California, at least this part of it, continues blooming space, cool weather, the Pacific Ocean for now continues to work.
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grechaw
@grechaw@sfba.social
mastodon 4.7.3Balancing anonymity with obscurity, I renounce and reject, protect and preserve, and in the meantime fill the sonic marginalia with music, and ghostly glide around the humanity-free zones.
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The Pacific is too big to contain itself,
Sloshing around o that playful moon we got.
But also evaporating, the ocean flies into the sky
Covering vast areas with mist and dew.
So it was this morning, a dripping cool wet
Unseasonable July delight.
Everything took notice - the redwoods, the moss,
The spiders. Never a soul unless it's a sunny morning - humans miss the best parts of life perhaps.
Dog snout among poppies.
A fine morning in the park. Very glad to be back home and that this is home.
We're into foxglove season.
RE: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116998502616553189
Um, yes, every one of these reasons.
Yesterday what with the lovely fog I also got a good #FootpathFriday
Today's beach visit featured the annual by-the-wind-sailor. We're used to seeing their blanched remains but when first washed up they're a brilliant iridescent purple.
Deserves a seat on the #caturday throne.
This rock.
Forehead of great segmented rock giant.
Frozen seafloor fractured then cured.
Millenia sleep then somehow the
California assembly (always dissolving)
Reveals it as though bathing in sand,
But we all know it's ready to burst forth
And take it all back, towel off,
Once the cursed ants quit their desultory meandering.
And in all the snowing, a shining lake appears.
I give you bright morning sun on a cute spiderweb and madrone twigs. The running as ever, marvelous. On this trail, my favorite in Willow Creek for its remote feel and sapling trees, I always get covered in spiderwebs.
#running #runnersOfMastodon #spiderweb #sonomacounty #madrone
I can't understand why it took me so long to start visiting the Willow Creek Rd trailhead. There's nobody there at 8am on a weekday. The trails are unsurpassed. I can choose any distance or elevation I want, as long as a climb at the end is OK. And it's less drive time than the trailheads I've been driving to lately. What an incredible park (and always thank you to Gianni Club). Dog and I have been four days running.
Long run today. I wonder about the median length of time a pair of shoes spends on a wire.
First iris
Well I finally went to #pycon and it exceeded expectations. It's been a long time since I've done the conference thing - the community overwhelmed me with its heart, and I've come away from it with a lot more optimism than I've had in a long time.
Of course I also had three wonderful runs and drank in the Very Not Sonoma County sights.
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@bobjmsn@mastodon.scot @KatyElphinstone@mas.to every once in a while I "wake up" and am startled that people know and talk about all this stuff now. My life has been largely that of the "proud isolated autist" and I'm so glad whenever I become aware of our vast numbers and mature identities.
The expanded Taylor Mountain provides not just exquisite 360 views, parts of it feel quite remote. This swath has been the traditional accent since it was opened to the public... So luscious.
Long run today went all over this park with lots of up and down. Utterly gorgeous.
I was super surprised to see a frog of this size yesterday. I've never seen one bigger than maybe two or three inches- this guy has probably eaten all the others.
Home again from the frozen North, running in my biome. Springtime hit while I was away, and so I ran in T-shirt early so as to bask in the shade, so to speak.
Red hill floats in a fog sea. The sun behind me starts to warm Willow Creek. This is the quintessential coastal NorCal summer weather pattern.
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@baldur@toot.cafe There is a feel to it all. Scaling requires people who monitor, understand, test a system, find the bottlenecks, the creaky parts. It feels like all the plastic bits of GitHub are falling off.
Training
Rest Day is so fretful
I seethe as I relax
I anticipate as I dread
Tomorrow's fatigue already eats me up.
How I long for next week's
Rest Day
"To slaver for contemptible pleasures
And scream with pain, are hardly an advantage."
Robinson Jeffers "Margrave"
@tombzz I love this shot. you know Michael Wolff's architecture photos?
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@LikeItOrLumpIt yesterday it was meringues I did not think of and now I've eaten almost the whole batch.
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@tillgrallert @dingemansemark @maelle I recommend it highly - as well as its "part 1" Stalingrad. Just an extraordinary novel.
I need to talk about unionization, because my workplace is doomed if the execs don't stop dithering in a fantasy. Most of me wants to find another gig where the atmosphere is more professional, but that idea seems at risk generally, and a union is the real path forward. Work controls all of the communication channels among employees - so how does one even get a foot in the door for organizing a bunch of remote, dejected workers (many of whom are comfortable in meaningless mediocrity). Cc @wholewheattoast@indieweb.social
YouTube just told me that Aldous Harding will be at the Castro Theater in September.
The Castro! What a great venue that is ? Was ?
Anyhow I'm sure I won't go- too far, and I had my Aldous a couple years ago (Fillmore is a bit friendlier for tire North Bay folx) But I can't recommend her enough. She's one of my pinnacle songwriters.
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@Morgan I have done a couple long runs on Old Caz Rd. One was when I drove to the end and ran down to Cazadero and back up. Not super long but a monster of a hill. Two places on my list are Myers Grade and King Ridge Rd.
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@Morgan I've been going to the Monte Rio trailhead and accepting 1200 feet of climb for the good stuff. My body does not always thirst for that opportunity.
@tombzz you succeeded in that.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social some players don't use the left hand at all. It's an excellent melodic instrument, but it is keyed, so gets awkward as you move away from home keys (or just gets ... modal). Mine is a GC box and the half row gives me some notes that aren't in G or C major. Much lighter than a piano accordion, varies a lot with number of reeds.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social I was new to the button box 25+ years ago and never looked back.
I forked out a bunch for a serious 2.5 row button box in 2000, it's lasted through many a gig since then without trouble. I've only had to replace the electronics (it is 🎤 d). It's a Saltarelle Pastourelle III
Really different from a piano keyboard. Really good for shanties.
Attwenger is a band which makes superb use of button box IMO
https://youtu.be/cIrbojnHeqY?si=DwmtWBap6_dfQ8Yo
HiAso
I just saw some great hashtag material in a comment #peteplayingsoldier
I want to see an "impeach and indict" single issue primary challenge to every single chunk in Congress today. There's only one thing to do.
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@DavidGallagher@sfba.social sign looks so familiar. I lived at 18th and Guerrero it must be right there somewhere.
"Who was it spoke of April? Some
insane engineer. There is no recurrence."
William Carlos Williams, Paterson
Quash dissent at home, perpetual war abroad.
Victors and victims.