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An incredibly hectic week is going on! The Wife had carpal tunnel surgery the other day, so I have to pick up the slack and actually do stuff around the house. Do you believe this crap? The horror!!! Also, at work I’m in the long-delayed, long-planned process of moving my work area from one part of The Store to another. This will be lovely when I’m done, but right now I’m in the “All my crap is where it’s going so now I have to move around piles of my crap while I try to organize it and put it where itDown the rabbit hole….

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I suspect that these two photos represent the last time I’ll be able to shoot Orion the Hunter for this season. When I took these it was still probably 30-45 minutes to full dark, and with Orion this high in the sky, he would have been close to setting behind the local apartment buildings by the time the sky would have been black. Soon he’ll be gone, not to grace my skies again until next fall. Alas! This is actually the same photo, with two different edits. I couldn’t decide which edit I liked better, and then I thought, “WhoDown the rabbit hole….

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OK, let’s get back into this “blogging kinda-sorta regularly” thing, shall we? In fact, I need to get back to the schedule that I established earlier this year after I took a couple weeks OFF the schedule to regroup. Regrouping is good, but so is getting back to it. So I’m going to do last week’s Sunday Stealing now. Here we go: 1. Is your phone Apple or Android? What about your laptop? Android! I am currently a happy Samsung user. My phone is a Galaxy s21 Ultra (named “Ophelia”), and my laptop is a Galaxy Book Pro 2 360,Down the rabbit hole….

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I was just sitting down to write a post about my unplanned hiatus, and then the frigging power went out. And the weather TODAY is GREAT! So that sucks. Anyway, I’ll get back to y’all later. (Everything’s fine, I took a short vacation and The Wife and I enjoyed a brief getaway.) (And as I’m writing the power just came back on. We’ll see. Harumph!) Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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Some of this is stuff I’ve already said on social media, but I like to say it here too, so: ::  Yesterday at work, a friend of mine who is a Mets fan brought up the Mets season opener on the Peacock app on his phone. As the Mets were hosting my Pittsburgh Pirates, I decided to watch along for a bit. I watched until 2/3 of the way through the bottom of the 1st. This is more Pirates baseball than I have watched in quite a few years…and yet, watching that single 2/3 of an inning feels like aDown the rabbit hole….

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Does this amazing song need an introduction? No, not really. I find myself increasingly amazed by the lyrical approach to a lot of the great songs that I’ve never really paid close attention to before. The singer here isn’t the one taking the “Midnight Train to Georgia”…well, she is, actually, but she’s not the one whose turns of life have made taking that train necessary. It’s her man who went to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, dreams that didn’t pan out, and now he has to return home. He can’t even drive himself, having pawned everything–he “pawned his dreams andDown the rabbit hole….

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I hope that worked, I’m always a bit nervous about embedding video playlists. Anyway: Carlos Simon is a composer who originally hails from Atlanta, GA. He completed doctoral work at the University of Michigan and has since enjoyed a varied career of composition and performance; according to his bio he is currently on the faculty at Georgetown University, and he served recently as Composer-in-Residence at what was the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I don’t know what Dr. Simon’s current status is regarding that, since the Kennedy Center has been one of many Grounds Zero for ourDown the rabbit hole….

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I don’t know what happened, but for some reason this post did not go live on Monday even though I scheduled it to do so. Here we go! Have you ever… Skipped school? I never skipped the entire day, no. I did, however, skip the occasional class. A few times I got in trouble for this. From the vantage point of 35-40 years later, I find it hard to care. Lettered in a school sport? Ha! No way. Though, the swim coach made occasional noises about me trying out for the team. I kind of wish I’d have attempted that.Down the rabbit hole….