Week in Review – 2024-09-09

It’s a hot one. Like seven inches from the midday sun. For the last week. Day after day of heat so bad it makes you want to slap the people who were whining about the clouds and pleasant weather back in June. I’m gonna have to take out a second mortgage for the electric bill this month. I can feel it.

A handful of companies are belching shit into the atmosphere while billionaires and the elite fly around on private jets, so thanks to all of you for this. I’ll be over here using a paper straw, because a bunch of wankers think that makes a difference.

In the midst of all this, I still managed to clean and organize my garage. Unlike most Californians, I actually use my garage to house my vehicle, but there’s enough room left over to store a bunch of other stuff, and if my life has taught me anything, it’s that Stuff abhors a vacuum and will expand to fill any empty space. My goal is to clear-out one small section of the garage and turn that into my hobby area to build and paint my Gunpla models. I just have to figure out how to get rid of some bulky items without selling an organ and using one of those junk removal services.

The heat also had me wary about my patio garden that I recently put together. The heat knocked out all of my radishes, save one hardy survivor. I’ll let that one limp a long a little longer, but once the cooler weather starts in earnest, I might try planting some strawberries in that raised bed. My rose plant is apparently loving this shit and grew a new stem that went like a rocket over just a couple of days. It has a bud on it now and I’m just waiting for it to bloom. This rose plant produces nice pinkish-white blooms, like a zinfandel, and maybe I can get a good picture of it when it does.

The basil is still growing and I’m amazed at how it already has a pleasant aroma even at this stage, but the parsley I planted is looking at me like, Release me.  I know, buddy, no one likes to hear this, but you’re basically just a guinea pig for me. Those who come after will benefit from the lessons learned raising you. As a first-born myself, know that I truly understand your pain.

The Zinnia keeps growing onward and upward, but no signs of a bloom are yet to be found.

Finally, I’m still playing Star Wars: Outlaws, which has become a heist story, so I’m all in on that. It’s a great time that reminds me of a good Playstation 2 era game. It also reminds me that they really don’t make the variety of games that they used to anymore. It’s either these 80 million dollar games that want to be a continuing service to keep you paying or indie games trading on retro visuals and themes, but man, we really had it good during that era.

I’m sure the baboons screaming on Reddit and the other dark places of the world don’t help these days. How miserable do you have to be that you’re only happy when you have something to be angry about? When there’s a whole cottage industry of emotionally-stunted men making YouTube videos to exploit that infantile anger to enrich themselves. It’s like a bunch of toddlers being led around by weirdo first graders. A goddamned Dumb and Dumber ouroboros upon which the Creator Economy™ turns.

At any rate, if the weather app on the phone is right, then the heatwave will break this week and cooler temperatures are coming. I hope so. I have a 5K coming up and I really don’t want to run in this heat.