First hike of the season

Mar. 29th, 2026 07:07 pm
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Last Friday, I went on my first proper hike of the season. Not my first walk, but the first proper hike, at Tryon Creek State Park across the river from where I live and some ways south, which is lovely and fun to walk at, even though it's a pain in the butt to get to it by bus. Despite there being a highway type road going through the area, lots of businesses, and lots of houses, there are only two bus lines that go that way. Well, technically three I guess. There's the line 40, which gets me across the river, then there's the 35R and the 35T. There's like an hour between each of the 35's, and of the two, 35T is the one I take to get to get to Tryon Creek State Park because it has a stop right at the beginning of a paved bike path that goes all the way down to Lake Oswego, but also connects to the trail system in the park. (There is a small law school near there as well.) The 35T goes along Terwilliger, hence the T. Meanwhile, the 35R goes along the highway that follows the river, hence the R.

Ramble / rant about how annoying it is to get to the area by bus, and about snotty rich people who built an entire suburb that's a monument to bougie opulence )

And behind door number two, a long account of the hike itself. )

Soooo... stats:

Distance hiked: 4.14 miles!!!
Min elevation: 80 feet
Max elevation: 408 feet (I will note that the starting elevation was fairly high. Let me check... ah yes, starting elevation was 395 feet. Elevation of the point in Lake Oswego where I stopped recording was 99 feet.)
Moving time: 02:25:47
Stopped time: 00:32:27 (Inaccurate because I paused the recording for lunch, and turned it off when I got to Lake Oswego)
Average speed: 1.4 mph
Max speed: 3.1 mph

To get a truer estimate of the time involved, I left the house around... maybe 10:30 or 11 am? Even when I got home I didn't remember exactly. The time I got back home was FIVE PM. So I was out there for at least five or six hours. Sure, about half of that was either resting up, eating lunch, or waiting for the bus, but still... I was basically out all afternoon.

If I go back next month, I think I'll do it in the first week, week and a half of the month and take an Uber or a Lyft right to the visitor's center and go from there. Then take the bus back home.

Links to pictures, via BlueSky:

The interesting Ghost Tree I saw that day.
Beaver activity.
Shy snake.
Trillium flowers.


1 = Most of the trails there, I personally think you would have to be fucking insane to want to jog or run along them because they're narrow enough and tricky enough to navigate that I often get worried about falling and breaking my ankle just walking them at a sedate pace. Then again, I think everyone who jogs or runs without being chased by something trying to kill or otherwise attack them are crazy people who need to get help for the self-harm that is running/jogging when one is a species of barely-bipedal apes whose evolutionary path to bipedalism can best be described as "a cross between 'hold my beer' and 'there I fixed it.'" Seriously, our knees are just a polite suggestion, our backs are a sternly-worded letter, and really the only things we humans have going for us are our powerful brains, our social nature, and the fact we made stamina our dump stat.

Afroman got swatted

Mar. 28th, 2026 08:51 am
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Afroman got swatted. Cops raided his house because some random person who didn't like him told them he had drugs and guns and kidnapping victims in his house, which was a lie.

So these officers did a home invasion, destroyed his property, and threatened his family, all for no good reason, and they didn't even have to fix anything they broke? Also they gave no apology, and seemed to enjoy it. Cops really are just criminal gangs given legitimacy by the government. Anyone else doing those things would be going to prison AND paying restitution. But the pigs? Nope. "One rule for thee, another for me."

On that note, check out these other videos related to it:

Officer Pound Cake explanation
Lemon Pound Cake song

One silver lining to all this is that his many, many songs about the whole ordeal are SUPER pissing off the cops he's singing about. Even other cops are calling that sheriff guy "Officer Pound Cake." They're so angry about it that they sued him for defamation... and LOST.

Malaco's Chew It

Mar. 28th, 2026 10:41 am
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I try and review Malaco's Chew It. It is a soft chew with a center. It is vegan. Do I like it? Watch and see!

Malaco and any brand associated with this are NOT SPONSORING this vid

People are disgusting

Mar. 26th, 2026 08:15 pm
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I do not understand how steak tartare, which is just raw meat, is even legal to sell anywhere. And I don't understand why anyone would WANT to eat raw meat. If you want to eat raw meat, it'd be a lot cheaper to just buy a pound of raw hamburger and scarf it down like the animal you clearly are.

Slightly less gross, but only slightly, is people eating rare steak. What is so hard to understand about this simple fact: if it's rare, it is RAW. And raw meat is NOT safe to eat. Also, as human beings, we cook our meat. If you eat raw meat I'm going to call you Ug. No wait, I'll call you Lucy because even Neanderthals and Cro Magnons cooked their meat.

Pink Lemonade 7 Up

Mar. 23rd, 2026 09:55 am
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I try and review Pink Lemonade 7Up Zero. Do I like it? Watch and see!

7Up and any brand associated with it is NOT sponsoring this vid

OMC! Wow!

Mar. 20th, 2026 06:54 pm
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I just got on the scale. I'm 276.0 lbs. I am blown away! That's 64 lbs I've lost. Ozempic and Jardiance are working. My A1c is in the six range instead of over eight, which is why I'm taking them in the first place. Having fewer tissues to be resistant to insulin probaby doesn't hurt.

I am in less pain than I have been in years. There aren't any more hot (or cold) flashes. Menopause has touched me so lightly that I didn't notice the transition.

It is hot. Record-setting hot. We wouldn't afford the cooling if it weren't for the solar panels. Adding the insulation when we did the house keeps things even as well.

Dad can stand and pivot solo now. He gets in his wheelchair and slowly moves around the house, usually to the kitchen when his blood sugar tanks. The cats visit for attention, and he loves it.

Bear got on my walker instead of Monroe for the first time. Funny girl.

Character names

Mar. 19th, 2026 06:52 pm
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"#WritingQThursday Let's talk your characters' names. What do they mean? Do they signify anything special? Does your character have any nicknames, and if so, what's the story behind those?"

I usually put a lot of thought into my characters' names. Everyone but the minor side characters has thought out names. "Random extra #47" gets a random name from a list of most popular names, if they get a name at all. Dalia, her name means "a strong branch," for instance. It's also a pun, because she's black and her name is usually pronounced the same as the flower, 'dahlia.' (Sometimes it's pronounced "Doll-yah.") Her middle name is Delphinium, which is the name of a genus of poisonous flowers because Morgana's family has a history of at least one of their names being named after poisonous flowers. (It's a goth thing for them.) Like Morgana's middle name is Belladonna (AKA deadly nightshade). Morgana's mother's first name is also Belladonna. (Her middle name is Hemlock.) Morgana also has a brother named Oleander. (Dalia canonically chooses her own first and middle name, after having her parents read a lot of possible names for her out of a baby names book. Chooli also chooses zeer own name, naming zemself after one of Nizoni's cousins, Chooli Peshlakai. Said cousin was the first person Nizoni came out as trans to.)

Rest is VERY long )

Necromancy is actually life magic

Mar. 18th, 2026 05:09 am
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Potentially controversial take: a lot of what gets called "necromancy" is actually the domain of life magic. Resurrection? Life magic cuz you're restoring life. Talking with the dead? If that's possible, that means there's life after death, it's just a different kind of life. So, life magic because you're speaking with those whose spirits live after they've died. About the only form of necromancy I can think of that doesn't fit life magic is where you're just puppeting corpses around, and that's just glorified telekinesis.

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