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- Delaware, but Iowa born - Dad to the best son - Archivist - Fishing/art/literature/poetry/music/hiking - Aspirational motorcyclist - Incompetent agnostic/socialist/sober "God has no other hands than ours." - Dorothee Soelle
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Don't mind me, getting some supplies just in case ...

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Throwing this into the fickle winds of the Discover feed: Anybody on here familiar with fishing upstate Minnesota or Michigan? I'm considering summer vacation ideas for my son and me, something camping and fishing oriented for a week or so, maybe rent a cabin, not overrun with people. Thanks!

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Now listening (and drinking black coffee).

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Listening to a record while making dinner on this gorgeous window-open spring evening. This album always takes me back to freshman year of college (1992), because I had a roommate who played it perhaps a bit too much. It’s a good memory, though. Sausage, peppers, and fennel, which smells wonderful.

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Astrology? I'm a Sagidontcareius

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The only bot I'd ever consider for friendship:

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All set to speedrun the skeevy bits of The Jungle, judging by today’s skeets I see. Maybe now with yet more socialist triumph and less thumb-laden potted meat needed to get there?

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Likely an overstatement born of naive enthusiasm, but if you had to pick a single color to represent modernity in a positive light, I think that IKB would be a strong contender. That said, deepest black might be the better choice for modernity on most days ...

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A further thought: does anybody keep, or even think to keep, a listening diary? It just occurred to me that might be a good way to hone skills for writing about music. I should have had a V8, apparently.

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One of the things I like about Bluesky is that some of you have such erudition and breadth/depth of knowledge about music so as to be able to describe and interpret it in ways I only hope to match. I'm all "Good album, man!" over here, you all are sommeliers talking about bouquets and bodies.

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Someone posted reference to one of my favorite albums, so my sacred duty this morning is to post the album itself: open.spotify.com/album/2MELmo...

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Liberals attacking the left. Leftists attacking liberals. What do you feel you accomplished with that?

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Now listening on this gorgeous spring morning off from work.

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Had my annual "migraine" yesterday, same day as my annual review, which was positive. Goes to show that no good review goes unpunished. Note - unsure if actual migraine, really severe headache with very high photosensitivity, get them maybe 1x to 3x per year.

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Sometimes pieces stay with you for decades and you find yourself remembering them in bed late on a Tuesday night. From a CD I bought in graduate school almost a quarter century ago now. open.spotify.com/track/3Am2LI...

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Earl Grey Cream (or Creme) tea is quite good. I'd not had that before.

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My neighbors are listening to this glorious performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass whether they prefer to or not.

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"Scorpion" "Big Mark" "Held by Ahura Mazda" Roaming the Syrian desert, patrolling for Parthian infiltrators and brigands, getting into hijinks in the market, etc. If this isn't a hybrid action/unlikely buddy comedy in embryonic form, nothing is. Somebody who writes scripts, get on this!

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For those who celebrate, I suppose even for those who don't, because it's Bach after all: open.spotify.com/track/6J0mhS...

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Getting my gear together. I went backpacking with my son last summer for the first time in years, and my 20+ years old Kelty pack was falling apart; all my gear was old and heavy, from another era in backpacking. I've been updating since to lighter gear, which my half-century back will appreciate.

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I'm going backpacking with my son for a few days next week, the weather is beautiful outside right now and is likely to be so next week as well, so ... - don't want to think about work - don't want to think about the future - don't want to think about Trump, et al - don't want to think ...

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Reminder to self: buy toilet paper before combat becomes necessary.

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New collection by my productive friend!

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Man, it's lunchtime and now I want to make gumbo again ... with okra, of course.

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I am * dramatically tired * this Monday morning. (no, this isn't misguided male commentary on women being "dramatic," this is a shout-out in solidarity to all who are dramatically tired today)

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We hosted my sister-in-law and niece on Saturday and my parents on Sunday. My son: "Dad, my social batteries are empty." Mine too, buddy, mine too.

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