Mmm, good sparkles

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It was cool, I kinda enjoyed it, more than a lot of sci-fi, but it was still a little scary for me. Thanks to you, I am now very curious now about Lem's A Perfect Vacuum.

Okay Chris, so, as I rested today, I listened to your @thespouterinn.bsky.social ep about Solaris, which i have not read, but I did read a Stanislav Lem or two at the time of this photo because my roommate, Sven, was obsessed w/ Lem.

If I'm gonna post about old NW Portland and my shingles vax, I am duty bound to plug a great history of NW Portland by the author whose dire warning of how painful the shingles actually is lead me to get vaxxed:

@manniemurphy.bsky.social

@justinhocking.bsky.social took the photo, she was likely standing next to him (I may be holding her blanket).

for the record, i know that today my kid is at the movies with my other kids, and i am collapsed on the couch recovering from my second dose of the shingles vaccine (yay! but, oof, ouch). Thankfully am finally feeling well enough to watch Mad About The Boy.

hard same

But i kinda hope the Canadians claim credit anyway

So, yes, diary = risky, but good.

The morning of her birth, I'd found a fave childhood album at library: Ronstadt's Simple Dreams. We played it over and over again that night and for days until it had to be returned, never to play again until Soph discovered it for herself at 17 (now the most LPs of any artist in her stack, easy).

A few days later I checked my books to see when and how long I abandoned D w/ infant Soph by teaching a workshop in CO (ten days at 3 months old) and I learned (to S's delight) that...

I say yes AND I'm going to argue with John, sort of.

Earlier in the week I was spent several hours emotionally debilitated by looking for sketches from late 90s and accidentally reading too much of the writing.

But...