Ashamed

 I'll talk about quilting in a minute, but I have something to get off my chest first.  I've mostly always been a proud U.S. citizen.  Yes, there have been some embarrassing moments, but for the most part, I have been proud of my country.  

Not so much anymore.  

I am ashamed of the viciousness of the perverted unwoke minds of trumps loyal toadies and grunts.  It was one thing when he was going after us, but he has clearly put us on the road to being a russian satellite state by selling out our friends.  He is selling us and selling our country to a dictator.  Because the dictator is more powerful than him and he's so weak that he can only pretend to be as powerful by sucking up to him, not realizing that makes him look like a cheap whore.  It's pitiful and frightening to watch the leader of a super power kneel to the biggest dictator and the richest man.  Because every time he takes the knee, he sells something that we hold precious and he places no value on.  Our loyalty and pride.  

Last week, someone commented and asked me what right we had to destroy a person's business just because we lost an election.  

Here's the thing.  I have the right to choose where I spend my money.  I choose not to spend it supporting businesses I don't agree with.  I didn't spend a dime on Friday.  I haven't bought anything off Amazon since the inauguration.  I haven't been in Hobby Lobby since the first trump fiasco.  I haven't eaten at chick filet since the Obama administration.  I don't know how long it's been since I was in a walmart.  It is a fact that none of those companies misses me.  But, holy crap do I feel good about myself and where I spend my money.

And, I plan to do all I can to make the trump economy look like the joke it's going to be.  I plan to hold onto every dime I can.  And, it's a bonus that not spending means not giving the state its sales taxes.  Because TX government is fucked up too.  

I can't bring down a big business or a change a government.  But I'm not alone in trying.  And, while it might not feel like a lot, I know I'm doing my part.  Buy small.  Buy local.  Even in a big retailer's store, there are employees that need their pay.  

We are thinking about a Costco membership.  

I'm not saying that others need to do what I do.  But, I am saying that you can let your conscience guide your spending.  

Okay, so not much progress was made on the double wedding quilt, despite the fact a lot of time was spent on it.  This weekend, I focused cutting more centers and wedges.  I ironed out 2 yards of fabric and was able to trace pieces for 27 blocks out of it.  I'm nearly done cutting them out now, but wish I'd taken a pic before I started.  Showing them all traced out would have been really cool.  

This is a strip with pieces for four blocks that I cut after they were traced.  I'll cut this strip into chunks and cut the pieces out of those smaller and more manageable chunks.  

The fabrics have gotten pretty wrinkled from me manhandling them to cut them out.  I probably could have done a better job of that, but it's okay because I'll press them before moving forward.  Press.  Not Iron.  When I iron, I use the iron to push the wrinkle off the edge of the fabric.  But, that will stretch the fabric.  I don't want these stretched so I will lay them out and press the iron on top of them to get rid of the wrinkles.  Up and down only, no side to side movements at all.  One of the first things I used to explain when I taught was the difference, and how you iron yardage to get it flat, but press piecing so you don't distort the shape.  

Here's my stack of cut pieces, ready to be pressed and have arcs added.  

I've been studying how others quilt their double wedding ring quilts.  There are some beautiful quilts out there.  But most of them have elaborate quilting and this is supposed to be a bed quilt, so I'm going to want something more plain.  But, not too plain.  

There's a lot of fabric left from the original set of fabrics I planned for this quilt, and I'm likely going to end up making a lap quilt out of that.  It seems like a good use of it and it will keep it in a grouping.  I also have this small grouping for a holiday table runner.  What to do?  What to do.

Other than some petty name calling memes and a couple recipes and pictures of other people's quilts, that's all that's in my photo library from the week.  I spent some time in the garden both days, just moving things around.  Our cold weather is over, so I'm starting to pull plants out of the greenhouse and put them back in their places.  I found a really huge flower pot that someone was throwing away last week and brought it home.  I can't wait to see what I decide to put in it.  It's big enough for a small tree.  

Everybody have a great week!  I follow a guy that ends all his posts with "relax that jaw" and I'm thinking that's really good advice.  

Lane

Decisions, decisions

I know it was cold where you are, but it was cold here last week, too.  In the low 20s.  There was a lot of staying inside.  Saturday was also cold, but by yesterday, we walked the dogs in our shirtsleeves, and could likely have worn shorts.  Texas weather be crazy.  I'm still waiting to see the effect on the trees, but my garden fared well.  Things that should have died back did and some things I thought would die back didn't.  It looks rough out there right now, but this should be our last hard freeze, so nature can get started bringing back the beautiful.  (I've got to get those 3 bricks picked up.  I don't know where they came from and I don't know what's planted under them)

I spent a lot of time quilting.  Not to the sacrifice of everything else, like I used to, but still, a lot more than I have been.  As I was cutting more fabric, I noticed that the green print I am using in my joining squares has a direction.  So does the yellow, but it's much more subtle.  I hadn't really paid attention to that before.  And, I thought maybe the green should be on the horizontal and the yellow on the vertical.  

Those of you who have followed me for a while can probably tell the group what happened next.  

I took it all apart and started over.  

Not all of it.  I didn't take any arcs apart, but I did disassemble the block I had assembled and take arcs off wedges to re-orient them.  That took most of Saturday, but by Sunday, I was making progress again and now I have 9 blocks assembled.  

This is as far as I'm assembling blocks for now.  There will be several kinds of blocks needed.  Some will have another wedge added on the top or right before being assembled.  What I'm seeing online tells me  that the curve to join two rows should be an s rather than a scallop and that will take multiple kinds of blocks.  The one below that has a wedge on the bottom will be joined to one that doesn't have a wedge on the bottom so that I'll go down the left side and up the right and join to another curve that will go up on the left and then down.  

As I continue to piece, I'll get more organized, but even now, there's a ton of marking.  I thought I'd share one tip on matching the points at the ends of the wedges.  I did it wrong two weeks ago and had to take them apart and re-assemble.  Then, I did it again this weekend, so it's something I really need to remember and writing it down should help with that.  

Normally, I mark match points on the right side of the fabric and I just make a small tic mark where I want the points to match.  But, on this curve, I have to mark one piece of fabric on the front and one on the back in order to get the points to match.  And on the back, it's not just a tic mark, I'm marking the seam line where I'm going to be sewing.  If I don't do that, then every match point is off by 1/8th inch.  If I do it, then they all match in the first go.  (that feels like a miracle technique)

Now, surely I'll be able to remember that for the rest of this quilt.  

Other than that, it was a quiet week.  Dottie got a little anxious from not getting walks.  There was lots of playing with her and trying to give her the zoomies in the evening to burn off some energy before bed.  I was hyper focused at work on a project, so by the time Rob got home, I could barely hold conversation because I was so tired and out of words.  I like work when it's busy but maybe not quite so focused.  Unfortunately, by Friday, I was only up to knocking out the weekly to-do list.  I could not even look at the project.  I'm running out of ideas to solve the problem.  My only consolation is that I'm about the 5th person that's tried and no one else has been able to do it either.  

I'm watching the destruction of government compassion.  That means we will need to be the compassionate ones.  And, honestly, I am not sure I can offer compassion to those that voted for trump.  I believe there should be vote confirmation before we help others.  Maybe that makes me as bad as the orange moron and his co-president, the south african racist.  I don't really care.  I don't think I should have to help anyone that voted for this or that didn't vote.  My compassion is for people that at least tried.  People that at least care.  

I'm also having thoughts and feelings about this.  

Remember that this Friday is 02/28, the spend no money day.  I'm reading that it's mostly to affect large businesses, but that doesn't feel focused enough for me.  I'm choosing not to spend any money that day.  I'll support my local small businesses a little extra on the days before and after to make up for it.  

Be well.  Be strong.  Support one another.  And, maybe be a bigger person than me and offer compassion to everyone.  

Lane

Funereal

You may remember that Rob and I visited my oldest friend a couple months ago.  She'd moved away and moved back.  She was in poor health but was trying to get on track to a healthier life.  

She passed away.  We don't know from what.  Her son went on vacation and when he came back, he found her.  I spent Wednesday with he and his wife, making arrangements.  I spent Thursday with them going through paperwork.  Please, please, please make sure someone knows where to find your passcodes into your phone and computer.  That's where your important information is stored and it's hell getting access to anything without them.  And, write a will, even if it's just on the back of a napkin.  

Death is so weird.  I'm not a very emotional person, I guess.  I'll cry at the end of the movie when the hero dies, but less likely to shed tears in other situations where most people cry.  That's when I go full on action mode.  'I sometimes find the emotional responses of others perplexing', I say in my Sheldon Cooper voice.  It's okay tho, because I've never seen an emotional situation that wasn't bettered by someone offering a glass of water or a bite to eat or an 'I'm on it' or a 'that's already taken care of.'  

Danna was born 4 days after me.  We used to celebrate our birthdays together and that's what I told Rob I wanted to do this year.  But, I'll try to open a bottle of wine and drink a toast to her this week.  

My birthday was Saturday.  As an introvert, I needed to spend it resting, so Rob and I went out and ran some errands, had a nice lunch and a nicer dinner and I spent the rest of the day cutting and sewing.  When we stopped for lunch, it was next door to a Nothing Bundt Cake store (only sells bundt cakes) and I said we should get me a cake.  After a very unhealthy lunch, we forgot, so yesterday, I baked myself an orange bundt cake.  And, it was soooooo good.  Definitely a recipe that I'll be writing down.  

Yesterday, we covered the greenhouses because we're going to have another hard freeze.  The bad news is that the trees have already started to bud.  This is what happened a few years ago when the trees were damaged so badly.  My consolation is that they were starting to bud a couple weeks ago when we had our last hard freeze and it didn't seem to affect them.  Temps this week should only be as low as they were a couple weeks ago.  Fingers are crossed.  

Okay, so quilt progress.  I got the first block pieced.  This was a test block.  Better make sure everything was going to go together before I cut 42 of them.  Other than the fact that the horizontal wedge should have been on the bottom of the block, not the top, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  This was supposed to be a bottom corner, but it's a top.  I guess there's no reason I can't start at the top.  

I'm hoping that as I continue to piece sections together, I can start to do it with less pins.  As it is now, I pin for an hour, using every pin I own, then I sew for 5 minutes.  And, repeat.  Boring.  But, highly effective.  This is my progress for the weekend.  I ran out of green and yellow joining squares and need to cut more, but there are enough background pieces cut for 12 blocks.  That's the first two rows.  

I suspect I will be pinning during some meetings this week.  

When I started drawing and considering borders, I realized I needed more fabric, so we took a trip to our local JoAnn's.  And, found out that it's closing.  They no longer accept coupons and all sales are final.  The cashier that we always talk to didn't tell us when, but he told us goodbye and thanks for always being pleasant, in case we don't see him again.  That's sad.  JoAnn's has been part of my life as much as my usual grocery store has been.  It was a very big part of my quilting adventure.  There will still be a store in town, but it won't be conveniently located.  If I really needed something, I could go there, but it would be easier to go to a local quilt shop for most of my quilting needs.  

We continue to watch our government being dismantled.  Surprisingly, I haven't seen any commentary on what laying off 2M people would do to the economy, but since unemployment is generally paid by the states, that feels like it's only going to shift the burden to the states, which are not prepared.  But, it does free up money for musk to steal before it moves to mother russia.  

And, unfortunately, that is as plausible a scenario as any other right now. 

It's the not knowing that's making me nuts.  And, now, the justice dept has been so totally corrupted that they're making deals on prosecution for crime if people support trump's agenda.  Which means all of us that don't support the agenda will soon be criminals.  

Screw dat!  

 I hope that you're hearing about a boycott on 02/28.  The plan is for everyone to not spend money that day.  Not a dime.  I don't know what it will accomplish, other than to say we are here and we don't approve.  But, it's something.  Something I can do to say this ain't right.  So, set a reminder to buy whatever you need on the 27th.  Or save it til the 1st.  

Any act of resistance is worthwhile.  

In the meantime, have a great week!  I'll be learning about probate.  Fun times.  

Lane

In the background

We got fences stained and sealed this weekend.  That was a huge chore.  We'd planned on Saturday, but it was too windy.  Yesterday seemed perfect.  Just a little breeze and temps that needed a sweatshirt to be comfy.  It only took about 3.5 hours plus another couple for Rob to get set up and cleaned up.  Compared to what it would have cost to have someone do it (my originally preferred idea), it wasn't bad at all.  

We worked as a team.  I had a "drop wall" which was a drop cloth suspended on some 8' long 1x2 boards.  I would spread them out and lean them across the back of the section he was spraying and when he was done with that section, I'd accordion them up and spread them out over the next section.  They came out looking very dark and red.  

Rob is getting everything set up here.  The fences didn't look bad.  Rob washed them last week and that brightened them up some.  But, there were spots where sun and my water hoses had faded the stain and Rob said if we'd waited another year, he would have had to power spray a layer of gray wood off the boards before he could seal them.  

He even had enough left over to seal the outhouse (tool shed).  The outhouse was built from fence wood from the original fence that was here when I bought the house.  We've had it replaced twice since then.  

Since we didn't do fences on Saturday, we had time to go pick up background fabric for the double wedding ring 25th anniversary quilt.  Remember that we wanted a medium gray background.  But, we both fell in love with a dark gray.  It has a directional print, so it's going to be quite the challenge to keep that moving in the same direction throughout the whole thing.  

Next it was time to choose the joining squares.  There's a substitute background fabric here.  I just needed the right color because the actual background was in the washer being prepped.  This is what we chose because the joining squares disappear into the piecing instead of being a focal point of their own.  I'll use green on all the arcs going in one direction and yellow on all the arcs going in the other.  

I also played with this idea.  In the quilt, the joining squares form rows and columns.  I was going to alternate the rows and columns, so in this pic, there's a yellow row and a brown row and a green column and a blue column.  I think there's something there if I ever make this pattern again, but not for this quilt.  It doesn't make enough of a statement in all the randomly pieced arcs and ends up looking messy instead of artistic.

So now it's just finding time to cut out the background shapes.  Last time I cut them with thin plastic templates and a rotary cutter.  This time, I plan to use the templates to trace them on the back of the fabric and then cut them out with scissors or a rotary cutter.  Once I get them traced, I can use either method to cut them out without risk of cutting the plastic template and changing the shape of it.  Then, the quilt goes together in rows.  I remember there being a tutorial on YouTube about how to assemble the rows.  I'll have to look for it again as it was very helpful.  

A couple of funny things I want to share.  

And a couple that are less funny.  

I didn't mean to imply last week that I wouldn't still be bitching about politics.  I did that under Biden and Obama and I'm sure not going to stop now.  But, my thoughts need to be more factual and less name calling.  So, here's one that really hit home this morning.  If elon was looking for fraud in our government, he'd be hiring forensic accountants, not 22 year old programmers.  It appears that he plans to drain the American treasury and I have no doubt that he'd do it.  He and trump are both high from smoking their own cash and they've already done more damage than can be repaired in my lifetime.  The courts won't stop them.  Only rebellion will.  And, I'm not sure we have the stomach for it.  Yet.

And, now the white nationalists are calling last night's superb owl half time show "black nationalist".  That's got civil unrest written all over it.  

Dear maga, how many gays and people of color must die before you start to feel more special than the rest of us again?  Because that's what this is all about.  magats thought that gays and people of color getting attention meant they weren't more special than everyone else anymore and they cannot stand that.  I see it in my own family.  You will not be forgiven, on earth or in heaven.  

Be well.  Have a good week.  Stay strong.  We are watching the unwinding of our lifestyle, but not our lives.  At least not yet.  Hang on to who you are as long as you can.  And, remember, it's okay to pretend to be someone other than who you really are when your survival depends on it.  

Lane

Arc-out

All 194 arcs are complete and I told Rob yesterday we needed to pick a background.  If we're going with gray, it needs to be a warm gray.  I laid arcs out on a couple, but I didn't have a medium gray that was warm, so we'll need a trip to the fabric store.  Oh, no, not the fabric store.  Oh darn.  

Here's a quick review of how I make an arc.  Unfortunately, I didn't start taking pics until the last arcs were already in progress.  

I'm using freezer paper piecing instead of regular paper.  That means I don't sew through the paper and I can use templates over and over (about 6 times).  If you do regular paper piecing, you're going to notice that I trim at a weird place.  

First, I center the first wedge of the template on the wrong side of a fabric square, making sure it covers all the seams and edges, then I iron it to stick them together.  Next, I match a second square to the first, right sides together and fold the paper back along the seam line and sew along the fold.  The 2.5" squares are convenient because I can just line them up along the side when attaching the next piece.  

Then I use my add a quarter ruler to trim the seam allowance.

Then I unfold the fabric and the paper and finger press the seam fold and iron it down from the front.  You're just forming a crisp fold at the seam line.  Don't iron the whole piece of fabric and be sure not to touch the iron to the freezer paper.  

Ironing from the front won't adhere the paper to the fabric very well, so I also iron from the back, making sure I only adhere fabric to paper up to th next fold line.  I'll need to fold at that seam line in order to attach the next piece.  Notice that I haven't trimmed that.  I'll use that extra fabric to line up the edges of the next square.  

When all the pieces are attached, I trim all the way around with scissors.

And, then peel the paper off.  Be sure to peel in the direction of the seam allowances.  If you go against that, the seam allowance will ravel.  

Doing it that way, I was able to make 194 arcs in three weeks.  I estimate it took about 35 hours.  I made 20 templates to start with, but accidentally ironed a bunch of them together, damaging them.  4 didn't last long and I made another 8, but 16 of the originals made it all the way through.  You can see from the one above that they collect lint.  Eventually they'll pick up so much lint that they won't stick anymore.  

This is the most expensive fish I ever bought.  The woman at the fish store was treating me like I was a moron when she sold him to me (she's 90% of the reason we don't go back to that fish store.  the other 10% is because a third of the fish I bought there died, a day or two after their warranty expired), but I'm glad I bought him.  I never know where he's going to be hanging out...and by that, I mean literally hanging by his mouth.  He loves to hang upside down from the underside of a rock.  Here, he's hanging on the side of one.  

This weekend, we cleared out the garden.  It's a perennial garden, so dies back every year after the first good freeze and I cut it to the ground.  This year, we're sealing the fences again, so it was double important that I get it all out of Rob's way so he can move freely.  While I was digging around, this little guy decided he'd like to see how bad he could scare me.  He was wildly successful.  

We are entering week 3 of the horror show.  I keep reading on social media that someone should do something and I keep wondering who could do anything and what could they do?  I think we're all sitting here with stunned looks on our faces, watching the nightmare unfold, waiting to see if those checks and balances that we learned about in school are going to work.  

Rob thinks I should be more careful about what I say on here.  He didn't say that because he wouldn't, and that approach wouldn't have worked.  But, he conveyed it nonetheless and I know he's right.  No need to draw attention to myself.  Online is not anonymous.  

But, I can't resist this one.  This is the DEI that we don't need.  

Everybody have a great week!  I have to go to the office on Thursday.  Excuse me while I go hunt for my excitement.  But, I'm learning that this is just one day and I can easily get through it pretending.  I'm a good pretender.  But in my heart, I still yearn for retirement.  

Lane

Arc de Triomphe

Okay, well maybe not "triomphe" yet, but close.  

It looks like I'll need 194 arcs for this quilt.  If anyone has made one and wants to check my math, that would be great.  It's 7 blocks by 6 blocks.  I have 146 completed and another 24 half completed.  They really do go fast when you have everything prepped.  Unfortunately, I have to stop and cut fabric again.  194 arcs takes a lot of 2.5" squares and I'm trying to be careful about variety.  I looked at arcs the other day because there were some I liked better than others.  I ended up setting aside the darkest and lightest squares.  I love mediums and this is a chance to let that flag fly.  

We're thinking about background now.  This is the original brown I had chosen, but Rob is thinking maybe a gray, so I'm going to lay some arcs out on a couple of different grays and see what he thinks.  I think he's thinking of something a little less traditional.  

We both had Monday off for MLK day and then Rob was home Tuesday due to icy roads.  We had "snow", but it didn't cover the whole yard.  The ground was still too warm for it to stick most places, but it was more than willing to melt on the road and then re-freeze.  

The only drawback to working from home is there are no snow days.  But, when I weigh that snow day against all the days I don't have to go to the office, it works out.  Believe me.  

We had the greenhouses all snug as a bug.  Everything thrived.  We uncovered everything Saturday as we're not supposed to have freezing temps this week.  

I don't post pics of Bella often.  She's been "old".  But, she is getting more curious and more active.  She's having more trouble jumping places, but for the most part, we enjoy watching her play with Dottie.  They look so vicious jumping and leaping at one another and wrestling around.  Bella is 15.  Dottie turned 1 last week.  

I'm sure we all spent last week waiting for the nightmare to get really scary.  It hasn't.  Yet.  And, still we wait.  Some of his nonsense will be impossible to enforce (I don't know about you, but it's always going to be the Gulf of Mexico to me).  Some, he may not be able to pull off, like mass deportations.  I suspect they'll round up some criminals and that will be that.  Token service provided.  So far, what I'm reading on social media is the solution to high egg prices is no eggs are available.  It's not a problem he could solve in a week.  We all knew that.  But he SAID he could solve it in a week.  And, he didn't.  

He did give us another 'nasty woman' to look up to. 

Still have it in my head that we'll survive.  Going to do my best.  And, if ICE asks, I don't know and I don't remember.  I watched a video provided by a law firm a couple weeks ago.  A very respectable older couple of attorneys giving advice.  One would spell out a situation.  The other would tell what to do, and what they said do in every situation was to "shut the fuck up".  Passive resistance.  It was hilarious because it was like watching your Grandparents use the F word.  But, it was real.  

Everybody have a great week.  Live up to your higher potential.  We win this by sticking together, no group left behind.  That means you might have to stand up for something you find personally distasteful.  Bite the bullet.  Only compromise your beliefs for the right reasons.  Find something to ground yourself in.  

Lane

Gonna make a quilt.

Or is it maybe 'Gonna make a quilt?'  Or 'Gonna make a quilt!!'  

Either way, a bed-sized quilt.  Yes, there is one that is 90% quilted hanging on the back of my sewing chair, but that's neither here nor there.  Apparently.  

For some reason, there's no label on the back of this quilt, but I believe it was made for our 15th anniversary.  It was a quilt before its time.  I got asked so many questions.  Green?  That green?  It's all going to be green?  That green?  But, it's green.  And, beige.  And that's all?  But, I thought it was beautiful.  Still do.  It felt like a very different interpretation of the pattern at the time.  I'm not sure why I didn't enter it in a show.  I would have liked to have gotten judges' feedback on it.  

We slept under it once.  It has a wool batting and we both sweated through the night, so it's been in the top of the closet since then.  We've pulled it out to use as a bedspread and I'm not hating it in the blue room.  

Rob and I will be together 25 years this year.  Over those 25 years, he has given me multiple collections of fabric.  Lots of brightly colored pre-cuts and some yardage to go with them.  I've always wanted to use them to make a double wedding ring, so I made the freezer paper templates yesterday and cut a whole lot of 2.5" squares and started piecing arcs.  They go pretty fast once the prep work is done.  I'll be able to re-use the templates for another round. I started with 20, but lost 2 to a tragic moment of 'stoopid' and damaged some others, so I won't get the full 5-6 uses out of them all, but I will from some and I can make more.  

I was going for totally random, but I can already see that I need to pay more attention to dark/light.  I have mixed emotions about assembly line-style piecing.  Yes, it's fast and efficient, but it takes the soul out of carefully selecting and attaching each piece, one block (or arc) at a time.  I enjoyed that about making block of the month quilts.  You focus on just one block, choosing just the right fabrics and laying them out and looking at them in black and white to get the right values.  But, if I did that with all the arcs I'm going to need, we'd be together 35 years before it was done.  

I have a very nice chocolate brown fabric with little white sprigs that I planned for the background, and it would look great!  But, I'm not cutting into it yet.  When I get a few arcs made, I'll lay them out on a couple of backgrounds and see what I like the best.  Green?

No, not green.  That's the only color it cannot be.  

We came over the hilltop yesterday on the way to the grocery.  Yes, we shop very early to avoid the crowds.  We step over the stockers, but they all recognize us and are quick to get out of the way on the rare occasion I need them to.  There were eggs.  That was good to see.  Look at me digress.  Anyway, we came over the hilltop and Rob shouted 'look at the moon!'.  And goodness, but look at it hanging up there.  It looks huge!

And, then we made up a story about how the moon was crashing to earth and the election of trump was to keep us from noticing until it was too late for much anarchy.  We might watch too much sci-fi.

I don't know if you know Hazel.  I don't.  But, somebody freaking loves Hazel.  This was her birthday cake and I am deeply impressed.  Happy Birthday Hazel!!!

That's the cake I'm going to make for Easter.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahha!

Thinking of deleting my Facebook account.  I don't need more masculine energy from a small man with a bad perm.  I didn't need it when that perm was in style and I sure don't need it now.  I deleted twitter years ago.  Left Mastodon when they started over-monitoring.  Now, I'm on another app, but they need to up their monitoring for content warnings, so am iffy there.  Hopefully, I have too small a presence on the internet to attract any haters.  

Everybody have a great week!  Remember, Greenland, the gulf of America, the 51st state, these are all just distractions to keep us from seeing the crimes being committed.  Don't be distracted.  But, don't get too bogged down in it either.  We still have to live through it.  

Lane

Why did the toilet paper cross the road?  Because it was stuck to the chicken's foot.

I will not suffer these dad jokes alone.