still here

[mellowtigger]

I'm still here. Not much motivation, and I'm not even reading much online recently. After next week, there's a mandatory 1-week holiday paid leave, so at least I'll have a break from the stressful job at last.

I ordered some solstice stuff from RLM Art Studio after I saw this very nice image from them on Mastodon. I threw in an extra $5 gift to them with the order, so I feel no guilt about using their image here to let others know about them. If ever there was a good use for NFT, it would be an image that people could get "bragging rights" to share, while simultaneously handing money over to people doing nice things.

I remembered a dream upon waking this morning, so I should make a note to record it for this year's tally.

Read the short, uneventful dream...

I was in a large space with someone. It was like an office space that was converted to living space. There were many rows of library book shelves in it, and I used several of them to store my books while I lived here. I lived here with someone else. (I think this someone was a guy I dated long ago, but within the dream we were just roommates.)

Two other guys showed up, moving in. One of the guys starting filling the few still-empty bookshelves with books from boxes they were hauling in. That guy picked up one of the books and started talking to me. "I noticed your gay section includes a lot of titles about Bears like you. I thought you might appreciate this book too." I looked at the book (I have no idea what the title is now.) and realized it was another gay story, suggesting that these two guys were also gay.

And that's it. End of very uneventful dream. Someone showed me a book.

Nature still lives here. I took this photo of a red Northern cardinal on the ground in my back yard outside my living room window last week. Today, I took this photo of the christmas cactus at that window that is blooming again.