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2023-Jul-14, Friday 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I did some gardening today before the heat kicks in this afternoon. It's only 29C/85F at the moment, but I was still sweating. I dug up plenty of plants that annoy me every fall/spring when I brush up against them after they've gone to seed. They look nice when they flower, and the pollinators seem to like them, so I haven't eliminated them yet. But, like burdock, the seed pods hurt when they touch my skin, and they get tangled in hair on my arms, legs, and face. I finally looked up their identity, and they're Hackelia virginiana. The common names for it tell you all that you need to know: beggar's lice, sticktight, or stickseed. Some names really are "on the nose".
I tried using the weedeater to clear my garden path, but the battery ran out before I made it to the front gate. By then I was tired, so I put the battery on the charger and took a shower to end the outdoor phase of my day.
I weighed myself after getting clean. I am now down to 88kg/194lb. It's a new record for recent years.
It's probably not a good sign that I pondered job hunting again, or selling the house to move north and go to school, or spending my money to fix the upstairs windows and air conditioning, so I could take a roommate to help pay bills. I may write soon about why I think this job is so much more stressful than other tech jobs I've had.
I've made little progress painting. At least, though, I got another window primed, and both doorways scraped. And I bought a saw-on-a-stick and hacked off some limbs from the neighbor's tree that were pressing against my fiber optic line. Maybe now at least I won't lose internet (and ability to work remotely) during the next storm with high winds. It's still messing with my power lines which were out of my reach, but that'll have to wait until I can pay somebody to hack major limbs that cross the property line to my house and utilities.
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Date: 2023-Jul-16, Sunday 09:19 pm (UTC)Minnesota north. It's cheaper to live in the Fargo(ND)/Moorhead(MN) area than here in the Twin Cities. I would use my sold house value as my own private scholarship fund. They have a college with a planetarium on campus and an observatory less than an hour outside of town. I'd go there to take classes and get an astronomy B.S. degree. Or die trying, as the saying goes. (Hopefully not a covid literalism.)
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Date: 2023-Jul-24, Monday 09:11 pm (UTC)Astronomy sounds like a wonderful way to spend your time!!!
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