I bragged the other day about my rock-based repair of my sprinkler controller, so it should surprise nobody that I have spent most of my day replacing the thing after it failed entirely and refused to respond to any sort of geology-oriented solutions.

Fig 1: The circuit board in my sprinkler control box with its sophisticated “cram rock behind it” repair technique.

I’d like to say this is a temporary fix, but I stuffed the rock in there a year ago.

📚Finished The Stars are Legion. It’s a wild, inventive story of warring factions of women aboard giant living spaceship-worlds, weird organic everything (including monsters and cephalopod cannons), and an intriguing plot.

She possesses the very definition of puppy dog eyes.

📚Finished Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman yesterday. A fun set of essays on being an adult and figuring out grown-up friendships. Hodgman balances these with touching, insightful passages about grief and learning to say goodbye on the early passing of his mother.

📚Finished The Changeling by Victor LaVelle. Compelling (maybe a little long) read mixing family legacy, race, social media and … monsters.

Me: Ah, springtime! I’m gonna make pizza on the grill.

Sharp edge the grill: Nah bruh, you’re gonna get your tetanus booster tonight!

Coffee time.

I’m experimenting with actually posting some things to Flickr again. Scrolling back through many years of history there is really a trip.

A couple of weeks ago I saw Darlingside in concert. Since then I’ve picked up a couple of their albums and they’re just great. Not only is the music wonderful, but the Extra Life vinyl itself is just strikingly gorgeous.