatever.

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:Two weekends ago, the drive belt broke on the riding mower. I have neither the skill to fix it myself nor have had the time to take it to a repair person since then. I got 90% of the front done that day but none of the back so it’s been roughly a month since the back was done. I’m about 70% complete right now with the push mower and have already drained 2 of my 3 batteries. I think I’ll have enough juice to finish, but it’ll be close. Then the weedeating. I have 2 new batteries and 2 old shitty batteries. We’ll see if I can at least get the back finished today.

I tried to start before it got super hot but it was already 80 degrees by 8:00 this morning. It’s a hot motherfucker out there, team.

hydrate!

wease wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:Two weekends ago, the drive belt broke on the riding mower. I have neither the skill to fix it myself nor have had the time to take it to a repair person since then. I got 90% of the front done that day but none of the back so it’s been roughly a month since the back was done. I’m about 70% complete right now with the push mower and have already drained 2 of my 3 batteries. I think I’ll have enough juice to finish, but it’ll be close. Then the weedeating. I have 2 new batteries and 2 old shitty batteries. We’ll see if I can at least get the back finished today.

I tried to start before it got super hot but it was already 80 degrees by 8:00 this morning. It’s a hot motherfucker out there, team.

hydrate!

You better believe it.

Battery #3 lasted longer than expected so I got to finish what I couldn’t get to last time plus a little extra. So I only have about 2/3 left in the front for tomorrow. Decided not to weedeat so will do what I can on that tomorrow. I’m fucking beat.

How’d the race go?

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:Two weekends ago, the drive belt broke on the riding mower. I have neither the skill to fix it myself nor have had the time to take it to a repair person since then. I got 90% of the front done that day but none of the back so it’s been roughly a month since the back was done. I’m about 70% complete right now with the push mower and have already drained 2 of my 3 batteries. I think I’ll have enough juice to finish, but it’ll be close. Then the weedeating. I have 2 new batteries and 2 old shitty batteries. We’ll see if I can at least get the back finished today.

I tried to start before it got super hot but it was already 80 degrees by 8:00 this morning. It’s a hot motherfucker out there, team.

hydrate!

You better believe it.

Battery #3 lasted longer than expected so I got to finish what I couldn’t get to last time plus a little extra. So I only have about 2/3 left in the front for tomorrow. Decided not to weedeat so will do what I can on that tomorrow. I’m fucking beat.

How’d the race go?

Not the worst. I was slower than normal. But I expected that given the circumstances. It was fun though and I'm fucking beat! I'm operating on like 4 hours sleep right now, and I'm at work until 9!

Glad you didn't die in the heat! Nice job, my man. You've earned a breather.

wease wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:Two weekends ago, the drive belt broke on the riding mower. I have neither the skill to fix it myself nor have had the time to take it to a repair person since then. I got 90% of the front done that day but none of the back so it’s been roughly a month since the back was done. I’m about 70% complete right now with the push mower and have already drained 2 of my 3 batteries. I think I’ll have enough juice to finish, but it’ll be close. Then the weedeating. I have 2 new batteries and 2 old shitty batteries. We’ll see if I can at least get the back finished today.

I tried to start before it got super hot but it was already 80 degrees by 8:00 this morning. It’s a hot motherfucker out there, team.

hydrate!

You better believe it.

Battery #3 lasted longer than expected so I got to finish what I couldn’t get to last time plus a little extra. So I only have about 2/3 left in the front for tomorrow. Decided not to weedeat so will do what I can on that tomorrow. I’m fucking beat.

How’d the race go?

Not the worst. I was slower than normal. But I expected that given the circumstances. It was fun though and I'm fucking beat! I'm operating on like 4 hours sleep right now, and I'm at work until 9!

Glad you didn't die in the heat! Nice job, my man. You've earned a breather.

You too. Call me at 9 and we’ll rest together.