rambling How Does Your Garden Grow? My hands hurt today. Achy breaky joints... I knew they would. We did a lot of yard work yesterday. Planted our spring bulbs, did some cleanup, spread some good dirt. The challenge is that the land under our house is clay. When I dig far enough to plant a bulb
rambling Everybody Do the Propaganda... I almost feel like I should tag this one as fiction. It's really crazy making to watch the president lie about what is happening in your city and not see immediate pushback from the media he is talking to. Supposedly Portland is war ravaged. We are burning. We
rambling Entertainment? On Monday's The Daily Show Jon Stewart interviewed Tristan Harris about AI. It was really disturbing. I mean, I recommend the watch, it's very informative but it's also really depressing. Brent and I both agreed that we wouldn't be following Mr. Harris&
rambling Court Is In Session... Well here we go again. Another round of Inferior Court decisions are about to be made. I just read a book about how this entire court runs on vibes instead of the law. I don't really recommend the book because her style of writing was (again probably a
rambling Hairy Situation... I know this is going to come as a shock to all of you but...I'm very vain about my hair. Okay, so from the laughter I'm guessing it's not a shock at all. Yes, if you've known me for any time
rambling I'm Positive... I've mentioned before that I added a Positive book to my yearly "stuff I do" this year. It was part of my theme for the year (instead of goals, though I mean, I have goals too) I wanted to be the very best version of me
rambling Wake Me Up... and call me Billie Joe Armstrong because September is ending. It was a status quo month. That's the best way to describe it. Maybe I was napping along with Mr. Armstrong afterall. That cold I wrote about Brent having at the end of August turned out to be
rambling Yes or No? So in my search for conversation topics to use for nonfiction (aka rambling) blogs I ended up on 275 Yes or No Questions to Break the Ice! Which, come on, yes or no questions don't really break the ice. A yes or no answer doesn't really
rambling Happy New Year! I have talked before about how I tend to want to start new things or set new goals in August and September, how it's actually weird to me to do it in January but I do because that's when everyone else is so there are all
rambling Excuse Me... I was listening to a podcast this morning (How to Do Everything) where someone wanted to learn how to burp. They couldn't burp. Never burped. The most they did was make this kind of gurgle noise. So it spun off into an exploration on if this was normal,
rambling Beyond Slippery... Yesterday ABC put Jimmy Kimmel on "indefinite hiatus" which is firing him without saying fired because of contracts. You'll see a lot of headlines about ABC firing him over what he said, but that's not accurate. They fired him because the head of the
rambling Again... There was an opinion piece yesterday about why Gen Z isn't mourning Charlie Kirk. Which is a nonsense take. A lot of Gen Z is completely distraught over it. He was if not the main reason at least one of the largest motivating forces behind getting Gen Z
rambling Unexpected Nostalgia... I've been listening to Levar Burton Reads while I work out. I used to listen on the treadmill at the gym. When we stopped going to the gym in March of 2020 I stopped listening. And when we got the home treadmill it has a program with it
rambling Pop Culture... I'm going to talk about a couple of movies and a couple of books so if you haven't seen the new Superman or Thunderbolts* or read the books Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle or Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton and want to spoiler free you need
rambling But at what Cost? I've been thinking a lot about Gen Z. Specifically the kids that graduated high school in 2020 and 2021. They lost their junior and senior years to COVID. Had to homeschool missing out on all of that end of high school stuff. Homecomings and proms and year book
rambling That's the Difference... When I was a teenager our high school got a recognition from The White House for our diversity. Yes, diversity was a good thing. Under the Reagan administration. Which was at one point in time the pinnacle of republicanhood. Man, it was a simpler world back then. (It wasn'
rambling Here We Go Again... COVID has once again come to the Mastenbrook house. Uninvited. Unwanted. What a pain in the ass. Intel in all its wisdom decided that everyone should come back to the office full time. As we live 5 minutes away from the campus where Brent works he's been easing
rambling No Intentions... I'm flying blind today. Or two thirds blind anyway. Okay, maybe not. Normally on the last day of the month I set my intentions for the next month. I know, it sounds sort of self help bookshelf 101 but I still do it. I actually set them in
rambling The Fall of August... We made it! Another August in the books! As far as Augusts go it wasn't the worst August to ever August so I'll take it. Reading...I picked up the pace a bit after reading that massive King tome last month. Eight books total, two nonfiction.
rambling The Loss of Time... I wish I could remember where I saw it so I could give credit but... A year or so ago there was a "What did no one warn you about getting older that you wish they had?" posts. The answers ranged from funny to deep to just really
rambling Distr...Ummm... Okay, so I have no idea what the title of this piece was going to be. See I sat down to write because I really need to write somethings to close out the month but I got a notice about our Google storage that's maxing out so I
rambling Resend of Previous Post... (I'm trying to change the title to see if that corrects the error, sorry for the multiple copies!) I do a lot of my shopping online. I also don't use Amazon if I can help it so it's all done by individual companies. Which
rambling The Adult in the Room... Yesterday I kept repeating to myself, I'm 57. All day long. I'm 57. I'd look in the mirror. Fifty. Seven. For whatever reason this age is a hard one to wrap my head around. It's not like I'm horrified that
rambling Oh Good Heavens... The girl is 57... This is what I wrote in last year's birthday blog: "What do I want from the coming year? I want to be healthy. I want to be happy. I want to stay centered and calm during the coming political storm. I want my
rambling Terms and Definitions... Not quite terms and conditions, but sort of? So it's been just over a year since I got my ADD diagnosis. As most of you know I didn't do anything with it. I decided against medication for a few reasons. One, at the time, it was