A really good soundtrack to eating one’s first kiwano: And no. It’s got nothing to do with kiwanos. But it’s happy, and so am I at the moment.

Blame it on “Deep Space Nine”. The Prof and I have been watching it through from the beginning. We’re on season seven, the last season, about halfway through. In several episodes, props have included fresh exotic fruit. Sometimes the fruit has been altered in some way; in the episode we watched last night the fruit…

Bottle Gentian I found this about six feet off of the trail in the back of the preserve I’ve been going to. I’d never seen it before, and from what I gather, it isn’t common to our area. This is as open as the flower will get, hence the name “bottle gentian”. A small bee…

I’ve taken hundreds of pictures over the past few weeks in the Preserve. I’ve become absorbed in identifying everything as accurately as possible. I’m glad I’m doing this, as I’ve discovered that I have been a veritable warehouse of half-facts and out-and-out misinformation about some things (especially the smaller wildflowers). I’m discovering that some identifications…

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I’ve been working on a couple of entries/projects: – I’ve taken a good number of pictures at the local preserve, and hope to take some more today or tomorrow. Leaves are peaking here now, and even on an overcast day some of the oranges and yellows glow of their own accord, as though some of…

Several days after I was laid off in August I lost my MedicAlert bracelet. It was my own fault. The clasp had been faulty for ages and I’d put off getting it repaired. It was an upgrade to the first bracelet I got back in 1997, when I first needed to wear one of those…

I got an emergency call from the cat shelter last night. A cat we had just taken to the pet supply store that displays some of our cats for adoption was vomiting pink fluid. I got the call too late to get to the store before it closed, but I was there first thing this…

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Yesterday it was changing my name with Social Security, and then changing it with the state on my license and registration. Today I got my new passport pictures for my passport change (they essentially make you apply for a passport all over again if you want to change your name). I was inspired to get…