Chicago Cubs 1st baseman Michael Busch caught in the netting with his legs up and spread after just missing a catch in the stands

Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

formative memory, first centurion lounge experience was back when I was still enlisted? I had just discovered the last word cocktail and back then the lounge had chartreuse

and I can have as much of it as I want?

my corollary to Always Arrive Early is that Airport Beers Don't Count

that's called SYNERGY

a personal moral failure, in fact

see also: fried rice

There are worse things than missing a flight.

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We're off to a good start here
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dog's

portrait framed macro photo of a cluster of pink flowers

Back at it with the flower pictures.

a sack of crawfish boil dumped onto a a backyard table

today was good

ok flip the sign back over guys

we're back, baby

(back in the "not letting perfect be the enemy of good" zone)

Like in the Smithsonian?

unbaked thin crust pizza. one side has pepperonis in the shape of a 6. the other side has green olives in the shape of a 7.

same pizza but baked

the things we do for our kids

1.8 ft but with that many millimeters on a crop sensor, the flower is so big I have to back way up

I'm still solidly in the old generation of camera bodies, but I have heard the R series can do some neat stuff with focus stacking.

with a ladder. on a crop sensor I was standing on the dining room table with my head at the ceiling just to get the whole peony (on the floor) in frame

EF 180mm f/3.5 L on a 7D Mark II. With the MR-14 ring flash.

Side looking macro photo of the same peony as the previous post.

I am going to become insufferable.

Center-right framed macro shot of a light purple flower with some pink and yellow ones in the top left, and foliage in the bottom right.

Aggressively top-down macro shot of a white peony flower.

Folks the new macro lens and ring flash arrived. I am in love. @envirojules.bsky.social's flowers will be getting no privacy ever from here on out.

Bleh. That's a bummer.

Even better, after that I get to spend two days trying not to drown in a pool while I am hazed with Devices.

Who's excited to fly from Mississippi -> Houston -> Denver -> Seattle next weekend? And THEN drive two hours to Whidbey Island???

(me, sort of)

the world is full of, well, let's call it irony, I suppose. it's full of something.

Screen grab of a post which reads 'me and my girlfriend call Friday "bare minimum Friday" and we text each other bragging about how little we are doing and congratulate each other for it

Happy Bare Minimum Friday to all who celebrate

like 3 days ago IIRC

probably not the several grams worth that I blasted off this sucker though