Watching the Olympics is just me saying to myself: “Wow, they must’ve grown up rich to play this sport,” over and over again.
Passing through Lansing and stopped for a bit. I lived here for over 10 years and I do not miss it. In fact, pretty sure I’m dealing with some minor PTSD having been trapped here for so long.
Passing through Lansing and stopped for a bit. I lived here for over 10 years and I do not miss it. In fact, pretty sure I’m dealing with some minor PTSD having been trapped here for so long.
Still, I had to see how things had changed, and how they’ve stayed the same. My old house on Allen Street:
Someone sure put a lot of love into this backyard.
My buddy Dan’s once meticulously kept lawn is now an urban prairie.
Hunter Park:
And of course, one of the glimmers of decent memories, Dagwoods. I can almost taste their olive burger.
I waited in line for about an hour to tour the station today. It was worth it.
Heidelberg
Surprise, I ate pizza.
MCS looking glorious
An afternoon well spent at the Henry Ford Museum
Wanna go for a ride?
“A 1 lb box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy.”
– The Omnivore’s Dilemma
A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food.
– The Omnivore’s Dilemma
I missed you, Lake Michigan.
Grand Haven Fisherman’s Pier
Plant Dad
Pronto Pup, Grand Haven, Michigan. Don’t you wish your weiner was this good after 77 years?
Finished reading: Amulet 3: The Cloud Searchers by Kazu Kibuishi 📚
It’s about that time.
It’s amazing how much we don’t know about Harris this far into the first term, isn’t it? She’s been basically invisible to me.
Rethinking this microblogging stuff, again. Not sure why this takes up so much of my brainpower. I’m finding that I just prefer my bloggy stuff separate from my Micro.blog/Mastodon/Bluesky stuff, sort of formal vs informal. Playing with a draft site at afterword.blog.