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tortoise.dad
josh 🐢
@tortoise.dad
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your friendly neighborhood vector control tech. husband and dad interested in tortoises, disco, soil science, running, and forums! redlands, ca ko6dla
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tortoise.dad
Almost forgot how good this Solomon Burke album is! Perfect for this evening
Solomon Burke "don't give up on me" album cover art. It's sepia Solomon sitting down with headphones and sunglasses pointing at the camera
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
tortoise.dad
So far, so good!
A photo of a curb and gutter overflowing at a driveway ramp. There are rocks stacked in the hellstrip to control erosion
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
tortoise.dad
The only game I keep coming back to year after year #elitedangerous
Screenshot from Elite: Dangerous. A figure stands in front of an alien 'plant'. Behind is a blue spaceship. There's two suns, one is eclipsed by another planet. Everything is washed in an orange hue
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
tortoise.dad
#jazzsky #nowplaying
Cover art for Pete Jolly album Seasons 1970 A white background. In the top left in small lowercase cursive it says "seasons pete jolly" there's a big round orange leaf taking up the rest of the space
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
tortoise.dad
I get my carne asada fries with beans instead of carne. It's 100x better that way. Treated myself to Jarritos Tamarindo tonight too
An ice cold bottle of Jarritos Tamarindo on a yellow (old Subway Sandwiches?) table with a blurry Mexican takeout menu behind it on the wall.
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
tortoise.dad
Saturday morning tunes #nowplaying
Cover art for Glen Campbell's "Gentle on my mind" Glen is wearing an orangish brown corduroy jacket and holding a guitar
September 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
tortoise.dad
Share your favorite black and white movie

Wages of Fear (1953) H.G. Clouzot
Charles Vanel stands in all white, facing away from the camera but directly in front of the truck that Yves Montand is driving. The truck says "EXPLOSIVES" on the front. The headlights stand out especially in contrast with a pitch black night sky.
September 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
tortoise.dad
I don't play this Herbie album nearly as much as it deserves. And I love the cover art #nowplaying #herbiehancock #jazzsky
Cover art for Herbie Hancock album Thrust Herbie is drawn in a spaceship that looks like a giant marble. He's descending on what looks like Macchi Picchu with a gigantic pink moon on the horizon
September 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
tortoise.dad
Reading this book about the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition led by Greely and I'm trying to imagine what it's like to cache tons and tons of supplies in the Arctic wilderness. How does bread stay edible after months in a barrel
Cover of the book showing the bow of a ship stuck in Arctic ice. The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition Labyrinth of Ice Buddy Levy
September 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
tortoise.dad
Sunday afternoon errands
A glass display case full of...glass. Next to a pipe is a home decor thingie that says "when you stop & look around this life is pretty amazing"
September 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
tortoise.dad
I adopted this old soul from a lady who could no longer care for him. She got him in 1964 and said he was already a sub adult at that time. His name is Piglet and he loves romaine lettuce even though it's not great for him
A very old California Desert Tortoise going for a sunset stroll on bare dirt. There's ivy and a wooden fence in the background.
August 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
tortoise.dad
Me at bass pro shop checking out a new ass tracker boat
August 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
tortoise.dad
Anyone have an HDMI switch they like that works properly? I picked this one up a while back but it has never really worked properly. My TV has a hard time detecting devices behind the switch
The HDMI switch in question. It's black with gold color connectors and writing
August 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
tortoise.dad
I love the sounds of the xun on this album. And of course "Love Theme from Spartacus" is a great track #nowplaying #jazzsky
Album cover art for Yusef Lateef "Eastern Sounds" A b&w profile photo of Lateef in sunglasses with the top of his saxophone visible
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
tortoise.dad
Got it done!
A map of Redlands CA showing our route. 10.65 mi in 1h 52m 59s at 10:36 per mile
August 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
tortoise.dad
#nowplaying #jazzsky
cover art for album My Spanish Heart by Chick Corea
August 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
tortoise.dad
10k ☑️ and feelin fine
Brown hills in the foreground and background. There's a green strip of citrus groves from L to R in the middle ground.
July 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
tortoise.dad
Everything about the eggplant plant (?) says "do not eat me" and yet it's soooo delicious
A Rosita eggplant blossom. it's 6 light purple pedals with yellow pollen in the center. The leaves around it are thick and fuzzy, the stem of the plant is green and purple.
July 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
tortoise.dad
Managed a nice hilly 10k in the heat. 660 ft of vert isn't too bad for residential streets!
On the right, a street bends left up in the distance. There a dry gully with trees on the left of the street, houses up by the bend and clear blue skies above. You can see the San Gabriel Mtns, Cajon Pass (San Andreas Fault), and the San Bernardino Mountains on the horizon
July 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
tortoise.dad
Made some friends on my run today
A close-up of an oak tree trunk with a hole in the middle. There are tons of bees crowding around their hive inside the hole
July 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
tortoise.dad
Took the kids to trivia night at the county museum and we won second. Got some geodes as prizes!
Two pretty rocks, each cut in half
July 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
tortoise.dad
Mid July Garden update if you even care
A big yellow sunflower Green, orange, and red cherry tomatoes on a countertop A small immature watermelon on the vine A green katydid? Or grasshopper maybe? Eating eggplant leaves
July 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
tortoise.dad
Summertime jams #nowplaying
Cover art for InI "center of attention"
July 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
tortoise.dad
I planted two milkweed bushes last May and now a butterfly factory has appeared
A monarch butterfly hanging on a fire stick plant next to the chrysalis it just emerged from A monarch butterfly hanging on a concrete step next to the chrysalis it just emerged from
July 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
tortoise.dad
first sunflower blossom! #bloomscrolling
a photo of a 10 foot tall mammoth sunflower stalk with blossom at the top. blue skies behind
July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM