Last update: Update 4-12-26
Wrote: (Updated from 2023) Breathe in the Sunrise, Breakfast - Best Times to Consume for All-Day Energy
I’m finding that writing these updates is easier than when I was trying to do it in my personal Obsidian vault, I suppose because writing for people gives more motivation than writing for oneself only.
Today I finished up a beehive, transplanted Spearmint from one garden to a spot closer to the woods (so that it spreads & acts as weed control), I’m writing about my Spearmint experiment in Mint’s Adventure in my Backyard, until I can get images working here’s a Proton Drive link. Also went into the woods, I was slightly surprised by the breeze there. It’d be so hot out that I forgot how well (now that the leaves have blossomed) the trees cool the air. It’s different than a chill though, it’s the feeling that everything in its midst is alive and moving, I’m happy when some of the air pushes itself into my office just outside the forest edge.
Funny thought, I was watching Oompaville’s video on Appalachia from about 6 months ago, and he noted a time when everything was still and… a white sheet spooked him or something? He said he was a kid at the time and it terrified him, and especially noted how the woods grew quiet. I’ve always noticed the woods being quiet, sure I know that a bear had passed through in the last year (I saw a paw print to prove it!), however it’s quite still where I’m at, except for the distant echoes of birds, some Mockingbirds. Another funny story, a year ago I had watched the Hunger Games again and tried whistling the song to the Mockingbirds (you know, relatives to the fictitious Mockingjays) and the birdie just stared at me funny. Later, once when my kitty was meowing at me, heard from below me, I heard the same sound above! It turned out to be a Mockingbird 🤣 (picture of my Tutti-Frutti I got by pure coincidence (nickname for his name Rudy)).
Today I was listening to the podcast DarkNetDiaries after a few yrs, on episode 166:Maxie I heard something I never thought I’d hear: Maxie, a pentester for a local gov somewhere in California I think, typed into a terminal a kill command (by accident) that stopped all running water in the city. How in the world can a city have access to turn off water by a simple command? No physical device to click on or off? As a pentester, she only had access to certain places on the system, yet she was able to disrupt a key basic need by accident. Not only did security question her, but she nearly went to jail for it! Makes me glad to have a Well, until the local gov forces people on, what’s it, sewer out here…
Site dev
Adding more Medium articles over, adding the lil’ plant emoji to help differentiate articles. Decided against doing a Medium tag to those articles since 1. they’re a lot, 2. I’m still writing the same way I did, so why the differentiation Olive?