First significant April snowfall in Portland in over 80 years. I'm sitting at a Denny's at the bottom of the hill up to the funeral home where I work waiting for the roads to clear out. Portland also broke its high temperature record last summer by 7 degrees. Almost like something is happening, right?

Watching rally footage and I'm thinking why haven't racing tv figured out to be like videogames and have a little graphic of the track up in the left hand corner with all the cars and the one in picture blinking.

iembalm wrote: Mon Apr 11, 2022 10:13 am First significant April snowfall in Portland in over 80 years. I'm sitting at a Denny's at the bottom of the hill up to the funeral home where I work waiting for the roads to clear out. Portland also broke its high temperature record last summer by 7 degrees. Almost like something is happening, right?

Brought down a bunch of tree limbs in my neighborhood. Then we got crazy hail the next day. Freaked my dog out. He was bucking around like a bronco trying to avoid the hail that was bouncing off the street. It was hilarious.

Cleaned behind the stove. Very satisfying.

Read a particularly gross and misogynist comment on the PRF FB page in a Liz Phair thread. Disappointing.

my 13th post. ok let's make it insightful and stimulating. deep breaths. the PRF has no time for fools.

as many of you know i work for a goose/curlew research project. i lab in Aberystwyth University and field in the hysterically beautiful Dyfi Estuary.

what you don't know is that i am covertly moonlighting on a voluntary basis for an as-yet-unfunded brown trout research project. in the absence of any consistent leadership i seem to have fallen into being the coordinator. this terrible role means i have spent a lot of time talking to anglers from various local clubs to get them to join in and collect scale samples for our DNA extraction. the anglers amongst you will understand how onerous it is to spend time talking about fishing. oh the woe. i also have to go fishing, sorry, sampling. and finally i am beginning to seriously apply myself to angling entomology and fly tying with recent efforts gradually rising in quality as my basic skills improve. the results of my adextrous fumblings are generally not pretty but by jingo they're going to catch some fish. i think. we'll see.

pics to follow. lakes, rivers, mountains, moors, forests, bent rods, fish etc. the pond was homely but now i am loose. trout beware! huzzah!

oh fuck! why are we doing it? something something climate change, unique populations of post-glacial coloniser descendant trout, evidence evidence evidence, conservation in the face of a rapacious bourgeoisie, fuck capitalism.

kicker_of_elves wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:43 am Read a particularly gross and misogynist comment on the PRF FB page in a Liz Phair thread. Disappointing.

I continue to be happy I left FB.

Am back home in Illinois for a day. I leave for Tokyo, Japan tomorrow after being in Germany last week.

It's nice to travel again, though logistics are far more complicated than they were before, which is understandable. I'm not sure how many hours I've spent trying to make sure that this Japan trip is going to go smoothly, yet I am for some reason fearful that I have screwed up somehow and they will find a reason to deny me entry into the country upon arrival.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Apr 11, 2022 9:22 am Not the best day, and that's before being informed I'm being deported. Joy.

WTF? From where to where???