ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

I got a new phone. One of the features is a camera that can zoom in and take high resolution photos only 3cm away from the subject. This has made it much easier to see how filthy my keyboard is.
#Housekeeping

I ordered a holster case for my phone from Amazon. It had to make a trip of ~75 miles, from Buena Park, CA to my office.
But I guess it wanted a little vacation and sight-seeing before it got to work.
#Efficiency #Amazon

Bees, hard at work making orange blossom honey in my backyard.

#Bees #Insects #Mellitology

Got home from work to find this in the mail, wrapped and with a nice note of thanks from @skaly

#Art #Jewelry #GenderNeutral

Good article in WaPo that explains something I've struggled to understand - why are people in the US so pessimistic about the economy when indicators show strength? Turns out it just takes some perspective.
I'm a DINK household - dual income/no kids. I own my house, so my housing costs are stable - and about half what I'd pay as a renter. I could afford solar, to drastically reduce my utility costs, just before food costs went up. I'm not representative.
#Money #Poverty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/inflation-calculator-spending-interest-rates/?itid=hp_opinions_p001_f008

#Hospital #CircleOfLife

Several years later, I ran into the artist again, at the gallery, and told him my story of woe. I regretted I'd never be able to afford one of his pieces. He took me out to his truck, where he had 6 pieces that he was delivering to the gallery - told me I could have any one I wanted, for $500. I was stunned - and of course I jumped on it. I picked this one.

2 of 2

#ArtMatters #Art #Sculpture #ModernArt

A print from @MarkOnArt framed, and hanging on my dove gray wall.

#DigitalArt #RainArt #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #MarkOnArt #LGBT

After too many weekends of wet, cold, rainy weather, we finally got a sunny Saturday. So that meant cage cleaning day. Thank goodness for power washers. And Scooter still hates the spare cage.
#Birds #Parrots #ParrotsOfMastodon

Some jobs just aren't worth the pay.

The new car magnet arrived, and it's on my car.
#Censorship #BookBan #BoycottFlorida

CO Christian Filmmaker Pleads Guilty In Child Sex Sting

As Ministry Watch reported, Greisen was arrested Sept. 7 after arranging to pay an undercover detective $170 to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Greisen, who is 68, runs two Christian film companies

Little Miss is getting brushed out, which she hates. Little Man is patiently waiting, because he knows it's his turn after she's done.
#DogsOfMastodon

Getting follows lately from (presumed) bots with big boob/big booty avatar photos, promising me more of same.
Someone should program bots to read the room.
#LGBT #SoGay

I think I hit my fitness goal today.

#Fitness #Walking

Remembering that time Worf ran out of conditioner and had to use some of Deanna's.
#StarTrek

The "to do" list of Lt. Colonel Larry Brock, retired. He was just sentenced to 2 years is prison.

#Traitors #Insurrection

Has anyone caught Rhonda's new interview in Vogue?
#Florida

I'm wondering how long it'll be before he goes full Putin and has a law passed forbidding this kind of satire?

One of my co-workers is a crow. He shows up a couple of times a week, to knock on my office window and scream at me. I'm pretty sure he's an efficiency director.
Today I decided to appease my co-worker and leave mixed nuts on the windowsill. He showed up, screamed until the other efficiency director came, both ate the nuts, then paraded back and forth in front of my window, berating me for wasting time leaving nuts when I should have been working. Fine, be that way.
But I'll do it again. #Birds

One of my own (very minor) creations. Nearly everyone who has seen it has called it dark, but I see the open door, with light spilling out. #DigitalArt