My spring garden is done, and summer one going in soon. So not much. But the last of the fennel just got harvested last week.

Putting in butternut squash, eggplant, jalapeno, tomato, sweet potato (Stokes Purple). Later will add okra and watermelon and basil.

Salsa Yucateca, the natural color habanero one is delicious and not sour and muy picante.

If you ever make it to Tampa, Crazy Burrito has their very spicy dark red salsa and I am obsessed with it. It is so spicy and oh so tasty, I love it and wish they would sell me a bottle.

For chipotle, we buy a big can of San Marcos Chipotles en Adobo and just dump it in the food processor and puree. That’s our regular salsa in my household.

If you can buy or grow fresh jalapenos, roast them with some onion and food processor or chop them together with some cumin seeds and a little salt, olive oil, maybe some cilantro, splash of good vinegar.

Basically, if you can’t find it learn to make one you love. Toasted then rehydrated dried anchos with roast tomatillos is a fantastic base for a spicy salsa too. Just play around.

I often hear music in the fan noise, or voices in running water, if I’m tired enough - auditory hallucination, it’s funny because it absolutely sounds like it’s coming from outside my body but I know logically it’s my brain. That I do sometimes “listen to” but it’s always such awful music. Different styles all the time but never good.

And yeah vigilance is the enemy of sleep.

I have slept above the club and found it so relaxing - the thumping muted music. Even now I like when the neighbors have a party and when we can hear stadium concerts. Not sure why, it’s not exactly white noise, but I enjoy sleeping in that “music nearby but not right here” situation. I think it just makes my brain relax because it thinks things must be ok if there is a party?

Here (Florida) the county has a $30 test and treatment program so no, it doesn’t have to run through insurance, and the rule is 13 and up can go without parents. I’m sure this is what they are pushing back against.

1375? Die from malaria, I guess? Be eaten by an alligator? Or oh no, hasten the demise of the Tocobaga with my exotic biology? Either they would kill me or get me sick, or vice versa. Also, fall on my ass when my house disappeared.

I would follow the river to the bay, I guess, and see if I could find anyone, or anything I might be able to eat.

Elbow are so good!

Joshua Ray Walker “Cuz I love you”, his whole cover album really. The way he makes that Cher song into a country 2 step dance song is amazing.

Bob Schneider’s cover of Running on Empty is haunting.

It’s not so different but God I love the 9 minute November Rain by Connor Christian and the Southern Gothic.

I didn’t ever marry my ex, was irritated at how discriminatory legal marriage was back then, and we had kids so were a family anyway.

My husband now? He really wanted to be married, and “stepdad” is a different legal status than “mom’s boyfriend”, it smooths things when he had to do school pickup or doctor visit. So since he pushed and as I did see an upside we did.

Also you can’t foster or adopt here unless you are married - unmarried man in the household is a known risk to the kids he’s not related to. Statistically, it raises the risk of the kid getting hurt so single people can, or married couples but not unmarried hetero couples.

I am with you logically, I don’t need it, and don’t feel different and it’s weird for the state to license families. I understand religious marriage but am not religious.

Ten? Anyone, if I have it on me. I don’t, usually but have done that for random panhandlers, instead of spare change.

100? That’s harder. Any friend or relative who hasn’t asked me for money, again, if I have it and they don’t.

1000? No. That is “questions asked” territory for anyone.

What the actual fuck? I feel like that can’t be migraine. Tylenol makes mine worse (nausea), and has never worked for any other pain. Just makes me feel vaguely poisoned.

I don’t actually take OTC painkillers much at all, maybe once a year. But the sumatriptan injection for migraine is amazing for mine - no drugged feeling, no up no down, just unwinds the headache. That stuff has worked as rescue medicine for my (once a month or fewer) migraines for 25 years now.

Hmm. I may already count as older. But depending - maybe 4 if I am ok to continue what I have now, but need something else?

Plus vitamins, so maybe 8 in total because I plan to continue my “stack” of three supplements I’ve been taking for years.

Well it doesn’t take over my yard because I got it all removed by a guy with a backhoe because it scared me. I like the way it looks but want some clumping bamboo not running bamboo, which had taken over the yard here when we bought our house. There’s still a little in one corner I just aggressively manage it. Comes over from the neighbors so it’s unavoidable.

There are bamboo forests, aren’t there? I’m sure that in its natural habitat it does have competition. Like kudzu. It’s just invasive here.

USD $200 for eight lines with unlimited data, calls, text; international coverage only for texting. So it works out to $25 each but I don’t think we could get that price on fewer lines. Large family.

“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” wrote Emil Bove, then acting deputy attorney general.

Well, did they approach the bench and show a legal warrant? Did they prove the legality of their detention of the person? Or were they doing a smash and grab?

I think that rule is fair enough, but this whole campaign of terror is riddled with illegality. If the kidnapping is illegal, or they didn’t prove to the judge that it was legal, this rule doesn’t apply.

Even if not. The kids who need the privacy are the same kids with the parents fighting to remove it, no doubt. All those “parental notification” rules are evil for the same reason. If your kid felt safe telling you, they would tell you! My kids could talk to me, and did, but I always let them know that confidential testing and treatment was available for $30 from the county clinic (that charge was for all the tests plus any uncomplicated treatment, or education and referral for more complicated treatment). I used it plenty as an adult, way cheaper than the doctor for all the tests to make sure all ok before a new relationship.

Hello, alligator!

I’ve put turtles in the car several times, to bring them to water. Birds, we’ve taken to the seabird rescue. I think that’s it.

What awful news. It’s always been 13 here since I had kids, the age you can go to the STD clinic at the county, and have limited medical privacy. I used to give my kids flyers for their friends so they would know. It does make for some odd effects (there are 5 years when we can’t use the online health portal at all because the kid is old enough that I can’t login and see their info but not old enough to have their own login.) but overall seems like the right age.

Presumably when you have kids you know you are growing them into adults, right? You can’t keep them children right up to 18 then suddenly expect them to be adult, nothing good can come from that.

I ride an electric bike instead of driving, gentle exercise but I’m sure it makes a difference. Pokemon go walks, yoga 4x a week at a group class, weightlifting less than once a week. Yardwork too, hauling things around. I got running shoes but have not deployed them yet, I’d like to run once a week only. I do move around a lot. I read somewhere that if you wanted to be fit after you are 50 you really need to exercise 3 hours a day, and it seems true. Not like lifting for 3 hours every day but if I was retired I’d do cardio every morning, lifting every noon, yoga every evening except one day totally off everything each week.

Also, keep a glass of water at your desk. Get up to fill it, drink, get up to pee, repeat. So that you aren’t sitting for too long.