This week I finished the 18 Vivillon challenge through Pokemon Go. An endangered sperm whale washed up by the shipwreck at Iredale — one of many whales washing up on shores last week for unknown reasons… — I started a tray of tomato plants inside and installed a grow light in the shop to take care of them if they sprout — and my new Macintosh computer arrived. And EGGS.
Poor whale, a 20ft long juvenile endangered sperm whale. They were quick on the draw to get the teeth and ambergris — for research of course. *wink* This kept the beach very busy as it made national news and everyone local showed up to see for themselves.
One tray is tomatoes, the other herbs and flowers. In a warm indoor spot until germination is acheived then they’ll go under the grow light outside in the shop.
I guess I bought a grow light commonly used for uh…certain plants that fetch a higher price then my tomatoes. Seems to be a good one though. I bought this in 2019 and just now hooked it up. I figured there would be global shortages and growing my own food would be in the future… but uh….well, I finally got around to it. “Had this been a real emergency, you would be dead.” It’s not like I can grow enough produce to survive anyway. Meh.
Next week I’ll be at my art desk on the mac. woot. After being so ill, I thought maybe my backup plan should be to write / work at my desk again and maybe let some of the other stuff go.
Health: I had a sinus infection, ear infection, bladder infection, GI infection…and uh yeah, it’s all inflammation you know, it’s all bullshit. I passed the rest of the blockage which was phenomenally odd and full of blood. It hurt quite a lot afterwards, sharp terrible pains and I ran a fever, but it has generally improved. Everything seems less inflamed today and infections are receding, my mind is a little sharper.
If I didn’t have the worlds very best family – fun, funny, supportive, and lacking drama, I thought a couple of times this week — f-this. I’m not going to be running a single step. I’m done. I’m just going to cash in, I can’t do this anymore.
I have been eating vegetarian and mostly starch. Last night I had a sweet potato chili over cornbread for instance, and lunch today was baked potato with cottage cheese. I eat light, I eat what I can digest pretty much.
But yeah, I am tired of being sick.
For Future me:
Supposedly there is a bird flu, but like all the intangibles of the last few years, what kind of bird flu? Where, When, Who? Naaa’ man, bird flu. I invested in powdered eggs a long while back, last I knew my stock had raised from $20 to $70…. so let me go see…
I own two containers, now do I sell them…. or sit on them longer and see if the price goes up? Hmmm, decisions to make. Well, this girl had EGG SHORTAGES on her bingo card by God.
I did not forsee the ‘gas stove ban’ — I grew up hearing about ‘clean burning preferred fuel of natural gas’ for thirty fucking years, the advertised it on tv like non-stop, and then last week the media is like, nope it’s a god damn death trap, we gotta ban it now. Science: Natural Gas is the cleanest best source of petroleum energy we have (for literally decades) Science: changes overnight to where Natural Gas is a horrible hazard. Remember, science never changes its mind once it decides something is safe.
I can’t with this time line.
