October 2021 – Page 2

Dune Spoiler

(but not really)

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SKS: Klamath River Reflections

Sara reports they have been waiting (and waiting) for their solar and HVAC and that it’s been cold in the house because of it.

I also felt it was important to take this picture for reasons I now can’t remember. Perhaps I was enjoying the postmark dovetailed with the subject?

Free Gift?

I got these tickets in the mail for my “employees”

Reading the fine print, it seems that my “employees” need to have a child in order to take advantage of the free ticket. And they will need to pay for themselves before the child gets in free.

Still, I did have a great time at the monster truck rally I went to that one time.

SKS: Redwoods

Sara reports that she has a no-meetings work-from-home day. Hurrah.

Also that she’s ready to be done with the semester, but has two months left to go. Less of a hurrah.

Winco Discovery: A Rough Draft of a Short Story

At the last minute of her Business 101 class, the teacher assigned Greta to bring iced animal crackers. On her way home, she stopped at the big grocery store that reminded her of her mother frowning at every price, she headed to the cookie aisle and grabbed three bags. Her eyes shifted to the left as she calculated the cost. It looked like she would be air drying her laundry again this week.

She headed to the produce section to grab the scallions her mother had asked her to buy and as she cut through the bulk department, something caught her eye. In the white bin were the very same animal crackers she was holding. Her eyes shifted to the left again as she calculated the bulk price.

She set down her three bags and grabbed one of the industrial-strength bulk bags and started scooping, imagining the hug of warm, clean pajamas.

New Favorite Podcast: You’re Wrong About

My coworker mentioned this post. She first found the episode about crack babies. I was hooked on once I listened to the episode about Shannon Faulkner and the Citadel, a case I followed very closely in the 90s. I’ve got a mindless task at work going on, so I took a deep dive. And decided to start listening at the beginning.

I like that Mike and Sara are a bit younger than me. They often talk about things in the 80s and 90s that are very clear memories for me, so it’s fun to learn all the things I didn’t know, and to hear their take on the topic, having not really lived through it. It turns out that I found this podcast just as Mike is departing, but I’ve got a huge back catalog to listen through.