My new friend is home! This is Lady. He is a Kenyan sand boa.

With my youthful obsession with Star Trek coming back into bloom, I've changed my mind about wanting to work in Engineering. Yes, the warp core is beautiful. It is the heart of a ship. But, y'all...Cetacean Ops! I don't even care if the dolphins and whales outrank me!

It's the first day this year that I've been able to get some serious work done outside. Higher temps than I expected, but doing the work felt good!

#CoSoWriting - Really trying not to talk too much about what I'm writing so my brain won't get tricked into thinking the story has already been told. But can I possibly write faster? I need somebody to read the story so then we can talk about it! We can't do that if it isn't written yet!

We started watching "Strange New Worlds" since we finished "Picard".

Look. Chris... If you and that woman just finished doing what your lack of clothing implies you were doing, but your hair is holding that shape so well... Gossip spreads at warp speed. I hope you're a better captain than "love interest".

Just finished Picard! Oh my noodles! From the (no spoilers) to the (no spoilers), and the (no spoilers)...and YES for the (no spoilers)!!!

My 30+ years of fan loyalty has been so rewarded!

#CoSoEnvironment
I recently found out about the Sea Shepherds. Rutger Hauer was on their board. They're a good kind of pirates - which is why whaling ships don't like them. And they're working to save the vaquita porpoise. They are critically endangered. Like...less than 50 of them are still alive.
https://seashepherd.org/about-milagro-v/

43 hexagons for my blanket finished!

Only 957 left to knit.

After several months of me writing each week about the pieces in my charm oracle set, I finally show an example of how to do a reading!

https://diydiv.substack.com/p/lets-do-a-charm-oracle-reading

I have now knitted a tiny Welsh flag for my ancestors to be one of the 1,000 hexagons in this blanket I'm knitting. If I'm knitting that many pieces, this blanket will tell stories!
#CoSoKnitting

YES! Y'ALL! I'm getting a snake! Reaching childhood goals! I'm going to be friends with a SNAKE! 🥰🐍

Looking at skeleton keys in an antique shop today, and I suddenly exclaim, "Oh, that's a handcuff key!" I immediately tell the woman my dad was a cop.

She very gently says, "It's okay...you don't have to explain yourself to me."

I'm thinking I clearly do when someone feels the need to assure me that I don't.

It's one of several points in the year when trauma issues ramp up for me. An anniversary is approaching. Considering my age, I probably only have to do this around 30 or 40 more years.

Spent a few hours working outside with my plants today. Going to knit tonight. The plants keep me moving. Trim this one. Water that one. The knitting keeps me in the present. Can't wander when I'm counting stitches.

People often make it sound like knowing the difference between fiction and reality is all that matters. That ignores why humans tell stories. And, yeah...I knew it was fiction when I was a kid. But those characters gave me examples of the kind of person I could become. When I trusted no one, I found safe space in books, movies, and episodes. They raised me.