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merc or Patrick Learner(📚) and Pet-dad(🦦🐟) I'm moving back into full-time education while further developing my life and career! I also keep happy pets!
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Fingers crossed as I try to finish moving in before the 4-8" inches of snow arrive this afternoon 😎

Help my rental car has been hijacked by China

I've been looking at the arctic blast that's going across the Midwest in the near future, and I'm VERY glad my moving from northwest TN to Kansas City has been delayed. Being sick would have been bad enough without having those double digit wind chills! Brr! (And yes these °s are in freedom units)

Happy New Year to those already in January, and Happy New Years Eve to those who aren't! With less than 5 hours to go for me, I've got New Years Day gifts and booze (not pictured) ready for midnight!

Already thinking about where I want 2025 to take me by this time next year. I'm ready to leave the bad times of the early 2020s in the dust.

Seasonal blues can really drag people down. In this time of year, I have to remember not to bury my mood in the bad parts of the past few years and keep trying to look forward.

Parents called me up to tell me people are driving so badly in Jackson that they're almost pushing people off the road. I hate how oblivious and rude people are on the roads. This is somehow worse than in Northern Virginia....

So glad to be done with coursework until mid-January. No more stress for now over a daily library run to focus on the week's reading! I will be sleeping off a headache and soreness tonight before I begin with some much-needed casual writing and reading tomorrow morning... Vacation begins now 🥳

Somehow, I managed to get the wrong edition of a textbook for a course, and I still managed to keep afloat through the last week of the course this week 😆

Happy Rebecca Black Friday!!!

I don't want to live in a boring studio apartment, but part of me is really considering renting one instead of a larger apartment when I move to take uni classes in January.

I spent the morning skimming through transportation methods for industry in America. I still find it a shame that, except for urban areas across the edges of America's borders, passenger travel by rail has had to take a backseat to industries using trains to ship their large heavy cabs around.

Getting off Twitter really broke my social media habits, I really need to get back to checking this app since it's got more people now lol

Finally got my first good open house, and everyone looking for a home was impressed with the new flooring! There was 1 realtor that swears they smelled something at the entrance and assumed the home was hiding something, but we can brush them off as snooty. So grateful for renovations!

Trying to not think too much about losing them. Here's a moth that wanted to drive a U-Haul I rented around a week ago.

I'm so sick of having to let them go

It's a Jimmy Buffett kind of day, to settle my sad heart over having to say goodbye to my ferret Spade and hoping he heard me... I'm trying to keep good thoughts.

I'm fortunate to have kept company for a few years with such a goofy ferret kid.

We are heading towards 3°C #globalwarming. What will it be like? And how can we prevent it, with the help of nature-based solutions? New book - open access! springerprofessional.de/3-degrees-mo... All chapters can be downloaded for free (including mine).

So I definitely won't trust any west-Atlantic beach north of Wallops Island because... wow, NoVa's and Maryland's beaches are either horrid or hoarded by rich folk wanting waterfront properties...

The neglected roses in front of my kitchen windows did something pretty wild recently, blossoming into a mini-bouquet. Didn't even know roses could do this naturally #roses #flowerfriday

So... what we have in this container is a dehydrated turkey pellet. I give these to my ferrets as a supplement to their regular food. Sometimes, they snatch the entire pellet and hoard them in hidden spots. Nilla likely did this after she emptied the pot of dirt and the dead plant...

Happy Thursday. Make sure to freshen your mind every day with geography and culture. #geography #isthislossmeme #isthisloss #happythursday #stonehenge

The Japanese copies of Wario Land 4 include a sticker sheet with golden poop and Wario's face on them. They even changed Wario's nose on some of them so that his mustache and nose could be mistaken as "wow". (That last part might be made up)

There's always time today for you to be cooler than the person you were yesterday

If you say "Can we talk about 'X Thing' " and an hour later you have tons of likes but no conversations, I think you have a case in court against the ones that liked the post

I don't regret taking on my four ferrets back in 2021, but I do wish it were a bit easier to deal with and that I kept the rest of my life (and the stuff I own) a bit less burdensome.. Packing up has been tiresome when combined along with keeping these wriggleworms happy, healthy, and entertained...

#fe3h #fireemblemthreehouses not a fic but i Longposted™ about why it would be epic and based and contribute greatly to the worldbuilding of fódlan if the golden deer got to be eviler www.tumblr.com/slotumn/7470...

I like how these characters can start out in their post-time skip outfits, it suits them better as students of a war academy even if it sheds away some of the innocence and shock factor you get otherwise before the conflict escalates into a war.

I don't talk here often, but Tw*tter is giving me vibes that the user experience is going further downhill.