Bark At The Moon

R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne.

I guess it makes sense that as a 90s kid I was too busy listening to Pavement and Nirvana to really give Heavy Metal the respect it deserves until I was older.  His antics and drug use covered over some incredible talent.

"historic events in themselves"

"It hurt him to talk about it, she felt, but she guessed he didn't know how much, or how. She could tell he didn't unpack this, much, or maybe ever. He said that people like Ash made their whole lives about it. Dressed in black and marked themselves, but for them it was more about other species, the other great dying, than the 80 percent.

No comets crashing, nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, anti-biotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves. And all of it around people: how people were, how many of them there were, how they'd changed things just by being there.

The shadows on the lawn were black holes, bottomless, or like velvet had been spread, perfectly flat."

-- William Gibson, The Peripheral

Play Ball

 

Nymeo Field, home of the Frederick Keys.

I got a free ticket to attend a Summer League ball game here in Frederick.  It's college level ball basically, but the beer and food prices are all very much major league.  Not a bad little stadium but the bathrooms were also a nightmare.

If you're sensing a negative trend on this here blog that's because there is one, between a job that started strong and has turned into a typically toxic management situation and, well, everything else going on in the world.

I turn 51 this month.  I'm considering early retirement.

I kind of wish I was joking?

Back From The Beach

Corolla Beach was fantastic.  I walked and swam every day.

Meanwhile, work has been a bit disappointing.  It turns out I was not being paid my full share since I started at the new place back in January.  That, and a toxic supervisor mean I'm looking for something else but planning on staying on in the meantime.

I guess there's no perfect job but finding something where I'm treated with a modicum of dignity would be nice.  Although I did get a small pay raise.

OBX

 

Corolla, North Carolina.

Summertime

I'm off to the beach for a few days.  Blogging will not be happening but I'll hopefully come back with some good pictures.

Poor Kitties

If you like fireworks, why not go see the big shows? Why turn my neighborhood into a warzone?

Yes, I am old.